Free speech and religion cases continue to be among the most prominent cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. There’s the cake decorator and website designer in the marriage context, the football coach who wanted to pray on the field and the angry cheerleader who cussed ...
How do you end a series about what was an unpopular war when most of the stories that you wrote for that series focused on the cost in human lives from that war? It’s a question without an easy answer. You can’t end it on a high note because there isn’t a high note to end on. ...
Troop levels in Vietnam started to fall in 1969. And that’s when the loss of Warren County natives would stop. No more servicemen from the county would die after Sept. 1969. But there was no way for people here to know that. And as 1969 rolled along, the news of soldier after soldier ...
The Congressional Medal of Honor aims to honor only the bravest and most selfless acts in combat. Just 268 were awarded to the 2.7 million who served in the Armed Forces in Vietnam. John Gary Gertsch is one of them. Gertsch was born in September 1944. A Times Mirror and Observer article ...
When one hears the phrase “combat mission,” it’s reasonable to assume that the most dangerous element of such a sortie is the combat piece, the actual time over enemy airspace. For Maj. Fred W. “Ted” Shattuck, Jr., that turned out to be anything but the case. A comment from a ...
Three young men from Warren County were killed in Vietnam within three weeks of each other in January and early February 1969. Each was 20 or 21 years old. “Sgt. Bill Olson, 21, United States Army... has been reported killed in action, according to word the family has received from the ...
