D-Day Veteran Gives First Person Account of Landings on Omaha Beach

Rastus “Smokey” Holcomb served on the USS Arkansas and participated in 13 convoys across the North Atlantic, several invasions in the European theater but the biggest military action of all time was the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
The retired Navy veteran who joined the service in 1934 at the height of the depression also got married that year. But it was his service on the Arkansas on D-Day that will never leave his memory.

MURDER USA: Cops – (A 3-fer) Drug Dealers Erik Parham & Christopher Pineda Charged in Murder of Drug Dealer Alim Rahim; Killings Highlight Violence & Thuggery Gripping PG County

The fact that the breakdown in black families, the lower than needed rate of incarceration for criminals in PG County and the liberal judges and prosecutors continuing to give light sentences is lost not only on the PG prosecutors but also the public, perhaps unaware, or, for some such as those interviewed in the WUSA segment, in favor of making pot legal.

MURDER USA: Convicted Killer Markese Lewis charged with attempted murder of Virginia State Trooper after crashing into house

Medical experts testified that Gathers was shot once in the chest with a .38-caliber handgun, the kind of gun Lewis was firing. Lewis told police during a prior interrogation that if Gathers was shot from the front – which he was – then Lewis might have fired that shot.

Editorial Cartoon: Ryan – the “real” conservative – Editorial – Pay for slave-labor goods with Tubmans’

Just as reprehensible, then, would be the Obama administration, which proposes continuing these exploitive policies via the TPP while wrapping themselves in the history of Harriet Tubman, proposing to put her on the $20 bill — so we can pay the slavers in Malaysia for all their cheap goods.