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On behalf of a grateful nation

On May 10, 1944, a 19-year-old ball turret gunner from Longview, Texas, sat in the rear of a B-24 aircraft, just 17 days away from his 20th...
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Just keep working: creative hobbies maintain brain agility

Stitches carefully woven into a colorful quilt. Wooden slabs painstakingly carved into miniature cars. Yarn spun into dozens of tiny caps. What if these weren’t just evidence...
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Community cures “epidemic of loneliness” for retired seniors

One in three people above the age of 65 lives alone. Nearly half of those older than 85 live alone. Senior adults most often live by themselves...
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Dusting off the hard hat: Retired engineers share wisdom on new construction

When a young Bob Gloyna assembled his father’s discarded wooden matches into miniature bridges and buildings, ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­the average price of gasoline was 19 cents a gallon. While...
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Friday photo: Sharing wisdom

Men from Buckner Villas in Austin, Texas, are bringing their collective engineering and construction experience to the table during "Men’s Coffee" with by Hill & Wilkinson General Contractors, the...
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