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TopVet: LTG (Ret.) Emmett Paige, Jr., OAO Corporation
When 16-year-old Emmett Paige, Jr. dropped out of high school in 1947 to enlist in the Army, he likely had little inkling that he would begin a career of military service that would span 41 years, and then some.
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HeroVet: Dan Stewart, Truck Driver Joins The New York Political Establishment
He was not the most conforming of children in Pawtucket and later in Cumberland, Rhode Island. If he hadn’t joined the Air Force in 1980, Dan Stewart - “Mayor Dan” to his constituents in the pleasant city of Plattsburgh in the northern reaches of New York State - might have led a life filled with regret.
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TopVet: Congressman Sam Johnson
Texas Republican Congressman Sam Johnson has represented the 3rd Congressional District since winning a special election in May 1991.
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Cover Story: 60 Years Later, Remembering Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941, the world changed. American service members based in Hawaii saw that seminal moment in history, and those alive today still vividly remember that Sunday morning 60 years ago.
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Cover Story: For Emma Lampert, 'Miss USO 2001,' Singing for the Troops Has Been a Blast
Emma Lampert never knew that one of her "absolutely favorite aunts," Frances Conti, had been a performer. "She was very funny," Emma remembers. "She had a Lucille Ball-ish personality. She was always singing and tap dancing. When she died, she was even buried in her red tap shoes."
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HeroVet: Gerry Byrne, Marine and Media Mogul
"The worst part about going to Vietnam was coming home," Gerry Byrne says. He is sitting in his unfinished tenth-floor office across the street from the United Nations in New York City, where he's nearing his one-year anniversary as partner, President and Chief Executive Officer of "Stagebill," the magazine of the performing arts.
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Cover Story: A Rebuilt Vietnam Veterans Plaza Is Rededicated in New York City
The Friday before Veterans Day dawned brisk and bright, auguring a near perfect Indian summer day to dedicate the reconstructed Vietnam Veterans Plaza in downtown Manhattan, and to rededicate the glass block-and-granite memorial that is the centerpiece of the plaza.
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Cover Story: DoD Secretary Offers Encouragement In Veterans Day Speech
Because of the ongoing worldwide war against terrorists, this Veterans Day is different from previous years. The events since the attack on our nation -- and on world order itself -- gave rise to a fresh appreciation for those in uniform. Since September, Americans young and old alike have instinctively turned to our military as the symbolic, yet also very real, source of national strength.
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Cover Story: Bill Broyles Joins Veterans Advantage Board of Advisors
PENN Award-winning author and screenwriter William Broyles, Jr. has joined the Board of Advisors of VeteransAdvantage, the Company’s Founder and CEO, Scott Higgins, has announced.Military & Veterans News
Cover Story: History of Veterans Day
At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, nations around the world celebrated the silencing of the guns of World War I, which was referred to at that time as the Great War. After a devastatingly, bitter four-year war, an armistice was signed with the Imperial German Army. A year later our nation observed the first Armistice Day with parades, speeches and ceremonies in remembrance of the sacrifices that were made by the men and women who served our country during the war.
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TopVet: Herman Wouk, Author
Eighty-six-year-old Herman Wouk is one of the most prolific and insightful novelists writing today. His books have populated the best-seller lists for the past five decades.
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TopVet: David Rots, Kmart Corporation
David P. Rots is the Executive Vice President in charge of Human Resources and Administration for Kmart. Prior to joining Kmart in July 2000, he had been Vice President of Human Resources for Parke-Davis, a division of Warner-Lambert. Previously he held senior-level human resources posts at Whirlpool, SmithKline Beecham, and Pfizer.Military & Veterans News
Vet News: Vietnam Veteran Launches 'The Vietnam Files' Web Site
EUREKA, Calif., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Vietnam Files Web site arose out of David Prendergast’s desire to put crucial documents into the hands of those across the United States who need them most. For more than 30 years, Prendergast has been assisting Marines by obtaining Vietnam unit documents. But the process was cumbersome, time-consuming, and generally incomplete. "You’d get what the officials thought you wanted, and you’d often have to go back three or four times," Prendergast says. "People were willing to assist, but the documentation was the weak point, and Veterans on the street can’t wait years for critical documentation."
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Cover Story: History Channel to Air 'A Veterans Story' Films
When John Kormann’s children and grandchildren gathered in front of the TV to watch a video one recent evening, they thought of Kormann as "Dad" and "Gramps." Forty minutes later, their eyes brimming with tears, they clustered about the veteran, reverently calling him "Hero." The video, "A Veteran’s Story -- John Kormann" was a personalized documentary of Kormann’s World War II service in what was then the 17th Airborne Division.
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TopVet: Arturo R. Moreno, the "Billboard King"
Mr. Moreno, known as Arte, served in Vietnam. He began his career as a billboard salesman in 1973 and joined up with Bill Levine in 1984, serving as President and Chief Executive Officer of Outdoor Systems.
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Member Stories: Bernard Edelman, Vietnam Veteran, Learned of 9/11 in Vietnam
As I walk along the streets of the cities and villages in Vietnam, I feel totally safe. I never imagined I’d feel safer in Vietnam than in the streets of lower Manhattan.
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TopVet: Heather Wilson
Heather Wilson, a 1982 graduate of the Air Force Academy who saw service in Europe, has represented New Mexico’s First Congressional District since winning a special election in June 1998. The first woman since George Lusk in 1948 to serve in Congress from her state, Ms. Wilson also is the first woman veteran to serve in Congress.
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TopVet: Ralph Crosby, Northrop Grumman
Ralph Crosby is a corporate vice president and President of the Integrated Systems Sector of Northrop Grumman Corporation. Based in Dallas, the sector is an aerospace systems integration enterprise in which airborne systems and subsystems are designed, developed, produced, and supported. Previously, Mr. Crosby was corporate vice president and general manager of the company’s Commercial Aircraft Division.
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Cover Story: Gettysburg
On June 3, 1863, a month after his dramatic victory at Chancellorsville, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee began marching his Army of Northern Virginia westward from its camps around Fredericksburg, Va.
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Vet News: Prominent Historian Admits Fabricating Vietnam Record
Joseph J. Ellis, the Pulitzer Prize- winning historian whose latest book, "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation," has been a national best seller for 26 weeks, admitted yesterday that he had misled his students at Mount Holyoke College into believing that he was an airborne soldier in Vietnam when in fact he never served in Vietnam.
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TopVet: William G. "Gus" Pagonis
Lessons learned during his 29-year career in the Army, from which he retired in 1993 as a lieutenant general, have served William G. Pagonis well.
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TopVet: James Webb
James Webb, whose distinguished career has swung between government service and writing, hails from a family with a strong citizen-soldier military tradition. Family members have served during the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War Two, Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War. Mr. Webb’s father was a career Air Force officer who flew B-17s and B-29s during World War Two, cargo planes during the Berlin Airlift, and was a pioneer in the United States missile program.
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TopVet: Jim Clark, Netscape & MyCFO
Jim Clark dropped out of high school and joined the Navy not so much to see the world as to escape Plainview. After nine months at sea, he returned to the U.S., took a math test, and came out at the top of his class.
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HeroVet Lt. Gen. Martin Steele (USMC, ret’d) Instilling Tradition, from the Corps to the Intrepid
In August 1966, he was a 19-year-old corporal, a college dropout who had enlisted in the Marines. Following a tour as a machine gunner as the nasty little conflict in Vietnam was escalating into a war, he had just returned to stateside service. Assigned to Quantico, where he would be Commanding General more than a quarter of a century later, Marty Steele met Karl Taylor.
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