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Heavy rain causes flooding in southeast SD
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Storms carrying heavy rain and lightning have caused flooding and house fires in Sioux Falls and other areas of southeastern South Dakota.
• KELO-TV reports that some drivers had their cars stall in Sioux Falls after heavy street flooding in the city.
• A lighting strike also caused a fire at a home east of Harrisburg early Sunday morning, but the family got out of the house safely.
• The Argus Leader reports that the Sioux Falls airport reported 2.8 inches of rain, but National Weather Service meteorologist Marc Chenard says between 3 and 5 inches fell in the southwest part of the city. Chenard says there's a chance of storms in the area every night this holiday weekend.
• Lincoln County emergency manager Harold Timmerman says water covered some roads in that county.
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Native American vets push for recognition
SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN,Associated Press
• ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The Navajo Code Talkers are legendary. Then there was Cpl. Ira Hamilton Hayes, the Pima Indian who became a symbol of courage and patriotism when he and his fellow Marines raised the flag over Iwo Jima in 1945.
• Before World War II and in the decades since, tens of thousands of American Indians have enlisted in the Armed Forces to serve their country at a rate much greater than any other ethnicity.
• Yet, among all the monuments and statutes along the National Mall in Washington, D.C., not one stands in recognition.
• A grassroots effort is brewing among tribes across the country to change that, while Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii has introduced legislation that would clear the way for the National Museum of the American Indian to begin raising private funds for a memorial.
• "This is not a political gamble for anyone, and it's not politically threatening for anyone," said Jefferson Keel, a retired Army officer and president of the National (Continued on page 22)
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