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Blood taken from a young person could be the key to maintaining long-lasting health in old age, scientists claim.

No surprise there. Just another reason to hate Google. Bing however has a very respectful picture of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

After nearly a year away from their families, 1,200 members of the Minnesota National Guard will soon be coming home from Iraq. The 34th Infantry Division, known as the Red Bulls, won't be home for the holidays, but they will arrive not long after the new year. The first wave of men and women will start coming home next month. By the end of February, they should all be home. Theresa Nace is counting the days. Her husband Specialist Timothy Nace, is one of the guardsmen returning home. She said, "It's very helpful knowing that once 2010 comes then we're...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17, 2009 – The Yellow Ribbon Program is “off and running,” said the program’s deputy executive director, James “Scotty” Scott. The program’s goal is to prepare servicemembers and their families for mobilization, sustain families during mobilization, and reintegrate soldiers with their families, communities and employers upon redeployment. During the first nine months of fiscal 2009, reserve components have hosted more than 1,367 Yellow Ribbon events across the 54 U.S. states and territories. Through these events, more than 133,000 reservists and their family members have received valuable training and information about support services available to them before, during and...

WASHINGTON, July 1, 2009 – Servicemembers’ long-term rehabilitation shouldn’t keep them, or their family members, bound to the hospital grounds, and the Yellow Ribbon Fund is working to make sure that doesn’t happen. Roseanna Smith was the 1,000th renter through the Yellow Ribbon Fund’s car rental program. Her son, Army Pfc. Craig Smith, has been recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after losing a leg while serving in Iraq. Photo courtesy of Yellow Ribbon Fund  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Founded in 2005, the organization was created to assist injured servicemembers and their families while they recuperate at...

Pro-troop decals removed UPDATED: 2007-08-15 02:54:03 MST Calgary garbage trucks pulled into the garage to have yellow ribbon stickers scraped off By SHAWN LOGAN, SUN MEDIA Yellow ribbon decals were removed from a handful of garbage trucks as some city employees continue to defy council's decision that shot down a plan to adorn civic vehicles with the patriotic decorations. A foreman for Calgary's waste and recycling services sent about a dozen trucks to the garage yesterday to have the offending decals -- proclaiming Support Our Troops -- scraped off the bumpers, leaving one worker, who asked not to be identified...

WASHINGTON, March 22, 2007 – A mile’s worth of yellow ribbon bearing the signatures of 10,000 young Americans is finally bound for Baghdad. Seventeen-year-old Matthew Cook (center) stopped at the Pentagon with his parents, David and Sharon Cook, while visiting Washington to collect signatures on a section of yellow ribbon. Cook has arranged to ship the ribbon -- which now stretches a mile long -- to Iraq this fall as a show of young people’s support for deployed troops. Photo by Donna Miles  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The project has been a two-year endeavor for Matthew Cook,...

YELLOW RIBBON 2 in New Jersey Around the world, March 19th has come to mean several things. For the members of the Coalition of the Willing, it is a date in which the free world finally to their credit enforced 17 ignored U.N. resolutions and over a decade of Status Quo diplomacy to topple Saddam Hussein and his murderous regime. For the Iraqi people, it is a date for celebrating and embracing the very freedom they were so long denied and so rightly deserved. After three successful elections, a growing economy, and a yearning for self determination the mission in...

Oregon's yellow streak Posted: January 28, 20051:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com This week brought about a hideous public-relations embarrassment for the University of Oregon. New media blew a relatively obscure story about the university into an all-out image war that exposed the overt bias and direct deception that has become operative norms at the "Berkley of the North." One week ago today, Peter Baker was hauled before the administration and told that he would no longer be allowed to have a "Support the Troops" yellow magnetic ribbon attached to the university maintenance vehicle he drives on campus to carry out his...

A yellow ribbon sticker that says "Support The Troops" has created a big stir at the University of Oregon. A day after a campus employee was told to remove the sticker from his maintenance vehicle -- people on campus are reacting. It all started after a university employee complained. Some think the university may have gone too far. But for now... all the stickers are gone. For some it's a sticker that supports the troops. But at the University of Oregon... someone saw it as a political statement. "I don't know how they think these are political.. i think they're...

Saturday, May 17th 4:00-8:00PM Capitol Park, Augusta, Maine On Armed Forces Day, May 17th, please join us in supporting all of our deployed military members. We are teaming up with many local organizations who are trying to show our men and women overseas that they have not been forgotten. With all of the attention being focused on anti-war rallies, we thought it was just as important to focus some of our attention on supporting those who are away from their friends and family, fighting for the freedom of others. The rally will take place in Capitol Park from 4:00...

Utah Rally for America After Action Report T Minus Four, 4mer Liberal (and lil' 4mer Liberal), yours truly :), and some lurkers met at the Captiol's front steps around noon. Everyone was excited for the rally and the opportunity to show our troops we support them and let the anti-war crowds that the silent majority isn't going to just 'sit there and take it' anymore. I think that Excuse_My_Bellicosity and redrock were around somewhere but we weren't able to find them. After organizers lined everone up to form the yellow ribbon, we were told that it would be an hour-and-a-half...

News Release: Immediate Release April 3, 2003 OPERATION: 12,000 FLAGS Saturday April 12, 2003, will be celebrated as an early flag day by citizens of the Roanoke Valley. This event will be celebrated by distribution of American Flags and Yellow Ribbon at Tanglewood Mall. This event sponsored by Lakeland Masonic Lodge # 190 and is organized in support of our American Fighting Men and Women now in the Iraqi conflict. In support of this effort, the Freemasons of the Roanoke Valley will give away 12,000 American Flags and a mile of yellow ribbon at Tanglewood Mall beginning at 9:00 AM...

YELLOW RIBBON PICNICSANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA ____________________________________________________________________ NEWS RELEASE FREE REPUBLIC OF SONOMA COUNTY www.FreeRepublic.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: David Chu 543-8103, 838-1973 April 8, 2003 “YELLOW RIBBON PICNIC” SUPPORT OUR TROOPS,THEIR FAMILIES & THE FAMILY OFPATRICK O’DAY SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA—Free Republic of Sonoma County announced today that there will be a “Yellow Ribbon Picnic” on Sunday April 13 at Galvin Community Park in honor & support of the family of Patrick O’Day, all of our troops in Iraq and their families. “All proceeds from the picnic will go to the family of Patrick O’Day,” says David Chu of Free...

<p>PALO ALTO -- The Palo Alto Police Department said today that resident Seth Yatovitz found a suspicious envelope in his afternoon mail that caused a stinker of a problem.</p> <p>Police said Yatovitz -- who led the opposition against the city of Burlingame's decision to hold a "Yellow Ribbon Week" to support U.S. troops in Iraq -- took the envelope to the Palo Alto Fire Station to be investigated. Firefighters subsequently called police and the building was evacuated while the rear parking lot and surrounding streets were cordoned off.</p>

Operation Military Pride is proud to be organizing the committee to present the first annual Rally for Support of our military, Operation Yellow Ribbon! On Armed Forces Day, May 17, 2003, we will be hosting a support rally at the Lincoln Memorial Monument to show our support for all of our deployed military members. We are teaming up with many other organizations in trying to show our men and women overseas that they are not forgotten. With all of the attention being focused on anti-war rallies and human shields voluntarily leaving for Iraq, we thought it was just as important...

<p>Unhappy with the mayor's policy banning yellow ribbons on municipal property, ralliers marched through town Saturday, tacking the offending emblems on everything from the front door of the town hall to the mayor's car.</p> <p>Led by Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, about 100 marchers left ribbons along the main street, then affixed dozens more to a pine tree when they reached an old school building that now serves as town hall for this central New Jersey borough's 522 residents.</p>

Last night's Candle Light Vigil in Fieldsboro, organized by the citizens, pardon me, make that family of Fieldsboro, was widely covered by the news media. Nutty Buddy, the Mayor of Fieldsboro, has done a great thing, h e's really brought the people of that town together. Mayor Nutty Buddy Tyler was interviewed by EVERY Philadelphia station and two from NYC. At the end of the report by Sharon Crowley of FOX Philadelphia, she noted that the controversy isn't over and that a rally was planned for Saturday. She said that Mayor Nutty Buddy had told her that he would...

ON THE HOME FRONT Man calls yellow ribbons 'offensive' Tells city he might file suit if items not removed from public property Posted: April 2, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com A disgruntled California man has demanded the mayor of Burlingame remove the many yellow ribbons displayed on a major retail thoroughfare and to apologize to "any person who may have been offended by his illegal actions," reports the San Mateo Daily Journal. Mayor Mike Coffey had decided the city would not enforce an ordinance against private displays on public property when a woman asked if she could put...

Yellow ribbons making a comeback By JOANN LOVIGLIO Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA - In communities all over, where people have different ideas on the war in Iraq, many are reviving a tradition that was popularized more than two decades ago during the Iran hostage crisis and took hold during the Persian Gulf War. "Every tree, every sapling, every light pole have yellow ribbons on them," Valley Center, Kan., Mayor James E. "Jet" Truman Jr. said Tuesday. "Our store in town ran out of them. As soon as we get some more (ribbon), we'll be putting more out." At the nation's...