At a recent rally, Trump went off on a tangent about how he used to know Willy Brown, former mayor of SF and former beaux of Kamala Harris. In this tangent, Trump regaled his audience with a story of how the two once shared a helicopter ride which suffered some difficulty and almost crashed. In the face of death, Willy Brown allegedly dished some dirt on Kamala.

Problem is, Willy Brown says he’s never been on a helicopter with Trump.

NYT speculates that Trump is confusing Willy Brown with former CA governor Jerry Brown, with whom he once did share a helicopter ride (along with Gavin Newsom, the ex of DJT’s future DIL).

Problem is, that flight didn’t have any problems and they never talked about Harris.

Now that NYT picked apart Trump’s story, he’s threatening to sue.

Hi There,

Just raising the issue of the meaning of Yah.

Is this a title that should be more widely acknowledged and used.

We see it having prominence in Revelation yet in modern time there is little or no usage of the term.

Yah would seem to be more specific than Lord so why don't we use the term ?

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I still love this great song by DC Talk. I believe this is the hit song that helped make them famous. The lyrics are timeless.... even 30 years after Jesus Freak first hit the Christian charts.

Mk 12:

26 But concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? 27 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”

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In this context, Jesus did not assert the existence of the God of the Dead.

Let's check out the broader biblical context. 1P 4:

They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

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God will judge the dead. In this special sense, God is the God of the dead too. There is only one true God.

31 Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.

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16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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It is evident, with titles such as these, that the Devil does not accept his place in creation, nor does he see the merits of Christ.

For to him, the innocent dying for the sake of the guilty is folly. Just like he said when the woman was washing the feet of Jesus, don’t you know who this woman is?

In like manner, the spawns of Satan will continue their persecution based on their own merit. They exalt themselves, and tread underfoot the blood that would lead to their salvation.

Like mindless beasts, they are not given the grace to see their own folly, and are definitely not allowed beyond the Thunderdome.

Please, I am asking for prayer for healing for my brain and strength as I continue to fight because I don't know if he will heal me or not​

I recently found out that I have a degenerative brain disease that gives me a memory worse than most with dementia and fewer and fewer thoughts all the time. I can't hardly figure out how to do simple things like moping or loading a dishwasher which used to be-


incredibly easy and can not hardly figure out how to keep my self safe because I don't have all of those thoughts( like avoiding cars that are driving on the street while I'm walking.

I thank God every day for all he has given me and try to read his word or listen to it but my mind cant hold onto it and that makes me the most sad.

What I have is extremely rare and doctors don't fully understand how it affects me so obviously no one else does either ( like my parents who are taking care of me.) I will continue to pray for healing because this is so frightening and it is hard to have a relationship with God when I can't hardly figure out how to stay alive any more... Thanks for caring❤

Do y'all agree with the application of this double standard?

“She wants to take away your guns.”​

— Former President Donald J. Trump

False.​

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“They take the strategic national reserves. They’re virtually empty now. We have never had it this low.”​

— Former President Donald J. Trump

This is exaggerated.​

President Biden has indeed tapped the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to try to mitigate gasoline price increases, drawing it down by about 40 percent from when he took office, and it is currently at the lowest level since the 1980s. But it still has 375 million barrels in it now, which is not “virtually empty” nor is it at the lowest level ever.

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“The vast majority of the country does support me.”​

— Former President Donald J. Trump

False.​

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4% is not the majority of the country.

“They’re going to destroy Social Security.”​

— Former President Donald J. Trump

False.​

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“Everybody is going to be forced to buy an electric car.”​

— Former President Donald J. Trump

False.​

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“They’re drilling now because they had to go back because gasoline was going up to seven, eight, nine dollars a barrel. The day after the election, if they won, you’re going to have fuel prices go through the roof.”​

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— Former President Donald J. Trump

False.​

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“Democrats are really the radical ones on this, because they’re allowed to do abortion on the eighth and ninth month, and even after birth.”​

— Former President Donald J. Trump

False.​

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“Nobody was killed on Jan. 6.”​

— Former President Donald J. Trump

False.​

At least 7 people died in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, including a Trump supporter who was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer.

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That is some of it.

It's only 17 min, but it seems she is so scripted it is down to word for word in some cases:


Thanks to my friend who told me about it...

When each of us dies we have the hope of heaven and the resurrection, and we have our memories. Life can offer such rich experiences. Which will you most cherish when your life course is done, and you enter heaven?

The Minnesota National Guard is disputing Governor Tim Walz's military biography, saying that the Democratic vice presidential candidate did not hold the rank of command sergeant major at the time of his retirement. Army Lieutenant Colonel Kristen Augé, the state public affairs officer for Minnesota National Guard, told Just the News on Wednesday that the governor did not retire as "Command Sergeant Major Walz" in 2005, as stated on Minnesota's official website.

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Is Donald Trump the candidate who best represents the Christian worldview?

That’s the question at the heart of the first episode of CP's “Politics in the Pews” podcast, titled “Trump Conviction, Political Chaos Spark Historic Election Cycle.” In it, host and Christian Post reporter Ian Giatti asks Evangelical leaders, including Wayne Grudem, Ralph Reed, Samuel Rodriguez, Jason Yates and others about their insights on the 78-year-old Republican presidential nominee.

Continued below.

This is not an axe-grinding post. I found it interesting. To a retired communicator and mostly retired freelancer, his Marine service sounded like fun.
His six-months in Iraq sounded like the legwork for so many profiles and articles I'd written. Shadowing people, visiting places, learning and sharing. I loved my career, but that kind of work is rarely a deep dive.
I would call for us to respect both Vance's and Walz' service.
Neither was in the infantry or on the front lines. Neither was in imminent danger.
Let's just be grateful and end all the put downs.

Mark Levin: Democrats and media in conspiracy to get Harris-Walz elected

Top conservative voices, led by Radio Hall of Famer Mark Levin, are calling out Democrats and media liberals for conspiring to block the public’s right to know the positions of the Democratic presidential ticket before Election Day.

Levin, who has authored books critical of left-wing media bias, said the “media propaganda” is in full stride defending and promoting Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN). He compared the media’s actions to the press in a one-party communist country.

“My God, the mass media are disgusting propagandists — on all media platforms. The propaganda for Tim Walz, like the past several weeks for Kamala Harras, is unrelenting. We are being bombarded with corporate media disinformation, falsehoods, and storylines at a level we have never experienced,” Levin said on X in an unusually long post.

“This is malpractice by the mainstream media,” Republican pollster Jim McLaughlin said. The “mainstream media is nothing more than a Democrat Super PAC,” added the pollster, who advises the Trump campaign.

Ever since Harris won Biden’s endorsement, and especially after she picked Walz on Tuesday, the liberal media have been reading from the Harris campaign’s talking points, said Levin, host of radio’s daily Mark Levin Show and the weekend Fox News feature Life, Liberty & Levin.

Harris, who was previously described by the media as a bully to her staff and a poor leader prone to blaming the president for giving her hard work instead of simple jobs, has since been portrayed as one of the best candidates ever. And media panelists on CNN, MSNBC, and major network news have picked up on the glowing words Harris used to describe Walz.

Conservative voices and local reporters, critical of both, have been largely pushed aside.

Opinion piece. I’m sure that all my liberal friends will agree.

Who are you going to trust - the Federal Reserve Board or Donald Trump's "instinct"?

"I feel the president should have at least (a) say in there," the former president told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. "I think that in my case, I made a lot of money, I was very successful, and I think I have a better instinct than in many cases, people that would be on the Federal Reserve or the chairman."

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-president-should-have-say-fed-decisions-2024-08-08/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=Daily-Briefing&utm_term=080924&user_email=bd8837a5345dc6cbc3787e7804ee34e28984e0d06cd3f36b82b5b743d0d6b4e2&lctg=62347fe4ea3e6439186f0ea6

Howdy. For you folks that know my history, this short vid reveals exactly how Jesus healed my mind and spirit (keyword: repentence). We are all in the same battle, and its my prayer that for any of you who are similarly, if not as profoundly, struggling, that you will allow Billy Graham to reveal the war for what it really is, and allow Jesus to set us all free! God bless us all and tap here please:

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p.s. For any who need encouragement in your path to mental and spiritual wellness, from a guy who can definitely relate (no, you are not the only one), please pm or email me and I'll be all ears to you and walk with you, friend! Believe it or not, your unique brain is actually a GIFT. God bless us all!

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I'm just trying to understand this so I can better explain my position to my protestant libertarian friend who thinks things like drug use, abortion, and sodomy are morally wrong but must legally be allowed for people to be truly free. He's a hardcore conservative yet I don't see that position to be much different than Biden's who says he personally opposes abortion but thinks it needs to be legal.

I don't know how to best explain what I understand as the Catholic position that we have a duty as long as we're on this earth to save souls and that means using temporal apparatuses to protect everyone, whether they're part of the Church or not, from the effects of these objectively evil things.

Is there a paragraph in the catechism that lays it out? An encyclical? Is there even a term for this position?

Just thought we should check the medal table. Paris 2024 Olympics: what you missed overnight in Australia on day 13 of the Games

1. 1 United States	30	38	35	103
   2 China	29	25	19	73
   3 Australia	18	14	13	45
   4 France	14	19	21	54
   5 Great Britain	13	17	21	51

Now I don't want to boast. Well...yes I do. Are we punching above our weight or what!

The question assumes that Jesus did not know who touched him in Luke 8:45.

46 But Jesus said, “Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me.”

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People were crowding him and touching him. Yet, Jesus singled out a special touching instance of someone's faith. He raised the question so that the person would confess—confession is good for the soul—and focus the spotlight on her.

47 Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed.

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Now everyone knows, and her act is a testimony for them and us. Being as gracious as ever, Jesus said to her,

48 “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.”

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Why did Jesus not know who touched him in Luke 8:45?

There is no need to assume that Jesus did not know who touched him in Luke 8:45. A better question is this: Why did Jesus ask: Who touched me in Luke 8:45?

So that the woman would confess and her act would become a testimony for the world to see.

The Lord, in my life is always there. And always me trying to figure why.
Let me explain. My life since a very young age had God in it. Not just because of an affiliate withe denomination.
But I know and felt the Lord presence more then once. Some times as soft and warm as sheep's wool.
As when I recall so very young I became deathly ill and had internal bleeding mind you this was in the early 1970's .
Doctors knew little still then and ER was two letters. Doctors didn't know how to treat me at 12.
My parent called the church elders, they came to me at my home. My parents had brought my mattress into the living room.
So I could be around them, in a comfortable. I was anointed oil and hands were placed. The best I can explain it to anyone was it felt
like being in my mothers womb. Peace I never had felt nor since then. I felt like I was lifted even though I was not moving.
The feeling was like no drug you could take, and no words can still explain clearly. I would be baptized shortly after that.
However, as much as this sounds pretty amazing to tell people. I know now that didn't know then.
I was a threat to satan. Such a young age that felt a presence that would heal me. To this day there is no scars. No evidence I was ever ill.
But as we know that would put me on his radar.
Within 4 years my parents would get divorced, we would lose our house. I would end up sleeping my car at 16 and my parents would not be near me.
My mom was at my uncles and he said it was too crowded for me to stay too. So was sleeping in my car 70 miles away alone. My dad split I would not see
him again until he was dying in 1991 when some how the doctors found me. I would live in my car for one year and for a 16-17 year old that was eternity.
No family would help. I was truly alone I thought. One night I was on mb CB in my car. A friend I would talk to told me about a job.
I grabbed it and eventually would rent a floor to sleep on for 50.00 a week including dinner. That was allot of money when wage was 3.25 hr.


I looked for God, don't laugh. But I thought I needed to go find him. So I went to every Christian base church I could find.
Even Buddhist and others. But never saw him.
The Lord healed me and left me I felt, and sinning came easy for me for quite sometime. I mean where did he go right?
I would get better jobs, meet my future wife. And get a college education studying law. Not a lawyer.
My wife would lose her Job in 1996 and I had got injured. So money got tight. So we moved to Oregon where I met my wives family and about 50 family members
now live near us.
So I went looking for God up here. Maybe he moved? I am then in my Mid 30, still sinning. I heard of these homeless people in town that went to a very small Christian church maybe hold 30 ppl . I went there with the Mrs. one day and happen to bump into God that day. I can't explain that other then I have been everywhere looking.
But there it felt like I was grabbed and everything in my life became about Jesus. I would start studying help run men's groups and eventually became ordained in 2005. I was working at a job one day, landscaping. Lighting a burn pile that accidently soaking in gasoline.
It blew up. The pile was 10ft high, maybe 10wide and 20long I could not smell the gas and as I lay my torch a sound that would leave me with permanent tinnitus ,
Burn off half my mustache, and eyebrow, and burn my right hand from fingers to elbow below the nerve layer. Pain like I had never felt then.
Half my face got scorched some and burns my clothes. I would see my skin just roll off. Paramedic arrived and gave me three types of pain meds.
But that Friday I was in a arm cast/wrap and was at our weekly church meeting. This was 5 days later. The group who was the pastor and elders were there.
Sounds familiar. And we all prayed. I felt really loved that night. I had to change the bandages a few times a day which was bad, as it hurt even worse as the nerves grew back. Two weeks after the accident of Saturday morning I woke up and my arm didn't hurt. I thought wow that nice. But they told me it would be months maybe a year. As God as my witness. My wife removed the bandage and there was my arm. brand new soft as a babies skin. Every patch that was burned was new skin.
Two week after it happened. To this day I lose my breath even thinking of this. My doctor could not tell me any reason that would happen medically. And well the
the people at church were as stunned and saw Grace like I did.


And well, I thought satan long gone. I would go one to become Councilor Assistant Supervisor at a impatient facility for drug addiction.
That was faith based. Sounded like life was pretty good.
But satan had other plans. I would catch the CEO and HR stealing from public funding. The state was informed and to my surprise the state told the company I had reported them. How did I know the theft was real? Because some of that paperwork came across my desk. I was threated with termination if I did not drop the issue.
I dropped it, just long enough to quit. I would not be able to find a job because I was no blackballed anytime someone called them. Prior to working there I owned my own business so for 10 years after or so that was the only employer I had.
My youngest son has autism, I would end up being home with him when he accidently cut and artery. He would have died in minutes had I not been there.
He was 18 at the time just out of high school.
I felt beat down and useless I stopped going to church, did a few weddings with my pastoral duties. But sin gripped me again.
Lost and alone I felt pretty far from God. This time I did not go looking for him.

I eventually started investing in 2020 with 500.00. I was home with our son now so give that a try. Since I knew law and business why not try.
8 months later I would somehow land a huge stock that paid all our bills off and be 100% debt free. Never knew what that felt like I always struggled just to get by.
But that hole was still there, money changed nothing. Still wandering looking for the Lord every day.


I was then driving to pick up my wife who works just two miles down the road. I come to end our street.
Its a nice bright clear sunny day. I am making a right turn. And there off to the left of the car in the street I am turning on is two what must have been
twelve foot tall 4foot wide figures. Black as the deepest black I had ever seen right in the road. A car drove right behind it and vanished until it passed.
The Lord two days came to me, not like in form. I kept hearing it is time. Its is time. Since then I feel closer then I can ever remember feeling.
I have then started trying to go forth and spread the word. A feeling I never had to say it in such a clear way.
When I heard the Lord, I can not tell you it was a voice, or a image. It was just there. Like it came from my sound inside.
This is who I am, and now I am 61 on a moving on a vocation I never knew would be.


Thank you Lord for all these lessons and so many more.

When you feel everything around you seems to be falling apart?

My interpetation:
1 Peter 1:3 KJV
'Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, '

"The story of Jeremiah during the fall of Judah is a profound example of faithfulness and divine protection amidst overwhelming adversity." Jeremiah 20:11-16 KJV

Ways we can have God's hand over us and faithfulness is to have a clean heart and thoughts (Jeremiah 29:11 KJV) keep God's morals when living life. Believe God's word for bread of life and living water.(‭John‬ ‭6:35‬ ‭KJV‬)

Morals- right from wrong , good from bad.

God has blessed me believing in God's word for bread of life and living water.
John‬ ‭6:35‬ ‭KJV‬
35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

Jeremiah 29:11 KJV
'For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD , thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. '

Ways you can stand firm and not conflict for example in Jeremiah 37 KJV. Are Allowing us Christians our hands to see God, work and accomplish for us and succeed. -Mark‬ ‭10:43‭-‬44‬ ‭KJV‬. Genesis 39:3,6,23 KJV
Ways you can overcome conflict is by having faith , praying, reading God's word.-holy bible.

Mark‬ ‭10:43‭-‬44‬ ‭KJV‬
43 But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: [44] and whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.
Genesis 39:3,6 KJV
"And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand. 6And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.33 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.

Recognizing God's hands at work.Jeremiah 38:20 KJV

Jeremiah 38:20 KJV
But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the Lord, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.

In Reference to Jeremiah 38:20 KJV My interpetation: "it shall be well unto thee and thy soul shall live." Because you come from God-"1 John 4:4-7KJV. Your are God's son- 2 Corinthians 6:18 KJV.

Seeing myself born of God made into his image Genesis 1:27 living as God identification of male/man in this world but not of it has blessed with God and of him and his church to partake of the consolation which provides support and aid.

Support- To sustain, to act,represent well as to support, to support the part assigned.

Those who believed in Jesus Christ origin ( Christians) who had faith Ephesians 2:8-9 KJV and the church to both show the truth were the partakers of the consolation.
- Refrence example in 2 Corinthians 1:3-7 KJV

Genesis 1:27 KJV
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. '

I found prayer today that I like that goes with this publish and writings. What caught my attention was the uncommon favor, uncommon choices. I have faith in praying this prayer not just my past uncommon favor,choices to my benefit but my future to walk into as well.


With each new breath I take today I will give thanks for the words found in the Bible. As in the days of Jeremiah I thank You in advance for sending people my way like the Ethiopian Eunuch in today's reading. When others seek to throw me into a cistern and try to muddy my character and name, I thank You that through the clothing of kindness and humility You will provide a way out of the muddy pit for me. When the hands of influence shift around me because I live in integrity I will receive uncommon favor and uncommon choices regarding the desires of my heart even in the midst of my enemies. No matter what may come my way I am resting in the finished work God, I am at peace because I know that I am a child of God! In Jesus’ Name, Amen


Published Interpertation by Reginald Taylor Jr

I submit missing links as strong evidence that macroevolution can take a hike.

Since macroevolution depends on the belief that any gaps in the fossil record should be assumed to have been filled in at one time in the past, it demonstrates a "substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

And that is the Biblical definition of "faith."

And since faith is not a part of the scientific equation, I submit that science -- by definition -- should rule out macroevolution.

What say you?

I wasn't sure where to put this, because it's a personal confession. But it springs from a science fiction television program, so I'll put it here.

One of my now-favorite science fiction programs is Star Wars: Andor. The program is a really remarkable showcase of sparkling dialog, a tight plot, epic high points...it's just a great show.

At one point, a character is about to be tortured by an Empire technician-scientist. The man is clearly a nerd type, kind of like a Nazi scientist who is totally involved with the technology and not making a connection with the inhuman horror his technology is a achieving. As he is preparing his torture machine to be used on the victim, he's practically giddy with delight in describing the details of how they came to develop such exquisite torture technology. He was killing people, and the technology was soooooooo cool to him. Boooo, you bad guy, you!

I watched that maybe twice before it brought back to my mind an evening during the DESERT STORM bombing phase of the Persian Gulf War. I had done "bomb scoring" during Vietnam and had always been disgusted by the inaccuracy of "dumb" bombs in that war. The statistic was that it took 24 strike attempts to successfully destroy one target, which meant that 23 bomb strikes hit something else. Something like 95% of the bombs dropped in the Vietnam war had destroyed something or someone unintended.

But we were using "smart" weapons on Iraq, and from the first night of bomb scoring, the results were spectacular. We were truly achieving "One target, one bomb" results. Our Tomahawk missiles were literally able to fly through the front door of a building, negotiate the building to a specific office, enter it and explode. Sooooooooo cool!

But we were having a problem penetrating the "Yugoslav" aircraft bunkers at the Iraqi airfields. Our penetration bombs were just exploding on the concrete surface, blowing out a shallow crater but not penetrating as intended. Bummer!

It took only two weeks before the technicians had developed a new penetrating smart bomb for the Yugoslav bunkers. I remember looking at the reconnaissance imagery that first night and noting the neat "pinholes" on the surface of the bunkers (instead of a crater), showing that it had nicely penetrated the shell. Then in front of the bunker, the blast doors lay on the concrete like burnt potato chips, the evidence that the bomb had penetrated and exploded inside, killing anyone inside. I called over other people to take a look. Soooooooo cool!

If you were watching CNN during that time, you probably saw some of the "bomb camera" footage from the attack aircraft. In that footage, you could see the weapons officer's crosshairs on the target for the seconds that he guided the bomb into it, then the explosion of the target being destroyed.

Well, in one case, I had located a camouflaged bunker at an airfield, probably where the aircrews lived. It would not have been discovered if I hadn't been exceptionally good at my job. I reported it and flagged it as a target.

The next night, I got a chance to see the bomb camera footage of that very bunker being struck. This time, as we watched the crosshairs on the bunker while the bomb was gliding toward it, suddenly the figure of a man dashed from the side and dived into the bunker...a split second before the bomb struck it and destroyed it.

That was a new sensation for me, and it was unpleasant. It's certainly not what combat troops go through. I had an uncle who during the Korean War actually had to strangle an enemy soldier to death with his bare hands....no, this was certainly not like that.

But after watching that scene in Andor, it brought back to me the feeling I had with the first evidence of success of the new bunker-busting bombs. It was the same kind of giddiness over a weapon that the Imperial torturer displayed. I had been that guy.