Potpourri: Aug. 27, 2012
PUBLIC awareness has changed since World War II, when U.S. military leaders concealed deadly blunders that killed young Americans. One cover-up is in the spotlight today because a posthumous Purple Heart is being granted to the late Robert Vincent from Calhoun County, who was injured in a 1945 troop train crash at a French village. The wreck killed 89 soldiers and hurt 150 more - but U.S. officers seized all cameras and ordered American troops to keep the tragedy secret. Such concealment vanished in the Vietnam War, when reporters told all news, good or bad.
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Sacred Heart Catholic Co-Cathedral says a "very generous anonymous benefactor" helped fund the church's magnificent pipe organ. That makes him or her an organ donor.
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When West Virginia fundamentalist leader Jeremiah Dys writes about "freedom of religion," he means the freedom of evangelicals to denounce gays. Well, that's part of free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights. All Americans can express their beliefs - even Klansmen spouting hate for minorities - and others are free to criticize those beliefs.
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Bearing arms in West Virginia: Eric Pauley, 50, of Winfield is charged with shooting his live-in girlfriend to death with several bullets in the chest. The victim's daughter told police: "He was so obsessed with guns, I quit letting my kids go down there."
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Crusading Charleston minister Jim Lewis wrote on his Facebook page: "The prestigious Augusta National Golf Club has finally opened the door to women, after years of resistance. Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore are now members. Please excuse me if I'm not joyfully jumping up and down over this news. A rich war-criminal and a multi-billionaire oil and bank lady now welcomed into an exclusive rich-boy's club should pose as progress? Two George W. Bush caddies? For sure, they will be right at home on the links with plenty of like-minded boys, far removed from 32 percent of people in Georgia who live in poverty."
PUBLIC awareness has changed since World War II, when U.S. military leaders concealed deadly blunders that killed young Americans. One cover-up is in the spotlight today because a posthumous Purple Heart is being granted to the late Robert Vincent from Calhoun County, who was injured in a 1945 troop train crash at a French village. The wreck killed 89 soldiers and hurt 150 more - but U.S. officers seized all cameras and ordered American troops to keep the tragedy secret. Such concealment vanished in the Vietnam War, when reporters told all news, good or bad.
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Sacred Heart Catholic Co-Cathedral says a "very generous anonymous benefactor" helped fund the church's magnificent pipe organ. That makes him or her an organ donor.
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When West Virginia fundamentalist leader Jeremiah Dys writes about "freedom of religion," he means the freedom of evangelicals to denounce gays. Well, that's part of free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights. All Americans can express their beliefs - even Klansmen spouting hate for minorities - and others are free to criticize those beliefs.
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Bearing arms in West Virginia: Eric Pauley, 50, of Winfield is charged with shooting his live-in girlfriend to death with several bullets in the chest. The victim's daughter told police: "He was so obsessed with guns, I quit letting my kids go down there."
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Crusading Charleston minister Jim Lewis wrote on his Facebook page: "The prestigious Augusta National Golf Club has finally opened the door to women, after years of resistance. Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore are now members. Please excuse me if I'm not joyfully jumping up and down over this news. A rich war-criminal and a multi-billionaire oil and bank lady now welcomed into an exclusive rich-boy's club should pose as progress? Two George W. Bush caddies? For sure, they will be right at home on the links with plenty of like-minded boys, far removed from 32 percent of people in Georgia who live in poverty."
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