Checkpoint tonight in Newport Beach / Retén esta noche en Newport Beach (tags)
"The checkpoint will run from 9 p.m. Thursday to 3 a.m. Friday, on northbound Dover Drive at 16th Street." El retén se hará de las 9 pm jueves hasta las 3 am viernes en Dover Drive carril hacia el norte por la 16th Street.
Grieving moms & dads: ‘End the war!’ (tags)
U.S. mortuary sees no let-up from Iraq war dead (tags)
Nearly a month after Saddam Hussein's capture, American war dead from Iraq continue to arrive with somber regularity at the wind-swept Air Force base in Delaware that is home to the world's largest mortuary.... There, at the U.S. military's only stateside mortuary, the remains are identified, autopsied, embalmed, clothed in dress uniforms, placed in coffins and shipped to grieving relatives in the company of military escorts.
From Today's L.A. Times Patt Morrison column
Bush renames Body Bags, Transfer Tubes (tags)
As the saying goes, if you can't convince them, confuse them. With more lies told each day by President George Bush, here is yet another one. The US Department of Defense changed the name from "Body Bag" to "Transfer Tube" to describe how the bodies of our young warriors are returned home in the dark of night, with no official count of their growing numbers, and no solemn public ceremony to honor their proud service