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“It was amazing what my father went through,” stated Jan Dukes, Seminole County resident. “To have gone through what he went through and be so fortunate to survive.” Fred Smith, Gunner’s Mate with the United States Navy, decided he wanted to join the Army in early 1941 at the age of 17.

Corporal Allen Rocha, of Cromwell, Oklahoma, served in the U.S. Army from June 13, 2000, to February 11, 2005. Allen did his basic training and his Air Borne training at Fort Benton, Georgia. His did his AIT training at Fort Lee, Virginia.

William S. Key, prominent Oklahoma entrepreneur, civic leader, and military officer, was born October 6, 1889, in Dudleyville, Alabama, the son of Callie R. and Hadassah Fargason Key. After finishing high school in Alabama in 1906, he joined the Georgia National Guard.

Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?

The Background This short story gives the details of Paul Revere’s famous ride to Concord.

Happy? Maybe you are and maybe you’re not. But, one thing is certain, you have the right to try to be happy. You have the right to pursue happiness in your own life. No doubt about it, we like to be happy. And there is nothing wrong with that.

July 4, 1971 Slants Paul Mullen, a former OSU and Seminole high cage star, has received an invitation from the Milwaukee Bucks pro-basketball team to attend a tryout in Milwaukee on July 15 for a place on the squad...He is the son of the Vernon Mullens of 808 Lincoln...

In April 1945, after more than three years as a guerrilla leader in the Philippines, Lt. Col. Edward Ernest McClish came home to Okmulgee, Oklahoma, where his family, who had refused to believe him dead, waited for him. Lt. Col.

Digging through old stuff to put in a garage sale or just throw away—that’s what you do to stuff you spend the biggest part of your life collecting—I discovered old, yellowed, newspaper columns I’d written in the 80s for The Wewoka Times.

Few summertime holidays elicit as much excitement as the Fourth of July, also known as Independence Day in the United States.