Opinion: ing a local hero buried in
The body of Sgt. Baldamore Garcia lies in the Lorraine American Cemetery in , almost 6,000 miles from his hometown of San Marcos, California. Surrounding him are the graves of...
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Opinion: Many sons were lost in Pearl Harbor. But their mothers never gave up.
On Jan. 6, 1942, Mary Kelley boarded a train in Seminole, Okla., for San Francisco. She went to look for her son, James “Jimmy” Dennis Kelley, a sailor on the...
He died in the line of duty. Now an Escondido street bears his name.
Dudik, Ph.D., is the president of the World War II Experience, an educational nonprofit based in San Marcos, where she lives.There is a street sign in Escondido that reads, “Wanek Road.”...
Many Pearl Harbor survivors are no longer around to keep the memory alive. It’s up to us.
Dudik is the president of the World War II Experience, an educational nonprofit based in San Marcos, where she lives.On Dec. 7, 1941, the Parkinson family in Fallbrook anxiously began...
The Battle of Bataan took place 80 years ago. Here’s local POW Bill Montgomery’s story.
Dudik, Ph.D., is president of the World War II Experience, and lives in San Marcos. Nelson is a volunteer at the Escondido History Center, and lives in Escondido.The black and...