Army-Navy Game tests brotherly bond strengthened by family’s military history

PHOTO: Fabrice Voyne carrying the flag as Army's football team takes the field at Michie Stadium. Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report By TOM SHANAHAN This story is better off left as a family secret, but Army West Point senior Fabrice Voyne voluntarily spilled the beans in a Zoom interview session. The Black Knights’ outside linebacker claimed his older brother Sava Voyne, a Naval Academy graduate, switches allegiances for the Army-Navy Game – at least he has during Fabrice’s…

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Small world: My story in the Honolulu Star Advertiser

PHOTO: Army's Quinn Maretzki of Honolulu Punahou kicked two field goals in the fog in Army's 2020 win over Navy to clinch the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy. Visit my website, TomShanahan.Report Personal note: About 1960 or so, my namesake uncle was a young U.S. Marine Corps officer stationed in Hawaii. The Honolulu Advertiser used a political cartoon he drew. With this story I wrote on Army place-kicker Quinn Maretzki, the name Tom Shanahan is back in Hawaii's newspaper. *** By…

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Big Rapids teammates and a West Point weekend

PHOTO: Somebody doesn't belong in the this group. L-R: Me; Rollie Stichweh, Army Hall of Fame QB, rival of Navy's Roger Staubach in epic 1963 and 1964 Army-Navy Games, served in Vietnam; Robert Jones, a Stichweh classmate and teammate, Vietnam War POW for five years at Hanoi Hilton torture chamber same years as John McCain; and (Ret.) Col. Rick Steinke, West Point grad and Big Rapids High QB. Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report By TOM SHANAHAN  WEST POINT…

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