Argghhh!

...an object, if unwitting lesson from HGTV on how *not* to display the US flag . You can find relevant guidance on the US flag code here at the Cornell University Legal Information Institute. Some of the relevant verbiage:

A little something for you tankers... [Click the pic for the magic of bigness] An M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank from Company E, 4th Tank Battalion, 4th Marine Division, fires a round down range from its 120mm main gun during a training mission here May 22 as part of African Lion 2011. African Lion is an annually scheduled, bilateral exercise between the Kingdom of Morocco and the U.S. that involves more than 2,000 U.S. service members and approximately 900 members of the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces...

An old WWII 500 Lbs American GP Bomb was recently discovered in Munich. It lied asleep for almost 70 years. That's until it was dug-up in a construction site. Below is the video results of what happened when it went wakey-wakey. My apologies for those linguistically challenged Ver vídeo BOQ

...we're going to have some places like this, where people just put their tools away, and never came back. I want one of those tanks ...

Later this month, The Salt Lake Tribune will publish its Utahn of the Year , and they would like to know how their choice compares with yours. This is their list of candidates:

A new target for Celebrate the 2nd on the Fourth. Now with some cat hair for scale.

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This is the Soviet/Russian approach to firing data computation. In this case, a FD kit for the M1944 122mm howitzer. In English. Used by the Iraqis, Pakis, and other english-speaking customers of the Eastern Bear. Never seen one in Arabic, oddly enough.