MillStar of the Week: This week's MillCredit goes to
US Military Veterans...especially those with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). If I asked the average American how a Vet should celebrate July 4th, they'd probably suggest being honored at traditional Independence Day celebrations like a professional baseball game or a fireworks show...
But, I'll always remember from my time doing a Psychiatry rotation at the VA....that many Vets with PTSD get flashbacks when they hear loud noises that sound like gunfire...or...are incredibly anxious in places with a lot of people and few exits. One vet told me that July 4th is his least favorite day of the year because he has to hide in his room and try to block out the sound of fireworks...
It's sad that some of our country's greatest heroes can't celebrate Independence Day because of how we have decided to celebrate it....so a MillStar goes out to them as an apology...
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MillDud of the Week: A MillDud goes to
the US Legal System for botching the Casey Anthony trial. The jury's job is to only decide whether the defendant is guilty or innocent without factoring what the penalty of guilt is. In this case, the jurors looked out for themselves and didn't want the blood of Casey Anthony on their hands...even though it seems like it's 99.9999999% likely that she killed her daughter. I guess people would rather let a murderer off the hook...instead of feeling "guilty" in the rare circumstance that 10 years later that 0.00000000001% chance that she was actually innocent comes to light...but long after she had been wrongly executed.
In my opinion, Casey Anthony deserves more than 1 year of jail time...even if her side of the story is true (about finding her daughter already drowned in a swimming pool AND not calling 911 upon that discovery). In the words of Nicolae Carpathia, this whole situation is "Terribly sad...terribly sad....terribly sad."
MillBoard Charts Song of the Week: Ever since I saw 10-year old
Maria Aragon singing "Wavin' Flag" in the htc Sensation 4G commercial, that "when i get older, I will get stronger" hook has been stuck in my head on loop. So I will give in to htc's brainwashing by honoring
"Wavin' Flag" by the Young (Canadian) Artists for Haiti as the song of the week....which should make up for the MillDud I gave to Canada recently.... btw...how does the (Carpathian) Justin Beiber deserve the last solo in the song instead of...let's say....Avril Lavigne?
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I don't know how we can know for sure what happened. She might be a terrible person, a terrible parent (all supported by the evidence) but a murderer? I can't say it was supported.
and this is the nature of our justice system, "beyond a reasonable doubt" that's how it works. We may never know what happened, at least until she writes a book... it's between her and God now. Regardless, it is still a sad sad story for a poor girl...
You know all those child musical prodigies on YouTube? Their forearms are always covered up to hide the welts and bruises they sustained because they weren't practising the ukelele/violin/theremin long enough.
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