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Elderly vet saves 16 children from knife attack(IL)
pekintimes.com ^
| 10/15/15
| Michael Smothers
Posted on 10/16/2015 4:51:02 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra
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To: austinaero
Morton is where I-155 meets I-74 east of Peoria.
Men like James Vernon are the salt of the earth.
To: nuconvert
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posted on
10/16/2015 6:47:01 AM PDT
by
Twinkie
(John 3:16)
To: Little Pig
If he had been 20 years younger, the fight might have ended very differently for the perp, which is not to disparage Mr. Vernon in any way; at 75, youre just not as powerful anymore.I guess I'll find out, in 3 more years! But seriously, I'm playing rec basketball a few times a week and playing better than I did in my fifties. Not so much harder as smarter.
But up against a knife, a chair seems like an appropriate response if you're not packing. Old hands cut easily, and I bleed a lot.
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posted on
10/16/2015 6:49:48 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: Verginius Rufus
Morton is Caterpillar Town. Years ago we used to cruise I74 on occasion. Some time in the early 80s, concrete flooring and the iron framework for a really large building appeared north of the free way. Then nothing happened for nearly 20 years and the iron disappeared. Turned out that this was to be the factory to make the machinery to build the Soviet Arctic pipeline. Carter’s boycott of the Soviets put the kibosh on the Olympics and this factory. Caterpillar eventually harvested the iron to build engines.
To: TangoLimaSierra
Looks like he has those “Ritalin eyes”.
Either that or the trans-gender hormone medications side effects had kicked in.
Somebody name Dryrone will make an honest woman of him in G-Block.
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posted on
10/16/2015 7:05:08 AM PDT
by
JEDI4S
(I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
To: TangoLimaSierra
At 75, Mr Vernon is hardly elderly.
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posted on
10/16/2015 7:18:29 AM PDT
by
FourPeas
("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
To: JEDI4S
Looks like he has those Ritalin eyes. Maybe Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
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posted on
10/16/2015 7:26:31 AM PDT
by
TangoLimaSierra
(To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
To: SaraJohnson
Yeah, if those kids were Christians, we might as well check the freak's religion while we're at it, if you know what I mean.
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posted on
10/16/2015 8:00:10 AM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
To: jdsteel
The Greatest Generation strikes again! Actually, Vernon could more accurately be termed as the "Baby Boom Generation", born in WWII (although he was likely born in 1940). "His" war would have been Vietnam although it sounds like he was in the Army before that. He did a superb job.
Too bad he wasnt permitted to carry in that gun free zone library.
Yeah. Vernon likely wouldn't have been badly hurt but then it could have been just like the Wild West - murderous crazy people wandering the streets with blood all over the place. Oh, wait...
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posted on
10/16/2015 8:51:48 AM PDT
by
Gritty
(If you don't like 400 refugees dropped in your town you can leave!-Walter Lubcke, German Governor)
To: TangoLimaSierra
And instead of trial and execution we'll see trail and imprisonment a drain on the public coffers for decades.
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posted on
10/16/2015 8:55:42 AM PDT
by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
To: TangoLimaSierra
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posted on
10/16/2015 8:56:29 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: Enterprise
No, it’s not. Pajama Boy’s only offense is being effeminate. This thing, on the other hand . . .
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10/16/2015 9:51:30 AM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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