Daily Archives: May 20, 2008


Memorial Day

“Every year–in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life–there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death. ”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Civil War Veteran

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Danny Hughes 1

Back in 1978, a lot of Oakland residents were running around in either diapers or Converse sneakers. The average cost of a house was just over fifty thousand, and a gallon of gas cost about sixty five cents. That was thirty years ago, when Patrolman Daniel J. Hughes died. All […]