Military Single: ‘MY MOMMY IS A SOLDIER’
WHILE AWAY IN MILITARY, SINGLE MOM MUST LEAVE DAUGHTER BEHIND Mom: Soldier hadn’t seen daughter in a year On the last leg of her 26-hour journey home from South Korea, Pvt. Tamarah Harcharik started to run, her black boots pounding the floor.Her daughter, 4-year-old Hailey, sat on the shoulders of Tamarah's sister, Heather, just beyond the security check at Albuquerque International Sunport. Hailey cried out to her mom as tears streamed down her face. She had...
Military Single: Remembering Martin Kondor Teen was like a member of retired veteran’s family Bonnie Fuhrman Windsor Township
Martin Kondor has a special place to our family. He was an “adopted” brother and friend. We are a retired military single-parent family that moved here from North Carolina. At Eastern High School and Eastern Middle School, Martin was one of the few classmates who befriended and didn’t ridicule the new kids. I first met Martin working with Ben at McDonald’s. I saw his legs sticking out from under the fryer he was repairing.He was the most...
Military Single: Congo Leader Loses
KEYWORD HIT Congo's Denis Sassou-Nguesso, whose military, single-party and Marxist regime has ruled since 1979, has become the third mainland African leader to be voted out of office.Results of presidential elections announced over the weekend showed him finishing a poor third, leaving Pascal Lissouba and Bernard Kolelas to contest a second round of voting scheduled for Sunday.The winner of the second round would become Congo's first freely elected president...
Military Single: Church aids the military
Church has been the ""saving grace'' for military families like Susan Westberg's, she said. Susan and her husband, Greg, an active Army sergeant first class who commutes daily to Bismarck from their home in Wilton, have four children, Anna, 7, Elizabeth, 5, Josephine, 2, and William, 8 months.The community of Wilton and members of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Wilton have been the family's support system, integrating...
Military Single: Blast from the past Last hurrah for reunited Mouse, the Boys & Brass?
Standing side-by-side on the rehearsal stage, microphones in hand, Maurice Samples and Pete Rowland did what they had done almost nightly in the late '60s and early '70s.They sang the words to Soul Man, the 1967 Sam and Dave hit, while behind them guitars, drums, a keyboard and horns performed the familiar notes."I'm a soul man," Sam and Dave sang in the original.But now, Samples and Rowland were in a playful mood, so they...