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As always, the troops are trapped in geopolitical imperatives over which they have no control. The National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia observe that the U.S. has done trade deals, favorable tariffs, and military understandings with Vietnam. Vietnam...

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency estimates there are more than 1500 MIA's from the Vietnam War. Since 2016 that agency has spent $86 million, but resolved only 25 cases. Vietnam used to be a French colony so the country has a well developed bureaucracy skilled in producing paperwork. The...

Long before the Blues Brothers Band, I heard Sam and Dave and their Twelve Piece Soul Band do "Soul Man" in 1970 at the Fillmore East on Second Avenue and East 6th Street. Although I had no idea who Steve Cropper was, I must have heard Sam and Dave yell "Play it Steve!" through the marijuana...

Steve Cropper 1941-2925 World Class Guitarist You first heard him in the Mar-Keys Top 10 pop hit "Last Night" in 1961. The you heard him at Sun Records and the mastermind at Stax Records in Memphis. And, of course, The Blues Brothers Band. "PLAY IT, STEVE!"

Does she hate all men....... or just her father?

Yer thinking of the Middle East.

Years ago in Houston, two guys on the B Shift at Station 3 got into it. In front of everyone (including the captain), one told the other he was gonna kill him; who spent the rest of the shift locked in the watch office. Something had to be done. Nobody wanted this hothead on their shift. In a...

Maybe the third time is the charm

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/houston-condo-fire-plaza-verde-three-alarm-firefighter-mayday/285-64678c09-b433-4cc4-b1a9-3eb86ecfe595 And in other news...

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/fire-abandoned-building-westheimer-hillcroft/285-39d925ff-cd96-4f14-b521-b1540cd501e9 https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/house-fire-del-monte-river-oaks/285-d0978352-7fdd-42bf-978e-0f3cc8003989

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1995/10/14/doctors-lauded-for-actions-after-bombing/62376499007/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Milner_(firefighter)#/media/File:Her_Majesty_Queen_Elizabeth_visits_the_London_Fire_Brigade_Headquarters,_Lambeth_(cropped).jpg Joe Milner was born in Manchester, England in October, 1922. After joining the Army in 1938, he later served in the war as a...

Look at San Francisco as an urban example. SFFD is certainly aware that if they've got a well involved building on a tight side street at the bottom of a hill in a neighborhood full of two -four story wood facades downwind, the concept of "a huge problem" is an understatement.

Where is John T, O' Hagan and Local Law Five when you really need them? The Safety Officer must be getting some substantial exercise trying to enforce a collapse zone.

https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/incidents/2025/november/warehouse-fire-southall/