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March 14, 2023Karen was down to 100 pounds. She wore long sleeve shirts to work to hide the marks on her arms. It had gotten so bad that…Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Unjust Imprisonment of Channen Smith
March 13, 2023At about 2 a.m. Saturday morning, October 23, 2010, outside the residence of Brandon Savage (street name "Ghostface") at 1843 North Harvard Avenue in Tulsa,…
One Missing Piece: The PFC Floyd K. Lindstrom Outpatient Clinic
March 9, 2023Gary told me that he'd recently gotten accepted into the Veterans' Administration health care system, and how surprisingly painless that process had been. I'd never…
10 Things Instructors Need to Know about Student-Veterans
February 15, 2023Showing that you care can make or break the climate in your classroom. When they are motivated, student-veterans can be an asset to you. They…
Vacant Lots: A Butterfly Hunter Considers the Sacred
February 15, 2023The simplest definition of “sacred” in the Oxford English Dictionary has always seemed to me to be “set apart,” and that’s probably why I’ve never felt very…
D-Day, 1944: A Black Veteran Remembers
February 15, 2023We have lost one more World War II veteran. Richard L. Walker, born May 7, 1924, passed away on October…
Desert Snow
February 15, 2023Charlie Peterson looked at his watch and then at the departure board of Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport. Another 45 minutes he thought…
War All the Time
February 15, 2023“It was the English,” Kaspar cried,“Who put the French to rout;But what they fought each other for,I could not well…
Girls in the Alley
February 15, 2023We hit the town fast and hard, just as we have done before, just as we will do again. Fly…
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