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...also especially heartbreaking because it happened to Virgil Ware. A smart, skinny kid, the third of six children whose father and uncles worked in the nearby Docena coal mine, he had just entered the eighth grade at the all-black Sandusky Elementary School near his home in suburban Pratt City. An A student who played tight end on the football team, Virgil seemed the sibling "who was most likely to go to college," says brother Melvin, 54, a crane operator in Birmingham. "He wanted to be a lawyer. When we'd watch Perry Mason, Virgil'd always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legacy Of Virgil Ware | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...would just get down and do it until I felt like I was doing it with feeling. I probably sang the song 100 times before I went in and recorded it, because I had to make it mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Johnny Cash: A Final Interview | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...have adequate military forces. That is not true. My husband was injured while blowing up enemy munitions. The doctors recommended that he come home to heal, but the company commander said he couldn't afford to lose him. I don't know where Rumsfeld gets his information, but mine comes from the trenches. The soldiers are saying they have had enough, they want to come home, and they are tired of doing the work of 10 men. The forces are not "adequate." LISA CORDELL Fort Campbell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 22, 2003 | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

LAZARUS ZIM Mine Master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People to Watch in International Business | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...have adequate military forces. That is not true. My husband was injured while blowing up enemy munitions. The doctors recommended that he come home to heal, but the company commander said he couldn't afford to lose him. I don't know where Rumsfeld gets his information, but mine comes from the trenches. The soldiers are saying they have had enough, they want to come home and they are tired of doing the work of 10 men. The forces are not "adequate." Lisa Cordell Fort Campbell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

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