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Woo hoo! I've made the big time. Last month, the website Free Republic featured a thread about my Nov. 18 column, "Queers Who Don't Act Right." You probably don't know much about Free Republic unless you are a right-wing lunatic. Free Republic is so far right that wing-nut gay muckraker Matt Drudge and Lucianne Goldberg, one of the architects of the Clinton-Monica Lewinsky brouhaha, both left the site in 1999 because it was too extreme, even for them. In the years since, the site has become the contemporary version of a marathon meeting of the old John Birch Society and...

Looking for information on WWII Veteran shot down Italy, August 21, 1943. Serial number 37-271-555. B-24 Tail gunner. Buried United States Military Cemetary, Nettuno, Italy

Brandon Singleton was 8 when he first saw the movie "Clueless," and it changed his life. He was entranced by the paradise of teenage consumption that the 1995 film portrayed, a Hollywood world of valet parking and designer duds. So when he entered Suitland High School in Prince George's County four years ago, he was determined to make it his reality. Now 17, he wears Armani sunglasses inside his mother's modest townhome on a recent afternoon as he rattles off a list of his favorite designer brands: Dolce & Gabbana, Coach and "a little Burberry here and there." His first...

WWII veteran tells his story By Jim WashingtonStaff writer A frightened World War II tail gunner jumps from his airplane as flames engulf it. Photo by Stephanie Bruce Maurice Braswell, a former judge who lives in Fayetteville, wrote a book about his experiences in World War II. He survives the fall into enemy territory, finds an Allied sympathizer and organizes an escape. Instead of escaping, he is captured and thrown into a POW camp. There, he meets a European princess who becomes a lifelong friend. Mark Walter Braswell could hardly believe the events he was reading about. "It read like...