Sep 01 2020
I can’t imagine what conditions are like inside a tank, particularly during an attack. Even more so, I can only imagine what it would be like inside a tank in the hot and steamy environment of Vietnam. Clyde Brewer II of Windsor experienced it firsthand. After Army basic training, Clyde was assigned to the tanks. …
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Jul 07 2020
Norm Oliphant wanted to be an artist and told his dad so. His dad’s response was, “You’ll starve to death.” He wasn’t being unsupportive of his son’s dream, just practical as it was the Depression and no one had money for art. Soon another major event came along that made Norm once again have to …
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Nov 20 2018
Mary Babnick Brown was an American woman who donated her long blond hair to be used as crosshairs in Norden bombsights in WW II. Brown was a Coloradan and the child of Slovenian immigrants. She left elementary school at the age of 12, to help support her family as a servant for $5/week. When she …
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