Varicose veins and spider veins. Varicose (VAR-i-kos) veins are enlarged veins that can be blue, red, or flesh-colored. They often look like cords and appear twisted and bulging. Spider veins are like varicose veins, but smaller. Varicose veins and spider veins usually appear in the legs and can cause pain, swelling, or an itchy rash. Varicose veins and spider veins are treatable.
This is from War History OnLine. R. I. P. Command Sergeant Major Basil L. Plumley, Hand Salute. Basil L. Plumley was a career soldier and airborne combat infantryman in the United States Army who eventually achieved the rank of Command Sergeant Major, starting off as a private. He is most famous for his actions as Sergeant Major of the US Armyâs 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, at the Battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam, 1965.
Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., who as chief of naval operations in the early 1970's ordered the Navy to end racial discrimination and demeaning restrictions on sailors, then faced a haunting personal anguish that he attributed to the defoliant Agent Orange, died yesterday at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C.lmo Russell Zumwalt Jr. was born in San Francisco on Nov. 29, 1920, the son of doctors, and was reared in Tulare, Calif. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1942, won a Bronze Star serving on a destroyer in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944 and served on the battleship Wisconsin in the Korean War.