Fallujah battle continues amid high toll on forces
U S and Iraqi troops fought guerrillas in Fallujah as casualties rose with 18 U S service members and five Iraqis killed since Monday. Wounded totals reach 178 U S and 34 Iraqi. Officials say insurgents may have fled to other cities, with Abu Musab al Zarqawi among those believed to have escaped.
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Fallujah
Iraq
U.S
Baghdad
Richard Myers
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Jolan
Mosul
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Howitzer cannon dedication honors veterans on page B3
A Middletown Journal item reports a howitzer cannon dedication honoring veterans. The note mentions continued morning showers and a forecast reach of about fifty degrees with a low around thirty, with readers encouraged to follow updates online at middletownjournal.com.
Veterans Day honored across the nation with ceremonies
AK Steel chief James Wainscott saluted veterans at American Legion Post 218 in a Veterans Day ceremony. He recalled his father, a World War II pilot who served with the 509th Composite Group at Wendover, linking Pearl Harbor to atomic bomb missions in 1945. The nationwide events included a Purple Heart story in South Carolina and a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery.
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AK Steel Corp
America
U.S
James Wainscott
American Legion Post 218
Afghanistan
Iraq
South Carolina
Manhattan
Arlington National
Bush
Wainscott
Ak’s
Tinian Island
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Japan
James Wainscott Sr
U.S. Naval Base
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Pensacola
Fla
Nebraska
509Th Composite Group
Wendover Field
Utah
Paul Tibbets
Soldier Charles Webb laid to rest with full honors
Sgt. Charles Joseph Webb, 22, died November 3 in Iraq when his patrol hit a roadside bomb southwest of Baghdad. Nearly 400 people attended the funeral at Brown Dawson Funeral Home on Veterans Day, including a Army Chief of Staff representative and close family. Webb received posthumous Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster and Bronze Star. The Hamilton High School graduate was remembered as a fearless friend who transcended color and gender. The service culminated with a 21-gun salute and a gathering at VFW Post 1069 in Fairfield.
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Hamilton
Charles Joseph Webb
Vanessa Foreman
Army
Brown Dawson Funeral Home
Webb
Iraq
Josh Webb
Exandria
Ala
Greenwood Cemetery
U.S. Army Rangers
Stephanie
Barbara Webb
Charles Webb
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Fairfield
Hamilton High School
Baghdad
Piers
Sgt
Arafat death opens path to renewed peace efforts
Paris reports Yasser Arafat’s death is seen as a potential turning point to advance the Israeli Palestinian peace process. Leaders including Britain’s Tony Blair urge renewed U S engagement to reinvigorate talks, while Shimon Peres calls for seizing openings and moving toward a viable Palestinian state alongside Israel.
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Paris
Yasser Arafat
Europe
Britain
Arafat
France
Bush
Palestine
Tony Blair
Washington
Blair
United States
Israel
Middle East
Shimon Peres
Yitzhak Rabin
Ohio National Guard soldiers injured in Iraq attack
Two Ohio Army National Guard soldiers from Hillsboro, Doug Couch and Jay Edison of the 216th Engineering Battalion in Hamilton, were wounded while widening a Samarra road checkpoint when mortars struck. Couch suffered serious shrapnel injuries to arms and legs, Edison received shrapnel to the left shoulder and a broken collar bone.
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Hamilton
Ohio Army National Guard
216Th Engineering
Iraq
WKRC
Doug Couch
Jay Edison
Hillsboro
Samarra
Tierra Edison
Couch
Edison
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Margaret Coker
George Edmonson
Today’s Journal
Middletownjournal.com
Ney
Associated Press
Kat Fahrer
Middletown Journal
Woodside Cemetery
Pearl Horbor
Houston James
Mark Graunke Jr
Dallas
Him
Barbara and
Conley Webb
Greg Lynch
COX News Service
By Cuares
M. Sennot
Ohio
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