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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Strom Thurmond ... a civil rights plank, Thurmond joined the walkout of the Dixiecrats, Southern Democrats supporting segregation. “There are not enough troops in the army to force the Southern ...

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 ...