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If you were in Brentwood for the Memorial Day program in 2011, you probably remember the behemoth Coast Guard cargo plane that rumbled overhead for just a few seconds before disappearing over the h...
Apr 26, 2012 | 0 | 8 |
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Heritage High School graduates Cameron J. Altman and Joey M. Domeier graduated from the United States Coast Guard Training Center in Cape May, N.J. on April 6. Both of these outstanding young men w...
Apr 19, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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Joseph R Ziegler, a 2011 Deer Valley High School graduate, recently completed his basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, where he received his BMT Ribbon and National Defense ...
Apr 18, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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On April 9, 1942, 76,000 Filipino and American soldiers surrendered to Japanese forces and were forced to walk 80 miles to a prison camp in Capas, Tarlac.
The Filipino-American Association of Pitt...
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Those who wish to be remembered as an American veteran or preserve the name of a loved one who honorably served the United States of America are invited to be a part of the effort to install memori...
Apr 02, 2012 | 0 | 8 |
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In 1981, when the U.S. Congress began honoring the generations of women whose contributions had proven invaluable to society, Brentwood’s Bethann Eckenrod was 2 years old. Today, as National Women’...
Mar 08, 2012 | 0 | 7 |
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If you’re looking for a night of food, fellowship and a worthy cause, bring your appetite – and your patriotism – to Grazie! Grille at The Streets of Brentwood on March 13.
Operation Creekside, the...
Mar 01, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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Teresa Wiens graduated from Navy boot camp in Great Lakes, Ill. on Feb. 17. She continues her Navy career at Fort Sam Houston in Texas, where she is studying to become a hospital corpsman.
Feb 23, 2012 | 0 | 15 |
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It’s not an easy thing, sneaking up on a sniper. But if you thought it couldn’t be done, you might have underestimated the power of a mother.
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jon Adams, a Knighsten resident an...
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Vincent Silva
April 12, 1918-Feb. 16, 2012
Longtime Pittsburg resident and native son of the State of New Mexico Vincent Silva left this world on Feb. 16, 2012 to reunite with wife Rose and son Ri...
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U.S. Army Private Second Class Brendan Walker, a 2011 graduate of Heritage High School, is starting the second phase of his AIT training for EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) at Eglin Air Force Bas...
Feb 02, 2012 | 0 | 11 |
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A memorial service will be held Friday at 7 p.m. in the Lone Tree Golf and Event Center for Air Force Airman 1st Class Kyle Truitt, a 2006 Liberty High School graduate. Truitt, 23, died in a car cr...
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Master Sgt. Lawrence J. Polk recently retired from the Air Force after 28 years of service.
Polk was born on March 14, 1955 in San Francisco. He graduated from Del Valle High School in Walnut Creek...
Feb 02, 2012 | 0 | 5 |
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Oakley’s Cmdr. Alexandra Luckhardt, a nurse in the United States Navy Reserves, is presently deployed in Kandahar, Afghanistan at the Nato Role 3 Hospital, assigned to the Intensive Care Unit. She ...
Jan 19, 2012 | 0 | 5 |
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The community recently welcomed home U.S. Army PVT3 Cody Lightfoot home to Discovery Bay after his return from Iraq. Trained as a driver/gunner, he spent most of his tour manning a gun atop a Humve...
Jan 18, 2012 | 0 | 8 |
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Walking around Camp Eggers, Antioch resident and contracted linguist Rafia Yusuf is flooded with pleasant memories of the pre-soviet Kabul she grew up in, a Kabul she hardly recognizes now.
She rem...
Dec 05, 2011 | 0 | 12 |
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Cpl. Michael Alexander Holzer has been named the Soldier of the Month at Fort Drum, N.Y. Holzer is a scout sniper with the 10th Mountain Division and a veteran of Afghanistan. He graduated from Lib...
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Lt. j.g. Joshua Moody recently returned to San Diego after a six-month deployment in Panama. While deployed, he passed his qualification for surface warfare supply corps officer and was pinned as a...
Dec 01, 2011 | 0 | 18 |
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For wounded Iraq war veteran Ricky France and his family, Nov. 5 was a major roller coaster ride. The home he and wife Shannon rented in Loomis had been lost to foreclosure and, unable to find an a...
Dec 01, 2011 | 0 | 5 |
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Troops deployed overseas will soon receive more than 175 pounds of candy thanks to local school kids, residents and Brentwood dentist Tracy Benhamou.
For the second year, Benhamou’s Oak Street Fami...