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With "JAG," "Navy CIS," "MASH," and other military television shows being quite popular, one might consider with how military service has enhanced the fame of veteran actors in Hollywood or vice versa. During our distinguished history, some Hollywood actors have taken a break from their careers while they defended our country oftentimes to battle in war. These hereos include Charles Bronson, Gary Cooper, Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Clarke Gable, Lee Marvin, Elvis Presley, and Jimmy Stewart. More recent editions of entertainment veterans include "Limp Bizkit" lead singer Fred Durst who did service with the United States Navy. Up until...

Death ends a brother's quest Cancer claims Ernie Bonneau as he waited for calls that never came By MICHELE MORGAN BOLTON, Staff writer Click byline for more stories by writer. First published: Saturday, October 29, 2005 ALBANY -- Ernie Bonneau left the world Friday waiting for phone calls that never came. From the nuns at St. Colman's Home, to offer a 52-years-late explanation of how and why his little brother Gilbert died in 1953. And from Albany County's district attorney, David Soares, whom he hoped would reopen an investigation into an alleged eyewitness account of Gilbert's death that emerged in...

"Not that he wouldn't like to talk. But none of us are allowed to." Those were the words of Deborah Dymond, wife of Westchester County Police Officer Ernest Dymond, when asked by the National Enquier in November about the injuries her husband sustained on Oct 14 after he was hit by a van carrying New York Sen. Hillary Clinton. Officer Dymond was mannning a security checkpoint at Westchester County Airport when Clinton's driver, rushing to get her to a Syracuse fund-raiser, sped by at 35 mph and failed to stop for another 100 yards. Three days later the injured cop ...