The Shawnee Dispatch / Mike Yoder

Recent photos

Alan Austin applies a patina to the bronze sculpture “Medic” last month in Lawrence. The sculpture, depicting a soldier flanked by a medic, is the most recent in a series of bronze sculptures by Lawrence artist Jim Brothers to be placed at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va.

Federal Aviation Administration personal and Kansas Highway Patrol Troopers work the scene of a plane crash about 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 24 near the intersection of Leavenworth County Road 1 and Cantrell Road south of Tonganoxie. Two people were killed in the crash, which occurred about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Troopers from the Kansas Highway Patrol work the scene of a double fatality plane crash near the intersection of 222nd and Cantrell roads in rural Leavenworth County on Tuesday, June 24.

A Leavenworth County Emergency Management vehicle and trailer are shown at the scene of a plane crash near the intersection of Cantrell Road and 222nd Street in Leavenworth County, northeast of Lawrence on Tuesday. Visible at left is the tail wing of the airplane.

A trooper from the Kansas Highway Patrol examines the wreckage of a plane crash near the intersection of Cantrell Road and 222nd Street in Leavenworth County, northeast of Lawrence on Tuesday.

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Talking points

Do you think Veterans Day should be a prominent holiday?

Absolutely. We wouldn’t be able to sit here and eat lunch like this if it weren’t for the veterans. We’ve got millions of people that fought and died to save this country; it should be more than a bank holiday.

— Byron Arthur

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