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  • Twitter Gets A Hero

    05/18/2014 6:53:42 AM PDT · by Kaslin
    Townhall.com ^ | May 18, 2014 | Kathryn Lopez
    "Dad loves #scifi because it's such a great way to explore the things that matter most." "Themes of #hope, #courage, good conquering evil -- why dad loves #comics." These are some of the tweets involving some well-known Hollywood names and faces on Twitter lately. In a forum not always known for bringing people together, a young woman has succeeded in a great adventure of celebrating life, even as her beloved father's comes to an end. Superheroes were the trending theme, and the most powerful of them all is a man named Stratford Caldecott. Since his Marvel comic-collecting boyhood, he's...
  • Captain Grassbaugh: Hero and Heroine

    05/10/2014 7:27:59 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 1 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | May 10, 2014 | Larry Provost
    The Grassbaugh family has given more than most to America. They keep giving. This is their story. On Veteran’s Day 2007, I was at Arlington National Cemetery representing The American Legion at a solemn ceremony held at the Memorial Amphitheater. After the ceremony I walked down to Section 60, which is the section of the cemetery where many of our fallen from The Global War on Terrorism are buried. While in Section 60 I saw a young Army officer in dress blue uniform, the usual uniform of those personnel with duty at Arlington National Cemetery. I asked the officer if...
  • HERO: Eight-year-old boy dies in fire after rescuing 6 people

    01/23/2014 4:02:44 AM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 9 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | January 22, 2014 | Robby Soave
    An eight-year-old New York boy who rescued six of his relatives from a fire before tragically dying in the blaze is being hailed as a hero by local and national news media. When an electrical fire broke out in his grandfather’s trailer home in Penfield, New York, Tyler Doohan was the only person to take notice — everyone else was asleep. The young boy quickly alerted his grandmother, aunt and cousins, rescuing children as young as 4 and 6 from the fast-moving blaze. With the fire roaring, Doohan went back in to help his grandfather. His body was found...
  • Bury Their Purple Hearts at Ft. Hood

    01/11/2014 11:44:24 AM PST · by Kaslin · 7 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | January 11, 2014 | Larry Provost
    Sometimes heroes are not recognized when they should be. The case of COL (RET) Kathy Platoni, and her fellow survivors and victims of the Ft. Hood Terrorist Attack of November, 2009, is a sad example of this. The prevalence of political correctness is not helping in this situation. COL Platoni believes she is far from alone and that there are many heroes of this horrific terrorist attack who remain forgotten. Dr. Platoni, a now retired Army Reserve psychologist who has had her own private practice for 20 years and has been a practicing psychologist for 34 years, has had a...
  • Edwin A. ‘Ned’ Shuman, Navy aviator and POW, dies at 82 (Hero of the Hanoi Hilton)

    12/16/2013 6:07:06 AM PST · by Zakeet · 12 replies
    Washington Post ^ | December 14, 2013 | Megan McDonough
    On Nov. 29, 1970, 43 U.S. servicemen gathered in the Hoa Lo prison compound, often called the “Hanoi Hilton,” and performed an act of retaliation— a church service. Nine days earlier, after a failed attempt by U.S. Special Forces to liberate the prisoners, the North Vietnamese captors had removed them from their cells and incarcerated them in a single holding area. For several men, it was the first face-to-face encounter with friends they had made through tap-code communication. The first Sunday after they were removed from their cells, they attempted to hold a church service but were threatened with severe...
  • Superhero Disappears in the High-Tech World

    10/25/2013 10:32:29 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 2 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | October 25, 2013 | Suzanne Fields
    We no longer have to play at goblins and ghosts on Halloween. We've got real snoops and authentic spooks, and they're plenty scary, reading our mail and tracing us through social media. Safety and security are the crucial domestic interests in the high-tech world where we all live. We feel helpless in trying to keep control over our most minute musings; we're sure that Big Brother is watching us, and not necessarily to watch over us. It's the season when doubts and fears, some real and some not, assail. We're frustrated with the breakout of Obamacare, which betrayed its...
  • Spare the War Memorials, Yobs!

    10/01/2013 2:48:40 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 2 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | October 1, 2013 | Chuck Norris
    While gridlock is the game in Washington, pilfering and degradation apparently are the pastime of some unpatriotic thugs at war memorials across the country. For me, that is about as low as a nation and its people can go. This past week in Natick, Mass., veterans and other law-abiding citizens were stunned to discover that a soldier's helmet -- from one who died in battle -- had gone missing from the community's prized Fallen Soldier's Memorial. The helmet was cemented atop a rifle that is part of a display that also includes a piece of the twin towers and two...
  • One Year Later: Camp Bastion Families Still Fighting for Truth

    09/06/2013 3:20:44 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 2 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | September6, 2013 | Michelle Malkin
    Next week, "never forget" will resound across America as citizens mark a dozen years since the 9/11 terrorist attack and one year since the bloody disaster in Benghazi. But who will remember the American heroes who came under siege at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan on 9/14/12? Two heroic U.S. Marines -- Lt. Col. Christopher Raible and Sgt. Bradley Atwell -- perished in the monstrous battle last year, and nearly a dozen others were injured. What happened at Camp Bastion and whether the Obama administration has learned from the deadly incident are timely questions as Washington prepares for war again in...
  • Bystanders Aid Bicyclist Hit by Car in Tonawanda (Buffalo)

    08/22/2013 6:05:19 PM PDT · by mikrofon · 34 replies
    WBEN 930AM Buffalo NY ^ | 8/22/2013 | wben.com
    Bystanders Aid Bicyclist Hit by Car in Tonawanda Tonawanda, NY (WBEN) A young bicyclist was rescued by a number of onlookers after he was hit by a car at a busy Tonawanda intersection Thursday afternoon. Angelo tells WBEN's Tom Bauerle he was about to make a turn at Sheridan and Delaware when he saw a car hit a young man on a bicycle. "She says he just came in front of her," says Angelo. He cleared the intersection and jumped into action, and was not alone. "It had to be at least a dozen people, everybody, men, women..." described Angelo....
  • The Boys Who Saved the World for the Rest of Us

    06/06/2013 9:04:00 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 16 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | June 6, 2013 | David Stokes
    It made the papers, but was covered far from sufficiently, when Elisha “Ray” Nance died a few years ago at the age of 94. You may never have heard of him, but he was well known around Bedford, Virginia, a picturesque town located at the feet of the Blue Ridge Peaks of Otter. He delivered mail in that neck of the woods for many years. But it was for what he did before becoming a letter carrier that he should be best remembered. Ray Nance was one of The Bedford Boys. In fact, he was the last surviving member of...
  • As We Say Goodbye to Chris Kyle

    02/08/2013 5:44:48 AM PST · by Kaslin · 10 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | February 8, 2013 | Mark Davis
    I will be at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas on Monday, and I know I will take many of you with me in spirit. But apparently not everybody. The occasion will be the Texas memorial service for Chris Kyle, an American hero in every sense of the term. But if it is one battlefield where he earned his honor as our most prolific sniper, it is another battlefield that has sprouted since his death. This arena is a war of words, sparked by the strong opinions of a variety of people on what Chris Kyle meant to our nation. To...
  • John Kerry Slandered an American Hero

    12/21/2012 6:16:46 AM PST · by Kaslin · 26 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | December 21, 2012 | Humberto Fontova
    During solemn hearings on the floor of the U.S. Senate investigating drugs and terrorism a swarthy Hispanic who landed on U.S. shores with the clothes on his back and was graciously put on the path to U.S. citizenship repeatedly insulted a U.S. Senator who was also a highly decorated war veteran, an Ivy League graduate and a scion of a wealthy and politically-connected American family. The smartmouthed Latino was accused of drug-running and money-laundering to finance terrorists. He was testifying under oath –sneeringly and with a heavy Spanish accent-- upon a subpoena by lawmakers of the nation that had shown...
  • Symptoms of a sick culture

    07/06/2012 3:04:20 PM PDT · by RoadTest · 17 replies
    Townhall ^ | July 6, 2012 | Jonah Goldberg
    For just as politics can save the culture, politics can also destroy it. Which brings me to Thomas Lopez, a 21-year old lifeguard in South Florida. Two days before the Fourth of July, Lopez was fired for helping rescue a man drowning 1,500 feet outside of his designated zone. "It was a long run, but someone needed my help. I wasn't going to say no," Lopez told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and other media outlets. When Lopez filed his incident report, he was canned on the spot. "They didn't tell me in a bad way. It was more like they...
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

    09/25/2011 6:51:15 PM PDT · by Sick of Lefties · 18 replies
    Noman Says ^ | 9/25/11 | Noman
    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) Saturday night is movie night at No-house. If you're looking for a good one, you'll find it in the "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" starring John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Edmund O'Brien, Vera Miles and Lee Marvin as the most debased villain you've seen since Stephen Hanks. It is directed by John Ford and shot expertly in black and white. From the moment that Marvin snarls onto the screen to rob the stagecoach bringing eastern lawyer Stewart out west, you know you're going to be interested til the end. Stewart intervenes to protect...
  • A Memory Check for Americans

    09/04/2011 8:35:27 PM PDT · by stolinsky · 2 replies
    www.stolinsky.com ^ | 09-05-11 | stolinsky
      The tenth anniversary of 9/11 is upon us. Rather than ruminating on pious platitudes or reporting the trite remarks of gaseous politicians, I thought it might be appropriate to update some prior columns that attempt to shed light on the subject. This is this third. A Memory Check for Americans David C. Stolinsky Sept. 5, 2011 Upgrading the memory of a computer can improve performance dramatically. So can upgrading the memory of a nation. But before you upgrade the memory of a computer, it is best to check what memory you have. To do this you can download...
  • Where Do Heroes Come From?

    08/31/2011 7:38:09 PM PDT · by stolinsky · 7 replies
    www.stolinsky.com ^ | 09-01-11 | stolinsky
      The tenth anniversary of 9/11 is upon us. Rather than ruminating on pious platitudes or reporting the trite remarks of gaseous politicians, I thought it might be appropriate to update some prior columns that attempt to shed light on the subject. This is this first. Where Do Heroes Come From? David C. Stolinsky Sept. 1, 2011 Army Staff Sergeant Leroy A. Petry earned the ninth Medal of Honor awarded during the current war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and only the second given to a living recipient. Despite prior wounds, Petry picked up an enemy grenade and threw it...
  • Hero who sabotaged bridge with termites (Incredible story of heroism alert)

    07/17/2011 6:22:02 PM PDT · by Zakeet · 40 replies
    The Scotsman ^ | July 18, 2011 | Campbell Thomas
    A WAR hero's medals have revealed the untold story of a Scottish soldier who survived three years of suffering building the notorious Burma Railway. Kenneth McLeod, who has died aged 92, was captured by the Japanese in the Second World War and was one of the last surviving veterans who worked on the bridge over the River Kwai. Now his daughter and son are donating his war medals, Glengarry bonnet and sporran to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders museum at Stirling Castle, where he was based more than 70 years ago. Mr McLeod, of Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire, was...
  • Hideaki Akaiwa

    On the afternoon of Friday, March 11th, Hideaki Akaiwa was at his job, dully trudging out the final bitter minutes of his work week in his office just outside the port city of Ishinomaki in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture. What this guy's day job actually is, I honestly have no idea, but based on the extremely limited information I have on the guy I can only presume that his daily nine-to-five routine probably falls somewhere between the motorcycle chase scenes from the movie Akira and John Rambo's antics in the book version of First Blood on the ridiculousness/badassitude scale. But that's...
  • Senators: Local Mountains Need New Names (Maryland Libs Run Amok)

    02/06/2011 5:01:36 PM PST · by Viking2002 · 61 replies
    Cumberland, MD Times-News ^ | February 6, 2011 | Mike Sawyers
    CUMBERLAND — Two local mountains need new names, a group of state senators say, and they want a commission created to select new monikers for Negro Mountain and Polish Mountain which “reflect more accurately the history and culture of the region within which they are located.” None of the nine senators sponsoring Senate Joint Resolution 3 represent the region where the two mountains rise in the Allegheny Mountain range, with Negro Mountain in Garrett County reaching a height of 3,075 feet and Polish Mountain in Allegany County climbing 1,783 feet from sea level. The senate resolution isn’t too popular with...
  • Students rescue real estate agent after brutal attack

    12/27/2010 7:27:04 PM PST · by Racehorse · 48 replies · 7+ views
    WOAI ^ | 27 December 2010 | Lauren Lea
    SAN ANTONIO - A real estate agent says she owes her life to five students who helped her escape a client who brutally attacked her. Janice Tisdale says she had just finished showing the man the upscale northwest side home and was reaching for the front door's lock when he struck her head with a pole from inside the house. She described it as a pole used to pull a staircase from the ceiling. Tisdale says the man demanded $4,000 and as she was bleeding on the front porch and still talking to him, a golf cart passed by, followed...