When I was growing up in NC, about once a month, my dad took us to Fred Barnes barber shop. It was a little shed-like structure and to this day I can smell it. Fred had no concept of hygiene and the cut and discarded hair stayed on the floor or wherever it fell for days, maybe weeks.

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What do you think of all these Obama scandals? Benghazi, IRS targeting of conservative non-profit groups, monitoring reporter phone calls. Are you going to write about it?

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At a VietVet reunion, when a group of old warriors gather, it’s hard to know what will come out of it. Have we heard all the war stories? No, never, even if the same ones are told with a different slant. Here’s one that 3rd Platoon, Delta Company, 1/501st Airborne Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, told with a new purpose. At the latest gathering, we had a special visitor, Jimmy Stevens, the brother of one of our guys, Danny,killed in one of the longest battles of the Vietnam war.

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