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FOB HAMMER — Following in your parents’ footsteps takes on new meaning for a 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat team Soldier. Pfc. Stephanie McCulley, a combat medic with 3rd HBCT, from Uniontown, Pa., followed the steps of her grandfather, who raised her. They both served in the Army. They both served in combat, and they both earned a Bronze Star Medal as a private first class. “My grandfather raised me,” said McCulley. “He was more of a dad than a grandfather. I lived with him and my grandmother from the age of 2 until I graduated high school.” Ronald Jobes instilled...

Spc. Adam DeCap (from left), Sgt. Scott Meyers, and Sgt. 1st Class Brian Meade saved four Iraqis with their quick actions. CAMP CORREGIDOR -- The fast actions of medics in the 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment helped save the lives of three Iraqi children and their grandfather after mortar attacks by insurgent attacks. The aid station medics received the family and provided medical care until the four casualties could be transported for further treatment. Sgt. 1st Class Brian W. Meade, of Elkhorn City, Ky., the medical platoon sergeant for Headquarters and Headquarters Company, was on duty when the casualties arrived....

MPAA is Suing a Grandfather What the kid did was wrong, but suing a grandfather for $4,000 is a PR nightmare. Didn't they learn from the mistakes of the RIAA? How smart is it to sue your customers? Wouldn't the time and energy be better spent on making the product so affordable, easy to use and desirable that we want to give you our money? In related news, it was discovered that Sony was installing a "root kit" when you played a Sony CD on your computer, Study of Sony Anti-Piracy Software Triggers Uproar.

No one knows another's life. Certainly no child really knows all there is of a father's. But in broad strokes I will try to tell the things which I knew were meaningful to my father. He was born in a small village in Poland. I've seen the name spelled in a variety of ways, but phonetically spelled it was Ravitz. Once in an Isaac Bashevis Singer short story he related stopping there briefly in a train trip from Lublin to Russia. My father said it didn't even have wooden sidewalks or outdoor toilets. His father, Morris, was a master tailor....

AR RAMADI, Iraq (August 5, 2005) -- Kelly P. Baker is proud of his heritage and the fact that he’s continuing his family’s legacy of serving in the Marine Corps during a time of conflict. Corporal Baker, a 21-year-old from New Town – a city inside Ft. Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota – is a third generation Marine and descendant of affiliated Great Plains tribes Mandan, Hidasta and Arikara. “I’m very proud to be Native American and following in the footsteps of my grandpa and dad,” said Baker during a recent foot patrol in the city here with his...

CLEBURNE, Texas (AP) A 16-year-old girl was accused of fatally stabbing her grandfather early Thursday, a day after she was released from juvenile detention in connection with another knife attack. David Underwood, 64, was stabbed with a kitchen knife at least 21 times while he slept, Police Chief Terry Powell said. The man's wife went to the bedroom after hearing a commotion and found her husband bleeding in the bed and the girl nearby, the Cleburne Times-Review reported Thursday in its online edition. Police did not release the girl's name because she is a minor. After a court hearing Thursday,...

HINTON, W.Va. (AP) - The nation's largest lottery winner blamed his granddaughter's recent death on a drug overdose and said he wants the friends he says gave the drugs to her to be put in jail. Jack Whittaker's comments came as a medical examiner was preparing a toxicology report on Brandi Bragg, 17, whose body was found earlier this week wrapped in a plastic tarp on property owned by a boyfriend's father. "All of the problems I have had are because of my granddaughter's friends, her drug-using friends," Whittaker said. "I'm going to find them and put them in jail....

Ms Anderson, who hails from Hobart, Indiana, said the unexpected attention generated by her whimsical eBay sale had "left her a nervous wreck" and that she had cancelled some of the more "outrageous bids". She reiterated that the purpose of the exercise was simply to reassure her five year-old-son who was uneasy about living in a house that he felt was haunted by his "mean" grandfather.

By the time John Kerry's father, Richard, published his only book, The Star-Spangled Mirror, in 1990, he should have been a mellow man. Nearly 30 years had passed since his retirement from the Foreign Service, where he'd filled mid-level posts in Washington, Berlin, and Oslo. His central issue, the cold war, had followed him into retirement with the crumbling of the Berlin Wall and rise of glasnost in Russia. When the 75-year-old Kerry wasn't working on his book, he could be found building model ships and sailing off Cape Cod. If he had any reasons for professional bitterness, they should...

A 6-year-old boy suspected of shooting his grandfather to death with a .22-caliber rifle has a history of mental illness and attacking family members, authorities said. James Zbinden, 59, was found dead at his home Friday after his grandson ran into the street and flagged down a neighbor, Cole County Sheriff John Hemeyer said. The boy, who has not been identified, is being evaluated at a mental-health facility. "We believe, at this time, that he killed his grandfather intentionally," Hemeyer said. An autopsy Saturday showed Zbinden bled to death from a single gunshot wound near his armpit. Hemeyer said Zbinden...

My friend Rick has asked for urgent prayers for his grandfather, Bert Hasbrouck. Bert had stents put in earlier, but those did not work. Tomorrow morning (October 31), Bert is going in for quadruple bypass surgery. Bert is in his mid-eighties and we'd like to ask for all the prayers you can offer up for him. As Rick said, "If dad is worried (his dad is former special ops), then something is up." Thanks, Freeper Prayer Warriors. Bob

 Vowing to speak for the toddler who was left to "literally roast" in a hot car, District Attorney Lynne M. Abraham announced yesterday that prosecutors would refile manslaughter charges against a Southwest Philadelphia grandfather."We have a duty to protect the rights of Sasha Fogle, and that's what we are going to do. We are going to be the voice of a little girl who has no voice," Abraham said at a news conference.On Aug. 12, during a summer heat wave, Abraham said, Sasha "was left alone in a car for at least eight hours and died a horrible, painful, long-suffering...

Astronauts Bolt Girder to Station Sat Apr 13, 6:03 PM ETBy MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace WriterCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The world's first pair of spacewalking grandfathers, nicknamed the Silver Team, floated outside and finished bolting a 44-foot girder to the international space station (news - web sites) on Saturday. Photos AP Photo Slideshows Shuttle Atlantis astronauts Jerry Ross and Lee Morin had to contend with some sticky bolts, but still managed to snap two three-pronged struts into place and complete the work begun by two of their colleagues earlier in the week.It was the first spacewalk ever by two...