One Brick Short

Friday, April 04, 2008

Frozen Chosin yields two Virginians

Both men were members of A Company, 32nd Infantry Regiment, then attached to the 31st Regimental Combat Team (RCT), 7th Infantry Division. The team was beleagured and nearly destroyed by superior numbers of Chinese soldiers who swarmed the reservoir from Nov. 27 to Dec. 1, 1950. Both soldiers died in late November as result of intense enemy fire, but the resulting rout of American forces and forced withdrawal made it impossible to recover their bodies.


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Thursday, April 03, 2008

Common Emotions, not Common Sense

They were the shots heard across the county, over the mountain and on the farms. Persons unknown—but a 16-year-old juvenile and 19-year-old Slade A. Woodson stand accused—fired a bunch of .22-caliber slugs at and around cars on Interstate 64, into houses and buildings, through VDOT trucks, at banks and street lights and pretty much anything else that wasn’t standing still.


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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Reservoir Gives Up Another

Continuing efforts to find the missing brings another American home from Chosin


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George Bush’s Grocery War

It makes as much sense as anything else, these days


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JuicyCampus More Like Stupidcampus

It’s a fine line between immoral and just plain moronic


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Bryan McKenzie is a Michigan factory rat and a Golden Gopher who hid out in the Colorado Rockies and played bass in bad bar bands in the Tar Heel state before riding north to Jefferson's land on a Harley Sportster.

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