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Tuesday, April 21, 2015
twice in US history the Marines were set on guard of the Post Office deliveries
https://www.pinterest.com/jgiraffe90/marines/During the 1920s, two of our Presidents ordered the Marine Corps to help guard the U.S. Mail because mail robbery in those days was really lucrative because in those days before the electronic transfer of funds between banks and other financial institutions, large amounts of money and negotiable bonds was routinely shipped by registered mail.From 1919 to 1921, about $6 million was lost to mail robbers
Uber drivers in the news... good and bad
Chicago:An Uber driver put his concealed carry permit to use Friday night when he pulled a shotgun and opened fire on a man he saw firing a pistol into a group of people on a Logan Square sidewalk, according to prosecutors.Six blasts from his shotgun injured a 22-year-old man identified as Everardo Custodio.Custodio suffered wounds to his shin, kn
Ronald Read, a WW2 vet who served in Africa, Europe, and the Pacific... then was a gas station mechanic unitl retiring, bequeathed 6 million dollars to his favorite library and hospital
Read, the first person in his family to graduate from high school, dressed in worn flannel shirts and spent his free time scavenging for fallen branches for his home wood stove. He drove a second-hand Toyota Yaris. Read graduated from Brattleboro High School in 1940 and during World War II served in North Africa, Italy and the Pacific theater in t
trucker smashes into New York monument to those killed by traffic accidents...
A truck crashed into a half-finished monument on south Fourth Street meant to honor those killed in traffic fatalities in New York on Saturday. Right of Way, a group of road safety activists, had put nearly 10 hours into an art installation depicting the silhouettes and names of the 264 people killed in traffic accidents in 2014 when a truck hit one of the walls.South Fourth Street is not a truck route. Witnesses say that the driver spent 30 min
finally, a B 29 has completed a restoration, and is rolled out of the hanger after being rescued from the desert in 1987 where it sat on a Mojave bombing range for 40 years
One of the members of the Disney Squadron "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" this rare B 29 is Doc, and has been restored in Kansas at the hangers that once were Boeing's business in Wichita.Monday’s invitation-only roll-out of Doc was largely symbolic and included a ceremonial delivery of the airplane to Col. James Dermer, vice commander of the 22nd Air Refueling Wing at McConnell Air Force Base. Doc was originally delivered to the Army Air Forc
Applause and compliments to Officer Cody Remy of Bridgeport CT, a good cop that does his community proud
While he was on patrol April 11th when he spotted some kids, one with a bike problem, stopped and helped.Remy was totally unaware that a neighbor had snapped a picture of him stopping to assist with the kid’s bike. It was later sent to local media outlets.http://wtnh.com/2015/04/19/bridgeport-police-officer-stops-to-help-fix-childs-bike/So I raise a cold refreshment and tip my hat to compliment him for helping a kid.The Bridgeport Police Departm
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