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Many people find it impossible to think about summer without conjuring visions of spending endless hours outdoors from morning until evening, whether beachside, on the open water or even floating in a backyard pool. Although a certain measure of sun exposure is required for some natural functions of the body, it’s well documented that too much time in the sun can be hazardous to one’s health. That’s why summer frolickers need to exercise considerable caution each time they step outside.
Read moreWatermelon is a summertime staple. Each summer, stores and farm stands have an abundance of watermelons on display, and many people feel no picnic or barbecue is complete without watermelon.
Read moreFor most Oklahomans, as for most Americans, the Korean War provoked a strange mix of deep concern and growing indifference between 1950 and 1953. The unprovoked invasion of South Korea by communist North Korean forces seemed clear proof of the threat posed to the United States and its allies by the Soviet Union and its own client states and seemed an unsettling harbinger of the growing danger of open, possibly nuclear, warfare between East and West.
Read moreOn April 8, 1945, Lynn Cecil Dollar of Seminole Oklahoma, along with 4,000 other American POW began a 281 march from Stalag 17B north of Vienna Austria to Munich Germany.
Read moreIn the fall of 1952, just a couple of months short of my twenty-first birthday, I was working for Johnson Construction Company as a dump truck driver. The work was hard, as most of the loading was done manually. After a hard day’s work, I came home ready for a comfortable chair and the newspaper.
Read moreTULSA AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, OKLAHOMA – The 138th Fighter Wing is one of nine Air National Guard bases chosen to receive upgraded, fifth-generation radars for the F-16 Viper.
Read moreEveryone rises as the first note of a Seminole hymn fills the chapel. Soon after, an American flag is gently rolled back to the middle of the casket, so the top can be opened and a hero revealed.
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