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Rusty McGuire: Heroes by air and by sea

Last week, while discussing Memorial Day, a cable news anchor stated he was “uncomfortable” calling the combat fallen heroes

Posted June 4, 2012  

Hillenbrand’s Unbroken opens eyes to capacity for man’s good, evil

I spent several Tuesdays with a man named Karl Baumann back in 1998 learning about the World War II prisoner of war camp out near Sherando Lake. I’d considered myself a student of history, but I’d never known about Stateside POW camps until visiting the Waynesboro Heritage Museum one summer day and asking an innocent [...]

Posted December 29, 2010  

Dewan to be at Bookworks to sign Red Raider Diary

Edited by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net   Tom Dewan will be at Bookworks, 101 W. Beverley St., Downtown Staunton, on Saturday, April 10, from 1-3 p.m. to sign copies of his book Red Raider Diary. The book is a compilation of the wartime diaries of Dewan’s father, Merrill Thomas Dewan, who served in the Army Air [...]

Posted April 7, 2010  

Raising the flag on Iwo, part two

Waynesboro man spearheads effort to breathe life into Marine Corps War Memorial Story by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net It started, appropriately enough, with Jim Donovan’s concern over the tattered flag flying over the Marine Corps War Memorial. The effort to restore glory to the Old Glory looking down at the scene harkening back to the historic [...]

Posted November 27, 2009  

Book dives into local WWII history

A forgotten chapter in Valley history and a prominent local military school play central roles in a new book by novelist Elizabeth Tidwell. Device and Deceit is a historical-fiction thriller set in the Waynesboro area during World War II and involves a German scientist being held at a prisoner of war camp near Sherando Lake [...]

Posted October 5, 2009