JCM 7/29/2021 5:05:14 PM

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'Treat her gently': How an Israeli military search team helped recover Surfside victims

When Lt. Col. Golan Vach, commander of the Israeli Defense Forces’ National Rescue Unit, located a man’s ring while searching the debris field of the collapsed Champlain Towers South in Surfside, he knew immediately to whom it belonged.

He knew, because he had met with families of the scores of missing people. He had studied photographs of the missing, learned about their possessions — a necklace with a heart pendant, a gold watch, a blue table.

He had learned about the habits of each potential victim and even knew in which room each likely would have been during the collapse.

And, amid unimaginable tangles of rebar jutting out from a sea of concrete that was once their homes, he knew precisely where each victim would be located.

@PBJ3 7/29/2021 5:20:11 PM

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"Confirmed Tornado" Rips Through Town Just North of Philadelphia

@PBJ3 7/29/2021 5:24:13 PM

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Reply to JCM in 1:

That's a sad but touching article.

Occasional Reader 7/29/2021 7:42:23 PM

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Headline of the day:

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/europe-news/weird-news-europe-paris-rabbits-soldiers-ceasefire-8181446?

Kosh's Shadow 7/29/2021 8:03:16 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 4:

Where's Elmer Fudd when you need him?

The Fwench Awmy is less competent than French Poodles. (Although I admit maybe one of ours could catch a rabbit; my wife said the dog was close, but she called and the dog stopped long enough for the rabbit to get away). The other stood there as it ran by; it could have stopped to say "Eh, What's Up Dog?" and gotten away.

Syrah 7/29/2021 8:43:39 PM

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Syrah 7/29/2021 8:46:52 PM

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I remember telling people back in December of 2019 that I was more worried about how people would behave than I was about the virus.

i wish I was wrong. 

Syrah 7/29/2021 8:55:58 PM

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In 2019 and in the early part of 2020, I would have been willing to get the vaccine. 

Then, not so much, and later, they will have hold me down and put it in me against my will.

This is not the future I imagine when I was a child in the late 70’s. Pretty far from actually.