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Lawmakers have renewed an effort to award the Medal of Honor to Maj. James Capers Jr., a reconnaissance Marine who in 1967 ...

During his Memorial Day address Monday at Boiling Spring Lakes, retired Chief Petty Officer Brian Craig paid tribute to the 1 ...

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