Here is a list of events scheduled for Veterans Day, Wednesday. ...more

November 10, 2009

With an eye on the immediate aftermath of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, thousands of World War II veterans and other observers are expected on Sunday to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the devastating Japanese military raid. ...more

December 7, 2008

Marsha Passmore, director of outreach for Hopewell Funeral Home & Memorial Gardens, invites the community to the second annual Hopewell Lantern Ghost Walk on Oct. 31. The event will begin at 6 p.m. with music at McCall Park, Collins and Drane streets downtown. ...more

October 8, 2008

"U.S.A." was emblazoned on the front and the back of the red baseball hat worn by Stanford Wright as he clutched an American flag in his right hand and held his left hand over his heart. ...more

September 8, 2008

Members of an area golf club got an early jump on Memorial Day festivities this year. ...more

May 31, 2008

The Sun City Center Woman's Club honored veterans at its November meeting. ...more

December 6, 2007

The American Legion Post 147 of Odessa will host its annual Veterans Day remembrance ceremony Sunday morning at Keystone Park. ...more

November 10, 2007

The news this week that 2007 became the deadliest year for U.S. troops in Iraq was brought home Wednesday with a solemn ceremony for two local U.S. Army sergeants who died half of a world away two months ago. Hillsborough County Commissioners honored Sgt. Cory Clark of Plant City who was killed on Aug. 28 in Afghanistan and Sgt. 1st Class David A. Heringes of Tampa who died a day later in Iraq. ...more

November 7, 2007

The sun shone with peculiar brightness on a reverent crowd gathered around the 9-11 memorial at Oldsmar Fire Rescue Tuesday. It was the sixth anniversary of the terror attacks. ...more

September 15, 2007

Victims' families huddled under umbrellas Tuesday in a park to mark the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in the first remembrance ceremony not held at ground zero, an event that failed to evoke the same emotions as the hallowed ground of the World Trade Center site. ...more

September 12, 2007