Yearly Archives: 2021

As I reflect on the recent news of leaving Afghanistan, it reminds me of the evacuation I participated in as a junior enlisted marine in Beirut, Lebanon in 1984. Despite both the differences and similarities between these two operations, the main thing to remember is, as Marines, soldiers, or whatever branch of service, we receive our orders from the top. Our orders descend from the commander-in-chief to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, through the chain of command, all the way down through the lowly private standing next to you. We go and we accomplish the mission, trusting in the decisions of our superiors and absent of politics. Or so we thought!

Gabriel Medrano was working on the docks across the East River when he heard the first plane crash into the World Trade Center on 9/11.

The Fresno County Sheriff's Office has made an impassioned plea for any other possible victims to come forward after a local teacher was arrested last week after she was accused of assaulting a teenage student under her care.

One of the oldest Taco Bell locations in California is closing Tuesday after 54 years, as first reported by the Orange County Register.

A memorial placed in Riverside to honor the 13 American service members who were killed in a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport as the U.S. exited Afghanistan late last month was found vandalized on Labor Day, police said Tuesday.