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June 27, 2018A Special Supplement to

Saluting Our Veterans

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Newly elected as the most likely District 42 State Houserepresentative, Doug Gilliam says he saw first-hand servingin Afghanistan 10 years ago acts of heroism that made himrealize heroism is not a trait solely for experienced soldiers.Gilliam won the June 12 Republican primary for House

42, which represents the PC side of Broad Street in Clintonand all of Union County, where Gilliam and the two othermen running for the position all live. One of his opponents,Phillip Russell, won more votes in the Clinton-Joanna area,with Gilliam carrying Union County for the outright victorywith more than 50% of the vote. There will be no Democratrunning in November, and no announced write-in candidate;therefore, Gilliam most likely will replace Mike Anthony, aretired coach and teacher, who chose not to seek re-election.Gilliam said he knows, going forward, that he will need toestablish a presence in Clinton and Joanna, and feels com-fortable that he can do that, as he takes the district’s con-cerns to Columbia.Part of the life experience that Gilliam takes to the state

capital comes from his 26 years, 10 months with the SouthCarolina National Guard.He retired June 30, 2015, and works as a Union County

reserve deputy and with the JROTC and Rifle Team atUnion High School. His second deployment was to Kosovo.This was part of a 10-nation peacekeeping effort to pro-

vide freedom of movement and security in-country. Gilliamsaid, “It was a great deployment. We got to seek the peace-keeping aspect. The people in Kosovo said, ‘That’s the peo-ple that saved us.’ They were very appreciative people.”That was 2012-13. Earlier, in 2007-08, Gilliam led a 16-

man team in Afghanistan to mentor and train the AfghanNational Army (the ANA). Since Afghanistan is still a hotwar for the United States, Gilliam has been reluctant to havehis service publicized, even resisting calls for him to have aFacebook page until now, in conjunction with his politicalcampaign.“I guess, after 10 years, it’s OK,” Gilliam said. “Seeing

the members of my team work, it restored my faith in youngpeople.”The reason for his social media reluctance is the modern,

global reach of terrorism.It is a network that the ANA’s enemy in Afghanistan, the

Taliban, is part of. Gilliam said, “The overwhelming major-ity of people loved us. The village elders tried to help us,but many of them paid a very heavy price for doing so.Some would try to play both sides against the middle. Thechildren on the FOB always wanted chocolate, first, andthen pens and paper. The people in the States were very sup-portive in sending school supplies to us.”The American soldiers were in the business of winning

over the hearts and minds of the Afghan people, even astheir primary objective was training the Afghans to fighttheir own war. The role of, “you are here as advisors, only,”quickly was adapted to fighting as the enemy struck, relent-

Gilliam: Service in Afghanistan ‘restored my faith in young people’By Vic MacDonald

Editor

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Thank You Veterans!Thank you and your families for your service and sacrifice. Yourselfless service has continued to provide the freedom this nation sograciously enjoys.

Your love for our country is second to none. The sacrifices that ourSoldiers and families make are the reason we live in the greatest nationin the world. Freedom does not come free. You have paid that price withyour selfless service, loyalty and love for this country. As a combatveteran, I am very thankful to all who have served.

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lessly.“We conducted many humanitarian

drops,” Gilliam said. “Sometimes, the Tal-iban didn’t like that.”The province where Gilliam’s team

worked was near the Pakistan border, andwas especially hot in battle action in an es-calating war against global terrorism. “TheANA, they hated the Taliban. They werefierce fighters, but they drove Ford Rangerpickup trucks and they just sprayed bullets.”The Americans were there to teach them

how to fight – watching the enemy’s move-ments and studying tendencies. Knowingthe hills where the Taliban fighters liked toset up told the Americans where to tell theANA to strike first. “Our second day in theFOB, the Taliban ambushed the Afghan Po-lice and took out 18. We made a big differ-ence in helping those people,” Gilliam said.“We showed them tactics, then we went onthe offensive.”Just two men in Gilliam’s unit didn’t

make it, neither for military reasons. “My14-member team came back with no majorinjuries. We had 94 contacts with the enemyand survived 46 IEDs (improvised explosivedevices), a preferred weapon for the strike-and-run Taliban.“We had a great team,” Gilliam said.Then, it was time to think about coming

home.“They sent replacements. We had people

from all over. During my deployment, mydaughter turned five. I missed a couple ofChristmases. My wife had to be the momand dad, the disciplinarian, she had to takemy daughter everywhere. It really makesyou appreciate your family. I took leave toget back for my daughter’s birthday, wepicked her up at school. She saw me andcame running – we were all crying. It was agreat time.”Before coming back to the States,

Gilliam’s team was at FOB Apache. “Thelast week or two (of a deployment), you getvery attentive. You don’t want something to

happen right at the very end.”It was Christmas Eve. They were on a

mission. The enemy attacked.The unit survived that – and many other

– fire-fights. It is a soldier’s life.It’s a life that soon will be even more rep-

resented in the Statehouse. Gilliam mostlikely will join the General Assembly fromUnion-eastern Laurens County. An endorse-ment letter for Gilliam said, “I will vote formy friend and colleague Command SergeantMajor (Retired) Doug Gilliam. CSMGilliam has spent most of his adult life serv-ing us, and our great country. He has heldsenior enlisted leadership positions in peace-time and war. He was the senior enlisted sol-dier for one of my Embedded TrainingTeams in Afghanistan, and served as theCommand Sergeant Major of the 218th In-fantry Brigade, SCARNG, during a deploy-ment to Kosovo. Most recently, he istraining our young people as the Union HighSchool Senior Army Advisor for their JuniorROTC program. I have known and served

with CSM (R) Gilliam for more than 30years. He possesses the personal traits toserve us well in the State House. He’s a veryhard working person focused on accom-plishing the task at hand. He’s an intelligent,honest person who knows how to work withelected officials to get something done, andthat is very much needed in Columbia. CSM(R) Gilliam understands compromise is nec-essary at times, but will maintain his in-tegrity and values for which he is elected.And he has the personal courage to standagainst opposition and vote for our best in-terest in the State House. CSM Gilliam wasawarded the Bronze Star Medal for Valor forcombat action in Afghanistan. I know first-hand of his personal courage; I was there!”- A. Corey Cannon, Colonel (Ret), InfantryUnited States Army, Clinton.

Also, a Republican challenger for gov-ernor, John Warren, has Marine Corp expe-rience and won a spot in the June 26 run-off.

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The Democratic nominee for governor,James Smith, has extensive military experi-ence (VoteVet endorsement).

Smith will face either Warren or currentgovernor Henry McMaster in November.

All of these veterans, and more alreadyserving in the public arena, are battle-testedand service-ready.

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Veterans GardenThe veterans garden features three tablets ofIndonesian Black Granite to honor our veteransof present and past wars along with theUnited States flag and State flag. One freepre-need grave space will be given to eachhonorably discharged veteran along withtheir names being engraved in the Wall ofHonor.

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By Ernie Pyle

The son of a tenant farming parents in west-central Indiana, Ernie Pyle became history’sgreatest war correspondent. When Pyle was killed by a Japanese machine gun bullet on thetiny Pacific island of Ie Shima in 1945, his columns were being delivered to more than 14million homes, according to his New York Times obituary. During the war, Pyle wrote aboutthe hardships and bravery of the common soldier, not grand strategy. His description of theG.I.’s life was more important to families on the home front than battlefront tactics of Gens.Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, George Patton or Omar Bradley. Prior to theUnited States’ entry into World War II, Pyle traveled to England and wrote about the Nazi’scontinual bombing of London. His columns helped move the mood of America from isola-tionism to sympathy for the stubborn refusal of Great Britain to succumb to the will of AdolfHitler. The Pulitzer Prize winning journalist’s legacy rests in his words and the impact theyhad on Americans before and during a war that threatened to take the world behind a curtainof fascism. His columns open a window to the hardships endured by the common U.S. soldierduring World War II and serve today to honor what has been called “The Greatest Gener-ation.”

NORMANDY BEACHHEAD, June 12, 1944 – Due to a last-minute alteration in thearrangements, I didn’t arrive on the beachhead until the morning after D-day, after our firstwave of assault troops had hit the shore.

By the time we got here the beaches had been taken and the fighting had moved a coupleof miles inland. All that remained on the beach was some sniping and artillery fire, and theoccasional startling blast of a mine geysering brown sand into the air. That plus a giganticand pitiful litter of wreckage along miles of shoreline.

Submerged tanks and overturned boats and burned trucks and shell-shattered jeeps andsad little personal belongings were strewn all over these bitter sands. That plus the bodiesof soldiers lying in rows covered with blankets, the toes of their shoes sticking up in a lineas though on drill. And other bodies, uncollected, still sprawling grotesquely in the sand orhalf hidden by the high grass beyond the beach.

That plus an intense, grim determination of work-weary men to get this chaotic beachorganized and get all the vital supplies and the reinforcements moving more rapidly over itfrom the stacked-up ships standing in droves out to sea.

Now that it is over it seems to me a pure miracle that we ever took the beach at all. Forsome of our units it was easy, but in this special sector where I am now our troops facedsuch odds that our getting ashore was like my whipping Joe Louis down to a pulp.

In this column I want to tell you what the opening of the second front in this one sectorentailed, so that you can know and appreciate and forever be humbly grateful to those bothdead and alive who did it for you.

Ashore, facing us, were more enemy troops than we had in our assault waves. The ad-vantages were all theirs, the disadvantages all ours. The Germans were dug into positionsthat they had been working on for months, although these were not yet all complete. A one-hundred-foot bluff a couple of hundred yards back from the beach had great concrete gunemplacements built right into the hilltop. These opened to the sides instead of to the front,thus making it very hard for naval fire from the sea to reach them. They could shoot parallelwith the beach and cover every foot of it for miles with artillery fire.

Then they had hidden machine-gun nests on the forward slopes, with crossfire taking inevery inch of the beach. These nests were connected by networks of trenches, so that theGerman gunners could move about without exposing themselves.

Throughout the length of the beach, running zigzag a couple of hundred yards back fromthe shoreline, was an immense V-shaped ditch fifteen feet deep. Nothing could cross it, notThank you veterans

for your service.

History’s greatest war correspondent

ERNIE PYLE

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even men onfoot, until fillshad been made.

And in other places at the far end of the beach, where theground is flatter, they had great concrete walls. These wereblasted by our naval gunfire or by explosives set by handafter we got ashore.Our only exits from the beach were several swales or val-

leys, each about one hundred yards wide. The Germans madethe most of these funnel-like traps, sowing them with buriedmines. They contained, also, barbed-wire entanglementswith mines attached, hidden ditches, and machine guns firingfrom the slopes.This is what was on the shore. But our men had to go

through a maze nearly as deadly as this before they even gotashore. Underwater obstacles were terrific. The Germans hadwhole fields of evil devices under the water to catch ourboats. Even now, several days after the landing, we havecleared only channels through them and cannot yet approachthe whole length of the beach with our ships. Even now someship or boat hits one of these mines every day and is knockedout of commission.The Germans had masses of those great six-pronged spi-

ders, made of railroad iron and standing shoulder-high, justbeneath the surface of the water for our landing craft to runinto. They also had huge logs buried in the sand, pointingupward and outward, their tops just below the water. At-tached to these logs were mines.In addition to these obstacles they had floating mines off-

shore, land mines buried in the sand of the beach, and moremines in checkerboard rows in the tall grass beyond the sand.And the enemy had four men on shore for every three menwe had approaching the shore.And yet we got on.Beach landings are planned to a schedule that is set far

ahead of time. They all have to be timed, in order for every-thing to mesh and for the following waves of troops to bestanding off the beach and ready to land at the right moment.As the landings are planned, some elements of the assault

force are to break through quickly, push on inland, and attackthe most obvious enemy strong points. It is usually the planfor units to be inland, attacking gun positions from behind,within a matter of minutes after the first men hit the beach.I have always been amazed at the speed called for in these

plans. You’ll have schedules calling for engineers to land atH-hour plus two minutes, and service troops at H-hour plusthirty minutes, and even for press censors to land at H-hourplus seventy-five minutes. But in the attack on this specialportion of the beach where I am – the worst we had, inciden-tally – the schedule didn’t hold.Our men simply could not get past the beach. They were

pinned down right on the water’s edge by an inhuman wallof fire from the bluff. Our first waves were on that beach forhours, instead of a few minutes, before they could beginworking inland.You can still see the foxholes they dug at the very edge

of the water, in the sand and the small, jumbled rocks thatform parts of the beach.Medical corpsmen attended the wounded as best they

could. Men were killed as they stepped out of landing craft.An officer whom I knew got a bullet through the head justas the door of his landing craft was let down. Some men weredrowned.The first crack in the beach defenses was finally accom-

plished by terrific and wonderful naval gunfire, whichknocked out the big emplacements. They tell epic stories ofdestroyers that ran right up into shallow water and had it outpoint-blank with the big guns in those concrete emplace-ments ashore.When the heavy fire stopped, our men were organized by

their officers and pushed on inland, circling machine-gunnests and taking them from the rear.As one officer said, the only way to take a beach is to face

it and keep going. It is costly at first, but it’s the only way. Ifthe men are pinned down on the beach, dug in and out of ac-tion, they might as well not be there at all. They hold up thewaves behind them, and nothing is being gained.Our men were pinned down for a while, but finally they

stood up and went through, and so we took that beach andaccomplished our landing. We did it with every advantageon the enemy’s side and every disadvantage on ours. In thelight of a couple of days of retrospection, we sit and talk andcall it a miracle that our men ever got on at all or were ableto stay on.Before long it will be permitted to name the units that did

it. Then you will know to whom this glory should go. Theysuffered casualties. And yet if you take the entire beachheadassault, including other units that had a much easier time,our total casualties in driving this wedge into the continentof Europe were remarkably low – only a fraction, in fact, ofwhat our commanders had been prepared to accept.And these units that were so battered and went through

such hell are still, right at this moment, pushing on inlandwithout rest, their spirits high, their egotism in victory al-most reaching the smart-alecky stage.Their tails are up. “We’ve done it again,” they say. They

figure that the rest of the army isn’t needed at all. Whichproves that, while their judgment in this regard is bad, theycertainly have the spirit that wins battles and eventuallywars.Permission to distribute and re-publish Ernie Pyle’s

columns was given by the Scripps Howard Foundation.Information on the Ernie Pyle

World War II MuseumThe Ernie Pyle World War II Museum features the fa-

mous journalist’s birthplace and a museum dedicated toPyle’s life and writings as a war correspondent. It is ownedby the Friends of Ernie Pyle, who are dedicated to preserv-ing and expanding the legacy of the writer whose columnslinked the soldiers on the front line to worried families onthe home front. To preserve Ernie Pyle’s memory is to pre-serve the sacrifices made by what has been dubbed “TheGreatest Generation.”To learn more about the Ernie Pyle World War II Mu-

seum located in Dana, Indiana, or make a donation to assistthe efforts of the Friends of Ernie Pyle to honor him and thatgeneration, go towww.erniepyle.org.

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U.S. 5TH FLEET AREA OF OPERATIONS. Avi-ation Ordnanceman Airman William Gilliam (mid-dle), from Whitmire, participates in simulatedprone search during a security reaction force train-ing class aboard the Wasp-class amphibious as-sault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) on June 14. IwoJima, homeported in Mayport, Fla., is on deploy-ment to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations insupport of maritime security operations to reas-sure allies and partners, and preserve the freedomof navigation and the free flow of commerce in theregion. - U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communica-tion Specialist 3rd Class Kevin Leitner/Released


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the future. Vietnam was getting hot, and the sergeant, who had served two tours, told Head-rick it might not be a place the young soldier wanted to be. Headrick came home, used hisArmy skills from the kitchen, and became a chef.As a teen, Headrick met the original Col. Sanders while working with KFC. He met South

Carolina restaurant legend Maurice Bessinger during an after-the-Army stint with PiggyPark. He hasn’t cooked on a large scale in a while, but never has forgotten the thrill of ex-celling in the kitchen. “The food here is good,” he said of Bailey Manor Christian RetirementCommunity in Clinton. “Of course, I could do better. Natural food is a lot healthier. Foodcosts are high because people use a lot of pre-prepared food. I had real good instructors. Ifyou take pride in yourself, if you take pride in the food you prepare, you can’t go wrong.”Headrick was drafted, and was supposed to be trained as a map compiler. Once he was

assigned to a unit in Korea, they didn’t have a slot for him, so he could be a mechanic or acook. He chose the kitchen.Even though the environment was bitterly cold, “I enjoyed it. I had a good tour. I was

lucky, I had a good mess sergeant.”Headrick said, “You hear bad things about the military, but it can be a good experience

if you work with it. You certainly can’t work against it.”He would not have wanted an assignment to Vietnam. “I had a cousin who got messed

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of The Korean War (1950-53) – think about the TV show “MASH”. The South Koreans senta battalion to fight with the allies in Vietnam, he said, and assassins from the North camesouth with a mission against the president of South Vietnam.He recalled, “We had 100 to 150 men in the compound. We were real short-handed. They

had been sent to Vietnam. Korea is a cold place. Lots of times we had to scrape ice off the

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The mess served “everything we had in the States, andsome vegetables grown there in Korea. The military had aplant there that constituted the milk.” Koreans worked in thecompound as houseboys, including one who had trained inthe States to be an engineer. He couldn’t get his family withhim in the U.S. so he went back to Korea to be near them -houseboy was the only job available in the post-war econ-omy.

“They seemed very grateful that we were there,” Headricksaid.

Korea is in the news still, as President Trump conducteda summit with the North Korean leadership recently. “I hope

everything works out there,” Headrick said, “because theyhave nuclear weapons.”

Headrick said he learned about South Carolina when “aboy from Charleston married my second oldest sister.” State-side, Headrick and others joined the VFW; he remembered,“At the state fair, they had a stand where they served corndogs – frozen corn dogs. They weren’t good, so we said, ‘letus make them home-made.’ We would be there all day, mak-ing corn dogs. I got a VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) lifemembership. I helped out the American Legion once in awhile.”

“I like the South,” he said. “I bet, pound for pound, I’veprepared more food than everybody in the kitchen here puttogether. I’d rather have a good hamburger steak than a T-

bone, and chicken and dumplings, my grandmother fixedthose. ”

Headrick deals with the Veterans Administration on med-ical issues (he has battled lung, throat and mouth cancer thatrestricts his diet) and receives enough money to pay BaileyManor, plus a small amount that he pays. Headrick said helived in three retirement places in Newberry, and found Clin-ton’s Bailey Manor to be more affordable. A niece helps himin his dealings with the VA – as a truck driver in Iraq, hisniece has a spinal injury sustained during a bomb attack.

“The VA is a good organization,” he said. “They savedme a lot of money, it lets me live here and pays for medica-tion. We have eight or nine veterans here, and some of thewomen (residents) are wives of veterans.”

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In honor of their service. Fourteen inductees and their families were honored September 9 duringthe 13th Annual Hall of Heroes induction, held in the Clinton High School Auditorium. Special music,brief remarks, POW/MIA table, recognition of first responders and a sabre salute by the CHS JROTCwere part of the celebration of these Laurens County veterans’ lives and service. Their shadowboxeswill be displayed for a year in the Hillcrest Square Judicial/Services/Administration Center in Laurens.The Hall of Heroes is funded through a Christmas Tree-lighting program, staged at the historic court-house in downtown Laurens and sponsored by the Laurens County Veterans Affairs Office.Photos by Vic MacDonald


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ADA KILGORE WAYNE KINARD KATHY LEVISTER

WENDELL LEVISTER STEPHEN W. LITTLEWOOD

DUSTIN LIVINGSTON PAUL LIVINGSTON WILLIE MARSHALL

PEDRO J. MARTINEZ, JR. PEDRO J. MARTINEZ, SR. CORNELL MCCANTY, JR. CORNELL MCCANTY, SR.

ALLEN MCCAULEY ROBERT LESLIE MCCORMACK, JR.

RONALD LEE MCCUTCHEON JERRY S. MCDONALD

ALMETRA MCGEE FREDRICK MILLER

GEORGE RANDALL MILLER LANDARIS S. MILLER

CHARLIE MILLS ALBERT MITCHUM, JR.

WILLIAM BILL SNAVLEY MOORE KELLY JOHN MURRAY

GRADY NEWTON CLAUDE OSBORNE DENNIS OSBORNE

ROY OSBORNE TOMMY OSBORNE

CHIP OSBORNE FERREL S. PERCIVAL, SR.

ELI PERRY JACK PIXLEY

ROBERT E. DELGADO SARA DORN

RICHARD E. DOUGHTY ROY ALFRED EDWARDS, JR.

DAVID EK ANDREW FORD FRED W. FORD

TIMOTHY FULLER WARREN GARNETT

SAMUEL DENNIS GILCHRIST JUSTIN R. GOLDSTEIN

HAROLD ALVIN GOLDSTEIN GEORGE GRAY

ALTUS LEON GREEN TYLER HANNAH DAVID HANNAH

ANDREW ROGER HAULSEE BILL HAULSEE BILL HINSON

KEVIN HINSON WILLIAM OSCE HOLLOWAY

JOHN V. HOLMES EM HOLMES

JIMMY HOLMES RICK HUGHES

JAMES HUGHES VERONICA MCCANTY HUNTER DANIEL MICHAEL JENNINGS PATRICK TIMOTHY JENNINGS

GLENN ROBERT JENNINGS, SR. JIM JOHNSON

JAMES JOHNSON GEORGE JOHNSON

DARNELL PIXLEY BUCK PRICE

EDMOND WILSON PRINCE WILLIE J. RAPP, JR. CLARENCE L. REID

TYLER C. REID JOE A. RHYMER

JEFFERY L. RHYMER EVELYN F. RHYMER

JEFFREY SEAN RONAN DANNY RAY ROSS MICHAEL ROUSEY

JAMES R. SATTERWHITE JAMIE SATTERWHITE ALBERT SAWYERS

DALE SMITH GENE SPEER

JAMES S. SPENCE LUCIOUS KEITH STARKS

DOUG STEVENS GERALD STEVENS GENE STEVENS PETE STEVENS

JAMES W. STUTTS JEFFREY W. STUTTS

THOMAS ADAM SUMMERFORD ALBERT SWIGER BRIAN TAYLOR

MICHAEL TAYLOR KEITH TAYLOR

LUTHER KENNETH THOMPSON CHARLIE THOMPSON NORMAN K. TIFFANY

ADGER J. TIMMS DEWAYNE TODD

SAMUEL M. WALKER OTIS D. WHITE

CLEOPHUS WILLIAMS MARILYN WILLIAMS ERNEST F. WILSON NOEL N. WILSON

GEORGE EDMOND WILSON DAVID WOOD

CHARLES E. WOODROME JEFF WOODS

EARL L. ANDERSON JOHNNIE CALVIN ANDERSON

ROBERT LEE ANDERSON RODNEY ANDERSON STANLEY ANDERSON TIMOTHY ANDERSON FRANK MAX ASHLEY

ANDRE AVENT RICHARD M. BARNARD DANNY MICHAEL BARR

JOHNNY R. BARR JOSEPH BATTLE VICTORIA BEST

BRANDON D. BLACKS CHRISTOPHER BLACKS

TIMOTHY BLACKS SETH BLACKWELL

LLEWELLYN BLAKELY CHARLES A. BLEVINS TIMOTHY BOOKERT

BRANDON BRADBERRY KEITH BRADBERRY TIM BRADBERRY

JERRY BRADBERRY JB BRANHAM

EDWARD BRANHAM CHARLES BRANHAM

HENRY K. BRANHAM, SR. DONICA BRIGGS

HARVEY BRIGGS II HARVEY BRIGGS III

BOBBY BRYANT THOMAS BURROUGHS CLARENCE BUSSEY, JR.

HUNTER CALLIHAM BRYAN CASEY

TRACY A. CAUGHMAN CHRIS CHRISTIAN

BARRY J. CIEMIEWICZ JOHN R. COBB

TERRELL COURSON, JR. ROGER CREAMER

GENE CULBERTSON TYREE CUNNINGHAM TYREE CUNNINGHAM

Carolina Health Centers thanks all individuals who have served and are serving our country.

To show our appreciation, we honor and recognize employees and their loved ones who have made personal

sacrifices for our freedoms.

Documents

Saluting Our Veterans - clintonchronicle.com Veterans Salute.pdf · The Clinton Chronicle June 27, 2018 A Special Supplement to Saluting Our Veterans