Word: alabamas
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...other 49 state winners and I were treated like princesses from the second we landed in Mobile, Alabama. Junior Miss is a very big deal to the city. We each had drivers with official Junior Miss logos on their cars, sponsor families and hospitality mothers at our beck and call. Have a craving for an Oreo mid-rehearsal? The hospitality moms were more than happy to drive out to the store. Little girls asked for autographs, earnestly leaning in close to whisper that they hoped they would be a Junior Miss someday. Wherever we went, the Mobile press followed. Every...
...more. In person and in her book, She Went to War: The Rhonda Cornum Story, the doctor, soldier, wife and mother - then 38 - wrote about her ordeal with a gung-ho matter-of-factness. As a flight surgeon assigned to the 229th Attack Helicopter Regiment at Fort Rucker, Alabama, she was aboard a Blackhawk searching for a downed F-16 pilot on February 27, 1991 when the aircraft came under fire. Five soldiers on board died. Cornum and two others survived. Pinned under the wreckage, she dug her way out with two broken arms, a broken finger, a gunshot wound...
Active-duty soldiers are doing their job when they deploy, but reservists--truck drivers from California and Maryland, cops and sheriffs from Utah and Maine, helicopter pilots from Georgia, engineers from Alabama--are leaving theirs behind. Ironically, that social disruption is exactly what the Pentagon intended when it redefined the mission of the reserves after Vietnam. Bitter at having been isolated from the rest of American society, it shifted to the reserves many traditional military tasks, like police and logistics. The idea was that any major war would require calling up those part-time soldiers and force sacrifices across...
They did, but only briefly before the drizzle forced a suspension at deuce around 11:40 p.m. Since Harvard could not change its travel arrangements, the match could not be completed in Alabama...
...Alabama trip was a mixed bag for Harvard in general. It was a change of venue from the indoor courts in Cambridge. A match scheduled for last Thursday was entirely wiped out by strong rain, and the conditions put the Crimson at a disadvantage when it lost last Friday to No. 60 Middle Tennessee...