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 easy this year —...
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 nightmares, fears, terror, 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 what they need. For...
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 night in early August,...
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 fell silent on the battlefields...
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 words necessary for any...
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 Coalition, Inc. is hosting...
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 waste of war first-hand....
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 reached a small park...
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 of July, Flag Day...
