Alpharetta resident Egil (Gil) Leines accepted the invitation to try out for the U.S. Marine Ceremonial Guard Company s elite Silent Drill Platoon in 1958.
The First Division Museum at Cantigny Park in Wheaton continues its Date with History series with military historian Patrick K. O Donnell on his 2018 book, "The Unknowns: The Untold Story of America s Unknown Soldier and WWI s Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home."
It was a deceptively beautiful September day in the nation’s capital. No severe weather was expected, but by that afternoon several inches of rain had fallen in parts of the district. No one was more caught off-guard than Virginia Waller-Torres of Hagerstown, Maryland. She was coming down an exit ramp when she ran headlong into […]