Adapting to life in a new city won’t be anything new to Navarre’s Zamir Jones when he heads to New England this fall to play basketball at Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts.
Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. — With the words “I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen […],” Airman 1st Class Jae Yen Kim, 33rd Fighter Wing budget analyst, finally became a United States citizen.
Our flag has many names, the most popular being “The Stars and Stripes.” No one knows whence that name came. In 1814 Francis Scott Key called it “The Star Spangled Banner.” Ten years later William Driver, a sea captain from Salem, Mass., my birthplace (FYI Salem is the ancient name for Jerusalem which Obama and Kerry advocate dividing – sacrilege, but that’s another story!) named it “Old Glory.” I love it! My heart is stirred whenever I see her displayed, often bringing tears to my eyes! Would to God all Americans felt the same. Sad to say, some are still disrespectful, burning it even recently at political events. Shame, shame!
Noise fills the cafeteria at Navarre High School on a Friday morning. Fifth-graders are busy playing games after a week of putting their minds to work at the first-ever STEAM camp in the Santa Rosa County School District.