'It was a ghost town around here.'
Larry Lee hasn’t forgotten how much his business suffered when an estimated 32,000 Fort Bragg soldiers deployed at almost the same time in support of operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.“It was a ghost town around here,” said Lee, who has owned Tar Heel Furniture Gallery on North Reilly Road since 1974. “You could go anywhere without any traffic.“You had to be pretty strong to make it through those times.”Operation Desert […]
