
I had quite the day yesterday. I woke up at about 7am and was out bright and early to nab a decent parking spot for the annual Veterans’ Day parade in downtown. With a start time of 10am, I knew that the streets would be on lock down after a certain time, so I wiggled [...]
Nov 11, 2007 | Categories:Editorial, Multimedia | Tags: America, children, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Events, flags, Gazette, internships, kids, Multimedia, Newspapers, parade, POW, USA, Veteran, Veterans' Day, war | Leave A Comment »

This is Lt. Col. Bill Sheaves Jr. (Ret)….phew, I have got to get used to the proper AP captioning of these military ranks, since Colorado Springs is a big military epicenter. 64 years ago the colonel was shot down flying a B-17 Flying Fortress over Paris, France and spent the next two years in an [...]
Sep 09, 2007 | Categories:Editorial | Tags: adventure, airplane, B-17, Bill Sheaves, Colonel, Colorado, Colorado Springs, flying, Gazette, in-flight, internships, Newspapers, POW, WWII | 1 Comment »