Soldier Returns Home After Iraq Service and Career Restart
Michael and Christine describe his year away in Iraq with the U S Army and his return to Baytown. He earned a Bronze Star while supervising $3.4 million in Iraqi infrastructure and training local forces. He resumes work at Baylor College of Medicine June 5 and plans a family, while adjusting to peacetime life and new perspectives.
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Michael
Fort Sill
Okla
Texas National Guard
U.S. Army
Kosovo
Baytown
Christine
University of Houston-Clear Lake
Iraq
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Taji
al Asad
San Antonio
Sible
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children’s Hospital
Prachazka
Librado
Lee) Acosta
U.S. Air Force
Dennis Araujo
Linda Araujo
Baytown honors veterans during Memorial Day ceremonies
Speakers highlighted Baytown’s WW II and later wars while recalling the Indianapolis sinking and Enola Gay, with Pete Alfaro and Congressman Green among officiants. Veterans from World War II, Korea, and Vietnam stood as присутствие marked by wreaths, taps, and wreathing. Local attendance praised as strong.
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Lee College
Baytown
Pete Alfaro
Alfaro
Vietnam
Edmond Jennings
Iraq
Green
Garcia
Storms bring heavy rain to Baytown area on Memorial Day
Baytown woke to a soggy Memorial Day with sun returning later as authorities reported no major problems. Eastern Chambers County measured up to 16 inches in 24 hours, Eastern Harris County 12 inches in six hours, and Bush Intercontinental Airport recorded 4 inches since Monday midnight. Forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies with a 60 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms today, highs in the mid-80s and lows around 70s.
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Baytown
Chambers County
Patrick Blood
National Weather Service Office
Houston-Galveston
Harris County
Bush Intercontinental
Houston
Blood
Memorial disrupted military funerals protest sparks tense scene
By the cemetery a car procession from the Free Republic group clashed with Westboro Baptist protesters led by Margie Phelps. They clashed over views on homosexuals as bystanders offered honks and waves. A police officer intervened to keep the peace.
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Margie Phelps
Westboro
Congress
America
Free Republic
Notable Ex-Editor Jim Finley Counts Lay's Office Visit
Assistant Congressional Executive Ace attended Lay's office visit in Lay's palatial office and emerges as a personable felon. The writer suggests a lengthy sentence for Lay for harming Enron employees, while noting Finley’s former Sun role.
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Ace
Lay
Jim Finley
Sun
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Nicki Evans
Michael LaCoste
Claude L. Lott
Highlands
Sterling-White Chapel Funeral Home
David Pena
Ricky Lenoir
Afghanistan
Lenoir
Crosby Jrotc
Pena
Jerry Hovater
Little Country Church
New Caney
Hovater
Howater
Jerry Prochazka
American Legion Post
THE
Taylor
Berl
Eee
Nigier ii
Www
Lee.edu
T Yet Finley
Enron
Crawley’s Seafood
Tri-City Beach Road
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Audibel
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Ohya
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