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June 23, 2007 · Colin Fletcher, the grandfather of modern-day hiking and backpacking, died last week. He was 85. Fletcher wrote about the contemplative aspects of getting back to nature in The Complete Walker and The Man Who Walked Through Time. Writer and outdoorsman Chip Rawlins speaks with Linda Wertheimer.
Copeland, who appeared on Day to Day's very first show, died last week at age 100.
Vilma Espin fought alongside Fidel Castro during the Cuban revolution.
June 16, 2007 · Ousmane Sembene, the man credited with pioneering Senegalese cinema, died in his home last week. He was 84. His most recent work, Moolaade, won a prize at the Cannes film festival three years ago.
June 16, 2007 · A father declines a job offer in another town so that his son can stay at his high school and play basketball for one final year. The gesture, made decades ago, "was a selfless, wonderful gift" still well remembered.
June 15, 2007 · The wife of the Rev. Billy Graham, has died. Ruth Bell Graham was 87. Born in China, the daughter of a missionary, she married the man who would become the most famous evangelist of his time. She was bedridden in later years and had suffered from pneumonia.
June 14, 2007 · Estella Wheeler, owner of Estella's Hats in Washington, D.C., died earlier this week. We hear Wheeler's take on hats — how to wear them, what they stand for and their place in history — in a remembrance from Michele Norris.
June 13, 2007 · Actor Don Herbert, who explained the world of science to young viewers in the 1950s and '60s, has died at the age of 89. His show, "Watch Mr. Wizard," ran for 14 years. Science Friday host Ira Flatow talks about Herbert's legacy with Robert Siegel.
June 11, 2007 · Ousmane Sembene was one of the most important writers of sub-Saharan Africa. He was also, arguably, its most important filmmaker. Sembene's novels and short stories gained international acclaim, but because many of his own people could not read, he started making movies.
June 10, 2007 · The formerly homeless residents of Emmaus House in Harlem recently buried their spiritual leader, the Rev. David Kirk. Kirk, who died at age 72 last month, believed in empowering the poor to serve the poor.
June 10, 2007 · Keith Nepsa, 21, of New Philadelphia, Ohio, was killed by a roadside bomb last weekend in Iraq. Three of his best friends are now restoring Nepsa's 1985 Camaro, because his goal was to drive it down the street just once when he got back. They plan to drive it in his funeral procession.
June 9, 2007 · Pfc. Matthew Bean, 22, joined the Army because he was moved by the death of a serviceman from his hometown of Pembroke, Mass. He survived three roadside bombs, but was killed in the search for a fellow member of the Army's 10th Mountain Division.
June 8, 2007 · As a young man in Wisconsin, Jim Krawczyk's favorite writer was J.D. Salinger. And in the late 1960s, Krawczyk decided to go on a roadtrip to meet his hero — in Cornish, the small New Hampshire town that the celebrated recluse calls home.
June 5, 2007 · Parren Mitchell, the first African-American elected in Maryland to the U.S. House of Representatives, has died at the age of 85. He was a champion for minority businesses and was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
June 5, 2007 · Bill France, the longtime chairman of NASCAR, lost his battle against cancer Monday. He was 74. He was the son of NASCAR founder William France. Under the leadership of Bill France Jr. the sport grew from a rural Southern diversion into a multibillion dollar enterprise.
The resident of Long Beach, Calif., enlisted straight out of high school and was featured in a recruitment ad on Spanish-language TV.
Andres Bacevich Jr., the son of a Boston University professor who is one of the most prominent critic of the Iraq war, is the 3,400th U.S. serviceman to die in Iraq.
The 26-year-old native of Hastings, Neb., dreamed of being a paratrooper since elementary school.
The 20-year-old resident of Rockland, Mass., was killed in combat in Anbar province, after only six weeks in Iraq.
The Marine from Norman, Okla., died in Iraq while trying to disarm a bomb during his fourth tour of duty in Iraq.
The Massachusetts soldier died in March when a roadside bomb exploded in Baghdad.
The 21-year-old man from Maine joined the Marines last year, and his death during combat operations came barely two months into his first tour in Iraq.
