From the Charlotte Observer:Sixty-five years ago, two teens from the same North Carolina community waited off the coast of France for the start of an invasion that turned the tide of World War II.Read more.
The friends were aboard different ships. But knowing someone from home was close by comforted each of them.
Pete Lail and Bill Brown had gone to Oak Hill High School in Caldwell County, joined the Navy together and sweated through boot camp side by side.
On D-Day, June 6, 1944, the 19-year-olds steered landing craft toward Omaha Beach at Normandy. On June 7, when their boats happened to pass, they recognized each other and waved.
(Photo by Jeff Willhelm, Charlotte Observer)
Cops called to Burke Co. school board meeting.
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"I'll take you out," Angela Lail responded angrily. "In the hallway. C'mon!"
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Cole Lail (second from left), a recent graduate from William Blount
High School, shows a plaque that he has received from Rob Morris (far
right), the manager of the Boral Bricks Center in Knoxville, as the
winner of a Boral USA scholarship. The scholarship is valued at $4,000
and can be renewed for four years. Cole's mother Alicia Lail (third
from left), father Barry Lail (second from right) and Mike Brewer (far
left), William Blount High School's athletic director and an assistant
principal, were also present for the ceremony.
More at the Maryville Daily Times.
More at the Maryville Daily Times.
Florida Gulf Coast University added another milestone to its growing list of achievements Sunday when the 13-year-old school awarded its 10,000th diploma.See full story the news-press.com
Danielle Lail, a college of arts & sciences student, was acknowledged as the 10,000th graduate toward the end of Sunday's three-hour ceremony at Germain Arena. The Syracuse, N.Y. native was one of 1,128 spring FGCU graduates, the largest graduating class in university history.
"When they first told me, I was a little bit set off. I couldn't believe it," Lail said. "I'm so thrilled and honored to be a part of history. This is just the beginning of exciting things to come for this university."
