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...cream, cherished mobile purveyor of frozen delights; in Ocean City, N.J. Such was the ardor for the white trucks that when New York City officials tried to ban the familiar--to some, cloying--jingle, a public outcry forced them to back down. Launched in 1956, when Conway and his brother William drove a truck around Philadelphia giving away green ice cream on St. Patrick's Day, the company now has 600 trucks in 15 states...
...patrol in a residential part of Haditha on Nov. 19 when its convoy of four humvees was attacked by an IED. The explosion killed Miguel Terrazas, 20, a beloved member of the unit, who was driving the fourth humvee. Terrazas had a record of being cool under fire. His brother Martin reports that Terrazas once earned a letter of commendation for singling out--and killing--a bombmaking insurgent in a roomful of sleeping children. Another time, from a distance of about 200 yards, he killed an insurgent armed with an AK-47 who was standing next to a boy about...
...have been here for nearly six months, no days off, 24 hours a day and getting shot at or blown up every day. And when you go to a house where you are pretty certain the people [there] know [where the bad guys are]--it is their neighbor or brother--and they say they don't know anything ... it upsets you. Especially when you have just lost someone. I had it happen to me this morning--went to a house and asked about the guy who I know lives next door. Never heard of him. Makes you want to punch...
Martin Terrazas Jr. and his younger brother Miguel used to work the counters together at Ben's Tacos, the combination eatery and convenience store owned by their family on Delta Street in El Paso, Texas. For $3, you get half a dozen tacos; a dollar gets you a comb or a pair of die. It was Terrazas tradition to stand behind the counter at Ben's: Martin and Miguel's father, uncles and cousins worked there, wearing the store uniform, a full-length orange apron. There was another family tradition: the military. Grandfather Jorge is an Army vet. Uncle Luis...
...wrote. “While listening to your boy, I kept hoping that mine who is now 13 will turn out to be an equally consequential citizen.”Robert W. “Worth” Bingham, Bingham’s older brother, had been selected to take the reins of the newspaper, and Bingham had long looked up to him. But, in a line of tragedies for the family, Worth died on vacation in Cape Cod when a surfboard stuffed through the backseat windows jackknifed his neck. After the turn of the century, Bingham?...