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...over again. Until the U.S. leadership looks at our history, we will never learn from our mistakes. I was in the eighth grade when the first Tennessee soldier was killed in Vietnam in 1962, and 10 years later I was fortunate to return from service with the 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam. Let's hope the decision makers review Ferguson's work while examining the war in Afghanistan. Bryce Sanders, Clarksville, Tenn...
...member businesses around the world, including Patpong Thai, where he frequently entertains clients. So far this year, Burrows has exchanged around $410,000 in goods and services, helping to offset expenses and keep cash available for other outgoings. "Using barter we've purchased everything from air-conditioning units, computers and desks, to lorries, forklifts and security gates," he says. "It's a phenomenal tool that can enhance almost any company...
Whatever the legal process uncovers, the story of Richard Heene - incessantly pitching producers across Hollywood his show about a wacky storm-chasing family, parading Falcon on morning shows though the boy was sick, twice, on air - is like an updated Mosquito Coast but with the eccentric dad dragging his family into the floodlights of reality TV instead of away from civilization. (See a brief history of do-it-yourself ballooning...
...Days After In a lot of ways, the deck was stacked in favor of the Allies. They had the advantage in numbers in every category - land, sea and air - while the Germans were badly depleted by the war on the Eastern front. The Germans were also hamstrung by their unbelievably byzantine and incoherent command structure - Untersturmführers and Obergruppenführers are thick on the ground in D-Day - which had a delusional Hitler at its apex...
...does a man ride a horse?" Earhart responds when George Putnam (Richard Gere) - her future manager, publisher and husband - asks why she wants to fly. When he first proposes marriage, she demurs, telling him, "I want to be free, George, to be a vagabond of the air." To a bleary-eyed pilot who questions her decision to take to the skies in dicey weather, she says, "I'm as serious as you are hungover." Earhart may well have said all these things, but you wish the filmmakers had been bold enough to let their heroine sound like a real person...