1991

WEEK OF

r=llnstmas 'pr:&serlc! Hame early this ye_ar . · line of duty for his country, never made 1t home to Like the quinte~sent~al Chnstmas story, this sl• d enjoy, as 1 did for a few minutes last week,. the oe invol""' a •peoal mea•u,.bly Hag" i"""ri~Y;, that on!"': A •ma11 "ufkd ,..bbot " ,.,rifke. a ,.,rifi« fo< whkh th.,. ,..11y" no 1ev..-·P"'<"t ~mparuo~ and Anne hkeo bnght Time• Editor worthy rompen,.tion. , '""· n-a;n wh,.tles, lolhpops an~ Cro" pen• H... ;n S

t stationed aboard the U.S.S. Nassau in the Hancock paid homage to hts fellow ptlot dunng sian Gulf as part of the earliest deployment of Underwood's full m ili tary honors funeral. ine fighter pilots sent to join "Operation Hancock, a fellow pilot, heard Under~~'s last Shield" forces. radio transmission and saw the Marme s plane nderwood's wife, Donda, a bright, attractive crash: , . t County native who met the young Ken~u~ky "He was very proud to be a fathe r,' satd while was he was training at the Mendtan Hancock who noted that Underwood spent most al Air Station and she was teaching in the of his ~time aboard the Nassau writing letters idian area, sent letters to him a~oard ship home to his wife and dau~~ter. "He was. torn photos of Ms new daughte<. Faothfully, he bet....,. IUs :u: l~dM;. I'fe neve< sh" ked ered those letters, with notes of his own either one.'" I essing his deepest desire to ret-ka Mme - Aiifii'i fl&l , eto ~~killed in the

Today an education trust fund of more than 545 000 a~d a full two-year scholarship to ECCC for' Anne exists because Mis sissippians and Kentuckians and Amer:ican service personne l joined together to give a little something back to the child of a man who gave his all in the skies over Kuwait for us. In this season of giving, Merry Christmas - and may the New Year bring for us all days of peace, nights of hope and a renew~ sen~ of who we-are in this country and where we rc gomg.

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CARTHAGINIAN MORTON TRIBU'nN.,.,.E-– N.ESHOBA DEMOCRAT

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SCOTT COUNTY TIMES

UNION APPEAL

WINSTON C0 UN""'TY,_JnO;-;;U;nRNAL MERIDIAN STAR

NEWTON RECORD CLARION- LEDGER

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