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Friday May 31 | Estacada News

Holding down the fort - Friday, 31 May 2013 10:00

What's this about Soviet pilots landing in Vancouver, Wash., in the 1930s? Gather around Betty Meeks as she shares this snippet of local history.

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Fri Apr 26, 2013

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Ulysses S. Grant

Grant was the son of Jesse Root Grant, a tanner, and Hannah Simpson, and he grew up in Georgetown, Ohio.

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Sun Apr 21, 2013

The Columbian

Air Museum dispute not the trust's first fight | April 21,

The Fort Vancouver National Historic Site and Pearson Air Museum as well as the runways for Pearson Air Field.

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Sat Apr 20, 2013

The Columbian

Remembering Redheart | April 20,

Katherine Quartz, from the Walker River Paiute tribe, plays a flute song titled "Waterflow" to honor the infant son of Little Bear during the 16th annual Nez Perce Chief Redheart Memorial Ceremony at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Reserve on Saturday.

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Related Topix: US Army, US Military, Vancouver, WA

Thu Apr 11, 2013

OregonLive.com

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates worries that lengthy combat tours aggravated troop stresses

Robert Gates , the former chief of the CIA and Secretary of Defense under two presidents, told Clark County high school students that his hardest choice as secretary was deciding how to provide enough troops to sustain the "surge" of forces in Iraq in early 2007.

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