Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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This is the 14th article in a continuing series about local military veterans and their service to our great country. Tracey Keefe (née Alexander) was born and grew up in Massachusetts. Her parents owned and operated a small school bus company. "They were really awesome people," Tracey said. "Their doing that business, particularly in the winter, taught me a lot about determination and fortitude, about doing the right thing every day." Tracey attended grade school and high school in a town...
This is the 13th article in a continuing series about local military veterans and their service to our great country. "For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions, but there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men." Pericles (c. 600 B.C.) Jason Everett George was born in Bakersfield on Nov. 3, 1971, the son of Hugh and Candace Mason (Jason's biological father was Clyde George). "JG"...
WARNING: This article contains graphic content. Reader discretion is advised. This is the 12th article in a continuing series about local military veterans and their service to our great country. Part I of Sergeant Morris' remarkable story ended in the spring of 1965, with Tom, stationed at Na Trang Air Base as part of the 1st Marine Division, having completed more than half of his one-year tour of Vietnam. Then came that most horrible and unforgettable day-May 28, 1965. An urgent call came in...
This is the 11th article in a continuing series about local military veterans and their service to our great country. Tom Morris came into the world on March 13, 1943-born during a blackout in the middle of World War II. As he recalled, "Everything was blacked out due to the military aircraft companies (Douglas Aircraft Company, North American Aviation, etc.) and naval ports in the area. I should add that I was the first male baby born at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica." Tom's mother was a...
This is the 10th article in a continuing series about local military veterans and their service to our great country. Once again, we begin at the beginning: Doug McHenry was born in Chicago on October 5, 1947, at about noon. His mother liked to tease him that she missed Sunday dinner because of his birth! Doug was an only child. While the family lived in Gary, Indiana until 1960, Doug's father worked in construction in Chicago, helping to build tall commercial buildings and churches. As Doug...
This is the ninth article in a continuing series about local military veterans and their service to our great country. Lew was born in the little town of Crosbyton, Texas, on August 3, 1935. He was the oldest of three boys, the youngest brother dying in a tragic accident in 1939. As Lew recalled: "This was during the Great Depression and nobody really had anything. My father took any job that he could-he shoveled coal out of a coal car at a railroad station; he drove a truck; he picked grapes...
Both of the U.S. Army veterans addressed in this article-the eighth in a continuing series about local military veterans and their great service to our country-saw combat in Western Europe in the final phases of World War II. Both men, now deceased, took part in major action during the unexpected German counteroffensive through the Ardennes forest in December 1944, what is called in popular parlance the "Battle of the Bulge." Barely 18 years old, Henry Martinez joined the U.S. Army in June...
This is the seventh article in a continuing series about local military veterans and their service to our great country. John and his twin brother were born on April 17, 1942 in Suffolk, Virginia. His family soon moved to Newport News, Virginia, where his father worked at the famous Newport News shipyard and, in the early 1950s, became one of the first African-American police officers to serve with the Newport News Police Department. As John recalled, "Newport News is a military community and I...
This is the fifth article in a continuing series about local military veterans and their service to our great country. As always we begin at the beginning: Dave was born on April 7, 1931 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Sadly, his father "disappeared" when Dave was a small child: "To this day, I still stay in touch with my father's family, but he passed away in his 50s a long time ago." Dave's mother never remarried but went to night school and became a bookkeeper. Dave attended public schools in India...
Meet the author, internationally acclaimed World War II author Dr. Craig Luther at a book signing on Sunday, November 15, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Triassic Vineyards, 24627 Cummings Valley Road, Tehachapi. Dr. Luther is a former Fulbright Scholar (Bonn, West Germany). He completed his Ph.D. in Modern European History at UC Santa Barbara in 1987. He was employed as a military historian by the U.S. Air Force for 27 years (16 at McClellan AFB, outside Sacramento, then 11 years at Edwards AFB)....
Ed Miller, well known to the vehicle repair shops in Tehachapi, is the new owner of the NAPA Auto Parts Store (dba Kern Auto Parts, Inc.,) located at 20633 South Street. Ed grew up in Lake Isabella and still resides there; he is married and a father of six. Ed's personal history with NAPA Auto Parts is one of years of hard work and dedication, which were eventually rewarded with remarkable success. He began at the bottom, employed as a delivery driver at the age of 23. Over the years, he worked...
