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“He was a great kid, an All American boy. He went through Pennridge High School. He was a varsity football player, defensive end. That was his passion.” Bob Mininger’s mother Paula said he also had an interest in computer engineering and went to Montgomery County Community College. “Then he realized he didn’t want to sit

  “He was born to be a soldier,” says Brian Faunce’s mother Judy. He was born in the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, November 11 Veterans’ Day. Brian was the middle child with an older and younger sister. He stood his own if his sisters would gang up on him.

It’s been a week since Halloween when everyone is supposed to be a little frightened of ghosts and kids pulling pranks. But this week should scare the hell out of all of us. Let’s see, on Halloween night Trump was hosting a “Gatsby” themed dinner party at Mar-a-Logo while forty-two million Americans were facing losing

Kris Stonesifer was a curious and active kid. In our interview on Face Time, his mother Ruth described him as into everything. “From stunt riding bicycles to jujitsu, he was a black belt in karate very early on at the Y. He was an individual kind of sportsman. I always describe him as a vegan

Bill Maher was always doing something. I met Bill’s sister Kelly in a Starbucks. She was anxious to talk about her brother. She described him was adventurous. “He always loved to travel, hike, ski, big time snowboarder, fisherman. He couldn’t sit still my brother.” After graduating from high school, Bill went to the Culinary Institute

Nate DeTample can be described as small in stature but with a big personality. He was a high school wrestler and an Eagle Scout. His mother Kim says, “He was a wrestler, and he was dedicated to the wrestling team. He wanted to be a police officer”…like his father. He was a real community related

Marine Corporal Eric Fritzinger was a 17 year old high school graduate in 2005 when he told his parents he wanted to enlist in the Marines. He needed their permission because he was under age. First, they said no, but relented when he said he would go in on his own when he was eighteen.

On a recent vacation my wife and I visited the Pinkas Synagogue in Prague. You are overwhelmed when you enter. Covering the walls and ceiling are the names 77,297 Jews who were among the 80,000 from Prague killed in the Holocaust. Each row is about a quarter inch on the white walls. You can’t stop

    I passed the spot many times, and never noticed it. By chance, I looked down one day and there it was. Craved neatly into the cement at curb side was June 6, 1938 with two little feet imprints and the name Dolores McGarvey. After eighty-seven years it was still there undisturbed. I was

Golf is usually played with friends. But when no one is available, you can always go as a single. You call for a tee time. They will either fit you in to play by yourself and team you up others to fill out a foursome. When you get teamed with others, there are two concerns.