Scott McMillion » Billings http://scottmcmillion.com Journalist, author of "Mark of the Grizzly," senior editor of Montana Quarterly Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:27:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 “A Soldier Comes Home” http://scottmcmillion.com/2010/12/a-soldier-comes-home/ http://scottmcmillion.com/2010/12/a-soldier-comes-home/#comments Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:37:44 +0000 Scott http://scottmcmillion.com/?p=912 By Scott McMillion
Photography by Wayne Twiehaus, Larry Mayer (Billings Gazette)
Sketch of First Lt. Paul Magers courtesy of Magers Family
Montana Quarterly
Winter 2010

Nearly four decades after his death, a town gathers to honor a pilot and ponder the memories of a bitter war.


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The Montana Quarterly
Winter, 2009
Photography by Thomas Lee

Against all odds, after barely surviving the Bataan Death March, Billings artists Ben Steele went on to make his life an act of generosity.

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Montana Quarterly
Summer, 2009
Photography by Thomas Lee.

A sloppy defense and shoddy science cost Jimmy Ray Bromgard 15 years of his life after he was put in prison for a terrible crime he didn’t commit.

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