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Category Archives: Heroism
Truth is More Powerful than Hate
Yesterday, a member of the Michigan state senate gave a speech which struck right at the hate-filled heart of right-wing extremism and deception. Her name is Mallory McMorrow – it’s a name worth remembering, because I’m hoping she will soon … Continue reading
Posted in Child Abuse, Democracy, Government, Heroism, Michigan, Politics, Social Justice, State Government, United States
Tagged Mallory McMorrow
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It needed to be said. CNN reporter confronted with the truth.
by Chuck Stanley This woman speaks directly to a CNN reporter today, and tells the unvarnished truth. This has needed saying for years. I recall reading that early in her broadcasting career, Oprah Winfrey was fired from a local TV … Continue reading
Posted in Climatology, Heroism, News Roundup, Texas
Tagged CNN, Flood, Houston, Hurricane Harvey, Journalism, News reporting
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Flowers of the Forest – A short history of an historical lament, and this time it is personal
by Chuck Stanley It was September 9, 1513. The place was, and still is, a meadowland on a low hill just south of the village of Branxton, Northumberland, UK. If one looks at satellite images of the area, you can … Continue reading
Posted in Heroism, History, Memorial, Music, Scotland, War
Tagged Clan Skene, Danus Skene of Skene, Flodden Field, Flowers of the Forest, John McRae-Hall, Mary Beth Stanley
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Rest in peace my friends
I’d like you to meet five guys I met when I was in Vietnam. These guys were the crew aboard a Lockheed C-130E serial number 62-1785, of the 314th Tactical Airlift Wing based at Ching Chuan Kang Ab, China. Lockheed … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Heroism, Memorial, USAF, Vietnam, World History
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Dereliction of Duty
On February 20, 2017, Lt. General Herbert Raymond “H. R.” McMaster was named as National Security Advisor following the February 13 forced resignation of Michael T. Flynn. McMaster is a combat veteran of the first Gulf War. His most notable … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Heroism, History, Politics, US Army, US Military, War, World History
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Reflections on a Pearl
By Terry Welshans This view looks about east, with the supply depot, submarine base and fuel tank farm in the right center distance. A torpedo has just hit USS West Virginia on the far side of Ford Island (center). Other … Continue reading
ON THIS DAY: November 26, 2016
November 26th is National Cake Day World Day of Giving * Small Business Saturday International Aura Awareness Day _____________________________________________________________ MORE! Captain Cook, Eugene Ionesco and Tina Turner, click
Posted in Heroism, History, On This Day
Tagged Captain James Cook, Eugene Ionesco, Howard Carter, Humphrey Bogart, Sarah Moore Grimké, Tina Turner, William Cowper
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The Cats of Aleppo … and Their Keeper
by Nicole Plyler Fisk If there’s one thing I’ve learned from teaching Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games series to freshman composition students, it’s that — despite what presidential candidate Donald Trump would have us believe — we should not wax poetic over bombing anything. … Continue reading
Posted in Cats, Countries, Heroism, KIndness, Syria, War
Tagged Cats Of Aleppo, Il gattaro D'aleppo, Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel
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Flowers For Socrates, From Aleppo
by Nicole Plyler Fisk I’m honored to be a contributing writer to this blog (thanks, Chuck, for the invite). For my first piece, I thought that something with flowers would be appropriate, so I’m adapting a diary I posted, originally, … Continue reading
Posted in France, Heroism, KIndness, Short Video, Syria, Terrorism
Tagged Abu Wad, Aleppo, Father of the Flowers
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Public Safety in the post-Pulse era
By ann summers Orlando’s horrific domestic extremist attack demonstrates that with the constant, cyclical negation of private and public rights there cannot be win-win solutions in a modern democracy that has foundationally resisted the notion of a theocratic state. An … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, 9-11, Afghanistan, Civil Liberties, Crime, DHS, Equal Rights, FBI, Florida, Government, Heroism, Homeland Security, Homosexual Rights, Immigrants, Jurisprudence, Law Enforcement, Media, Murder, News, Police, Racism, Society, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized
Tagged Cliven Bundy, Guns, Law Enforcement, Malheur Wildlife Refuge, police, Terrorism
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