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...wearing of questionable medals a transgression serious enough to warrant taking one's life? Readers who wrote us about the suicide of Mike Boorda, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations [NATION, May 27], expressed varying views. Rand Knox of San Rafael, California, remembered the recent forced resignations of other high-ranking military officials and suggested Boorda had overreacted. Wrote Knox: "The military makes the trivial important and the important trivial." Retired Army Sergeant Major David L. Pompili of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was saddened by the suicide but pointed out, "If Boorda's citation did not award the V device [for valor...
JOHN WALDRON, 17; KNOX, INDIANA; high school junior He knew something was amiss after a couple of missed turns on the familiar bus route to school. The driver had apparently had a seizure. Suddenly the vehicle careened off the main road. Amid the hysterical screams, Waldron calmly walked to the front of the bus, pulled the driver's foot off the accelerator and pushed the brake with his hand--bringing the bus to rest in a field and his classmates to safety. He then called for help on a CB. "I believe that it was God who put the thoughts...
...ringing the first two weeks of school so we just went to the house masters," Knox says...
...minute limit is no arbitrary choice. According to Knox, a Cambridge ordinance restricts the duration of public bell-ringing...
...might expect those living in the room directly under the bells to be the most disgruntled, but luckily, Knox and his roommates occupy that space...