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Military History of Central and Southern Indiana from WW1 to present. Official site for historic Camp Atterbury, Italian and German POWs at Camp Atterbury, Wakeman General Hospital, Freeman AAF, German, Japanese and Italian captured aircraft at Freeman Field, and Fort Benjamin Harrison. Also includes the 28th, 30th, 31st, 83rd, 92nd, and 106th Division, all of which trained at Camp Atterbury. Hosted and supported totally by the Indiana Army National Guard. Largest private web site in Indiana soon to be more than 8 Gigabytes. All information presented is original and not changed in any way. www.IndianaMilitary.org JimWest@iquest.net

Absentee voting stirs debate Some blame politics for a change that makes getting a ballot harder By JOHN ZEBROWSKI, Staff Writer Rep. Martin Nesbitt, a Buncombe Democrat, said he didn't know who did it. Across the political aisle, Rep. Paul Stam, a Wake Republican, said he had no idea how the change made it into an unrelated bill on the last day of the 2002 General Assembly. Same for the State Board of Elections, the Republican Party and local elections officials. The quasi-mystery was: Who inserted language into the Technical Corrections Bill -- a thick slab of legislation used to...

Fri September 26, 2003 09:13 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military, faced with reluctance by other nations to send forces to Iraq, on Friday night activated 10,000 Army National Guard troops to go there and put 5,000 more Army Guard soldiers on alert for likely service in Iraq. The mobilization order for the 30th Infantry Brigade from North Carolina and the 39th Infantry Brigade from Arkansas, each with 5,000 troops, to mobilize over the next two weeks had been expected. They were earlier alerted for replacement rotation into Iraq, where the United States now has about 130,000 troops....