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To the roughly 40,000 people who visit the Lowcountry’s treasured Angel Oak tree each year, Frank deLoach is an approachable artist, sitting beneath the tree’s canopy, hands trained on a large…
After facing a severe health decline seven years ago that required him to undergo multiple surgeries—and more still to come—Dwight Decker was forced to re-think his life.
The year was 1942, and Lenny Singer—just a teen—sensed the draft was coming for him. The world was at war, and Uncle Sam had already forced many of the Springfield, Illinois native’s high scho…
It was the Hollywood screen and America’s favorite gun-slinging actor of the 1940s that first ingrained a love for the Marines into young Clifton Jones. Watching battles on the big screen intr…
Larry Kinard always knew the military would be his future and couldn’t join soon enough. In 1951, at age 17, he ran away from his Maple Street home in Charleston and fled to Columbia to try to…
When Diane Thomas entered the United States Navy right out of high school, she was in search of exploring the world beyond the boundaries of her Louisiana hometown.
For decades, Ed Burns, a retired colonel with the United States Air Force, flew around the globe completing covert operations and other perilous assignments, but never once did he sweat the da…
Edwin McKinney rarely leaves home without covering his head with a ball cap identifying him as a World War II veteran. He has three different military hats—each one often attracting strangers …
Edwin McKinney rarely leaves home without covering his head with a ball cap identifying him as a World War II veteran. He has three different military hats—each one often attracting strangers …
Isolated in darkness, surrounded by ocean, and no guarantee of making it home alive. Such were the conditions Rick Wise grew used to during his 24 years of service in the United States Navy.
Isolated in darkness, surrounded by ocean, and no guarantee of making it home alive. Such were the conditions Rick Wise grew used to during his 24 years of service in the United States Navy.
His body has aged, he now walks with a cane, but he can recall every date and detail of the three years he served as an Army Ranger during World War II.
His body has aged, he now walks with a cane, but he can recall every date and detail of the three years he served as an Army Ranger during World War II.
Marine vet copes with PTSD, meets Trump through Wounded Warrior Project
