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  • Reunions shouldn't be this difficult

    I've been somewhat amazed by the Lancaster High School Class of 1978.

    There's been some rather noteworthy accomplishments by some of my classmates.

    One, U.S. Army Col. Melinda Vaughn Woodhurst, has excelled as a military officer and is over a base in California.

    Remember Jimmy Addison, who could smoke all of us in algebra on our best days when he was having one his worst?

    That boy – as Jethro Bodine would say – could "flat cypher" and still can.

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  • Now permanently disabled, helicopter pilot Scott Carnes picking up the pieces

    By GREGORY A. SUMMERS

    Features Editor

    S.C. National Guard helicopter pilot Scott Carnes knows he can't take back what happened in December 2004 when his AH-64 Apache gunship was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq.

    One minute the South Middle School science teacher was getting ready to open fire on an insurgent stronghold. But within seconds, he was hanging out of the left side of the helicopter cockpit as it plummeted 400 feet toward the ground at more than 160 mph.

    Carnes and his gunner made it down, but the helicopter was destroyed in the impact.

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