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Signal Staff Reports
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November 4, 2009
- ROELAND PARK — Baldwin High ended its season here Tuesday with a 62-0 loss in the first round of the Class 4A state playoffs.
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By Maj. D.W. Schmidt, U.S. Army
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November 4, 2009
- Why I serve in the military is best seen from two viewpoints, “Why did I join?” and, “Why did I stay?”
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By David Oakes
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November 4, 2009
- As Eudora resident Mark Johnson speaks passionately about his experiences a Special Forces Green Beret, he sits comfortably in a recliner. The comfort is not lost on him, as he spent the better part of his 20 years of service in discomfort throughout the world.
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By Maj. Matt Giertz, U.S. Army
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November 4, 2009
- It is difficult to pinpoint one prevailing reason why I serve in the military.
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By Estuardo Garcia
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November 4, 2009
- On what seemed like an ordinary Tuesday morning Sept. 11, 2001, Jaimeson Bard was sitting in a freshman math class at Tonganoxie High School when he heard news that would change his life forever.
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By Nicole Kelley
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November 4, 2009
- When you pull up to Carl and Ashley Rowland’s home, it’s clear that a patriotic couple lives inside.
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By Elvyn Jones
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November 4, 2009
- Part of the tension developed over the political landscape that separated the generations in the Vietnam era. Jim Martino remembers a heated argument with this father after the Kent State anti-war demonstrations that left four students of that university dead.
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Emily Johnson
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November 4, 2009
- When Jack Richtor turned 17 in 1953 during his junior year of high school, he convinced his father to grant parental consent, dropped out of school and left his home in Oregon to join the Navy.
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By Kaitlyn Syring
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November 4, 2009
- Now retired and serving as a third-year trustee in the Basehor Veterans of Foreign Wars, Wilbur Grisham looks back on his days in World War II and considers them insignificant in comparison to those of other men who fought in that war.