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Valor Friday
Last week I talked about Lieutenant Tul Bahadur Pun VC of the 6th Gurkha Rifles. Pun, as the post-nominals indicate, received the Victoria Cross for action during World War II in Burma, when he continued a charge on an enemy position alone after his compatriots were killed or wounded. Single-handedly vanquishing the enemy within he […]
Friday FGS
Not a Real Gun Wabash County deputy shoots, wounds man while serving warrant WABASH, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana sheriff’s deputy shot and wounded a 51-year-old man who was holding what he mistakenly believed was a real gun while serving a search warrant at an apartment, police said Wednesday. The man was taken to […]
Thanksgiving Open Thread
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Hoping that the Thanksgiving meal is enjoyable. If you help yourself to leftovers later on, spray water on the food before heating. The taste would be better than if water is not sprayed before heating.
Repost: A Modern Thanksgiving Tradition of Sorts
From several years ago. Happy Thanksgiving, all. —– Because of the date of the original incident, this song has become a minor Thanksgiving tradition on many modern radio stations. This should also bring back a few memories for our Vietnam-era readers; hopefully, at this point, the passage of time has made them reasonably mellow ones. […]
Thursday FGS
1903 Colt Hammerless Four teens indicted for murder in Lowndes County By Terry Richards VALDOSTA — Four teenagers have been indicted for murder and other charges in the wake of a fatal shooting. Jeremy Tucker, Jushon Ramsey, Zhamari Jacquis Williams and Mickey Stallings, all of Valdosta, were indicted recently by the Lowndes County Grand Jury, […]
WWII nurse, Battle of the Bulge veteran, and Native elder dies at 102
Jeff LPH 3 sends in word on the passing of Marcella LeBeau, a WWII US Army nurse. She’s got an amazing life story that I thought worth sharing. As we prepare for our annual Thanksgiving, spare a moment to be thankful for people like Marcella. From Military Times; Marcella Rose LeBeau, an Army nurse who […]
Accused Murderer Darrell Brooks’ Social Media
Darrell Brooks Convicted sex offender Darrell Brooks has been charged with five (of this posting) counts of intentional homicide in Sunday’s deadly attack. He allegedly drove his SUV into a Christmas parade in the city while fleeing another crime. Now some of his past is coming to light, and paints a disturbing picture. Darrell Brooks’ […]
Joe Releases Strategic Petro Reserves
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a U.S. Government complex of four sites with deep underground storage in salt domes along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coasts. They have a combined capacity of 714 million barrels. The inventory as of 4 September was 621.3 million barrels, or about 30 days of US consumption. ‘Till now, emergency […]
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