Throughout May, we are celebrating our brave servicemembers during Military Appreciation Month. For generations, North Carolinians have proudly served our nation during times of conflict and peace.
This Just In — On Monday, we pause, much too briefly, to remember those who died in service to the nation … those who put their lives on the line and didn’t come home, as well as those who came home grievously damaged and injured and died from those injuries — some of them decades later after immense suffering.
Like many listeners, I was moved by Eric Church’s commencement address at UNC. He struck a particular chord with me because I learned to play guitar in college after a period in my life when I’d lost my way or, as Church described, “fell out of tune.”
For the fourth time in the eight-year tenure of head coach Rod Brind’Amour, the Carolina Hurricanes are playing in the National Hockey League’s version of the Final Four.
This Just In— Once again, the town is ours. The sidewalks are not slammed with wide-eyed young adults marching along with earbuds and backpacks, streaming out into the crosswalks, forcing traffic to its sloth-like crawl through the center of town.
I returned to the church to find a dead bird lying at the base of the glass door, his or her neck broken by the sudden impact. It was a sleek brown bird, one that I couldn’t identify. This failure made me feel sadder.