Man Pays Mom's $.10 Parking Ticket 57 Years After It Was Issued. Pentagon Will Help Families Travel to Dover. Department of Defense, via thememoryhole.org/Associated PressAn undated photograph released by the U.S. Department of Defense shows the flag-draped coffins of U.S. war casualties arriving at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Updated | March 19 Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today that the Pentagon would pay for families to travel to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware if they want to be present when the body or remains of a loved one is returned from war. Mr. Gates announced last month that the Pentagon was reversing its longstanding policy of barring media coverage during the repatriation of fallen soldiers at Dover. He said then, and reiterated today at a news conference, which the Pentagon’s Web site streamed live, that the decision about media coverage would be up to each family. To see the full article, subscribe here.
Department of Defense, via thememoryhole.org/Associated PressAn undated photograph released by the U.S. Updated | March 19 Defense Secretary Robert M. Mr. Gods all bless, Veterans. The ones who are and the ones who have gone before. Today and every day I think of you, what you are doing, what you have done, what you have been, what you have built, what you endure, what you represent, the good that so many of you have done and continue to do, the pain that so many of you have borne and continue to bear, the guilt and sorrow that are poor reparations for going to do what you were told was right and proper. Whoever you are, whatever your sex and race and sexual orientation, wherever you've served, whatever is laid to your account, I wish you an end to pain, good years on this earth, full nights of real sleep without dreams, and the comradeship of those who learned the same truths as you.
I wish you respect from your community, service from the government that promised to help you in return for hard work at thankless jobs, and promises kept. True Size of Africa. Freedom Rider Joan. They too needed emancipation... --Ulysses S. Grant This is Joan Trumpauer Mulholland's mugshot. She is the woman below whose sitting at the Woolworth counter with canister full of sugar emptied all over her. I was surfing through Eric's site yesterday while working on the Rand Paul entry when I came across this letter, in which a superintendent of the jail where Mulholland is being kept, writes her mother. I have your letter in regards to your daughter Joan Trumpower. I don't mean to pick on Rand Paul over this courage point.
Sorry, I digress. I've got the movement in my blood, but no way can I imagine being white, nineteen, violating the law, and being sent off to jail. We need to be careful about talking up what we "would have done. " Inch by inch, Barack Obama is moving mountains - Times Online. What the fuck has Obama done so far?