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Wal-Mart Hosts Appreciation Picnic for Walter Reed Patients By Samantha L. QuigleyAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 26, 2004 – Good weather, good music and great food combined for one picnic full of thanks and appreciation from Walter Reed Army Medical Center patients. West Virginia National Guardsman Sgt. Dawn Adamson enjoyed the good food and good company at the Wal-Mart-sponsored Military Appreciation Picnic held at Walter Reed Army Medical Center's Mologne House Sept. 25. An Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, Adamson was joined by her friend, Robert Rice. She is a member of the 157th Military Police Company.(Click photo for...

Army widow copes with grief, enlistsBy Shawn Ledington September 23, 2004 YORK, Pa. (Army News Service, Sept. 23, 2004) -- Many times in her 16-month marriage to Spc. Nicholas Zangara, Mell Zangara would climb into his military uniform and prance around their apartment as though she was on a catwalk. "Don't I look hot, baby?" she'd ask him. "Wouldn't you like to see me come home to you in this?" Nicky would give her that look, the one that told her to give him a break. "You're not joining the Army," he'd say. New Beginnings Before marrying Nicky in...

Acting Secretary of the Army Les Brownlee greets members of the American Legion and Amercian Legion Auxillary following his speech at their 86th annual convention in Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 31.Sgt Carmen Burgess Brownlee tells American Legion convention about system for disabled veterans By Sgt. Carmen L. Burgess September 3, 2004 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Army News Service, Sept. 3, 2004) -- Acting Secretary of the Army Les Brownlee lauded the dedication that veterans continue to show to the U.S. military during a speech he made to American Legion delegates Aug. 31. Thousands at the legion's 86th convention provided a standing ovation...