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Hi everyone - I thought it a good idea to lighten up the mood amidst all the present political brouhaha to present to you a classic article from Time Magazine, concerning er... exotic examples of car types built throughout the 20th century.

Hello all; The date is 22 MAY 05, and I find myself needing to write again. Before I start, I want to say that I am completely overwhelmed with emotions. A brief history if you will bear with me. Approximately 3 weeks ago, I was contacted by my mother regarding a friend of a friend with whom she had been sending my letters for entertainment purposes I am sure…grin Anyway, I received an e-mail from some guy whom I had never met named “Swordmaker” asking me if he could print my letters on an online newspaper. I thought it a...

SPINDALE -- Warren Messer weighed 80 pounds, and had turned blue. His knees were crushed and his feet and fingers were broken. He was struggling to hang on to life in the hell of a Cambodian prisoner-of-war camp during the Vietnam War, when he saw the eyes of the man who would save his life. He never forgot those eyes. Messer was on assignment in Cambodia doing reconnaissance missions for the U.S. Marine Corps when he was captured. Ronnie Scroggs, an Air Force medic and Rutherford County native, lifted Messer from the hells of the Cambodian POW camp on July...

I know this is early, but heck I'm excited.

At age 20, Lance Cpl. Ben Carman had the kind of unshakable faith in God that pulled him through his darkest fears. "My son loved the Lord. He loved his family. He loved his country," said Nelson Carman, 53, in a phone interview from his home in Jefferson, Iowa. Ben Carman, a machine-gunner with the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, was killed April 6 in Anbar province, where he was stationed with the 1st Marine Division. His father vividly recalled the December 2002 day he graduated from basic training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego. "I just had to think:...