Remember the famous scene in the original “Alien” movie when the thing pops out of John Hurt’s chest? Well, now you can see it reenacted on YouTube by little kids, using ketchup and a sock puppet.
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The Theme from Boomerang (for no reason at all). We try to find out why Stephen and Amy went to Magic Mike over the weekend, Hotshot has a funny meeting with an older woman in a park which leads to a discussion of whether this country has become way too sensitive, and also explains how he loves channel 9 and free activities. All that and much much more! The year in music is 1986, RAD!
On Wednesday, the original Montford Point Marines and their surviving family members flew to Washington D.C. to receive medals from Congress.
They may not be as well-known as the Tuskegee Airmen, but the Montford Point Marines were the first blacks to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps, back in World War Two.
Montford Point is the name of the segregated camp in North Carolina where they trained. After that, they were sent to the Pacific and fought in three of the bloodiest battles of the war: Iwo Jima, Saipan, and Okinawa.
Their performance in the battles was one of the factors that led to President Truman’s decision to desegregate the Armed Forces in 1948.
After nearly 70 years, Congress finally awarded them with the nation’s highest civilian honor . . . the Congressional Gold Medal.
(L.A. Times)
