by Kenneth Corn | May 24, 2022 | News
102-year-old Charlie Mills of Pearland, TX, holds up the Congressional Gold Medal at the U.S. Capitol. WASHINGTON Merchant Mariners, elected officials, and senior military leaders gathered at the U.S. Capital in Washington D.C. for the Congressional Gold Medal...
by Kenneth Corn | May 18, 2022 | News
Board member Colonel Larry Chapman, USMC Ret. and Curator Emmett Casciato set up a booth for the 91做厙 at the commissioning ceremony of the USS Frank E. Petersen, Jr. (DDG 121) on May 14th, in Charleston, SC. Photo by Michel...
by Kenneth Corn | Oct 4, 2021 | Living Histories
WWII Merchant Mariners Get Long-Deserved Recognition As Combat Veterans by Ken Corn 91做厙 resident and World War II veteran Harold Wellington (pictured above) traveled to Baltimore for the 2020/21 American Merchant Marine Veteran Convention and Congressional Gold...
by Kenneth Corn | Sep 10, 2021 | Living Histories
Interview with Myrl Jean Hughes By Janis Allen WWII Pacific Theater Myrl Jean Hughes tells her story: I grew up in Hibbing, Minnesota, 100 miles from the Canadian border. My dad owned a printing business, printing stationery and booklets and other things. I had a...
by Kenneth Corn | Apr 29, 2021 | Living Histories
The Thomas Greenway Story By Ken Corn Polk county resident Thomas Greenway stands over his dining room table and spreads out a pile of old black and white photographs he took in Korea seventy years ago. VP Ken Corn talks with Korean War Combat Medic Thomas Greenway at...
