U.S.A.! U.S.A.!

A bit of good news to kick off your Friday evening...

The freeing of the Iranians by sailors from the very same carrier threatened earlier this week offered the United States an unexpected public relations coup, but Admiral Faller denied that the rescue was motivated by anything but routine concern for the safety of fellow sailors. “One of our obligations as mariners out here is to save lives at sea,” the admiral said. “We’d do that for any country in the world.”

We have a pretty sizable population of Somali's here in Barron, if you can believe that. Many are workers at the Turkey Store/Jennie-O (formerly Jerome.) Just today, I was coming back from the courthouse mid-afternoon, and watched the kids at one apartment complex getting off the bus, in what turned out to be springtime-like weather...

Oh, the skinny long legs on some of them! Reminds me of the time I was seated next to a Somali woman flying into Minneapolis. She remarked on the thinness of my wrists, and asked me where I was from. Then she told me a bit of her story...

I hope we feed these young pirates, and I hope the Iranian fishermen return home with a tale of their own to tell... Are you still proud to be an American tonight? I am.