A 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas was operated on in his mother’s womb by surgeon Joseph Bruner. As Dr. Bruner completed the surgery on Samuel, the little guy reached his tiny, but fully developed hand
through the incision and firmly grasped the surgeon’s finger as if thanking the doctor for the gift of life. Continue reading
I cross border, poor and broke,
Take bus, see employment folk.
Nice man treat me good in there,
Say I need to see welfare. Continue reading
December 7, 2012, Lethbridge, Canada. Pilot ejects from damaged FA-18. Rockets blow away canopy. This is about 2 seconds before crash, shown below. (If you don’t have fast reactions, don’t fly these babies.) Continue reading
This morning I went to sign up my dogs for welfare. At first the lady said,
“Dogs are not eligible to draw welfare.”
So I explained to her that my dogs are mixed in color, unemployed, lazy, can’t speak English and have no frigging clue who their Daddy’s are. They expect me to feed them, provide them with housing and medical care.
So she looked in her policy book to see what it takes to qualify. My dogs get their first checks Friday.
Damn, this is a great country!
Title written by Thomas William Parsons
by LtCol George Goodson, USMC (Ret)
In my 76th year, the events of my life appear to me, from time to time, as a series of vignettes. Some were significant; most were trivial…
War is the seminal event in the life of everyone that has endured it. Though I fought in Korea and the Dominican Republic and was wounded there, Vietnam was my war.
Now 42 years have passed and, thankfully, I rarely think of those days in Cambodia, Laos, and the panhandle of North Vietnam where small teams of Americans and Montangards fought much larger elements of the North Vietnamese Army. Instead I see vignettes: some exotic, some mundane: Continue reading
by Thomas Conner, Ph.D., William P. Harris Professor of Military History, Hillsdale College
The United States lost its last surviving veteran of the First World War on February 28, 2011. Frank Buckles, of Charles Town, West Virginia, passed away just a few weeks after his 110th birthday. Born in 1901, he had enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1917 at age sixteen after finally being able to fool a recruiter into thinking he was two years older and thus eligible to serve.
He was not in combat, but served out the War in Europe and did not return home until January 1920. He found out that he was the last of our living veterans of the Great War in 2008, and when asked how that distinction felt, he said simply: “I realized that somebody had to be, and it was me.” Continue reading
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from University of Virginia Library
Introduction
Should you ask me,
Whence these stories?
Whence these legends and traditions, Continue reading
1. First Important Lesson – Cleaning Lady
During my second month of college, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions until I read the last one:
“What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?” Continue reading
The Law Of The Wild says kill only when you are hungryPhotographer Michel Denis-Huot captured these amazing pictures on safari in Kenya’s Masai Mara in October last year. He said, Continue reading
A female sparrow was hit by a car as she swooped low across the road.
At a fund raising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its Dedicated staff, he offered a question: Continue reading
Welcome to the USA, a Christian nation of the free and the home of the brave. How may I help you?
Press ’1′ for English.
Press ’2′ to disconnect until you learn to speak English Continue reading
Look carefully at the B-17 and note how shot up it is – one engine dead, tail, horizontal stabilizer and nose shot up.. It was ready to fall out of the sky. (This is a painting done by an artist from the description of both pilots many years later.) Then realize that there is a German ME-109 fighter flying next to it. Now read the story below. I think you’ll be surprised …
He writes:
My lead flight attendant came to me and said,
“We have an H.R. on this flight.” Continue reading
Irena Sendler recently died at age 98. Few know her story.
During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had a motive since she knew the Nazi’s plans for the Jews.
by Francis Scott Key, 1814
Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? Continue readingAs she stood in front of her 5th grade class on the very first day of school, she told the children an untruth. Like most teachers, she looked at her students and said that she loved them all the same. However, that was impossible, because there in the front row, slumped in his seat, was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard. Continue reading
Washington, DC, Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007.
The man with a violin played six Bach pieces during 60 minutes. Continue reading
Put this Bill Mauldin stamp on your envelopes ……..
Bill Mauldin stamp honors grunts’ hero.
He had achieved so much. He won a second Pulitzer Prize, and he should have won a third for what may be the single greatest editorial cartoon in the history of the craft: Continue reading
“I am your new principal, and honored to be so. There is no greater calling than to teach young people.
I would like to apprise you of some important changes coming to our school. Continue reading
The Soldier stood and faced God,
Which must always come to pass.
He hoped his shoes were shining,
Just as brightly as his brass. Continue reading
