SC’s fallen soldiers honored, another name added today (Audio)

March 10, 2010 by senatormcconnell

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a South Carolina soldier supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Aaron M. Arthur, 25, of Lake City, died March 8 north of Al Kut, Iraq, of injuries sustained during a vehicle roll-over. He was assigned to the 203rd Brigade Support Battalion, attached to the First Battalion, 10th Field Artillery Regiment, Third Brigade Combat Team, Third Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Ga.

Such notifications happened in South Carolina 10 times in the past year. Families like the Fowlkes of Gaffney still struggle with the grief. Dominick Fowlkes wrote about it after his brother Lance Corporal Christopher Fowlkes was mortally wounded in Afghanistan.

(Listen to Fowlkes’ poem, “The War” MP3 :40)

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Lawmakers Honor Fallen Soldiers

March 10, 2010 by senatormcconnell

South Carolina lawmakers remembered the members of the armed forces from South Carolina who died in the last year while serving their country. This year’s Fallen Soldiers ceremony and luncheon honored... Read more


Video on Spending Caps

March 10, 2010 by senatormcconnell

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Democrats Blocking Bill Protecting Rights of South Carolina Workers

March 10, 2010 by senatormcconnell

Republicans Working To Guarantee Right To Secret Ballot Elections South Carolina’s Republican Senators are pushing a bill on the State Senate floor that guarantees a worker’s right to a secret ballot... Read more


Peacemakers don’t dwell on bitterness

March 8, 2010 by senatormcconnell

I was disappointed to see the Rev. Joseph A. Darby’s Feb. 19 column, titled “We should not honor secessionists,” in The Post and Courier. At first, he appeared to me to be writing merely... Read more


Push is on for hike in cigarette tax

March 4, 2010 by senatormcconnell

Supporters hope this is the year lawmakers will OK increase Tate Mikell, a young Charleston police officer, had just finished a long run on the beach with his dog in 2005 and was sitting down to lunch... Read more


This Week in the Senate- February 25, 2010

February 26, 2010 by senatormcconnell

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SC Senate Passes Overhaul of Jobless Agency

February 26, 2010 by senatormcconnell

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