To the editor:
This letter is in response to the article by Dave Kurtz regarding the Veteransâ Service Office in the May 9 issue of The News Sun.
First, and most important, we wish to thank Ronda Hunkler, and all who serve in the DeKalb County Veterans Service Office who has military service, for their service to our country.
Whether intentional or not, this article sheds a very negative light on the County Service Officers in adjacent counties to DeKalb. We can speak only of LaGrange where we are residents. We have worked for years with our County Veteran Service Officer and continue to do so. He has always responded to any inquiry and has offered assistance whenever asked. What his in-person availability is due to COVID and otherwise we cannot relay and much is out of his control. We were shocked at the tone of the article and we were under the impression that comrades supported each other.
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A Better Life Brianna’s Hope, substance abuse recovery and support group meeting, Meese Chapel United Methodist Church, 2906 C.R. 60, Auburn. To meet by video conference, email brad.sisk@inumc.org.
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First Friday events in downtown Auburn; wagon rides at Jackson Street between 6th and 7th streets; Hoosier Mama Food Truck; Eckhart Public Library planting sunflowers; Auburn Garden Club planting annuals; live music 6-7 p.m. by Austin Marsh at 9th Street Brew Coffee House, DeKalb High School jazz band at Olive Twist and Dave Kurtz at Auburn Atrium MarketPlace.
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USNI News
French Navy Exercise Combines Ships from 5 Navies on Short Notice
April 12, 2021 4:50 PM
U.S. Navy Ensign Micael Lozano, left, and Lt. Erik Bohman observe (from left to right) HMAS Anzac, IN Satpura, and FS Tonnerre from the bridge wing of the amphibious transport dock ship USS Somerset (LPD 25) during La Perouse 2021. US Navy Photo
Amphibious warship USS
Somerset (LPD-25) joined ships and aircraft from five countries in the Bay of Bengal last week for a multi-lateral exercise designed to help the navies quickly organize and operate as an integrated, combined maritime force.
French-led exercise La Pérouse was “notable” because ships from the U.S., France, Japan, Australia and India “were able to quickly aggregate into a multi-national, maritime force,” said Cmdr. Dave Kurtz, who commands San Diego, Calif.-based
By Patrick Goodenough | April 5, 2021 | 11:23pm EDT
Sailors train onboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt during a previous deployment in the South China Sea. (Photo by Ted Aljibe/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – In a busy time for Indo-Pacific waters, recent days have seen a Chinese Navy carrier task group begin exercises in waters near Taiwan, Chinese and U.S. warships operate in different sectors of the contested South China Sea, and France invite the four nations of the Asia-Pacific “Quad” to join its annual exercise in the Bay of Bengal, east of India.
The surge of naval activity comes at a time of tensions over the deployment of large numbers of Chinese commercial fishing vessels to disputed waters in the South China Sea, in what critics see as an intimidatory “swarming” tactic designed to reinforce China’s maritime and territorial claims there.
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