New Ship Named For Tishomingo’s Medal of Honor recipient

Posted by John Small | Apr 17, 2019 | News

The sister ships of the USS Richard M. McCool Jr. - amphibious transport dock ships USS San Antonio (LPD 17) and USS New York (LPD 21) - are shown here together in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia during ship handling drills in 2011. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class […]

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John Small

John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

New Ship Named For Tishomingo’s Medal of Honor recipient

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