A Hero & Villains

In November 2010, U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Kyle Carpenter, 21, was atop a building in the violent Helmand Province, Afghanistan, when an enemy grenade skittered toward him and a fellow Marine. Without hesitation, Carpenter jumped on it, saving his comrade but sacrificing his body. His heart flat-lined three times while he was being evacuated. He lost his right eye as well as most of his jaw. It would take dozens of surgeries and almost three years in and out of the hospital to reconstruct his body. In 2014 he was awarded the Medal of Honor, the youngest ever recipient. He has written a memoir with Don Yaeger: You Are Worth It: Building a Life Worth Fighting For.

And from the heroic to the base, there’s this:

A CNN staffer who voted for Bernie Sanders was so disgusted with the cable giant’s bias that he approached Project Veritas and offered to wear a wire to expose Jeff Zucker, president of the network, as an agent of the left. Kudos, although it merely confirms the obvious and is probably the way the station’s viewers want it.

Here’s a scary headline from Yahoo News: “More than a dozen police killed in ambush in violent Mexican state.”

My thanks to the kind folks who bought books on this glorious day. Most of the sales were of kids’ fare, but the most satisfying was the four self help books a young man bought for his wife. Using his cell phone, he sent her images of titles I fished out of boxes. One was The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle. The Quiet Man opted for one work of non-fiction and Murder, She Wrote: Killer in the Kitchen by Donald Bain and Jessica Fletcher; and Evelyn took a chance on The Master of Blacktower by Barbara Michaels. And a sweet elderly woman purchased a novel in Russian.

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