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Tonight we take a look at a great unsung Korean war hero whose steely nerves and dedication won her the respect, honour, and admiration of the Marines who served with her. During one particularly fierce five day battle in 1953,

…she made 51 trips from the Ammunition Supply Point to the firing sites, 95% of the time by herself…and walked over 35 miles through open rice paddies and up steep mountains with enemy fire coming in at the rate of 500 rounds per minute. And as she so often did, she would carry wounded soldiers down the mountain to safety, unload them, get reloaded with ammo, and off she would go back up to the guns.

Here’s a brief video tribute to the aptly-named Sgt Reckless
h/t Robert O.
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  4. This horse like a lot of other farm animals is twice as smart and more loveable than any environMENTAList or occubot. The fact that this horse did what it did shows its intelligence and devotion to kindness of its handlers, there was undoubtably discipline in the raising of this horse, something the mothers and fathers,( if there was one that stayed around), of the occubots could have tried and they would not have to live with the embarrassment they are dealing with now.

  6. EBD and dmorris – That is a funny comments thread. According to Jeannette Abrahamson: ‘what he means to say “I’m not hiring until we get a white man in office”. We know the undercover racism here. Real sad, get over it.’
    Says Harold Craig: ‘What a racist idiot this guy is. It makes you wonder how many closet racists are out there willing to sabotage the economy just to get President Obama out of office.’
    (Yes, going by their facebook pictures they’re both black.)
    Did I say funny? I meant truely, truely pathetic. Not “sad” in a snotty, middle-school, “you don’t have a cute boyfriend” kind of way. It’s just depressing.

  7. What a great story! We just revisited a bit of Korean War history yesterday after Thanksgiving Dinner with my father-in-law. Our 15-year-old son was showing pictures from his 9th grade class trip to D.C. Grandpa got to see his war’s memorial and tell us just a bit about his experience over there. I wonder if he knew about this!

  9. For your amusement.
    Mexico acknowledges 2nd Mayan reference to 2012
    http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-acknowledges-2nd-mayan-reference-2012-232405916.html
    Not really an apocalypse, just an event.
    “In fact, the third glyph on the brick seems to read as the verb huli, “he/she/it arrives.”
    and
    “However, erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible, though some read the last eroded glyphs as perhaps saying, “He will descend from the sky.”

  13. Barack Obama pushes his merch on Twitter:

    This Black Friday, take 10% off all
    purchases of #Obama2012 gear with code
    10%TURKEYDAY: OFA.BO/KKD4J$

  14. Huh?
    “Mark Kelly has spoken candidly about the moment he learned his wife, Arizona congresswoman Gabby Giffords, was shot at a voting event in Tuscon – and his disappointment at not having been contacted by Sarah Palin following the tragedy.
    “In a guest appearance on last night’s CNN Piers Morgan Tonight show, the husband and father berated Ms Palin’s irresponsibility, while Mr Morgan said he found her lack of contact ‘extraordinary.'”
    […]
    “After learning that Ms Giffords, 41, and Mr Kelly, ‘were never contacted’ by Ms Palin following the fatal shooting, Mr Morgan is incredulous.
    “‘In her haste to take no responsibility, [she] didn’t even bother to pick the phone up, to write, to do anything…”
    (All emph. mine)

  15. Mississauga Matt at 10:28
    Thanks. In contrast, the CBC doesn’t have to worry about intolerant NDP candidates complaining it’s not transgendered/two-spirited enough.

  16. EBD @12:13 – he’s also upset that house speaker John Boehner didn’t do enough.
    Now, when there’s some family I personally don’t really know at all well, and they have a loved one who’s been horrifically injured, my instinct is to not go and insert myself into the situation; especially, I suppose (it’s never come up,) if my doing so would almost certainly be construed as an act of unspeakably crude political oportunism. I guess I’m a sociopath or something.

  17. Osumashi Kinyobe: Koreans exhibit dignity, pride, work ethic, and know-how. You’re therefore absolutely correct that the NDP could never succeed there!

  18. S Korea weathered a financial crisis when citizens in response to a gov’t plea sold their gold holdings to said gov’t (using the threatened Korean currency).
    once again the Korean people saved their *own* asses by collective action.
    must be something in their culture/history that brings that about.
    what would a hard core capitalist do in those circumstances? you bet, they would be BUYING the stuff to flip it later or whatever procedure lined *their* pocket.

  23. The story about Sgt. Reckless brought a tear to my eye. Thanks for a great link. The cats at my house think they’re dogs, the dog thinks it’s a cat and they all think they’re people.

  24. Black Mamba – I’m sure you know that there is a racist ghost in every white person’s closet. Soooo I guess the economy is terrible because…….lets see now…..oh yes, because every white business person in the US won’t hire anyone until the black guy in the White House is out of there.
    Now its all clear to me. Thanks for that enlightenment, Mamba.

  28. Thanks for that, batb (9:50).
    Superb. Surely one of Rex’s finest, most eloquent, and timely columns. No wonder Mansbridge *sneers* every time he introduces him on The National.

  29. “Penn State Hides Pedophiles And Pseudo Climate Change Scientists”
    “It seems just like yesterday when a number of manmade Climate Warming scientists were caught fudging figures to benefit their Globalbaloney warming theories. Penn State’s Michael Mann (Hockey Stick Graph) was caught two years ago manipulating data, but Penn State President, Graham Spanier, defended Mann’s cheating faster than the time it takes Jerry Sandusky to take shower – who was also protected by Spanier.
    Mann is again in the news as more hacked email, compliments of the Russians, have been released, and may be even more damning than the original email dump from two years ago. In the confiscated emails, climate scientists around the globe indicate the purpose of their faulty, fudged findings: ” “Over 2.5 billion people live on less than $2 a day” and, “Nations must invest $37 trillion in energy technologies by 2030 to stabilise greenhouse gas emissions at sustainable levels,” the message states.
    From the Guardian.UK : “One of the most damaging claims in 2009 was that Prof Phil Jones, the head of the UEA’s Climatic Research Institute had deleted emails to avoid FOI request. One of the reviews into the content of the emails, conducted by Sir Muir Russell, concluded that “emails might have been deleted in order to make them unavailable should a subsequent request be made for them” – something that Jones has denied. At the time CRU was coming under sustained pressure by an organised campaign to release information, which the scientists saw as distracting from their work.
    Distracting from their work, indeed.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2812529/posts

  30. batb, thanks for the Rex Murphy link. It is tough to keep up with all the great article out there fighting back against the regressive progressives.

  32. EBD and Ken (Kulak), much obliged!
    Robert Fulford and Rex Murphy are the best! They’re both extremely articulate in addition to being clear about how the tyranny of lower expectations is hijacking our culture.

  33. “Mark Kelly has spoken candidly about the moment he learned his wife, Arizona congresswoman Gabby Giffords, was shot at a voting event in Tuscon – and his disappointment at not having been contacted by Sarah Palin following the tragedy.”
    Who the hell does Kelly think he is, playing politics with his wife’s tragedy. My opinion is a subhuman slime.

  34. Thank-you for the link to the story of Reckless, EBD. Someone should make a movie…’Seabiscut’ is mentioned on that sight as another Horse hero. People love that movie, I have to fight tears every time I watch it. My nephews have watched ‘Seabiscut’ at least ten times. No blood and gore – just guts and glory, this story, Reckless,is even better.
    Horses, like working dogs are friends/allies of people. Kids used to be parent’s allies too, they helped their parents and were very proud to do so; kids waited for kind words from parents and glowed when they were praised for their work/courage/ability etc. My Dad expected my brothers to drive vehicles, fix fences, shoot gophers, stack hay, feed livestock…before they were teenagers. My mom counted on me to wash clothes, hang them on the line to dry (freeze dry in winter), cook meals (on a wood stove – I knew how to ‘fire it up’ with coal or wood), iron all clothes with a flat iron heated on the wood stove, take care of my fleet of cats, take care of my little brothers/cousins, clean the house, change beds, plant and take care of the 2 acre garden….We contributed, my brothers and I owned two Black Angus cows and we paid for their feed so that we could sell our own calves and have our own money, dad drove the truck slowly down the main road so we could pick up bottles in the ditches and sell them, we sold eggs and carried drinking water to school (for pay) – we took two two gallon wine bottles of water, every day. Every time we succeeded we were praised; we were trusted and appreciated for our abilities. We were told off in unPC language when we ‘fell short’ (quite often). When I was young, my family was my life – I loved them all (as I still do) unconditionally and I would have given my life to save any of theirs – they would have done the same for me.
    My brothers and I did not know two spirited people existed, it never crossed our radar screen. Kids are a lot better off if they learn about such people after they are adults, IMO. Kids like horses and dogs better and they learn a lot more good things from horses and dogs than they ever will in schools/computer games/PC compassion preachers (teachers) of today.

  36. And some people have the chutzpah to say that girls have no balls…
    Try the veal, I’ll be here all night!

  37. you know, in a perfect world Pam Anderson as Mary wouldn’t be so outrageous because it would be set in proper context like skits from old Red Skeleton, Wayne & Shuster or a dozen other comedy shows. Everything was fair game to poke a little light-hearted fun at but in the end it was the “… may God bless.” These days everything but conservative/Christian themes are off limits and to make light of anything will get you branded as a racist, bigot and/or hatemonger.
    Maybe I’m too old but I remember the days when Polish, Italian, Ukrainian native jokes were common and not taken as a crime. Catholic and Protestant school kids still played together after school while teasing each other about their schools. Nobody suffered irreconcilable damage to their psyche as a result. today, I think only Newfie jokes are allowed and you have to be from Newfoundland to tell one or laugh. Sigh, what has this world come to?

  38. “And some people have the chutzpah to say that girls have no balls…
    Try the veal, I’ll be here all night!”
    Posted by: PiperPaul at November 26, 2011 5:39 PM
    Well from what I’ve heard Korean girls certainly might have balls! Heh heh heh!
    Oh, wait, that’s Thai “girls”. Never mind. I’ll be here all night (probably). Try the salmon (veal is cruel). Oy.

  39. “And some people have the chutzpah to say that girls have no balls…
    Try the veal, I’ll be here all night!”
    Posted by: PiperPaul at November 26, 2011 5:39 PM
    Well from what I’ve heard Korean girls certainly might have b@lls! Heh heh heh!
    Oh, wait, that’s Thai “girls”. Never mind. I’ll be here all night (probably). Try the salmon (veal is cruel). Oy.

  40. EBD, I just tried to post a harmless comment with no links. “Held for approval”. This happened a few days ago. Can you tell me why? Have I done something wrong?

  42. Don’t take it personally, Black Mamba. I’ve had the same thing happen a number of times. One’s first reaction is to feel rejected: What the …? Why me? What did I do wrong? …
    Sometimes the comment eventually shows up and sometimes it doesn’t. So, you win some, you lose some … 😉

  43. I freed your trapped comment, Black Mamba. Btw, the filter is automated and the parameters are pre-set, so it’s never personal. Your comment a couple of days ago got caught up because it contained an otherwise completely innocuous word that happens to be in virtually every spam message on earth.

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