Salute And Honor

Dedicated to the memory and lives of American military men and women (specifically in Iraq and Afghanistan), law enforcement, and emergency personnel in South Mississippi.

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Shootings Across U.S. Claim Lives of Civilian, Military Officers

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FOX LAKE, IiewiczLL -- The shooting death of Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz on Tuesday is the lastest in a string killings that have claime...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Memorial Day Ceremonies Continued Despite Rain, Wind

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SOUTH MISSISSIPPI -- Rain curtailed some outdoor activities during the Memorial Day Weekend, but residents throughout the six counties found...
Monday, May 18, 2015

Family, Friends, Comrades Remember Officer Tate

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HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- The second officer who was gunned down earlier this month was laid to rest when services for Officer Liquori Tate were...
Friday, May 15, 2015

20-year-old Naval Academy Student Among Victims of Amtrak Derailment

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PHILADELPHIA -- Justin Zemser, a 20-year-old midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland, will be the first of victim of this week...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Patrolman Benjamin Deen Laid to Rest

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HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- Patrolman Benjamin J. Deen was laid to rest today during a funeral service and final procession that included hundred...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Candlelight Vigil Honors Mississippi Fallen Officers

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  JACKSON, Miss. -- Attorney General Jim Hood and the Mississippi Association of Chiefs of Police join together to host the state’s fifth a...

Community Mourns 2 Officers, Funerals Planned in Hattiesburg

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Officers Liquori Tate, 25, and Benjamin Deen,34, were killed in the line of duty Saturday, May 9, 2015, while performing a routine traffic...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Graduate Inspires Veterans, Students at 15th Annual Breakfast

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Tullibee Base submariners and auxiliary members Camilla Edmonds, Jane Hayes, Glen Keller, Steve Walmsley, Herb Edmonds, Charles Gillies, ...
Monday, November 10, 2014

Marine Corps Turns 239 Years Old Today

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By KELSEY DRISCOLL AOL On November 10, 1775, Philadelphia native Captain Samuel Nicholas formed the the first two battalions of the Contin...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Vietnam Veterans Receive Medal of Honor

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WASHINGTON -- Bennie Adkins and Donald Sloat, who served in the Vietnam War, were awarded the highest military honor on Monday during a cere...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

South Mississippi, Nation Remember 9/11 Attacks, Victims and Heroes

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SOUTH MISSISSIPPI – Across the country, tributes today marked the 13 th year since nearly 3,000 people lost their lives during the terror...
Monday, November 11, 2013

Parade and Program Honor Veterans, Active Military

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MOSS POINT -- Samuel W. Sylvester Jr., 87, is loving all the attention he's gotten lately from the community honoring WWII veterans for ...
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Austin
Moss Point, Mississippi, United States
A longtime reporter for print media, covering everything from youth news and school boards to commmunity events and issues, municipal governments and some crime. Worked as a staffer most of the time for two daily news publications in South Mississippi, and was fairly successful as a fulltime correspondent with those dailies, as well as South Mississippi business journal and two weekly newspapers, one of the latter in Jackson, Miss.
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