https://www.thomasturney.net/photo-stories-1 daily 0.75 2018-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1514771109307-8I7USKUVFR7Z77W9NT93/VMIwalkers2.jpg Photo Stories     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1514771109307-8I7USKUVFR7Z77W9NT93/VMIwalkers2.jpg Photo Stories     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1514771893215-CPTEXU0OJDYGX8HEQBLN/14832882636_5709cae024_o.jpg Photo Stories Virginia MIlitary Institute senior Christina Stalnaker of Newport News wrings the water out her socks from walking in the rain all day. A handful of VMI cadets walked the 84-mile trek from Lexington to New Market, as part of a time-honored tradition to commemorate the cadets of 1864 who marched from VMI, in Lexington, to the site of the May 15th battle in New Market during the American Civil War. This year's walk was slightly more historically accurate, because the rain the senior cadets faced was similar to what the cadets faced on the march 144 years ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1513796380521-CR7HKPQ7665QJCWJPAQ4/14861175024_ae41933e34_o.jpg Photo Stories VMI senior Andrew Hosey of Manassas, left, gets the blisters on his feet looked at by medic Alan Keith of Portsmouth, before starting out again on the walk to New Market. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1513796381283-XM7PSX8JFW4ICC0GXAXQ/VMIwalkers2.jpg Photo Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1513796380528-EPXNCTQT1VNGBZXLWYV4/14860565891_a4549b0858_o.jpg Photo Stories Lt. Roy Funkhouser, left, looks to the sky for signs of the coming rain, as he and his VMI students get ready to start the day's journey to New Market.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1513796379579-IAG09ULGHJXBOPITGIXY/14832882636_5709cae024_o.jpg Photo Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1513796432835-LKHQNIPNOCUYCNKXQM86/14676945910_a86df6318d_o.jpg Photo Stories VMI students cross over Interstate 81 as they make their way along Va 11 toward New Market. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1513796381642-G4GH4548PHSW4Y1XYVMO/14863622615_7c2622e0ea_o.jpg Photo Stories Roxanne Franck, right, of Poquoson, Virginia, gets a hug from her fellow VMI walker, Christina Stalnaker of Newport News, after running across the New Market battlefield. completing the 84 mile journey they took from Lexington to New Market. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1513796379635-ISL0GIDTVZ8WFC74HQNT/14840643306_67fd51c22a_o.jpg Photo Stories In the last part of the journey, the VMI walkers run across the New Market battlefield in front of incoming freshman called Rats. The Rats overtake and pass by the walkers who are carrying their ruck sacks, completing the tradition and ending the journey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1514770854721-UCZLNIY568UOL4PP3DQ7/FirstCommunion.jpg Photo Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1514770861968-VE0UAE7NBRLE08UZGQPZ/14776493036_34c5a5b46d_o.jpg Photo Stories Brennan Fleury, 8, (left) waits, as Christopher Stegelman, 8, receives his very first Communion wafer from Rev. Ronald Cellini during mass at St. Peter's Catholic Church on Lady's Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1514770874074-ZVHQ5UWORKU8HCFWVFGZ/14845357091_79d9a614cc_o.jpg Photo Stories Harrison Dixon, 8, (left) reads during practice for his First Holy Communion, while Christopher Valentin, 7, begins to show signs of fatigue after the long rehearsal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1514770909437-5OKBU50WAUJOKJG63E6D/14661717600_42640b83df_o.jpg Photo Stories Mary Catherine Carmody, 8, holds her candle as she waits expectantly with the rest of the children, before entering the sanctuary of St. Peter's Catholic Church to receive her first communion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1514770911460-DHV5DASX5PMQ2JZUXYC2/14661796098_e02211342e_o.jpg Photo Stories Alex Ponce, 9, (center) and Amber Moloney, 8, (right) kneel while they wait for Rev. Ronald Cellini to place a Scapular around their necks. The children are given the Scapular the day before their first communion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1514770899111-X846VB42CP41QUA25QLL/14661877797_a1783d49dd_o.jpg Photo Stories Friends and family snap photos as the children take their First Communion at St. Peter's Catholic Church on Lady's Island. https://www.thomasturney.net/new-gallery daily 0.75 2021-05-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1621531457603-494BRT9PVLM09BOW7IFZ/TrumpVsBLM.jpg Gallery A counter protester carries a Trump flag, as he walks past “Black Lives Matter”protesters in Jerseyville, Illinois on Sunday, June 14, 2020. Many such protests broke out across the country, in the wake of the May 25 death of George Floyd, after having been arrested by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A video revealed how Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin had kneeled on Floyd’s neck for over eight minutes, before Floyd died. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1621531457603-494BRT9PVLM09BOW7IFZ/TrumpVsBLM.jpg Gallery A counter protester carries a Trump flag, as he walks past “Black Lives Matter”protesters in Jerseyville, Illinois on Sunday, June 14, 2020. Many such protests broke out across the country, in the wake of the May 25 death of George Floyd, after having been arrested by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A video revealed how Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin had kneeled on Floyd’s neck for over eight minutes, before Floyd died. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1514770128129-EZAJSQC5X028BT7Y8K04/14543380977_1af86bd7e6_b.jpg Gallery Cpl Javier Colon-Figueroa grieves Wednesday for his friend, Cpl. Armando Ariel Gonzalez, who was killed earlier that month while deployed to Iraq. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1621530736622-RUK9LKY2G47Z7WPN6U1T/image.jpg Gallery A counter protester carries a Trump flag, as he walks past “Black Lives Matter”protesters in Jerseyville, Illinois on Sunday, June 14, 2020. Many such protests broke out across the country, in the wake of the May 25 death of George Floyd, after having been arrested by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A video revealed how Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin had kneeled on Floyd’s neck for over eight minutes, before Floyd died. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1514770456453-YYQS7CP7TKGL5GJ12Z8Z/14729531682_237e180648_o.jpg Gallery William Gaither of Camden, a state committee member of the NAACP, stands on the Statehouse steps in Columbia, South Carolina with others opposed to the flying of the Confederate battle flag over the Statehouse dome. The legislature later voted to move the flag from the Statehouse dome to a flagpole out front. As a result, the NAACP expanded its boycott of South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1621530458426-4HAXBIFX34AAY9NH1TC3/image.jpg Gallery A counter protester carries a Trump flag, as he walks past “Black Lives Matter”protesters in Jerseyville, Illinois on Sunday, June 14, 2020. 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Jacobs had survived tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, but was killed during a training exercise while back in the Stateson Saturday, Nov. 05, 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1514770544814-C9BGT1613WZNJO0FWEBN/14829524145_f348fd5b60_o.jpg Gallery Gaston players celebrate their win in the Petitt Cup with a prayer, as Steamer Coaches Dirk Kinney (left) and Steve Moritz are held back by another umpire, as they yell insults at umpire Randy Rosenberg, (front right) after what they felt were several bad calls that cost them the game. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1621531135035-4SG7WHITY0RR89ARQ4W7/RainoutSlidewho.jpg Gallery After their game was called due to rain, some members of the Pasquotank baseball team took out their frustrations, by running onto the field and sliding across the infield between second and third base, Thursday, May 5, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1514770436503-9PF9E438QAK6PV3HVAES/14584993830_47e54485bc_o.jpg Gallery Towson University's Nick Williams is upended as he tries to get a few more yards during Saturday's game at James Madison University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1514770471192-A31CGNUB8OVZQM3N5DXE/14726662921_7bcfbd6248_o.jpg Gallery An anti-abortion demonstrator is arrested by police at the Preterm-Cleveland abortion Clinic. She and 119 other protesters were arrested for trying to block access to the clinic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1621531223055-P7R4UDZKM5ZA7100KQNF/PandemicArtist.jpg Gallery Delores, a 102 year old resident of Eden Village Retirement Home in Glen Carbon, Illinois (left), watches as Dawn Biersborn of Collinsville colors in a butterfly and flowers on her windowon Sunday, March 29, 2020. Because of the Corona Virus, retirement home residents could not receive visitors, so Biersborn and other artists decorated their windows early in the pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1514770123849-CTIQ8O4O1DMBK63APMO0/14543256959_dbe54de43b_o.jpg Gallery Joey Odam, twin brother of slain officer Robert Odam, carries a folded American flag, as he is helped out of his brother's service at the Baptist Church of Beaufort. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1514770472160-ZZZN2A1B9LI41LL05CBS/14749674473_5754b2239e_o.jpg Gallery Capt. Robert Peal and his son Garrett, 3, walk off the flight line Thursday after Peal's return from Iraq. 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Tyrone Crutcher during a recruit orientation demonstration for some Beaufort, South Carolina, Middle schoolers at Parris Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1514770134510-T6V5A32S5CCW212JCWTC/14543280309_a07b4d688b_o.jpg Gallery Clif Hopkins of Hilton Head carries a cross back to the First Baptist Church, at the conclusion of the annual Easter sunrise church service on South Forest Beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3aad2e64b05fb8c31bf5f2/1514770429217-SANXVWFOVS9Y9QXAWKDM/14543478569_9f18af62b2_o.jpg Gallery Edenton's Rob Bunch takes down First Flight's Connor Hughes during the NCC wrestling tournament Saturday at Northeastern. 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