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Timm: Civil Air Patrol 1st step into long career in public service Editor’s note: Chuck Timm is one of several elected officials with many years of service who are leaving their posts. Over the coming weeks, the Daily Republic will profile many of those officials.
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Dan Child, 100, who served on the USS Oklahoma before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, is escorted through
the new Pearl Harbor exhibit at the Rowland Freedom Center, at the Vacaville Nut Tree Airport, Wednesday.
WWII Navy veteran cuts ribbon at Pearl Harbor remembrance
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VACAVILLE — Dan Child was sitting on his bunk at the Navy Academy Preparatory School in Norfolk, Virginia, reading the comics page of The Washington Post, when someone ran in and yelled, “Pearl Harbor has been attacked!” It was not until some time later that Child learned that his former ship, the USS Okla-
homa, had been sunk in the attack. “I had a lot of friends on the Oklahoma,” Child, 100, said of his first thoughts that day. He had left the ship in March. Child cut the ribbon on the Pearl Harbor display Wednesday night at the remembrance of the 81st anniversary of the “Day of Infamy,” at the Aviation & Military Museum at the Nut Tree Airport. A flag that was part of
the display flew over the Oklahoma. An artifact from the USS Arizona also was on display. The death toll was 2,335 military personnel – 355 on the Oklahoma – and 68 civilians. Nineteen ships were damaged or lost. One of the men who survived the attack was George Murphy, Child’s best friend on the ship. Murphy had been part of a repair party when
the attack hit, blowing him and a number of others back into a room quickly filling up with water. Those thin enough, including Murphy, were able to dive down and squeeze out a porthole. The others perished. “And he lived many more years and became the editor of the Merced Junction,” Child said of his friend. See Veteran, Page A8
FAIRFIELD — Chuck Timm, an avid golfer, just wanted to be on the city’s Golf Advisory Committee, but the City Council never favored him for selection. So he decided to run for council, and won. That was 2007, three years after he retired from the Police Department. He also lost an election between his first term and his return for an eight-
year run. Add 30 years on the Fairfield police force, 28 as an officer, and Timm, on Dec. 20, is completing more than 40 years of public service to the city. Timm said he won’t close the door to other opportunities, but he is not looking for any. He even went out and got a new passport in case life’s journey takes him to foreign lands. His first venture into public service actually started with the searchand-rescue missions he was part of with the Civil Air Patrol at Travis Air Force Base. In fact, for a young man who had no real sense of community See Timm, Page A8
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Chuck Timm discusses his more than 40 years of public service, including 30 on the police force and 12 on the Fairfield City Council, Dec. 2.
Griner freed from Russia in swap for arms dealer Tribune Content Agency President Joe Biden announced that WNBA star Brittney Griner had been released from detention in Russia, celebrating her one-to-one swap for a notorious arms dealer
who had been convicted and imprisoned in the United States. Griner, 32, was exchanged in a trade for Viktor Bout, according to a statement from Russia’s foreign ministry and senior Biden administra-
tion officials. The president didn’t mention Bout, known as the “merchant of death,” in his remarks, and acknowledged that his administration has so far failed to achieve the release of another American the U.S. considers
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unjustly imprisoned in Russia, former Marine Paul Whelan. “She’s safe, she’s on a plane,” Biden said Thursday at the White House, referring to Griner. “She’s on her way home after months of being unjustly
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sion of Ukraine and U.S. support for Kyiv, complicating efforts to secure Griner’s release. While celebrated by many Democrats, the deal for Griner drew criticism from some See Griner, Page A8
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