Gazette reporter Elliot Mann recently traveled to Dallas along with a group of St. Croix Valley residents to thank members of the armed services arriving in the U.S., as well as those departing to Iraq and Afghanistan. This account is the second in a three-part series detailing his experience.
DALLAS – As I crouched, took aim [...]
Entries from February 2008
February 19, 2008
“You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas” – Thanking the Troops Part 2
February 18, 2008
“You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas” – Thanking the Troops Part 1
I wrote this for work after spending last week in Texas greeting the troops. It’s much more a magazine-type feature than anything I’ve written before, usually it’s all inverted pyramid. Enjoy.
(Photo: Elliot Mann) Richard Glasgow hugs a solider returning for her two weeks of rest and recuperation.
• Reporter Elliot Mann recently traveled to Dallas along [...]
February 5, 2008
A Quarter-life Crisis from Minnesota – Volume 1 • From the people who brought you the ‘Drunk By Yourself’ series
Some days are great. Others aren’t. This mix is for the latter.
You’re in your mid-twenties. You graduated college in four years. You’ve made the right decisions in life, yet you watch people less qualified than you find jobs with salaries five times yours. In fact, you don’t even have a “salary.” You make an [...]
