Rose Rollins is defensive about her Tasha. "Attitude? There's a lot more to Tasha than her 'attitude,'" Rollins says of the smoldering, secretive soldier she plays on "The L Word." ...more

January 6, 2008

AVON PARK — The day Walter Rollf found out Pearl Harbor had been bombed is one of the few times in his life he remembers crying. "When that happened and again when President Roosevelt died, I sat and bawled," Rollf said. Just 10 days before the Dec. 7, 1941 attack, Rollf, a Navy seaman, had been transferred out of Pearl Harbor. "I cried mostly because I wasn't there, and I feel like I should have been," Rollf said, then pausing. "I lost a lot of good buddies that day, and it made me feel worse because I wasn't there with them." Rollf, a fifth-generation military man, would be what many consider lucky, having never been in combat during his years in the military, but he says he wishes things were different. ...more

December 7, 2007

Fifth-grade students at Bishop Larkin Catholic School watched intently as Lt. Col. Norman Fabian from the 378th Military Intelligence battalion shared war stories and memorabilia from a recent Iraq tour. ...more

October 3, 2007

The Florida Board of Education interviewed seven candidates Monday for the Education Commissioner's job and decided to name finalists today for more interviews in a couple of weeks. ...more

September 18, 2007

Carolyn Blashek heard a compelling story from an American soldier in March 2003 while volunteering in the military lounge at Los Angeles International Airport. ...more

September 18, 2007