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...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...
...property boom has begun, focused near the island's southwest tip at the historic Dutch fort of Galle, where 17th century seawalls shelter colonial houses, picturesque churches and mosques on narrow streets. There are fewer than 200 homes inside the citadel walls, now a UNESCO-designated World Heritage site, and in the past several years foreigners have bought at least 40 of them...
Charles Hulse, an Arkansas native and a Galle real estate agent, for years split his time between Paris and the Greek isle of Hydra before settling in a tastefully restored Galle house with interiors fit for Architectural Digest. Hulse notes that the cost of restoring a fort house usually runs more than half the purchase price...
Helene T. Nguyen ’05 plans to “defrost” from the lingering winter weather in Cambridge on her upcoming vacation to Fort Lauderdale...
During a visit with troops in Fort Campbell, Ky., Bush discusses carrying the fight to other nations that support terrorists. “Afghanistan is just the beginning of the war against terror,” he says. “Across the world and across the years, we will fight these evil ones...