Army responds to New York plane crash
More than a dozen experienced grief counselors from The Salvation Army sought to console distraught families in the aftermath of the crash of American Airlines Flight 587, which engulfed a Queens neighborhood in flames upon impact. The plane, destined
Jones testifies at Senate hearing on use of SA funds
The American public has given hundreds of millions of dollars to agencies that promised to deliver those funds to victims and families of those killed during the September 11 attacks. One agency alone has raised more than half a billion
Food, music highlight Army holiday events
BY SUE SCHUMANN WARNER - This Thanksgiving, as always, families throughout the West gathered around bountiful tables filled with turkey, cranberries, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie and other holiday favorites. Countless others celebrated a similar feast--not at home but in
Seiler runs Portland Marathon for World Svc.
MAJOR PAUL SEILER takes a breather after finishing the Portland marathon. BY MARLYSS SCHWENGELS Through the industrial area of Portland on a warm fall morning, with the largest urban forest in America rising above the highway, Major Paul Seiler, Cascade
Giving thanks for freedom in a time of war
BY ROBERT DOCTER - No bombs rained down from distant planes above. No rockets sailed forth from fragile wings. No missiles crawled from the darkness of their silos. No cannons rattled. There were only happy, unsuspecting passengers, finally aloft,