Memorial honors veterans in Roswell Moving Wall visit ends this Monday
The Moving Wall Vietnam Veterans Memorial has spent a week in Roswell, visiting at the Russ DeKay Soccer Field. The one third scale replica features engraved names of fallen service members and serves as a sobering reminder of the war. The wall will depart after a closing ceremony Monday, urging visitors to view the powerful tribute before it leaves.
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Roswell
Washington
D.C
U.S
Russ DeKay
Grand Avenue
Wool Bowl
Roswell Letters Urge National Stores and Dining Options
A reader pleads to bring in national chains like Old Navy Dillards or Gap and better sit down restaurants to Roswell. The letter notes the town has many fast food outlets and a college daughter who spends money locally, urging change.
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Roswell
Lubbock
Albuquerque
New Mexico Court Laws Concealed Carry and Local Exemptions
Jim Baca questions if the New Mexico Supreme Court struck the whole concealed carry law for local exemption provisions. He argues constitutional supremacy of the US and cites crime reductions where concealed carry laws exist, challenging the court’s ruling and political motives.
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New Mexico Supreme Court
N.M
Jim Baca
Albuquerque
Mr. Baca
Roswell FAA appoints local coordinator for Roswell area
Thomas E. Costello, chief of Roswell Airport Traffic Control Tower, named FAA local coordinator for the Roswell area. Sunset in New Mexico II by Wook Kyung Choi displayed at Roswell Museum and Art Center along with other paintings.
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Thomas E. Costello
Roswell
Federal Aviation Administration
New Mexico II
Wook Kyung Choi
Roswell Museum and Art Center
Redskins and Udall shaped integration and stadium funding
The 1961 push to integrate the Washington Redskins is linked to federal action led by Interior Secretary Stewart Udall who used federal land and financing to force change. The piece notes Kennedy influence, future RFK naming, Spurrier recruitment, and ongoing name controversy, plus Udall's Santa Fe ties and family details.
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Santa FE
Washington Redskin
U.S
Stewart Udall
Washington
National Football League
Redskins
Mason- Dixon Line
Old Dixie
Old D.C
Kennedy
Arizona
Interior Department
Udall
George Preston Marshall
Jack Kennedy
South
Bobby Kennedy
Marshall
Congress
Joe Kennedy
Mar
Shall
Skins
Robert F. Kennedy
RFK
Lyndon Johnson
America
Florida
Steve Spurrier
Spurrier
Florida Gators
Albuquerque
Tom Udall
Lee Udall
Jay Miller
la Tusa
Today in History highlights from June 16
On June 16 events span 1858 Lincoln calls for resolving slavery in a Springfield speech and 1567 Mary Queen of Scots is imprisoned. Also Hawaii annexation pact 1897 Ford Motor Co. founded 1903 and Hoover Nixon era 1932 GOP renomination. Other marks include 1933 NRA law, 1955 Peron excommunication, 1961 Nureyev defection, 1963 Tereshkova pioneering flight.
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Springfield
Ill
Senate
Abraham Lincoln
Mary
Queen of Scots
Lochleven Castle
Scotland
Hawaii
Ford Motor Co
Hoover
Charles Curtis
Chicago
Supreme Court
Pius XII
Juan Domingo Peron
Rudolf Nureyev
Paris
Valentina Tereshkova
Soviet Union
Two Minds in Mideast Over Sharon Arafat and Peace
The piece contrasts President Bush backing Israel's right to self defense with Sharon pressuring for bilateral talks and sidelining Arafat. An unnamed Israeli official calls Arafat irrelevant and says peace talks should wait for his successor, while Powell signals a broader push for a Palestinian state and a summer peace conference.
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Ariel Sharon
Bush
Palestinian Authority
Yasser Arafat
Sharon
Israel
Arafat
Colin Powell
United States
Middle East
Linguistic Genetics Link Native American Languages to Migrations
Linguists study the Americas’ languages as linguistic genetics, tracing migrations across continents. They find no single ancestor for Native American languages, noting multiple language families and distant ties to languages like Sanskrit and Welsh, implying diverse origins over millennia.
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Americas
India
Near East
North
South America
New Mexico
Pueblos
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