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Six young men squeezed into the tiny, steamy sunroom of Rep. Rush Holt's home in Hopewell yesterday, some of them anxious, all of them proud.

EJ Hersom/Staff photographer Judy Wilson of Somersworth is an author of a passage published in a book about Mother's Day.

Apr. 28--Daniel B. Allyn, whose brigade led the 3rd Infantry Division's charge into Iraq in March 2003, became a two-star general Monday at Fort Bragg.

A lieutenant not long out ofA West Point checks in from Iraq with this thoughtful note.

As a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy, Dan Choi faced an ethical dilemma. The academy's honor code was clear, beginning: "A cadet will not lie." Yet as a gay man, Choi felt bound by the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy to be untruthful about who he was.

Col. John Follensbee's office is filled with mementos from a military career that began in 1953.

Dear Harlan: I am a 17-year-old high-school student with some big concerns about college.

A new organization is taking a different path to help end the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy by offering to partner with the nation's oldest military academy, West Point.

Theodore Roosevelt loved a parade and on March 4, 1905, Washington gave him one as spirited as the man himself.

Roosevelt became president in September 1901 with the assassination of William McKinley. Now, an election victory behind him, he would serve in his own right. An estimated 30,000 marched, among them Roosevelt's beloved Rough Riders from the Spanish-American War, in an exuberant inaugural procession that placed the beaming president up front.

The Associated Press has been going back into history to finds its stories on some of the most notable inauguration days. Here is an excerpt from AP's story on the parade, as it appeared on the front page of The Racine (Wis.) Daily Journal that day:

Joyce A. Butts, 67, of North Lima, Ohio, passed away at 3:10 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008, at the Hospice House in Poland following a long illness.