Veterans of wars, both foreign and domestic
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Between Halloween, the hubbub of the 2020 General Election, chaos wrought by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the run-up to Thanksgiving, it would have been …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Between Halloween, the hubbub of the 2020 General Election, chaos wrought by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the run-up to Thanksgiving, it would have been …
By Michael Jacobson
Reader Contributor
Some people don’t know how to make it back. Such is the case with Raymond’s brother, James. He took his own life one day. The …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Ron McIlnay is known among his Bonners Ferry neighbors as a Vietnam veteran who works tirelessly to make sure his fellow servicemen and women have …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
After months of activity, War Memorial Field is looking particularly tranquil this time of year.
A November weekday morning bears no resemblance to a Saturday …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
Their minds were numbed by the shock of peace.
—Colonel Thomas Gowenlock, U.S. intelligence officer
At 11 a.m. on November 11, 1918, the guns …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Editor’s Note: Lyndsie Kiebert works part time at Hope Elementary School.
Written on the whiteboard in Debra Douglas’ classroom at Hope Elementary are several vocabulary …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Everyone can agree that we owe so much to our veterans. If you’d like to show your love for veterans, the Christian Faith and Freedom …
By Bill Collier
Reader Contributor
Dear fellow human being and co-resident of planet earth:
I am a combat veteran. I have seen the carnage, mayhem, death, abysmal destruction and colossal …
By Jim Ramsey
Reader Contributor
In early summer in 2012, my wife and I were walking from the train station in Arles, in southern France, to our hotel when we …
By Captain Bill Collier
Reader Contributor
VJ day was my second birthday. World War Two had ended. The evil Japanese Empire, Italian Fascists and German Nazis were defeated. Every Fourth …
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