Keesler is hosting this year’s Special Olympics Mississippi Summer Games, held May 13-15, after a two year pause due to COVID-19.
For 34 years Keesler has hosted this three-day event with SOMS to empower special needs athletes around the state.
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Robert Kalsu, 101st Airborne Division soldier, from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was drafted into the NFL before enlisting into the Army in 1968.
He is known for being the only professional football player to lose their life in the Vietnam War.
Hurricane season officially begins June 1, but it’s never too early to plan ahead to protect your family and property from damaging storms. “The season might start June 1, but hurricanes can’t read a calendar,” said Wallace Braden, Vectrus emergency management representative. “You want to make your plans ahead of time, so that you’re ready when a hurricane does come."
Retired U.S Army Air Forces Master Sgt. Henry Erwin, 52nd Bombardment Squadron radio operator, native to Adamsville, Alabama, served in WWII.
On April 12, 1945 while engaged in aerial bombing over Koriyama, Japan, Erwin was tasked with dropping phosphoresce smoke bombs through a chute in the B-29 Superfortress.
The Holocaust was the systematic genocide of six million Jews, organized by the Nazi State and its
collaborators from 1933 to 1945.
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany on January 30th, 1933. The Nazis falsely
accused Jews of causing Germany’s social, economic, political, and cultural problems. In particular, they
blamed the Jews for Germany’s defeat in World War I (1914–1918).
