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From the cockpit to chemotherapy: Burgaw council member battles leukemia, searches for bone marrow match
BURGAW, N.C. (WECT) - Inside Michael Pearsall’s Burgaw home sits a fully equipped private flight simulator -- an escape for a man determined to take flight once again. In September, Pearsall was mid-flight with a flight instructor while training to earn his pilot’s license when his vision suddenly blurred. Recognizing something was wrong, he sought medical care; within days, his cockpit was replaced by a hospital bed.
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Road resurfacing project to bring delays across Leland
LELAND, NC (WWAY) — The Town of Leland is expected to begin its annual roadway resurfacing project Monday, Nov. 2, with work planned on about 5.5 miles of town-owned roads. The project is part of Leland’s long-term roadway maintenance program, which aims to resurface up to 5% of town-owned roads each year based on a 20-year pavement life cycle.
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Wilmington National Cemetery Black Soldiers Section in Wilmington, North Carolina
In 1865, the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 10th, 27th, 37th and 39th United States Colored Troops (USCT) regiments fought in the Wilmington Campaign to liberate that city from the Confederates. When USCT soldiers fell, their comrades buried them in small cemeteries on the several battlefields where they had died or near the hospitals where they had drawn their last breath. Over the next two years, after the army had left Wilmington, some of the graves were lost and more were desecrated by returning Confederate veterans who were particularly angry that they had been defeated by former slaves. In 1867 a new cemetery was opened where Union dead would be buried securely. Black and white Union soldiers were buried here. Some died in the Wilmington Campaign and others died from disease afterwards while occupying the city during the early phases of Reconstruction. In addition, since some USCT lived their post-war lives in Wilmington, these Union veterans would be buried in this section even though they died long after the war.