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Paying Respects on Memorial Day
When I finished LA’s Morning News this morning, I got right in my car and took advantage of the “holiday light” traffic to get home in time to clean up and hurry over to the City of Cerritos Memorial Day Program at the Cerritos Veterans Memorial at the Civic Center.
I arrived in time to see the welcome remarks from Cerritos Mayor, and Vietnam Veteran, Jim Edwards. In attendance were veterans, active duty Marine Corps members from the 1st Combat Engineer Battalion/Camp Pendleton, Firefighters from Fire Stations #30 and #35, L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputies, Boy and Girl Scouts, friends, family and officials from local, state and federal government.
Read more about the special recognition and honor given to local soldiers who sacrificed for our freedoms: (click here for complete story and photo slide show).
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio stars in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” scheduled for release later this year. Catch the trailer here:
(AP) – American veterans seem to be largely in Mitt Romney’s camp. That’s the indication from a new Gallup poll.
Fifty-eight percent of the veterans who were surveyed say they are backing Romney, while 34 percent support President Barack Obama.
Several of the closely-watched states in the November election have large blocs of military voters. Florida is home to several military installations — and, according to government figures, more than 1.6 million veterans. Pennsylvania has nearly a million veterans, while Virginia and North Carolina each have about 800,000.
Exit polls in 2008 found that Obama was supported by about 44 percent of voters who said they served in the military, while 65 percent voted for John McCain — a former Navy pilot and POW.
According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report in march, 12.1 percent of U.S. Armed Forces veterans who served on active duty after 9/11 were unemployed last year. The unemployment rate for all veterans was 8.3 percent.
(AP) – A statue in the likeness of a Pennsylvania native whose quiet leadership was chronicled in the World War II book and television miniseries “Band of Brothers” is being unveiled in France.
Maj. Dick Winters was a lieutenant when he led his troops during the D-Day invasion of France. Beginning June 6, a statue of him will survey the Normandy landscape that saw the crucial operation that helped end the war.
The (Harrisburg) Patriot-News reports that the monument is dedicated to all junior military officers serving that day. World War II Foundation chairman Tim Gray says that helped convince Winters to agree to the project.
Winters died last year at age 92.
The exploits of Winters and his “Easy Company” were featured in the Stephen Ambrose book and HBO miniseries.
(AP) – Two-time Olympic beach volleyball gold medalist Misty May-Treanor has already secured a spot in the London Games. Now she hopes to take care of some unfinished business.
May-Treanor wants a spot on “Dancing with the Stars,” the TV show she left in 2008 after tearing her Achilles tendon in rehearsals. Since then, she has been trying to get another chance. The show says its next season will include all-stars from previous editions.
May-Treanor asked fans on her Facebook page to vote for her to return. She notes that she was never voted off and says, “I would love to finish what I wasn’t able to when I was on the show the last time.”
May-Treanor will compete in London with Kerri Walsh, her partner from the Athens and Beijing Games.
(AP) – A controversial proposal that would privatize the University of California Los Angeles’ business school but allow it to remain affiliated with the state university is moving ahead.
The Daily Bruin reports that a faculty council will vote on the proposal on June 7 after it was rejected by UCLA’s Graduate Council, which represents graduate students.
Under the proposal, the Anderson School of Management would no longer receive state funding, instead relying on tuition, donations and fundraising.
Suzanne Chu, an Anderson School faculty member, tells the Bruin that financial independence would allow Anderson to better compete with private business schools.
If the faculty council, called the Legislative Assembly, approves the idea, it will be presented to the University of California Academic Senate and the Office of the President.
(AP) – The head of security at Dodgers Stadium is retiring and will be replaced by a former Los Angeles Police deputy chief.
The Dodgers said Sunday that Rich Wemmer’s last day will be Thursday, and Michael Hillman will oversee security at the stadium for the rest of the 2012 season.
Wemmer took the job in April 2011 after security became an issue when San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow was severely beaten in the stadium parking lot. Wemmer, who retired from the LAPD in 2008 after nearly 40 years in law enforcement, said he had been planning for his retirement for quite some time.
Dodger President Stan Kasten said he believes the team’s ongoing efforts to provide a safe, family-friendly environment to its fans will be in good hands with Hillman.
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(AP) – Team O’Neill is headed to Yankee Stadium to throw out the ceremonial first pitch the night before I’ll Have Another attempts to win the Belmont Stakes and become the first Triple Crown winner in 34 years.
Trainer Doug O’Neill, owner Paul Reddam and jockey Mario Gutierrez are to be at the Mets-Yankees game June 8 – less than 24 hours before their Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner takes his shot at racing immortality.
O’Neill says Jessica Steinbrenner, the daughter of late Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, invited all three to “symbolize the Triple Crown.”
O’Neill was outside hs horse’s barn at Belmont Park on Monday. He calls the invitation a “huge honor” and says “it should be a blast.” I’ll Have Another took another trip around the track Monday, jogging a half mile and galloping one mile.
(AP) – Jessica Sanchez stands to make a whole lot less than previous runners-up on “American Idol.” The Associated Press reviewed documents Sanchez signed earlier this year and found she isn’t guaranteed a shot at producing an album and could be paid as little as $30,000 in advances for recording singles.
Previous runners-up had been guaranteed advances of at least $175,000. Sanchez could instead be given a “development period” deal which pays less and means she’d release less music.
Winner Phillip Phillips will get a $300,000 advance upon completion of his first album. He’ll also make $200,000 for appearing in a Disney attraction, and Sanchez will make $50,000.
Check out this YouTube video, 2012 NBA Playoffs Mini Movie – Week 4, featuring the Clippers, Lakers, the events at the Staples Center and more.
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