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World War II

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SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines

CoastLines: San Clemente Remembers a Star-Spangled Icon

Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles It would be difficult, over the past 25 years, to remember anyone in San Clemente more exuberant, more reverent about…

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SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines

CoastLines: San Clemente Remembers ‘The Colonel’

Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles Chances are, sometime over the last 40-plus years, you noticed a retired gentleman on one of his 5-miles-a-day walks around…

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At the Movies, GETTING OUT

At the Movies: ‘Recon’

By Megan Bianco In the year of 2020, more than 70 years since World War II ended, what else can there be left to say…

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Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX

Editor’s Letter: An Apology to the Community

Shawn Raymundo By San Clemente Times City Editor Shawn Raymundo When Jewish Europeans living in Nazi Germany and its occupied territories were forced to wear…

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SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines

CoastLines: They Served Their Country, Now Are Centenarians

Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles Turning 100 years old on Oct. 15, Elmo Greve joined a select group in San Clemente—residents who survived World War…

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SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines

The School of Surf: How a San Clemente High Alumnus Becomes a Surf Sensei on Okinawa

Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles How did a 1991 graduate of San Clemente High School come to be the premier sensei of surf on the…

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SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines

CoastLines: A Year of Enjoying Reader Responses

Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles Here’s a thankful year-end shout-out to all you readers! My favorite email in response to a column was one about…

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SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines

Coastlines: Now I Know My Uncle Jack Was a War Hero

By Fred Swegles One day, years ago, I paused outside the door entering the community center and my jaw dropped. I gazed at a plaque:…

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SPORTS & OUTDOORS, Sports Headlines

Battle-Tested, Game-Ready: Saddleback College Hosts Annual Veterans Resource Fair, Features Amputee Softball Team

Photos and text by Eric Heinz MISSION VIEJO—Saddleback College hosted the 4th Annual Veterans Resource Fair and Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team (WWAST), which played…

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Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX

Wavelengths: The Will and the Way: WWII is Proof America can Overcome Obstacles

By Jim Kempton The Greatest Generation had many achievements, but among the most impressive was how decisively they committed and how quickly they implemented solutions…

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SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines

American Pride: San Clemente Resident and WWll Veteran Honored on Memorial Day in D.C.

Rachel Wilford World War II veteran and San Clemente resident Leslie B. Jones, 91, was invited to participate in the Memorial Day Observance Program in…

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EYE ON SC, News Headlines

Pilot for Life: Col. Robert Thacker Celebrates 99th Birthday in San Clemente

By Eric Heinz Few people in the military have accomplished what Col. Robert Thacker has. The former airman flew a B-17 bomber when Pearl Harbor…

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EYE ON SC, News Headlines

Veterans Day Q&A: USMC Gen. J.K. Davis Speaks About His Time in the U.S. Marine Corps

Veterans Day Ceremony A Veterans Day ceremony will take place at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5 at Park Semper Fi to honor Gen. J.K. Davis’s…

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