O.C. WWII veteran gets hero's welcome on D.C. trip

Source: The Orange County Register

SAN CLEMENTE – Clarence J. Kaleta, who served in the Pacific on a Navy destroyer during World War II, recently took an expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., to visit the nation's war memorials. In doing so, he and other veterans received a he ...
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Respect For Flag Waning

Source: Manila Bulletin

MANILA, Philippines --- The countdown to Independence Day celebration on June 12 officially starts today, May 28, with the observance of National Flag Day—the same date when the Philippine flag was first hoisted in th ...
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USS Iowa Heads For Final Home in San Pedro

Source: KTLA.com

SAN FRANCISCO -- Decades after transporting President Franklin Roosevelt across the Atlantic and fending off kamikazes in the Pacific during World War II, the USS Iowa passed Saturday under the Golden Gate Bridge en route to its final home ...
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Washington freshman golfer Cheng-Tsung Pan is "a man among boys"

Source: The Seattle Times

For a phenom, Cheng-Tsung Pan is pretty normal. He stands 5 feet 6 and weights 152 pounds. He uses his library voice at all times. And he has this terrible habit of making his extraordinary feats sound like something any novice gol ...
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Moral dilemma over aid money

Source: Daily Express

Convicted of treason in a tribal court without judge or jury, Dr Afridis horrific fate is a shocking demonstration of how far Islamabad has turned its back on the West in the war on terror. Outraged by this monstrous misc ...
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Top 7 Movies to Rent for Memorial Day

Source: Encino Patch

Memorial Day is an awkward holiday. Not the holiday itself so much as what we use it for. It has become a time for celebration of conspicuous consumption. And while I can understand the emotional catharsis of a wake or a ...
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Daily Quake: Solar Climate Change: Review of R5 23rd - 25th May

Source: Climate Realists

The location of the Norwegian Sea took the top Earthquake location of M6.2 for the Piers CorbynR5 period 23rd - 25th May, and for the second time in two Solar Climate Change attempts from the Sun to Earth, the Earth surface remained ...
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Moans about RAF made me despair

Source: Bucks Free Press

WHAT a load of fuss about nothing. I really do despair of the whinging Wycombe folk who complained of the roar of the RAF Typhoons exercising here two weeks ago. Some were even upset that the noise woke them and their children from their sl ...
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TROPICS: Bud weakens, Sanvu near Iwo, Beryl forms

Source: Surfer's Village

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 26 May, 2012 : - - Bud is approaching landfall to the south of the resort town of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and will likely make landfall Friday night. Bud has rapidly weakened amid cooler waters and stronger w ...
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