Is it okay to show your patriotism at the office?

For one Arlington woman, the answer was "no" after she hung an American flag in her office just before the Memorial Day weekend. picked by Nateebiinature 6 months ago

Members from Westboro baptist church attempt to protest a memorial service for a Continental Flight 3407 crash victim. They are surrounded by counterdemonstrators wearing white plastic angel wings, blocking their signs from view.
Small video of the incident is worth a view, it is quite impressive how they just surrounded them and got them to leave without even confronting them. picked by theclansman 9 months ago

Newman, a former chain smoker, has been reported as seeking treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NYC.

No confirmations from his staff nor the hospital.
Say it ain't so, blue eyes.

Edit: Hopefully, this update is true. picked by suebe 1 year ago

Military blogger's entry one year after his buddy was killed in Iraq. Interesting blog, I recommend you take a look around. picked by cheeselog1234 2 years ago

At a ceremony to remember the 320,000 people that weere killed at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria a group of nazi lovers shouted "Heil Hitler" and "This way for the gas". They attacked the group of survivors and was able to evade the police. picked by 2manyusernames 7 months ago

The memorial service for the five members of a Parkville family killed by a wrong-way truck in an Ohio highway accident included some uninvited guests nearby. picked by iamtoni78 2 years ago

Not long after Dale Neumann and his wife were convicted of the murder of their child through faith healing comes the story of Zachery Swezey who lay dying with a ruptured appendix whilst his parents prayed and preachers anointed him with oil

His memorial page here picked by Doggylives 3 months ago

A brazen thief who offered condolences at a memorial service made off with $10,000 collected for the family of an ironworker killed in a Las Vegas Strip construction site mishap, friends and family members said.

*oh I hope they do find him. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Every Memorial Day, volunteers put small American flags next to grave stones of the about 965 veterans buried at the Krafft Road cemetery.

All the flags were undisturbed during a Mass on Memorial Day. But the next day, cemetery workers noticed the flags were disappearing -- the small, wooden staffs still were in the ground, but Old Glory itself had been removed. picked by lynxears 6 months ago

The collection, affectionately known as Save the Girls, is a lasting memorial to the bomber crews who flew the aircraft, to the artists who painted the nose art and to those in Hollywood and the graphic illustration industry who first inspired the art picked by doggylives 1 year ago

A sign bearing the title "Mt. Cleese" appeared recently at the Awapuni Landfill in Palmerston North, New Zealand after a local satirist suggested it be renamed "John Cleese Memorial Tip," with the tag line: "All manner of crap happily recycled."

I wanted to repost ogri's plime classic, but alas the link is dead. So here's another.
ogri - where are you? picked by suebe 2 years ago

Friday kicks off Northern California's annual Kinetic Grand Championship, a three-day race in which teams aboard pedal-powered works of art move across 42 miles of road, sand and water.
I'll be at the beer garden, sponsored by Belgium Brewing Company, Saturday night. picked by psycmoe 6 months ago

A campaign has been launched to build a permanent memorial to a bear which spent much of its life in Scotland - after fighting in World War II. picked by topofall 2 years ago

Although a private funeral was held for Steve Irwin, a public memorial is likely to be held in a local football stadium. picked by musicgirldani 3 years ago

Peter Frampton+Humble Pie "I Don't Need No Doctor" Steve Marriott Astoria Memorial Concert 2001. The band Frampton was in before he "comes Alive." Kick ass! picked by Bornbad 3 years ago

Historical PBS interview with Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize for economic science. A classic clip in which he discusses minimizing the role of government in order to create political and social freedom. picked by hypnotode 3 years ago

The Australian War Memorial has unearthed what it believes is the only footage of Anzac Cove during the Gallipoli battle of World War One. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Roadside Memorials will deliver memorial stands to accident scenes to honor the victim of an accident. The commercial was made so realistically that if you happened to walk into the room in the middle of the ad you might just think it’s real. AdRants says that people in Chicago are happy with the campaign for both its’ originality and departure from the standard lecture approach that m... read full post picked by peschomd 3 years ago

In honor of Memorial day, I post this dictionary of terms official and unofficial that the United States Marine Corps has used. picked by Bandit 3 years ago

The idea behind eugenics - improving a population's health through genetics - was hardly unique to Germany, as shown by a traveling exhibit developed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and on display at The Andy Warhol Museum. picked by suebe 3 years ago