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Peace and purpose

...assault on peaceful American civilians.First of all, we don't think America did overreact after the poor-man's Pearl Harbor attack on America in 2001. It was a stark-naked act of war that killed several thousand and lowered a major city's...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2013-04-20/peace-and-purpose
Peace and purpose

...assault on peaceful American civilians.First of all, we don't think America did overreact after the poor-man's Pearl Harbor attack on America in 2001. It was a stark-naked act of war that killed several thousand and lowered a major city's...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2013-04-20/peace-and-purpose
Former North Augustan Bryan Narcisse makes Augusta debut as a Harlem Globetrotter

...Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis deployed in the Arabian Gulf.The game was played at 8 a.m. on Pearl Harbor Day during Narcisse's first trip with the team ? a three-week tour of military bases in the Middle East."That's...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/scott-michaux/2013-03-14/former-north-august
Remember Inouye by honoring our military past and present

...mercy. It also means goodbye. A JAPANESE-AMERICAN who had faced heavy prejudice in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Inouye remained a patriotic American until the day he died. He waited 55 years before he was awarded the Medal of Honor...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/opinion-columns/2012-12-22/remember-inouye-
Cardinals great Stan "The Man" Musial dies at 92

...year Musial missed with the Cardinals was 1945, when he was in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was based in Pearl Harbor, assigned to a unit that helped with ship repair.Before and after his military service, he was a star hitter...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/baseball/2013-01-19/cardinals-great-stan-man
Learning from Lou: Insights from our neighbor Lou Brissie

...These plans changed dramatically after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Brissie joined the Army, and by the fall of 1944...satisfaction. Feller's answer: "When, the day after Pearl Harbor, I joined the Navy so I could fight for my country...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/opinion-columns/2013-01-20/learning-lou-ins
SC tennis coach drove landing craft in World War II

...from around South Carolina were featured, in cluding a bomber waist gun ner who escaped a POW camp and an Army wife at Pearl Harbor who waved to the planes overhead "with the big orange stickers on them."One section of the program focused on Clemson...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-12-09/sc-tennis-coach-drove-landing
Robert Hulsebus

...Piotrowski. December 7 is a pivotal date in Mr. Hulsebus's life. As a student at Luther College in Iowa, the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 led him to enlist in the Navy. He was transferred to Newberry College as a member of the Navy's...

http://www.legacy.com/Link.asp?I=LS000161611821
Failure to fill leadership roles leads to VFW post's closure

...closure of the VFW ends a 67-year fixture of Alvin Mays' life. Mays, 90, witnessed the beginning of World War II at Pearl Harbor and was still on the front lines with the Army when Hiroshima was bombed. He witnessed terrible carnage and experienced...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-08-24/failure-fill-leadership-roles
George McGovern, former senator and presidential candidate, dies

...in his hometown and, already a private pilot, volunteered for the Army Air Force soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Army didn't have enough airfields or training planes to take him until 1943. He married his wife, Eleanor...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2012-10-21/george-mcgovern-senator-and-