With the upcoming election, scandals, and pundits tearing up the airwaves – it is all too easy to forget the recent cost of our foreign wars. The heart-wrenching cost of war runs far deeper than many Americans realize (or want to consider). The latest official statistics regarding U.S. military casualties show U.S. fatalities reaching nearly […]
With the upcoming election and the ongoing controversy regarding nuclear talks with Iraq, the nation’s attention is focused on the seemingly ever-present possibility of war. Moreover, all too often we forget to consider the cost of war – the tragic loss of human lives and the sorrow it leaves in its wake. Such was the […]
Such was the case of Army Specialist Jason K. Edens, 22, who tragically lost his life on April 26, 2012 as the result of injuries he sustained on April 15, 2012 while serving in Laghman Province, Afghanistan, as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.1 The heartbreaking photo below was posted to Reddit two years ago of […]
When Mimi and Joe Lemay’s baby was born in 2010, they heard the three words every parent waits to hear: “It’s a girl.” But by age two, their child Mia (now Jacob) was saying “I’m a boy.” Mimi hoped this “obsession with being a boy would go away,” but it only grew stronger. Now, in […]
A Seattle entrepreneur announced on Monday that he was raising the minimum salary at his company to $70,000 and reducing his own pay to the same amount from the current level of about $1 million. Dan Price, the founder of Gravity Payments, told the CBS Evening News that he was inspired by a Princeton University […]