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...were you affected by Hughes' death last year of a heart attack at age 59? I had been sort of living with John Hughes - his spirit, his words and his ideas - for so many years, I really felt like I knew him. His passing was heartbreaking. I was touched to see the incredible outpouring of emotion from people all over the world who talked about how he made their teenage years more bearable...
...That was really thrilling. It was a moment where I thought, “Everything has come together.” I knew the piece well. I love singing it. And it was an incredible honor to be a part of this historic event...
Though local lore held that the so-called "scorpion tree" had been the work of cowboys, paleontologist Rex Saint Onge immediately knew that the tree was carved by Indians when he stumbled upon it in the fall of 2006. Located in a shady grove atop the Santa Lucia Mountains in San Luis Obispo County, the centuries-old gnarled oak had the image of a six-legged, lizard-like being meticulously scrawled into its trunk, the nearly three-foot-tall beast topped with a rectangular crown and two large spheres. "I was really the first one to come across...
Specialist James Barker described the paradoxical yet typical swings combat-weary soldiers have between thinking they are doomed and thinking they are invincible. "I knew I was going to die, it was just a matter of time, so I just didn't care. I would run straight at somebody shooting at me instead of taking cover. That was my mentality: I'm already dead so, f___ it, what can anybody do to me? I'd gotten shot at so many times and blown up so many times, and hadn't taken a scratch that it's like...
Witnesses were a problem, however. They knew they couldn't leave anyone alive. Barker asked Green if he was willing to take care of that, even if there were some women involved. Barker knew Green was always begging to kill Iraqis, if only someone would say the word. "You'll kill them, right?" Barker asked...