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Celebrating Our Veterans
We at Vivian’s Door honor our U.S. Armed Forces veterans, past and present, for their bravery, sacrifice, and service to our country. Many have paid the ultimate price for our democracy and this great nation, America. Lorenzo Rhodes is a 39-year-old veteran who served in the United States Marine Corps from 2001-2008. He owns and […]
Tears of Persistence
by Jamal Robinson Yesterday, I experienced something unique. It was so overwhelming that I couldn’t bring myself to even write about it until this very moment sitting here at my apartment at 4:00 am. Ironically, I started writing this article at exactly 4:25 am (my actual birthday), so maybe this article will be one of […]
A Hometown Hero Standing Tall: Celebrating the Legacy of General J. Gary Cooper
Jerome Gary Cooper was born in a devout Catholic family on October 2, 1936, in Lafayette, Louisiana. He grew up in the 1950s in the “Down the Bay” community of Mobile, AL, a segregated urban area in the South. Cooper says, “The streets were dirt and such, but we had a movie theatre called the […]
