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May 28, 2014

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“The Hayden Collins Radio Program” writer contributes to Pulitzer Prize-winning history Laura Voisin George, one of the writers for “The Hayden Collins Radio Program”, has been researching the history of Morven, an estate located near Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia. Jefferson purchased the Morven property in 1795 as an investment for his protégé…

At the Memorial Day commemoration at the National Cemetery in Canton, Georgia, I served as the officer-in-charge, wearing my dress blue uniform.  This uniform, as well as those of the other soldiers and veterans reminded us – as did the honor guard firing three rifle volleys and the buglers playing “Taps” – of the selfless individuals that once stood beside us; and as officers, of the men who stood before us, in combat as well as in ceremonies. This uniform not only represents them, but…

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

In centuries past, during a time of war a country could issue a license called a Letter of Marque and Reprisal that allowed privately owned ships to capture vessels of its enemy and keep the results from the sale of the captured ship and its cargo.  With this commission, these actions were considered privateering, instead of the free agents of piracy (as in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies).  Operating independently of the navy, the…

We weren’t expecting a tornado last week.  But when it struck the Adairsville area, even before the call went out for help, the community was already gearing up.  On Facebook, churches were organizing and their members getting ready to serve - they didn’t let differences in religion get in the way, with the Church of God, Methodist, Catholic, Baptist and other congregations all coming together and asking: what can we do?  They were packed wall to wall, and generously providing food – if…