ANCIENT BOAT BUILDERS

by | Nov 2, 2013 | CLARION AUTUMN ISSUE 2013

Archaeologists believe they have found the remains of a Bronze Age boat building community in Monmouth. Excavations show 100ft-long (30m) channels in the clay along which experts think vessels were dragged into a long-gone prehistoric lake. Monmouth Archaeological...

WOMEN VETERANS

by | Nov 1, 2013 | CLARION AUTUMN ISSUE 2013, Clarion Causes

  By Alan Graham The focus of returning vets focuses on mens issues as very little attention is given to the many thousands who are suffering in silence with PTSD at the same rates as men. As the media pays more attention to the invisible scars soldiers can bring...

FLAGS

by | Sep 28, 2013 | CLARION AUTUMN ISSUE 2013

Flags were at half-staff at the state Capitol today in honor of a Coronado-based helicopter pilot killed in a crash in the Red Sea. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Landon Jones, 35, of Lompoc, was killed Sept. 22 as he tried to land a MH-60S Knighthawk helicopter on the deck of the...

BRAVEHEART FAIL

by | Sep 27, 2013 | CLARION AUTUMN ISSUE 2013

Scots fought ‘in bright yellow shirts not Braveheart kilts’ Medieval Scottish soldiers fought wearing bright yellow war shirts dyed in horse urine rather than the tartan plaid depicted in the film Braveheart, according to new research. Historian Fergus...