Needing to bolster fundraising efforts for the memorial to honor those killed by the 9/11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon, the Pentagon Memorial Fund organizers have turned to the ever-popular online auction giant eBay. The auctions, which run through Oct. 15, feature items such as a weekend at the Indianapolis 500, tickets to the Atlantic Coast Conference football championship game, Disney on Ice, restaurant meals, and hotel stays. Priot to launching this online auction effort, the memorial fund raised just more than half its goal of $18 million. Want more information, click here.
Retired Col. Carlyle "Smitty" Harris, known for introducing the "tap code" by which American POWs in North Vietnam could surreptitiously communicate with one another, died July 6. Harris was brutalized by the North Vietnamese over almost eight years of captivity.