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David Lauderdale is retired columnist and senior editor for The Island Packet and The Beaufort Gazette.

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How Ted Turner and the Lowcountry shaped each other

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By David Lauderdale Verified
| The Island Packet Verified
Ted Turner’s impact on the world has turned everyone into “the Mouth of the South” trying to recite it all following his death at 87 last Wednesday. Not many tell you that Turner’s swashbuckling life has the imprint of the Lowcountry on it as clear as his Rhett Butler mustache. Or that Turner, in turn, left South Carolina with one of its greatest assets. As a boy in Savannah, the influence of John M. McIntosh put saltwater in Turner’s veins that even a herd of buffalo could never remove.
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How Ted Turner and the Lowcountry shaped each other

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By David Lauderdale Verified
| Yahoo Verified
Ted Turner’s impact on the world has turned everyone into “the Mouth of the South” trying to recite it all following his death at 87 last Wednesday. Not many tell you that Turner’s swashbuckling life has the imprint of the Lowcountry on it as clear as his Rhett Butler mustache. Or that Turner, in turn, left South Carolina with one of its greatest assets. As a boy in Savannah, the influence of John M. McIntosh put saltwater in Turner’s veins that even a herd of buffalo could never remove.
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‘A man of God’: Hilton Head flocks to support fired U.S. Army chief of chaplains Original

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By David Lauderdale Verified
| The Island Packet Verified
Major General William Green, a Savannah native who grew up on Hilton Head Island, became the U.S. Army’s 26th Chief of Chaplains in December 2023. He was removed from his position in early April 2026 as part of a string of firings by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. U.S. Army website Word of the disservice done to a Hilton Head Island hero spread rapidly. When Maj. Gen.
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