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Heroes among us: J.B. Hunt reaches out to veterans

Anthony Harris keeps his dog tags hanging inside his truck. Brent Stoufer and Joshua Matson wear camouflage ball caps while on their routes. All three have something in common: They are military veterans and are among the first drivers to participate in Hunt’s Heroes, a new program officially launched in April by J.B. Hunt Transport Services.

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Carmen Sisson October 1, 2014 January 6, 2018Content Marketing, Recent Bylines content marketing, J.B. Hunt, jobs, military, Randall-Reilly, truck driving, truckers, veterans 0

*WWII veteran Joe LaNier fights racism to come home

Civil War cannon

In the 23rd Special Construction Battalion, the officers were white and the seamen and steward’s mates — basically servants — were black. “I’m from Georgia,” an officer told them. “Where I come from, there’s only two kinds of niggers — a good nigger and a dead nigger. We don’t want no dead ones.”

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Carmen Sisson June 9, 2012 May 21, 2015Published Favorites, Recent Bylines African-American, Joe Lanier II, military, Mississippi, racism, segregation, South, The Commercial Dispatch, veteran, World War II, WWII 0

The virtual war family

The war in Iraq may be a half a world away, but in the age of the Internet it’s as close as the flip of a video switch – making it in many ways the most intimate war in history. Using video technology and the Worldwide Web, soldiers are tying into the most private moments back home – weddings, funerals, birthdays. Today’s soldier doesn’t have to wait for a box of brownies: He can see his 4-year-old proudly making them. Some innovative couples have used the technology to get married, renew vows, or choose an insurance carrier. A father saw his daughter learn to tie her shoes. A brother said goodbye to his dying sister. The age of the interlinked war is raising profound questions: Does it boost the morale of soldiers or add to longings for home and divert attention from the task at hand?

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Carmen Sisson May 29, 2007 March 14, 2011Recent Bylines Alabama, Christian Science Monitor, education, Iraq, military, Mobile, technology 0

Unflagging devotion

From her perch high atop the factory floor, she pulls red and white stripes through her hands over and over, being careful to keep the seams neat and tidy. Always a perfectionist, she is even more prudent here. This isn’t just any flag – it’s Old Glory. And this isn’t just any version – it’s an interment flag to drape a veteran’s coffin, one last embrace from a grateful country.

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Carmen Sisson July 5, 2006 February 26, 2013Published Favorites, Recent Bylines Alabama, Christian Science Monitor, Huntsville, military 0

Remembering the ‘Mighty O’

Silently, the veterans of the USS Oriskany, a Korean War-era aircraft carrier, huddled together, collars turned up against the wind, hats drawn low to hide tears as they stood on the decks of some 400 charter and pleasure boats dotting the Gulf of Mexico in a loose semicircle Wednesday morning. This was her moment, her final battle, and they were determined to do it right. Thirty-seven minutes later, she was gone, a puff of grey in an azure sky – scuttled 24 miles off the coast of Pensacola, Fla., in a 212-foot deep watery grave, where it will serve another function for a nation, as an artificial reef.

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Carmen Sisson May 19, 2006 February 26, 2013Published Favorites, Recent Bylines Christian Science Monitor, Florida, military, Pensacola 1
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