Policing is about outreach, life lessons
This time of year is especially tough for me. My Marine Squadron 26 years ago this month lost someone during Desert Storm. I remember it as clearly as if it were yesterday. Everyone I know has given someone advice of what awaits them out in the big world. Briefing aircrews during Desert Storm was a lot like giving advice. I would tell them the dangers of what awaited them as they flew north. They were not afraid, at least not...
Three things to fix education in South Carolina
By Phil Noble Jon Butzon has spent years working to improve and reform education in South Carolina. He believes that not only should we have great schools but we can have great schools for every child in South Carolina. Here is what he thinks we should do. There is no point in waltzing around it. K-12 public education in South Carolina is not working. The 2020 Vision for South Carolina states all students will graduate “with the...
A little makes a big difference
One of the things I remember most about my early childhood was how little it took to make a big difference!
Inside the South Carolina mind
In 1929, Gaffney, S.C., native W.J. Cash wrote his seminal book “The Mind of the South.”
A Valentine Love Story
By Bill Shepard They called it “Puppy Love.” She was thirteen; he was fifteen, impatiently awaiting his sixteenth birthday. That would be the time that he could drop out of school and begin work at the big cotton mill where everyone on the village worked. The girl was thirteen, the oldest of five daughters that belonged to the family of the new preacher who had come to be pastor of the small church near the village. The two had met...