Apr 21 2011
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Apr 21 2011
Those of you that read this irregular series know that I am from Hackett, Arkansas, just a mile of so from the Oklahoma border, and just about 10 miles south of the Arkansas River. It was a redneck sort of place, and just zoom onto my previous posts to understand a bit about it.
I never write about living people except with their express permission, but since these folks are long gone, they are fair game. They were actually very nice folks, but had some quirks, as most folks in my little town did.
I do not know how they came into a little money, since they owned a nice (by mid 1960s standards) house on a large lot. They were my neighbors just to the south where I lived. I liked both of them.
Apr 21 2011
Evening Edition is an Open Thread
| From Yahoo News Top Stories |
1 Foreign military advisers head for Libyan rebel bastion
by Marc Burleigh, AFP
28 mins ago
| MISRATA, Libya (AFP) – France and Italy joined Britain on Wednesday in sending military advisers to insurgent-held eastern Libya, as Tripoli warned that a foreign troop deployment would only prolong the conflict.
In the besieged city of Misrata, Tim Hetherington, an Oscar-nominated British film director and war photographer, was killed and three colleagues were wounded by mortar fire, the local hospital said. Vanity Fair, for which Hetherington was working, confirmed the death of the 41-year-old from Liverpool, the second journalist killed covering Libya’s two-month-old conflict. |
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