By Dan Shine Voice Columnist The Move “Life is made up of small comings and goings: And for everything that we take with us, we leave a little piece of ourselves behind.” -Herman Raucher September, 1961 The … [Read more...] about Historian’s corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist Sancta nox, placida nox (Silent Night, Holy Night) As has been previously stated on this page, Dad spent Christmas Eve 1944 in battle in the Ardennes Forest in Belgium. That same evening, not far … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist The First Christmas in SpaceAboard Apollo 8 Space travel has become so routine that some of us cannot remember a time when it generated great excitement and captured the imagination of the world--a time … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist Pilgrim or Puritan? We today often use the words Puritan and Pilgrim interchangeably, and yet the difference in the two is quite significant: those who came on the Mayflower to establish the starving colony … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist Milton Cochran, USMCPart III See Part 1 | Part 2 It takes a special kind of woman to choose a man as broken in body and spirit as Milt Cochran: She must accept that the road ahead will be very hard, the … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist Milton Cochran, USMCPart II See Part 1 | Part 3 So, Milt Cochran became “Doc” to a platoon of Marines. He followed them through the jungles of Vietnam where temperatures over 120 degrees were common. … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist Milton C. Cochran, USMCPart I See Part 2 | Part 3 Antoinette “Toni” Cochran awoke suddenly; she sat bolt upright in the darkness and shook her husband: “Bus, Bus, wake up! Something terrible has happened … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist West Haven VA Hospital The year was 1909: Theodore Roosevelt’s term as president was ending and William Howard Taft’s term was just beginning. The population of our 46 states stood at 90 … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist The Bilco Company "American inventiveness, and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success." R. Paul George W. Lyons, Sr. was born … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner
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By Dan Shine Voice Columnist In The News, 1971 By 1971, West Haven had entered its fiftieth year as an entity unto itself. In August, a sixteen day celebration took place throughout the city, including a parade with floats, a … [Read more...] about Historian’s Corner