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Staying on the March

Warrant Officer W. Scott McDonald conducts the Army Signal Corps Band during Independence Day festivities at Fort Gordon. (Credit: Chris Thelen)
Warrant Officer W. Scott McDonald conducts the Army Signal Corps Band during Independence Day festivities at Fort Gordon. (Credit: Chris Thelen)

The Signal Corps band performs for the public and the military year-round. (The Augusta Chronicle, July 4, 2004)

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Pride and Pain – The Korean War, 50 Years Later

John Cullars McCrimmon, of Lincolnton, Ga., crouches by his truck, which bears a Purple Heart license tag and a sticker of the Combat Infantryman Third Award for serving in three wars in the U.S. Army, including the Korean War.
John Cullars McCrimmon, of Lincolnton, Ga., crouches by his truck, which bears a Purple Heart license tag and a sticker of the Combat Infantryman Third Award for serving in three wars in the U.S. Army, including the Korean War. (CREDIT: ANDREW DAVIS TUCKER)

On the 50th anniversary of the end of the Korean War in 2003, veterans of that war living in the Augusta, Ga., area, recall their experiences, and the legacy of the so-called “forgotten war.” (The Augusta Chronicle)

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Earning Her Stars

Maj. Gen. Hicks' 13-year-old daughter, Jennifer, and Gen. Byrnes pin the officer's shoulders with a second star, indicating her new rank as major general. Soldiers raised a two-star flag at the post. ANNETTE M. DROWLETTE/STAFF
Maj. Gen. Hicks' 13-year-old daughter, Jennifer, and Gen. Byrnes pin the officer's shoulders with a second star, indicating her new rank as major general. Soldiers raised a two-star flag at the post. ANNETTE M. DROWLETTE/STAFF

Maj. Gen. Janet Hicks, the first woman to command Fort Gordon and a soldier who first joined the Army in 1975, is promoted to a two-star general rank as she leads a military post that is the head of the Army Signal Corps. (The Augusta Chronicle, June 3, 2004)