OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — Waves of memories on a beach where the waves themselves once ran red with blood. Tears for the dead. Questions, still unanswered, about how it was that they, the lucky ones, survived.Sixty years after they stormed Omaha Beach, American veterans of the deadliest D-Day assault returned Thursday to the now…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard W.L. Johnson Being involved in the D-Day invasion is an experience that would be hard for anyone to forget. Many soldiers gave their lives storming the beaches at Normandy, and there are just as many stories to tell of that fateful moment in history.…

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By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Shortly after midnight, June 6, 1944, 156,000 fighting men from nearly a dozen countries began an assault of epic proportions, the Normandy invasion, the likes of which the world had never seen.Though almost a year of fierce fighting remained before VE (Victory over Europe) Day,…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A photo of John Johnson in his Navy uniform as a young man during World War II. (Photo provided) You walk away humbled.That is perhaps the best way to describe meeting John Johnson, 78, of Morrison, who was part of the first wave of ships…

Las Vegas, Nevada resident formerly of Warren County Olwyn (Jackie) Jackson died June 4.A retired nurse, she was the daughter of Reginald and Victoria Jones Turley; and was preceded in death by her husband, Howard L. Jackson.She is survived by daughter, Melissa Hoopes of Las Vegas, daughter and son-in-law, Kendra and Paul Holland of McMinnville;…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Margie Frances Brown Turner, 82, died June 3 at River Park Hospital after an extended illness.A homemaker and a member of the Baptist Church, she was the daughter of Eli and Mary Gibbs Brown; and was preceded in death by son, Aubrey Lavoy Turner; grandsons, Mark Lavoy Morton and…

McMinnville resident and Edmond, Okla., native Jerry Wayne Rigsby, 56, died unexpectedly June 2 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan, Texas.An electrical engineer foreman with Robins & Morton and a member of Clark Chapel Baptist Church, he served his country in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.The son of Barbara Ann Russell Rigsby of…

McMinnville resident and DeKalb County native Hattie Inez Cantrell Crouch, 68, died June 5 at Stones River Hospital in Woodbury after an extended illness.A homemaker and a member of the Baptist Church, she was the daughter of Duke Verell and Chloe Bell Judkins Cantrell; and was preceded in death by her husband, James Edward Crouch…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Eugene Clifton O’Neal, 82, died June 5 at NHC Healthcare after a brief illness.A farmer, a school bus driver with the Warren County School System, 50-year Shriner and Mason and a member of Hebron Church of Christ, he served his country in the U.S. Army during World War II.The…