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Pikes peak region resident, military hero featured in new biography
“Earthquake” Titus wasn’t afraid to make waves. Even though the swells might have cost Brig. Gen. Robert F. Titus a few stars, says author Bill Scott. Titus retired from the Air Force in 1977 with one star, but Scott suspects he probably could have gotten at least two more if he hadn’t argued with bureaucrats…
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Colorado Springs resident, military hero featured in new biography
“Earthquake” Titus wasn’t afraid to make waves. Even though the swells might have cost Brig. Gen. Robert F. Titus a few stars, says author Bill Scott. Titus retired from the Air Force in 1977 with one star, but Scott suspects he probably could have gotten at least two more if he hadn’t argued with bureaucrats…
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Marine Vietnam veteran Edward Florez: They had the ‘one step snake’
Edward Florez was 18 years old, a high school senior in rural Rocky Ford, when he decided to take his future — or, at least the part of it he still could — into his own hands. It was 1968. Officially designated American combat troops had been in Vietnam for three years, although the nation’s…