Commentary
KITTANNING, Pa.—In April 1775, William Thompson, a man rarely, if ever, mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in the Continental Army of a rifle battalion in the First Pennsylvania Regiment.
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Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
