LadyHawkღ's Blog – August 2012 Archive (2)

YES! yes, yes, yes!!

My son found out yesterday he was selected for the new program. He graduates top of his class Aug. 15 from his aerial gunner classes. He is so happy to be getting his wings and being one of the first ones selected for this program. He scored 100% on everything but the decompression chamber and he still had top points on that. After graduation he's off to Washington for survival training and then to Pensicola Fl for flight training and will finish up in New Mexico for…

By ICTMN Staff August 3, 2012

The Olympics weren’t always the celebration of world cultures you see today. Watching the hundreds of countries proudly waving their flags as they enter during the opening ceremonies.

At the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri the games hadn’t yet become the spectacle they are today. As Slate put it in a 2008 article, “Even in the U.S., the Olympics were seen less as an epochal sporting event than as yet another attraction at…