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The boy remembers stretching out his hands so far for a dropped bait bag that he fell into the swirling waters of the upper Rio Grande. "I reached for it and lost my balance," he told police. "I yelled twice, 'Kevin, help.' He came running and then jumped in after me." He remembers the water pulling him down, remembers seeing the sun disappear. He remembers Kevin's strong arms circling him, pulling him somewhere downstream of the Taos Junction Bridge. "Then I black out again," he said. "Then I woke up with his head in the water. I picked up his...

Only caught part of an Imus interview with Senator Rick Santorum on this morning's show. Santorum was telling Imus Congress had doubled the death benefit from $6,000 to $12,000. Imus told him that was, in effect, a disgraceful joke. Santorum tried to bolster Congress' alleged support for GIs by listing other survivor benefits, each of which Imus appropriately and accurately mocked. Santorum, seemingly defensive, then pledged to "try" to do more in next year's military appropriation bill. Might be helpful, if you agree with Imus, to fire off an email to your Congress people.