A replica of the Vietnam Memorial Wall will be in Dickinson from August 18 to 22, with an opening ceremony scheduled for Aug. 18. Two Stark County veterans share their thoughts on the importance of remembering the sacrifices of those who fought communism in Vietnam, and the beauty of the Stark County Veterans Memorial.
Ed Dick, perhaps the most compassionate person to ever live in Manatee County, or any county for that matter, has died at 91. Wherever he is tonight, no one will be burning crosses on his lawn, that’s for sure.
You didn’t know? Oh, yeah. Cowards use to do that to him. Burn crosses. Right here in Bradenton. That’s because back in the early 1960s, years before the Selma marches in Alabama, he went around the area and recruited thousands of black people to vote. Some, as you can imagine, weren’t too keen on the idea.
He also changed college football. He was the man responsible for getting a Palmetto Lincoln football player named Raymond Bellamy a scholarship to the University of Miami. Bellamy became the first Black player at a Division 1-A school in the South. This was Jackie Robinson stuff, the significance of which can never be understated.
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