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InifCdeyTi yde/Tcniap/ Memorial Day Celebration Preview THOMASVILLE THfiMASVIUE PUBLIC U Saturday, May 29,2010 14^dolph Javuiuay, may lu tC 273H LEGAL MINDS Brier Creek Elementary stuclent invited to attend 'Law Day' at state capital in Raleigh. See STORY, Page A3 119th Year-No. 92 50 Cents WWW. tvilletimes. com Famed image etched in vet’s mind BY ELIOT DUKE Staff Writer S ix soldiers raising the American flag atop a hill on a small island in the Pacific Ocean in the fi nal months of World War II. The image would find itself on stamps and posters, and renditions of the photograph taken on Feb. 23, 1945, at the top of Mt. Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima continue to conjure up memories and emotions more than 60 years later. For ThomasvUle’s Charles Cline, the image is still hard to talk about without breaking out in tears. Cline stood aboard the U.S.S. Au burn that day, watching the flag go up from the bow of his battleship, not far from the surf where 5,000 Americans died during the initial 24 hours of the 35-day campaign aimed to root the Japanese from their Pacific Ocean stronghold. Victory at Iwo Jima marked an other step toward an Allied victory and an end to the bloody war to end all wars. “I never told a soul this till last year,” Cline said. “I got so fed up with all the Bush-bashing con cerning the war. I saw them raise the flag at Suribachi. I went on 12 o’clock. They did sometime after lunch and we had a long glass we coifid look through for other flag men. I turned it up on Suribachi and they were raising the flag. T wouldn’t tell people that because they would think I was full of bull. It’s the honest truth. They raised two flags. The second one was big ger and that’s the onp I saw.” It’s hard for Cline to look back at those days without remember ing the sacrifice of so many yoimg men. He spent his days aboard the TIMES PHOTO/ELIOT DUKE Charles Cline holds a picture of himself from his time in See IMAGE, Page A6 the U.S. Navy during World War II. TIMES PHOTO/ELLIOT DUKE From left, Pam Cooper, Jody Jackson and Chan Baker of CV Products and Xceldyne Technologies help pack backpacks for local school children to have on weekends during the summer months. Pack a Lunch BY ELIOT DUKE Staff Writer C V Products and Com munities In Schools of Thomasville are form ing a partnership to help low-income students on free or reduced lunches eat healthy meals din-ing the weekend. Extending a program that start ed at Thomasville Primary School, CV Products and CIS of Thomas ville are providing needy students at Liberty Drive Elementary with a carepack full of food to last them through the weekend when school is out. CV.Products, a Thomasville- based company that distributes racing parts and accessories, is hoping other companies will join CV Products, Communities In Schools join to provide weekend meals to underprivileged children 'When a child comes up in a community that cares, that child will care about the community.' — JUDY YOUNTS Communities In Schools in and help out the nine out of 10 Thomasville City Schools’ stu dents who receive free or reduced lunches. “That was astonishing to me that 90 percent of the students in the city schools are on free or reduced lunch right here,” Melissa Black- well, a marketing communications specialist with CV Products, said. “We would like for this to be a focus for a call to action. We’re not ask ing for contributions. CV Products wants to issue a challenge to other companies in the community to get involved.” Employees of CV Products and Xceldyne Technologies, a sister company that also is headquar tered at 42 high Tech Boulevard, have been bringing in food for the program, as well as donating mon ey through payroll deductions. Ev ery Thursday, volimteers sort out the donated flood items and fill up customized backpacks to be handed out Friday afternoon. CV Products See LUNCH, Page A3 MARKED IN HISTORY City Cemetery a marker to town’s past, compassion BY ERINWILTGEN , Staff Writer I t was an era that tore the country in half, pitting father against son, neigh bor against neighbor. Friends became enemies, and the great ideals that first imited Americans seemed on the brink of destruction. But in the quiet town of Thomasville, at least by the war’s end, friend and foe alike were treated in local hospitals and buried side by side. Coming up on its 150th anniversary, the Thom asville City Cemetery is the only known cemetery with Confederate and Union soldiers buried to gether in a common grave. Of the 36 soldiers buried there, 28 are Confederate soldiers, fotu- Union sol diers and four imknown soldiers. “It’s pretty rare for that time,” said Bill Colonna of the Thomasville Historic Preservation Commis sion. “They were enemies to the nth degree, and to be buried side by side shows that it’s significant.” The City Cemetery began when city founder John W Thomas donated property for use as a cemetery Some accounts say that this transfer of land oc- cimred in 1860, and some historians conjecture the donation hap pened after Thomas’ death in 1871, but other stories say that burials in the cemetery were made as early as 1855. Whatever the date, the land T h o m - as donated became known as Willow Branch Cemetery North and South. In 1924, the cemetery was taken over by the City of Thomasville and re named City Cemetery. Thomas, his wife, and several of his children are buried in the cemetery, adong with a number of ThomasvUle’s other early prominent figures. But what sets the grave-site apart from others of its kind is the CivU War soldiers biuied there. Union and Confederate soldiers wounded in the battle of Bentonville, who were treated — and ul- See MARKER, Page A3 Community Sponsor Xhomasville; medical center RtmutrimhlUt Peitpim. Medicine. Today's Weather Seat'd T-storms 73/62 Full Forecast Page 2 Weather Focus What's Opinion Obituaries Religion Sports Business Inside A2 A3 A5 A6 A8 B1 B8 in m Csi o p in in 4 O' Thomasville, North Carolina • Your Town. Your Times.
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