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July 11, 2008
| Happy Birthday, USA |
By Bill Highlander
Editor
America celebrated its 232nd birthday on the Fourth of July. It is always a marvelous celebration with a long weekend, picnics, parades, music and fireworks.
Families gathered at The Villages, Silver Creek Valley Country Club and neighborhoods throughout Evergreen to express patriotism and party.
“I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shows, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the Read more...
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Two soldiers from San Jose are back from Iraq
By Phyllis Hanson
Special to the Times
There’s no fast way of “getting back” to normal for soldiers who are deployed away from home for more than a year.
Separation from loved ones and friends, along with an accustomed way of life can be hard for even the toughest GI.
For the sons of two San Jose families who recently returned, along with their unit, from a 15-month deployment to Iraq, the moment meant even more. Army Spec. Dillard C. Hughes, son of Henrietta Hughes on Cuesta Drive, and Sgt. 1st Class Robert C. Martinez, son Gilbert and Pauline Martinez on Scottsdale Drive, all of San Read
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