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two of my wife's great-uncles are in those cemeteries, both killed on d-day. the brother who survived, her grandfather, came ashore in normandy a few days later after fighting at anzio and sicily. coincidentally, the 16th infantry regiment of the 1st division is the unit my dad served in during vietnam.

I love the quote from colin powell talking about all the sacrifices this country made fighting fascism and communism stating: "all the land we asked for was enough to bury our dead."

Case in point in lack of advertising/communication on the part of the Athletic Department

It's gonna be tough to get all these games in on Wednesdays.

No way in hell I'm parting with my soles. They make walking comfortable.

Is your computer connected to the electrical grid? Or does it contain its own source of electricity that is at a capacity above zero?

I think you have to give your sole to #TeamPie before you're allowed to view the article?

The CMH discussion here is great and sobering at the same time. Love the UVA replacement story - that is hilarious. But we have to maintain some gravitas on this topic.
I just went to the VT website and read about all of the Hokie CMH recipients. This was intense just reading it:

"Richard Shea received the Medal of Honor for actions as an army first lieutenant at Pork Chop Hill during the Korean War. Fighting outnumbered, he voluntarily proceeded to the area most threatened, organizing and leading a counterattack. During the bitter fighting, he killed two enemy with his trench knife. In over 18 hours of heavy fighting he moved among the defenders of Pork Chop Hill ensuring a successful defense. Leading a counterattack he killed three enemy soldiers single-handedly. Although wounded, he refused evacuation. He was last seen fighting hand-to-hand during yet another counterattack."

This guy could have just gone to the Olympics. That read describes a warrior. No less.

Wikipedia says he is buried in Portsmouth Olive Branch Cemetery. There is a discussion of how his body was found in the book "On Hallowed Ground, the Last Battle for Pork Chop Hill". His body was found in a mass grave in the DMZ after the end of the Korean War in November of the same year of his death (about 6 months after his death).

From Wikipedia on his athletic prowess:

"Shea was an All-American in track and was said to have been the greatest track star to attend West Point. He ran his first competitive race at VPI. One of the West Point Black Knights' most celebrated distance runners, Dick Shea captured Heptagonal and IC4A individual cross country titles in three successive years (194951), helping Army to three straight team "Heps" titles during that time. The top performer on Army's dominant cross country team, Shea led the Black Knights to a 19-2 record during his West Point career, a mark that included three straight "shutouts" of arch-rival Navy. He set seven Academy records in indoor and outdoor track and field and established a meet record in the two-mile run at the prestigious Penn Relays in 1951. Shea repeated as the two-mile champ at both the Penn Relays and Heptagonal Championships in 1951 and 1952. His standards in the indoor mile run (4:10) and two-mile run (9:05.8) remained on Army's record books for more than a decade. Since 1952, only eight Army runners have achieved a better time in the mile, either indoors or outdoors. Today, Army's outdoor track and field complex bears his name."

Go Hokies

Great write up. I especially love the part where the Hoos are "terrible offensively."

While you're somewhat correct on FG (and to a certain degree, ALL THINGS HOKIES, even though she's a Hokie by default of her older bro attending) unfortunately you're wrong with TKP, because if she was

But sadly she is not. At least, not yet...

Have you cleared your search history, permitted cookies, turned off your system for about 18-39 secs and then turned it back on?

Try clearing the cache?

maybe its your wife