The world of Justin McGuire
The boy sitting patiently in the Hagerstown Community College auditorium, playing his Game Boy and fidgeting with his hair, gets up and goes to the podium with his mom and...
All Stories
SARS' far-reaching effects on adoption
NORTH POTOMAC - There was never any question Peter Yuen and Brenda Gregory Yuen would adopt a child from a country other than China. Peter's parents had emigrated from there...
No ordinary day in the park
Hershey Park Knoebels Amusement Park One thing you need to know about Knoebels Amusement Park in Elysburg, Pa., is that you pronounce the K. It's K-Noebels. That's your first clue...
Tribute to Tommy
"Over here, Over There" is a series of occasional stories on the soldiers dispatched to the Persian Gulf and the families they left behind. MARTIN, Tenn. -- Inside Murphy Funeral...
Our three sons
One day last week, when Bonnie Bonnell was reading The Columbus Dispatch, the newspaper she saves for her three sons in Iraq, she noticed a change. The war dispatches that...
The captain’s wife
The telephone rings and the heart of the captain's wife leaps, hoping it will be her husband. The phone has rung and rung since he left six weeks ago, rung...
Daddy's girl
On the day Alyssa Kreinschroeder's father told her he was being deployed to the Persian Gulf, he said he could be gone for a year. A year is a long...
Picture-perfect memories
The photograph Julia Ruble keeps with her is the one she had made into a dog tag for her husband, Pfc. Jacob Ruble, to wear in Kuwait. It's a picture...
Courage to spare
ROCKVILLE - Justin Dhyani and his siblings decided to donate their allowances to the families who lost someone to the Washington-area sniper even though none of them - not Justin,...
In the line of fire
Rupinder Oberoi didn't need to watch CNN yesterday afternoon to make the connection, although the television news was on all day in the living room of his parents' Linthicum apartment....