International events proceeded to enhance the reputation - and sales - of the Carnes Artificial Arm. The international event? World War I. The Warren Times-Mirror spoke with Carnes when he was in Warren for a couple weeks in June 1917. At that point, Carnes had been able to sell the ...
Over 3,000 Union soldiers were killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. Almost nothing is known about some. Little is known about others. Looking at the muster rolls, the notation for what happened to Robert Hall is succinct, almost clinical - “killed at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.” Hall was ...
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 ...