"I had to depend on the porkchoppers to get me the money. "
Sam Gibbons, a "true American hero" who fought at Normandy and served as a Tampa Bay area lawmaker for more than five decades in the Legislature and Congress, has died at age 92, his son Cliff announced Wednesday.
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Apart from remembering and honoring the men and women who lost their lives in military service, do you have any plans for the extended Memorial Day weekend?
