EDGEFIELD, S.C., June 27 (UPI) -- Strom Thurmond ... He retired from the Army Reserve as a major general. Thurmond showed he could adapt to changing times. Although once an outspoken opponent ...

Former South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond (search), the ... attaining the rank of major general in the U.S. Army Reserve. After returning to civilian life, Thurmond resumed his political ...

Strom Thurmond ... veteran of World War II -- as a 41-year-old Army glider pilot, he landed in Normandy on D-Day. He later was a major general in the Army Reserve. With his courtly manners ...

Strom Thurmond's death ... to serve as an officer in the Army Reserve, and the military remained an essential part of his life. He retired as a major general. Don Fowler, former chairman of ...

Strom Thurmond stood at a podium in Birmingham, Ala., and told a cheering audience of States Rights Democrats that ”there are not enough troops in the Army to force the Southern people to break ...

(for James) Strom Thurmond, 59, one of the Senate ... Today. Thurmond is a major general in the Army Reserve. After the war, Thurmond returned to South Carolina where, in 1946, he ran for ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Savannah District is reopening the West Dam Day Use Area at J. Strom Thurmond Lake on ...

On the floor of the South Carolina Senate Tuesday, the son of longtime US Senator and segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond ... along General Robert E. Lee when the Confederate army surrendered ...

Sen. Strom Thurmond took a long steam bath to dehydrate his body for what he was about to do on a sticky August night in 1957. The Civil Rights Act was about to pass and Thurmond, a Democrat from ...