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Gordon died on June 4. He signed up for the army aged 18 in 1941, and served overseas in Italy, Egypt, Austria and Romania, including for the 1944 Battle of Monte Cassino. He didn t return to New Zealand until 1947 after taking a post with the New Zealand Graves Concentration Unit. It collected fallen Kiwi soldiers remains and gave them proper burials, often at Europe’s massive war graves. Gordon didn t travel overseas again until 2014, when he was one of several New Zealand veterans flown to Italy to mark 70 years since the Battle of Monte Cassino. He told
Stuff the highlight of his trip was visiting the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery, where he had helped relocate bodies.
Fielding Lewis was born on July 7, 1725, at Warner Hall in Gloucester County, the third of seven children of John Lewis IV (also known as Colonel John Lewis) and Frances Fielding Lewis. His mother died in 1731 from complications related to childbirth, and during the winter of 1734–1735 John Lewis married Priscilla Churchhill Carter, the widow of Robert Carter II and inheritor of £2,500 from his will. Her son, Robert Carter III, spent two years at Warner Hall before attending school.
On April 6, 1742, John Lewis bought 406 acres of land in Fredericksburg, a growing port town on the Rappahannock River in Spotsylvania County and the site of a state tobacco inspection station. Soon he established a store that sold a wide variety of items including clothing, rum, sugar, and writing supplies that were likely imported from abroad on Lewis-owned ships. In 1744, John Thornton, who previously owned a tavern in Fredericksburg, became the factor, or manager, of Lewis’s business. By April 1
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Higher rates of COVID-19 infection and death have been found in people living in a stretch between New Orleans and Baton Rouge lined with over a hundred refineries and petrochemical plants.
Mary Hampton, president of the Concerned Citizens of St. John the Baptist Parish, a community group in Louisiana fighting for clean air, opted to do everything in her power to avoid getting the coronavirus after Robert Taylor, the group’s founder, was hospitalized with COVID-19 earlier this year. So she got vaccinated as soon as she could. “Either the vaccine is going to make me sick,” Hampton reasoned, “or the virus is going to kill me.”