Today's News

    You don’t win a Purple Heart:  You earn it.

    And, rare is the man who wants to earn one.
    Still, those that have done so are in a special class:    They’ve taken one for the team and have the scars to prove it.
    Roy Scott is such a man.
    A Forest  resident (Boonsboro area), Scott earned a pair of Purple Hearts in Vietnam.

    Dr. Robert Sullivan had the ultimate mountain top experience last year—he spent 30 minutes standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the world.

    It is 29,000 feet above sea level and the air is so thin at that point that you would die if you stayed there too long without oxygen. The temperature is -71F and winds blow at 50 mph.

    Moses Kahn of Forest Hills, N.Y., was arrested on February 25 on 13 counts of “Use of a communications system to facilitate certain offenses involving children.”
    Kahn engaged in sexually explicit communications with a person he had reason to believe was a
minor female in Bedford County.

The fundamental question facing uninsured Americans was never, “how do we give the federal government more power over our lives?” Yet government control over health care was the ultimate result of the president’s health care law. Obamacare costs jobs, reduces choices, lowers the quality of care, and hurts the very people it was intended to help.