In one of America’s most hallowed spaces, it is the rarest of honors. To stride behind the rope line, escorted at every footfall by the finest sentinels of the U.S. Army’s renowned Old Guard, is normally something of presidents and dignitaries. To place a wreath at Arlington National ...

Editor’s note: Here’s a daily introduction to 18 new teachers in the Webster City Community School District. Fast facts on Laura Pals ● Graduated from Belmond-Klemme High School; ● Graduated from Wartburg, Southwest Minnesota State University, and Buena Vista University; ● ...

● Nov. 11, 1921, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated. Four unknowns were exhumed from four different American cemeteries in France. Caskets were shifted and rotated, with no trace remaining of which cemetery each had come from. A sergeant who had not been present for the moving of ...

STANHOPE — Rory Johnson is a man who knows his own mind. Even decades ago, fresh out of high school with college scholarships waiting at his feet, he knew that college isn’t for everyone, and it definitely wasn’t for him. “I had a bunch of baseball scholarships,” Johnson recalled. ...

The Daily Freeman-Journal will not be published on Monday due to the Veterans Day postal holiday. The DFJ will be back in your mailboxes on Tuesday.

On Monday, Veterans Day, veterans from Post 191 will talk with the eighth-grade class at the Webster City Middle School from 8 to 9:15 a.m. The community Veterans Day Ceremony will be in the all-purpose room of the Middle School from 10:45 to 11:15 a.m. Arrive before 10:40 a.m. From noon ...