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Bill Maher was always doing something. I met Bill’s sister Kelly in a Starbucks. She was anxious to talk about her brother. She described him was adventurous. “He always loved to travel, hike, ski, big time snowboarder, fisherman. He couldn’t sit still my brother.” After graduating from high school, Bill went to the Culinary Institute

Nate DeTample can be described as small in stature but with a big personality. He was a high school wrestler and an Eagle Scout. His mother Kim says, “He was a wrestler, and he was dedicated to the wrestling team. He wanted to be a police officer”…like his father. He was a real community related

Marine Corporal Eric Fritzinger was a 17 year old high school graduate in 2005 when he told his parents he wanted to enlist in the Marines. He needed their permission because he was under age. First, they said no, but relented when he said he would go in on his own when he was eighteen.

On a recent vacation my wife and I visited the Pinkas Synagogue in Prague. You are overwhelmed when you enter. Covering the walls and ceiling are the names 77,297 Jews who were among the 80,000 from Prague killed in the Holocaust. Each row is about a quarter inch on the white walls. You can’t stop

    I passed the spot many times, and never noticed it. By chance, I looked down one day and there it was. Craved neatly into the cement at curb side was June 6, 1938 with two little feet imprints and the name Dolores McGarvey. After eighty-seven years it was still there undisturbed. I was

Golf is usually played with friends. But when no one is available, you can always go as a single. You call for a tee time. They will either fit you in to play by yourself and team you up others to fill out a foursome. When you get teamed with others, there are two concerns.

The new Trump target is Native Americans. Just when we thought it couldn’t get more racist and ridiculous. He’s now after the NFL Washington Commanders and baseball’s Cleveland Guardians. In his twisted sense of history, Trump thinks the name change back to the offensive nicknames the Redskins and Indians the will restore Native Americans’ pride

It’s the iconic symbol of the current president. The red MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN hat WITH 45 and 47 on the side to indicate what number president he is. He first wore it on a trip to the Mexican border in July, 2015. It was blue. Trump started wearing it while campaigning in the 2016.

It’s been a history making week. The United States bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities using 30,000 pound bunker busting bombs to dive hundreds of feet underground to destroy Iran’s ability to produce a nuclear weapon. It is the first time in history these bombs have been used. After the raid was completed last Saturday night,

This past weekend was the perfect picture of the state of the country. Parades marching in the opposite directions, thousands mostly marching peacefully in hundreds of cities for No Kings Day protesting Trump’s abuse of power. Police and National Guard troops in Los Angeles battled with demonstrators protesting the mass arrests of illegal immigrants that