SELF-CLONING LIZARD clipped by: tanyamm
clippers remarks: Go to the site to read more about this unique lizard.
What you see here is the newly discovered (to science) species Leiolepis ngovantrii. Newly discovered to science, not to the locals in its native Vietnam. What makes it so interesting is that the species consists entirely of females, and reproduces by parthenogenesis, a process where the females spontaneously ovulate and resulting eggs re-fuse, resulting in a healthy baby clone, which is genetically identical to the mother. This isnt actually that rare a reproductive strategy, as about 1% of all lizard species use it.
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Lives During Wartime: part two clipped by: flinta
Lives During Wartime, Vol. 2
Nobody called me a hero when, in 1969, I returned from a tour of duty as a medical officer in Vietnam. Instead, for years I encountered overt hostility. That hostility always came from those who had never lived the horrors of war, nor had seen the unspeakable ability of modern weapons to kill and maim.
Nothing in civilian life could have prepared me for the carnage that I encountered. Our wars have left more than a million Americans dead and almost two million maimed ? veterans who would never walk, use their arms, see, hear or bear children. And young and scared, often overwhelmed by the magnitude of what I lived through, I struggled to do my best ? and sometimes just to function ? under hostile fire.
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Lives During Wartime clipped by: flinta
clippers remarks: I am essentially a pacifist, committed to finding nonviolent solutions to problems. Politically I am an anarchist because I believe that governments are established to promote the best interests of those who are privileged and wealthy, to the detriment of the rest of us. War is an essential tool in the promotion of the interests of those who are socially, politically, and economically powerful. Mythologies promote war as a noble activity, sometimes necessary to protect human liberty and well-being. The more unpopular a given conflict becomes, the more it is wrapped in flag and the cry to defend this or that nations basic freedoms. In other words, the wordsmiths bless such as actions necessary for self-defense.
The ones we remember on this Veterans (Remembrance in Canada) Day are the warriors who gave the ultimate sacrifice for what they believed was a noble cause. And we call them heroes.
Lives During Wartime, Vol. 2
In November 1968 I came home to Brooklyn, N.Y. from a 13-month tour in Vietnam. I had been wounded early in my campaign; bad enough be in three separate hospitals for two months, but not bad enough to not go back and finish my tour. With all the hardships that I faced in battle, it was only a quarter as bad as a lot of my Marine Corps brothers.
I didn?t realize what was getting ready to happen in America. I didn?t know that I was going to be considered a villain, a baby-killer and other negative brandings by Americans. I wasn?t prepared for having African-Americans say that because of the way we are treated in America, I should not be fighting on foreign soil. Those experiences at home, along with the experiences in Vietnam, shaped the way I approach my life today.
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Long Road Home clipped by: flinta
Communities Embrace Veterans of Vietnam War
MANASSAS, Va. ? Charles Howell, a Vietnam War veteran, wore his camouflage Army jacket and jungle hat in public for the first time in more than 40 years recently, when he attended the Veterans Day parade in this Civil War battleground city. He said he no longer cared about possible negative reactions to his military service.
A fellow veteran extended his hand and said, ?Welcome home.?
Recognition for Vietnam veterans, many of whom feel scarred by experiences during that contentious period in American history, has been growing.
Communities in California, Delaware, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Wisconsin, among others, have held parades and special events in the past year. More than 20,000 people attended a May ceremony at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis.
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Lives During Wartime: part three clipped by: flinta
Pamela Large, Bellingham, Wash.
He has reached out online to welcome our newest warriors home, and his experience may give them the necessary guidance to survive in a nation that sometimes throws away its most valued members.
My brother was a young, gung-ho man when he volunteered after graduation from Cheyenne Central High School, Cheyenne, Wyo., to go to Vietnam with the Marine Corps. Years later, having gone through harrowing tours there and completing Officer Candidate School during that time, he retired as a captain.
My younger brother and I are so proud of Jim, and hope he knows it. He has pulled himself back from the brink of despair and death many times in the last 30 years, and, having reached his 62nd year, is finally happy. There were worse tales after Vietnam, and better ones, but he was ours and we love him.
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Lives During Wartime: part three clipped by: flinta
Lives During Wartime, Vol. 2
Perry Levin, Rockville, Md.
I?m a Vietnam vet. I was in Vietnam from December 1967 to December 1968. When I came home I felt like a fish out of water. I had been away for a year and everything was new and different to me. One change I remember were the car models I did not recognize. But mainly, the national rhetoric had moved on from what I remember. It was like coming into the middle of a conversation and not knowing what people were talking about. I know this is what Iraq and Afghanistan vets are going through, especially after two or three tours out of the country. Please be patient and understanding of these vets. Help them readjust. They suffered a tremendous shock to their social equilibrium and need to be helped back into the mainstream.
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Garfield Creator Apologizes for Ill-Timed Strip clipped by: n2sooners
Cartoonist Jim Davis apologized Thursday for a Garfield strip that some veterans may have found offensive.
The strip ran on Veterans Day in newspapers across the country. It shows a spider daring the pudgy orange cat to squash it. The spider tells Garfield that if he is killed, ?they will hold an annual day of remembrance in my honor.?
The final panel shows a spider-teacher asking its students if they know why spiders celebrate ?National Stupid Day.?
Davis, of Muncie, Ind., said in a statement posted on his website that he didn?t know the strip would appear on Veterans Day. He said it was written nearly a year ago and called the publication Thursday ?the worst timing ever.?
?It absolutely, positively has nothing to do with this important day of remembrance,? Davis said.
Davis said his brother served in Vietnam, and his son is a Marine who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said he is grateful for the service of veterans, and called any offense ?unintentional and regrettable.?
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