Teen in Pakistan sacrifices life to stop a suicide bomber.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25663992

To Vic and all the other VN Vets, "Thank you for your service and welcome home!"
Posted by: Sherry McEvil

Echoed!

What's with the Secret Service? Not my young self's idea of the self-sacrificing heroes. Corrupted by years of being forced to protect fiends and traitors?

Anna Puma, at the office yesterday, I did pull up your Doolittle links, but kept getting distracted so didn't read closely and the tabs are still open. I had seen some before, though.

"The few surviving Doolittle Raiders are making their final toast..."

Dear Lord! The War will be with us always. The warriors fade away.

Thanks for posting this.

"Lots of porta potties for the illegals, none for this rally."

So what's the problem? There's cop cars!

Foot and Bookball threads above, Gun thread below. We're surrounded.

Let me see if I've got this all right. No violence yet, but serious forces assembled and confronting one another.

Brought along this from the end of the previous thread because I laughed at the perspective on the perverse:

I don't believe in ghosts. I might allow some kind of residual forces leftover from people. We don't know everything.

Honestly, it felt less about the current shutdown battle and more about the reverence for the fighting men who gave their lives and their service for the country in World War II. -Jeff B.

I just got back from the dentist and I can't feel my upper lip at all.

A confrontation between

a pack of Seriously Serious You Guys cyclists protecting vets at the vet memorial

and

On the radio, first thing this morning, I heard our better Senator, Jim Inhofe, saying something to the effect that folks 'round these parts don't have much problem with the Federal shutdown, and i