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turnout
VETERANS DAY 2013
Charles’
story
Officials say they want
process to be as simple
as possible each year
By KEILA SZPALLER
of the Missoulian
Sean McQuillan doesn’t send
letters by mail, and he definitely
doesn’t carry around postage
stamps.
So to vote in last week’s
all-mail election, McQuillan,
21, dropped off his ballot at one
of the election drop sites in
Missoula. This year was the
fourth time the city of Missoula
held a mail-only election, and
turnout hit 43 percent with the
mayor’s race on the ballot.
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A portrait of Charles Anthony Mangan, dressed in his military uniform, hangs on a wall in Margaret
Mangan’s Missoula home above the senior portraits of his namesake nieces Cheryl and Charlene and nephew
Charles Patrick Mangan. Margaret Mangan never knew Charles, but displays the photo of her late husband’s
brother in tribute to his service in World War II. Charles died when his B-24 crashed on a bombing run to eastern
Germany on his 21st birthday.
Girl born at 25 weeks
weighed 12.69 ounces
Missoula family learns more
of gunner who died in WWII
By ALICE MILLER
of the Missoulian
By KIM BRIGGEMAN
of the Missoulian
I
t’s not right to reduce Charles
Anthony Mangan’s life to three
awful letters: KIA.
Yet that’s about all the young
man from Missoula was, in the
decades after Feb. 16, 1945: Killed in
action, like so many millions of others in
World War II, and like the other six men
who rode with Mangan to fiery deaths in
a spinning, gyrating B-24 Liberator
bomber in eastern Germany.
“My husband (Patrick) was his older
brother, and he spent his life writing
letters to see if he could find out just
what happened, Margaret Mangan of
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Preemie
humbles
Missoula
family
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“My husband (Pat) was his older brother, and he spent his life
writing letters to see if he could find out just what happened,” says
Margaret Mangan, looking through albums of photographs and
Charles’ military papers last week. “No one seemed to know.”
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Zeyda McAfee has two
birthdays – one three months
before her due date, and one on
the day she left the hospital to
join her happy (and humbled)
family at home.
On June 9, the little Missoula
girl made her appearance at 360
grams, or 12.69 ounces. She is
only the second baby born so
small at Community Medical
Center, and spent more than
three months in the hospital’s
neonatal intensive care unit.
Although she came out
flailing, Zeyda’s eyes were still
closed and her vocal cords and
lungs weren’t yet fully
developed.
“It was really terrifying to
not know if my baby is alive or if
she’s going to continue to be
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Sanders County:
Paradise man battles
$20 parking ticket.
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St. Pat’s: Hospital,
Institute again earn
recognition for heart
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