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Heroes in Our Midst PART 1 – Methuen’s Thomas Patrillo – US NAVY WWII
Valley Patriot of the Month By; Ted Tripp – March, 2007 METHUEN – Sixteen million Americans served in World War II. Only a fraction of this number saw action…
Hero in Our Midst – Corporal James M. Cassidy, U.S. Army – WW II
Valley Patriot of the Month By: Ted Tripp – February, 2007 NORTH ANDOVER– On the morning of June 6, 1944, the Allies finally began the liberation of Europe from the…
What Thomas Jefferson Learned From The Muslim Book of Jihad
By: Ted Sampley, U.S. Veteran Dispatch – February, 2007 Democrat Keith Ellison is now officially the first Muslim United States congressman. True to his pledge, he placed his hand…
VALLEY PATRIOT EDITORIAL: Lawrence Cabbie is no Criminal
VALLEY PATRIOT EDITORIAL February – 2007 Here we go again in Lawrence where the victim is arrested and treated like the criminal, instead of focusing on the real criminals. Last…
Hero in Our Midst – Lieutenant Colonel Muriel Katschker, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve
Valley Patriot of the Month By: Ted Tripp – January, 2007 NORTH ANDOVER – Muriel Katschker remembers well where she was on December 7, 1941. She was with her…
HEROES IN OUR MIDST Chief Master Sgt. Michael Ingham U.S. Air Force
VALLEY PATRIOT OF THE MONTH By: Ted Tripp – December, 2006 HAVERHILL – Next month Mike Ingham will retire after 33 years of service in the Air Force, both…
Heroes in Our Midst – Corporal Frank Sanzi – Paratrooper Korean War
By: Ted Tripp – November, 2006 NORTH ANDOVER – On June 25, 1950 the North Korean Army, bolstered by Soviet tanks and aircraft, invaded South Korea. Immediately, President Harry Truman…
Hero in Our Midst – Capt.Terrance Hart U.S. Coast Guard – Valley Patriot of the Month
By: Ted Tripp – October, 2006 GEORGETOWN – Late on the night of December 26, 1970, in stormy seas 600 miles off Cape May, New Jersey, the aging 540-foot Finnish…
Hero in Our Midst, Part II, POW, Staff Sgt. Eldon Berthiaume, Infantryman
By: Ted Tripp – September, 2006 LAWRENCE – In early 1945, Pvt. Eldon Berthiaume of the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division was captured by the Germans in the small village of…
Hero in Our Midst – Part 1 – Staff Sgt. Eldon Berthiaume, Infantryman WWII
VALLEY PATRIOT OF THE MONTH – AUGUST, 2006 By: Ted Tripp – August, 2006 LAWRENCE – When Eldon Berthiaume graduated from Lawrence High School in the spring of 1942, he…
Hero in Our Midst – Joe Messina of Methuen – Hero in our Midst
By Ted Trip – July 05, 2006 METHUEN – Joe Messina was taking a shower below decks on the aircraft carrier USS Hancock after his Curtis SB2C Hell-diver returned from another…
Heroes in our Midst – Christian Farnham, Captain Daniel Leary, Specialist Philip Brooks of North Andover
By: Tom Duggan – June, 2006 *Specialist Christian Farnha Spc. Christian Farnham began his military career in 1992 when he decided to follow the family tradition of enlisting in the…
Hero in our Midst – Luther McIlwain, Tuskegee Airman, Part 2 – Valley Patriot of the Month
(READ PART 1) By: Ted Tripp – May, 2006 METHUEN – As 85-year-old Luther McIlwain slowly walks around the kitchen table in his Pleasant Valley home, it is obvious that…
Hero in Our Midst – Tuskegee Airman Luther McIlwain, Part 1 – Valley Patriot of the Month
Read PART II By: Ted Tripp – April, 2006 METHUEN – Everyone meeting Luther McIlwain for the first time immediately realizes there is something special in the air. Even a short…
Hero in Our Midst – Ed Mitchell – Valley Patriot of the Month, March, 2006
By: Ted Tripp – March, 2006 NORTH ANDOVER- An electrical short circuit had forced early termination of the dive of the Navy’s Deep Submergence Research Vehicle, Turtle. As the Turtle…
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