NEW YORK - A tourist's snapshot of a New York City police officer giving new boots to a barefoot, homeless man in Times Square has created an online sensation. Jennifer Foster, of Florence, Ariz., was visiting New York with her boyfriend Nov. 14 when she came across the shoeless man asking for change in Times Square.
Joe Cocker: officer in the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.)? ... gentleman tomato farmer? ... Rocky Mountain high guy? ... casino performer? ... imminent retiree? ... clean as a whistle for eight years now? Yes, the former ringleader of the legendarily amok Mad Dogs & Englishmen is all that today, and more.
Lisa Blount, who played Debra Winger's best friend in the 1982 movie "An Officer and a Gentleman" and later shared an Academy Award as executive producer of the live-action short film "The Accountant," was found dead in her home in Little Rock, Ark., on Wednesday by her mother. She was 53. Blount, the wife of actor and filmmaker Ray McKinnon, was found in bed holding a cell phone, which she had last used Monday when she told a friend she wasn't feeling well, according to Little Rock police.
The military has always been adamant that we cannot tolerate adultery in our ranks, at any level. That is why it is an article in the Uniform Code of Military Justice - Article 134, the "good order and discipline" article - because it is a major cancer on any organization or society and will destroy the moral fabric of our basic motto of "Duty, Honor and Country." This must be a zero- tolerance policy enforced at all levels, and especially at the senior ranks, for the good of our military and of our nation. Having spent his entire career in a military culture built upon such principles, Gen. David Petraeus knew very well what he had to do, and he was correct in his decision to immediately resign after being informed by his superior, Director of National Intelligence Gen. James Clapper. ...
REDLANDS - Everyone who called about the man in last week's photo, Maj. Gen. John W. Sessums, described him as a gentleman. Daughter-in-law Beverly Sessums of Redlands worked in a dental office where Sessums was a patient.
By all accounts, corrections officer Stephen Anderson's answer to dealing with hardened prison inmates was compassion. Monday morning, when Anderson was allegedly shot to death by a prison inmate he had transported to University Hospital's Orthopaedic Clinic, colleagues and inmates alike mourned his passing. Most people's impressions of correctional officers come from television or movies, where they are often portrayed as uncaring bullies who abuse their authority over inmates. Nothing could be further from the truth in Anderson's case.
In October of 1891 the courtly gentleman was an established merchant and chief financial officer of the North Sea port of Lubeck, and his early death, at the age of fifty-one, was mourned in an ostentatious ceremony by the entire city.
By Dennis McLellan Los Angeles Times
The military should require enlistees to have certain moral standards. Some observers believe that the law against fraternization is unrealistic, but immoral actions such as adultery hurt the morale and efficiency of military personnel.
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