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Wilson, of Ringgold, Ga., says he met and befriended Edward Lee Pitts, an embedded reporter from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, at California's Fort Irwin, where his unit trained. Later in Kuwait, after Pitts learned that only soldiers could ask questions at the upcoming Rumsfeld meeting, he urged Wilson to come up with, as Wilson recalls, some "intelligent questions." Wilson decided on one after his convoy arrived at Camp Arijan. The camp had hundreds of fully armored vehicles waiting for a unit scheduled to arrive in July. When Wilson asked if the 278th could use them in the meantime...
...they thought contained their loved ones' ashes to the Walker County Civic Center in hopes of putting them to rest--again. "One woman had her mama in her lap. The next one had her uncle. The next one had her brother," recalls Gary Guy, 50, who had come from Ringgold, Ga., to track down his mother-in-law's body. "How in the world could this have happened...
BORN: Oct. 24, 1959, Fort Oglethorpe EDUCATION: U of Tennessee at Chattanooga, B.S., 1982; U of Georgia, J.D., 1985 FAMILY: Wife, Reva Revis RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Georgia House, 1989- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1996, Ringgold 30736. Tel.: 706-965-1996 Poston is out to win back the Ninth for the Democrats, making as much political hay as possible out of his opponent's defection last year. As an eight-year state legislator, he has good name recognition and campaign experience, and promises to bring his commitment to crime prevention and ethics reform--he introduced a state...
...farmers. The Government provides no subsidy for grocers and drygoods merchants. Publisher Alan Smith, of Mount Ayr, Iowa, (pop. 1,900) used to run two-thirds of a page of delinquent taxes in his Record-News every year. Now he runs six or eight pages. How long before his Ringgold County must yield on the quality of its schools and public services? Not yet, he insists. Adversity brought determination, and Mount Ayr shows a better spirit now than a year ago. Yet half of the county's people could now be below the Government's poverty line...
...time young Joe was a Ringgold High Ram, he had asked backyard waivers on his first receiver, and drafted a neighbor who liked to pretend he was Jim Seymour; Montana was Terry Hanratty. Those were Notre Dame's stars at the time. The setting of most of Joe's dreams began to be South Lend...