Recent News & Press
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What patriotism is
In the bowels of the Atlanta airport, I settled in near a pole to cling to on the underground train. As I did, my attention was drawn to three young soldiers moving in beside me. I instantly assessed the screaming eagle patch of the 101st Airborne Division on their left shoulders.
It was a [...]READ MORE...
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Adjusting Our Moral Compass On March 16, 1968, angered by the death of a popular unit sergeant (caused by an unmanned booby trap), a platoon of Charlie Company, 11th Brigade of the Americal Divison entered an undefended Vietnamese village and murdered innocent men, women and children.
On Nov. 19, 2005 angered by the death of a [...]READ MORE...
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It’s Not About Yellow Ribbons Recently a colleague stood sheepishly in my office doorway and reluctantly announced he needed to ask me a question but didn’t know quite where to start. “How,” he began slowly, “should someone who really doesn’t understand the military show their support for the military?”
For an instant, I thought he was [...]READ MORE...
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The Court’s Loch Ness Monster? As my oldest son recently departed Scotland to link up with my youngest son in Turkey (both are backpacking around the world seeking answers to the world’s greatest mysteries), I asked him if he had seen the Loch Ness monster while there. His answer was he hasn’t seen it but [...]READ MORE...
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Insurance or Indemnity? OK, I admit it. I am not objective. Recently, I represented a nice 68-year old lady, who despite living in a trailer on a fixed income, was forced to sue her own insurance company for benefits she paid for to cover her car accident-related injuries.
The insurance company (who will remain nameless but [...]READ MORE...
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Imagine learning you might have AIDS.
Imagine that you could have contracted the disease because tissue transplanted in your neck came from an infected corpse looted from a funeral home.
Imagine this happened to you in your golden years at a time not long after you had retired from a local company that you worked at half [...]READ MORE...
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In an area of small building, The Home Depot and fast food eateries, the new Michles & Booth building at 501 Brent Lane stands out.
Attorneys Marcus Michles and Rainey Booth are proud of their new location that will be used by the firm’s 22 employees and five attorneys. The approximately 10,000-square-foot building “will represent the [...]READ MORE...
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MLK and the Sneetches At the invitation of my friend, Dan Soloway, I had the opportunity to have dinner recently with a man- Fred Gray- who changed the history of our country.
On the eve of the national day of recognition of the many great contributions of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., it was not [...]READ MORE...
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Downtown mural represents a much larger effort to help the families and
children of soldiers or municipal workers who have died in the line of duty
FORT WALTON BEACH - Travelers making their way to Brooks Bridge from Fort Walton Beach have watched it take shape.
But the mural forming on the cinderblock wall of a downtown law [...]READ MORE...
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Strength. Honor. Commitment.
These are just words to many but to the veterans who gathered Saturday at the Veterans Memorial Park in Pensacola; they’re a way of life.
About 200 people, including several Pearl Harbor survivors, attended a ceremony to recognize Purple Heart recipients.
The Purple Heart is a medal given to service personnel wounded or killed in [...]READ MORE...
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