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Today Sean Hannity played "The Ballad of Mike Moran" a.k.a. "The Fireman Song" For those who don't remember it, the song's authors, 'Doug from Upland' and 'Vetnet' met right here on Free Republic and publicly penned the song and got it produced with the encouragement of many of their fellow Freepers. The website for the song is at www.firemansong.com To hear an MP3 of the song, please email me and I'll send you download instructions. (for Freepers only) Sean also played Toby Keith's terrific song, "Courtesy of the Red White and Blue"

HE LET HIS BEERS DO THE TALKING The best brewers in America are more accomplished than they are famous. Gordon Knight was one of those. Knight, 52, died on Tuesday after his helicopter crashed while he was fighting a fire near Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. He was trying to drop water on hot spots in a 4,400-acre blaze. Knight, flying a 32-year-old French helicopter, radioed in about 6:30 p.m. and calmly reported, "I'm going down," a Forest Service spokeswoman, Ellen Hodges, said. Unless you drank beer along Colorado's Front Range in the 1990s you probably never tasted one...

<p>A day of celebration became a time for citywide mourning Thursday when a hellish pre-dawn blaze caused a duplex to collapse, killing three firefighters and three young sisters trapped in the pile of burning rubble.</p> <p>Scores of emergency workers stared in disbelief at the charred, jumbled remains of the 2 1/2-story, wood-frame duplex on Broadway. It was the deadliest blaze for firefighters in New Jersey in more than a decade.</p>

Background: This information is provided as a service toward understanding and information. Americans generally (those of derived Christian background) are used to the rules of action and behavoir set down in the Old Testiment. This group of rules is commonly referred to as the "Ten Commandments". Compared to the Religion of Islam, Christians "have it easy" with only ten clear and simple rules to follow. This is not so in Islam where their list of "Commandments" reads like it was written by an aggressive Divorce Attorney. It is, in my humble attempt at understanding, quite severe and hard on...

Turk 182 is on..today!!

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Sunday that the three firefighters who raised the American flag at Ground Zero just hours after the 9/11 attacks risked their lives to do so. quot;There was a fire of 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit going on, there were buildings still falling down,quot; Giuliani told NBC's quot;Meet the Press.quot; quot;There were at risk of their own lives, and yet, you know, they put up the American flag.quot; Giuliani said the episode, captured by Bergen Record photographer Thomas Franklin, of was a watershed moment for him. quot;And I#146;ve always thought of that, at least for...