by Curator | Feb 3, 2021 | Living Histories
At 100 years old, veteran looks back on time serving in the Army. By Ken Corn Old Fort, North Carolina, resident and WWII veteran Harry Viruet celebrated his 100th birthday in May this year. Viruet was born in 1920 and joined the US Army when he was nineteen, a year...
by Curator | Jan 22, 2021 | Living Histories
Don’t Ask That Questionby John Hallimore Veteran’s Creative Writing Workshop 4th meeting, February 17th, 2016 Coming home from Vietnam to America amidst college sit-ins, peace protests, passionate political debate, and random cultural turmoil is not a fond memory. My...
by Curator | Jan 12, 2021 | Living Histories
Jimmy McKinney – Driving a Howitzer with The Big Red 1 By Michel Robertson North Carolina native Jimmy McKinney was working at a paper plant when he received his draft notice in May 1966. “I’d been married about three years, with no children. I preferred it to be me...
by Curator | Jan 8, 2021 | Living Histories
A Dubious Honor:Having Flown a U-2C with the Canopy Open by Richard “Duke” Woodhull One fine day in 1968, I accompanied a squadron mate of mine to Palmdale in a T-33, for the purpose of retrieving one of our U-2Cs that had been loaned to another...
