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Sol Kramer, wholesale hobby business owner
Sol Kramer, who turned a Depression-era 15-cent balsa toy airplane business into a leading wholesale hobby empire, died of pneumonia April 24 at Hospice by the Sea in Pompano Beach, Fla. The former Pikesville resident was 96. Born in Baltimore, he was...
Tags: Toys, Pikesville, Coral Gables, Pompano Beach, Hampden
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Severna Park Marine dies in Nevada military training accident
He was the teenager who wasn't embarrassed to hug his mom at Severna Park High School while other students looked on, who pitched on the Falcons' 2009 state championship baseball team, and who matured into a Marine with a swallow tattoo on his right arm....
Tags: Anne Arundel Community College, Duke Blue Devils, Taylor Swift, University of Maryland, College Park, U.S. Department of Defense
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Charles Wells, printing firm owner
Charles Nelson Wells, a retired owner of a printing firm and a World War II veteran later honored for his service with a Congressional Gold Medal, died of a blood disorder Feb. 12 at Sinai Hospital. He was 87 and lived in Lochearn. Born in Baltimore and...
Tags: Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, World War II (1939-1945), NAACP, Awards and Prizes, Morgan State University
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After a deployment, a Marine meets his match
It wasn't until my husband held our son Aaron for the first time that I realized I'd been holding my breath — for months. In August, Judah had hugged me, 20-something-weeks' pregnant, and our 3-year-old goodbye before leaving for a tour in...
Tags: Christmas, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Skype, Air Transportation Delays
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Hundreds attend service for fallen Laurel Marine
"Where do we go from here?" Eugene Mills II, father of 21-year-old Marine Lance Cpl. Eugene Mills III, said as he addressed hundreds of mourners at his son's funeral service at Grace Community Church on Tuesday. Mills, who was scheduled to return home...
Tags: Afghanistan
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Seventy years later, pioneering black Marines honored
When the train full of Marine recruits from Baltimore reached Washington, the blacks were made to move to the back. At boot camp in North Carolina, they were forbidden to step onto Camp Lejeune without a white escort. But the worst of it, Howard...
Tags: Civil Rights, Tuskegee Airmen, Catonsville, Racism, Congressional Gold Medal Honorees
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Sailors, Marines volunteer while visiting for Sailabration
About 60 sailors and Marines who shipped into Baltimore for Sailabration, the maritime festival marking the bicentennial of the War of 1812, combined shore leave with community service. They spent Monday volunteering at the Baltimore Station, a...Tags: Fort McHenry, Charity, War of 1812, Inner Harbor
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Catonsville Marine to receive Congressional Gold Medal nearly 70 years after service
William Foreman wasn't looking to make history when he elected to join the United States Marine Corps after the Selective Service System called his number for World War II. The lifelong Catonsville resident could have joined the Army or Navy, like most...
Tags: U.S. Marine Corps, American Legion, John Boehner, Tuskegee Airmen, Jackie Robinson
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Marine from Laurel killed in Afghanistan
A Marine from Laurel was killed Friday in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Saturday night.
Lance Cpl. Eugene C. Mills III, 21, died in combat in Helmand province, the Pentagon said.
He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine...Tags: Afghanistan, Laurel, The Pentagon
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Laurel Marine's remains to arrive at Dover
The remains of Lance Cpl. Eugene C. Mills III, 21, of Laurel, who was known by some of his Marine comrades as "Gino Bambino," were scheduled to arrive at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del., shortly before noon Monday, according to a family friend. On...
Tags: Afghanistan, Laurel, American Legion
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Laurel Marine killed in Afghanistan remembered as patriot, 'all-around great kid'
"Pops, when I come home, Natty Bohs and crabs?" Lance Cpl. Eugene C. "Gene" Mills III asked his father, Gene Mills II, during an impromptu phone call early last week, about a month before the younger man was due to return home to Laurel from Afghanistan....
Tags: Afghanistan, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Officials release name of N.C. Marine found dead at Fort Meade
Less than a year after realizing his lifelong dream of becoming a Marine, Pvt. Anthony W. Romano-Caruso was found dead under mysterious circumstances in his Fort Meade barracks room on Wednesday. Rita Romano-Caruso said two Marines arrived at her front...Tags: Fort Meade (military base), Memorial Day
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