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STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. (NNS) -- Hurricane Kartrina victims at one Navy command here have a place to shop without cost thanks to an outpouring of donations across the naval service. Davy Jones Locker is a volunteer-run store serving Navy and civilian personnel and their family members at Stennis Space Center near the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Now a makeshift store inside the Matthew Fontaine Maury Oceanographic Library, it has a bevy of items, from soup to soap, and from clothing to cat food. The Stennis-based Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command and the Naval Oceanographic Office have 441 employees who lost...

Heroes. Every nation, in every time, seems to need them. Some heroes who often were regarded harshly in their lifetime – e.g., George Washington – gained luster in later years. Others, hailed in their day, have fared less well with the passage of time. Cases in point: William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, whom history reviles for his part in stripping our western plains of bison. U.S. Grant betrayed a weakness for whiskey, Charles A. Lindbergh for the appeal of Naziism. One hero whose halo remained fairly fixed has been Davy Crockett, the 19th century frontiersman who's revered among 189 brave...