In the spring of 1950, 17-year-old Arthur A. Clifton had quit school in New Mexico and was on his way to Army boot camp at when his 9-year-old sister Lydia offered him a parting present — a quarter to ...
An Afghanistan veteran and a pilot who once served in the Navy were two of three soldiers killed in an Army helicopter’s midair collision with a commercial jet over the Potomac River in Washington, D.