Fellow Trenchers~Have a safe Independence Day.

Ours marks 15 years since our 34 year old son drowned in the Big Piney River here in Missouri on the 4th, 2002, after a family canoe float trip, just off the shore from where I’m standing.

His 2 sons, 6 and 4 at the time, were floating on their backs, with life jackets on, and got a little further out in the current, and couldn’t touch bottom when they stood up. They called for our son to come and get them, and as he ran along the shore, someone at the resort offered him a life jacket, which he refused saying he was a good swimmer. Had he taken that life jacket, we would not have gone through the past 15 years of grief, and his sons would have had their Dad to watch them grow up.   Continue reading “Have a safe Independence Day”

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‘Zolfaqar’ is a new 7.65mm home-made assault rifle with an unloaded weight of 3.5kg that was unveiled in Tehran on Saturday. The new enhanced marksman rifle is an adopted version of Heckler & Koch G36، ACR and FN SCAR assault rifles with a range of 400 to 800(with optics) meters   Continue reading “Iran Unveils New Home-Made Assault Rifle ‘Zolfaqar’”