Courage in Guadalcanal earns Silver Star for Pvt Charles Fogle
January 1943 marked six months of bloody combat on Guadalcanal as Co. L of the 35th Infantry Division faced ten Japanese soldiers. Pvt. Charles Fogle of Walkersville crawled 90 minutes through mud and grass to destroy two machine gun nests, killing all ten attackers and earning the Silver Star amid harrowing cliffside conditions.
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Sam Yu
Charles E. Fogle
Frederick
Guadalcanal
Fogle
Pacific
Co. L
35Th Infantry Division
Charles Fogle
Walkersville
Mr. Fogle
Mr Fogle
WWII veteran recalls Battle of the Bulge and service
U S Army veteran Lee Woods recalls his WWII years with the 4th Armored Division during the Battle of the Bulge. He notes the unity of veterans honored at a Memorial Day ceremony at Fort Meade and shares memories of snow camo and handshakes with the 101st Airborne commander.
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Sam Yi Lee Woods
Frederick
Lee Woods
Woods
4Th Armored
Mr Woods
Fort Meade
Mr. Woods
101St Airborne
101St
Indiana
Albright backs tribunal indictments of Milosevic allies
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright voiced strong support for indictments by the International War Crimes Tribunal against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and four colleagues. She said the indictments show victims that the world cares and that Milosevic's minions are watched.
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Washington
Madeleine Albright
International War Crimes Tribunal
Slobodan Milosevic
Milosevic
Albright
Georgetown University
School of Foreign Service
Kosovo
Explosives stall Ritchie reuse plan at Fort Ritchie
CASCADE AP Inside William Hofmann office a bucket of decades old flares and rusty mortar shells warn of unexploded ordnance across Fort Ritchie as Army clears land for civilian redevelop ment. About 150 acres have high explosive risk areas used in training from 1927 to 1960. PenMar Development Corp seeks to transfer title by July 1 to speed development of a tech campus while clearance proceeds risking delays.
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Cascade
William Hofmann
Army
Fort Ritchie
Hofmann
PenMar Development Corp
Washington County
James A LaFleur
PenMar
Ritchie
LaFleur
International Masons Institute
International Union Ofricklayers and Allied
Pension Fund
Washington
Ed Bellucer Jr
William M Spigler
Invention creates comfort for wounded
John Smith of Frederick, 31, has created the J-Sling a canvas rest hung between crutches to ease use for the injured. He plans a patent pending and says it supports up to 300 pounds. First 50 prototypes are produced by Jeanne Bussard Center workers in Frederick.
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John Smith
Mr. Smith
Frederick
John
Smith
Frederick High School
Jeanne Bussard Center
Thompson
Jeanne Bussard
Bil Green
Retriever mom Tess Foster Kitten in Need
Tess the 4 year old golden retriever acts as a foster mother to a black and white abandoned kitten named Pepe. She cleans, nurses, and protects the kitten, even producing milk and carrying the young cat in her mouth. Earlier, Tess also fostered a motherless litter after a family cat was killed.
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Tess
Animal Kingdom
Jess Greenstein
Middletown
Jess
Debbartsia
Sam. Yu
Tees
Deb Bargeski
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