Up and Coming Weekly is a weekly publication in Fayetteville, NC and Fort Bragg, NC area offering local news, views, arts, entertainment and community event and business information.
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STAFF bbowman@upandcomingweekly.com PUBLISHER Bill Bowman editor@upandcomingweekly.com ASSOCIATE PUBLISHERS Janice Burton caroline@upandcomingweekly.com MANAGING EDITOR Caroline Goins stephanie@upandcomingweekly.com ASSOCIATE EDITOR Stephanie Crider hal@upandcomingweekly.com MARKETING/SALES Hal Nunn kristy@upandcomingweekly.com Linda McAlister Brown ltmcmd01@aol.com Kristy Sykes OFFICE MANAGER Laurel Handforth officemanager@ upandcomingweekly.com accounting@upandcomingweekly.com ACCOUNTING Anne Di Donato art@upandcomingweekly.com GRAPHIC DESIGNER Alicia Miller www.upandcomingweekly.com 208 Rowan Street P.O. Box 53461 Fayetteville, NC 28305 PHONE: (910) 484-6200 FAX: (910) 484-9218 Up & Coming Weekly is a "Quality of Life" publication with local features, news and infor- mation on what's happening in and around the Fayetteville/Cumberland County community. Up & Coming Weekly is published weekly on Wednesdays. Up & Coming Weekly welcomes manuscripts, photographs and artwork for publication consideration, but assumes no responsibility for them. We cannot accept responsibility for the return of unsolicited manuscripts or material. Opinions expressed by contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher. The publisher reserves the right to edit or reject copy submitted for publication. Up & Coming Weekly is free of charge and distributed at indoor and outdoor locations throughout Fayetteville, Fort Bragg, Pope Air Force Base, Hope Mills and Spring Lake. Readers are limited to one copy per per- son. Subscriptions can be purchased for $30 for six months or $60 for 12 months, delivered weekly by first class mail. ©2007 by F&B Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction or use of editorial or advertisements without permission is strictly prohibited. Heather Griffi ths, Shannon Angry –––––––––––– Up & Coming Weekly CONTRIBUTING WRITERS D.G. Mar tin, Pitt Dick ey, Margaret Dickson, John Hood, Erinn Crider, Karen Poppele, INSIDE PUBLISHER'S PEN by JANICE BURTON Calendar ........................................... 14 Concert Connection ........................ 18 TV ..................................................... 20 Movie Review .................................. 21 A Time of Reflection Kenneth Shadrick. Nathan Chapman. Jonathan Lee Gifford. Most of these names are not names you will know or recognize. These are the names of some of America's honored dead that we will pay tribute to on Memorial Day. You may wonder why these men's names stand out from the countless dead who paid the ultimate price for our freedom. Their deaths are not more important and do not carry anymore weight than the other heroes of our nation. What sets these men apart is that they were the fi rst to die in each of America's wars. Crispus Attucks. Luther C. Ladd. E. V. Loustalot. James Davis. defense of our freedom in Vietnam." Sgt. First Class Nathan Chapman, 22, was the fi rst U.S. soldier to fall in Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan. Assigned to the 1st Special Forces Group following the 11 September attacks, Chapman was directing troop movements from the back of a fl atbed truck when he was shot. Crispus Attucks was killed by British Soldiers during the Boston Massacre. Luther C. Ladd, 18, was a member of the Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. Ladd answered President Lincoln's call for Union volunteers to defend Washington, D.C., following the Union surrender of Fort Sumter on April 13, 1861. Ladd was killed by pro-secessionist in Baltimore. The angry crowd trapped the Soldiers as they were changing trains. It is reported that Ladd's last words were "All hail the stars and stripes." Edward Vincent Loustalot was a U.S. Army Ranger from Louisiana. He was killed in action on August 19, 1942, while participating in the Dieppe Raid and is considered the fi rst American soldier to be killed by Germans on land in World War II. PFC Kenneth Shadrick, just 19 years old, was a member of the 34th Infantry regiment, 24th Infantry Division. During a patrol, Shadrick was killed by the machine gun of a North Korean T34 tank. President Lyndon B. Johnson called the death of Spec. James Davis, a 21-year-old from New York "the fi rst American to fall in Fayetteville's Weather Forecast Fayetteville's Weather Forecast Thursday May 24 Friday May 25 Saturday May 26 Take a moment this Memorial Day weekend and reflect on the sacrifices America's soldiers have made defending our way of life. And then thank him for the men and women whose names are. recorded in archives, but few actually know their names or the price they paid. That can be said of the last man to die in our confl icts, and all those who shed their blood for freedom throughout each confl ict. In Fayetteville, there is perhaps more of a memory of those sacrifi ces because of our link to Fort Bragg. Memorial Day may mean a little more to us here, because for some of us, the sacrifi ce of America's military hits close to home. On this Memorial Day, do more than take a day off and soak up some sun. Spend some time in refl ection. Remember the men and women who have paid the ultimate price for the freedoms many of us take for granted. Tell a story of remembrance. Say a prayer for their families, and while you are barbecuing with your friends, thank God their names and the names of those you hold dear are not on this hallowed list. Pvt. Jonathan Gifford, 20, a U.S. Marine, was killed by small-arms fi re in 2003 during the Battle of Nasiriyah, Iraq. Their sacrifi ce and their histories are JANICE BURTON, Associate Publisher. COMMENTS? 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