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Memorial Day is a day set aside to honor troops who have given their lives defending their country. Somehow deep inside of me I feel like this should also be a day to remember those whose lives have been cut short or who have been injured by the daily senseless gun violence that has been woven into the fabric of the country in recent years. 

Below is one set of statistics from bradyunited.org to try to give some context to the enormity of the crisis of gun violence in the US:    https://www.bradyunited.org/key-statistics

ANNUAL GUN VIOLENCE IMPACTING PEOPLE OF ALL AGES IN THE U.S.

Every year, 117,345 people are shot. Among those:

• 42,654 people die from gun violence
• 16,651 are murdered
• 76,725 people survive gunshot injuries
• 34,566 are intentionally shot by someone else and survive
• 24,569 die from gun suicide
• 3,554 survive an attempted gun suicide
• 503 killed unintentionally
• 552 are killed by legal intervention
• 1,376 are shot by legal intervention and survive
• 379 die but the intent was unknown
• 4,471 are shot and survive but the intent is unknown
• 547 women are killed by their husband or male dating partner**

Of those 76,725 people who survive being shot will be scarred either mentally or physically for the rest of their lives. What a waste of humanity.

On another issue, according to Republican Party Chair Ronna Romney McDaniels causing a depression would be good for her party. Methinks the US has worse enemies at home sometimes than they do abroad

A) Many folks were saddened and touched by the death of what rock ’n’ roll female icon on Wednesday?

B) What leader of Trump’s insurrection was sentenced Thursday?

C) What was his sentence?

D) What two Republican presidential candidates have pretty much guaranteed that the above criminal and others like him will be pardoned if they are elected?

E) What Republicans announced plans to run for president last week?

F) General CQ Brown was in the news last week for what reason?

G) In Iowa the Hampton-Dumont School District has royally embarrassed itself as it did what Monday?

H) A book by National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman had her book “The Hill We Climb” banned in Miami Dade County Florida schools when how many people objected to it?

I) After a year of fighting, Russians declared victory in what pretty much leveled city in Ukraine?

J) Memorial Day was formerly known by what name? (Mostly prior to 1970)

K) What American territory was battered by Typhoon Mawar mid-week last week?

L) After a year of racist complaints due to the skin color of the main character, what Disney classic returns to the screen in a live action film this weekend?

M) The National Moment of remembrance takes place at what time on Memorial Day?

N) More questionable activity. Trump employees moved what the day before the FBI raid last June?

O) Due to differences in beliefs concerning LGBTQ marriage and ordination, 83 churches in Iowa have left what mainline Protestant church?

P) In the seas around Spain sailors are keeping a wary eye out for what creatures that have started to attack and sink their boats?

Q) What major figure in college athletics in Iowa announced his retirement effective August 1st Friday?

R) Russia moved what into Belarus last week in what seems to be a warning to the west?

S) The SCOTUS announced a decision Thursday that cut back severely on what agency’s ability to make administrative decisions?

T) What female gynecologist in Indiana was fined by the state of Indiana for her actions in aborting the fetus of a 10 year old girl from Ohio?

listen up, stupids: Joe Biden found classified documents and returned them. Donald Trump stole classified documents, hid them, lied about them, moved them, sorted through them, showed them to golf buddies and blew off a subpoena, and that’s why your guy is super fuuuuucked – Jeff Tiedrich

Answers:

A) Tina Turner

B) Elmer Stewart Rhodes

C) 18 years – Rhodes is 57

D) Trump and DeSantis

E) DeSantis and Tim Scott. The DeSantis announcement was a disaster

F) He was nominated as the new Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by President. Biden. Brown will be the 2nd black chair – (Powell was the first)

G) fired its newly hired elementary school principal based on one complaint of her (the principal) being woke

H) One person who complained the book was “woke”

I) Bakhmut

J) Decoration Day (when graves were decorated)

K) Guam – same typhoon now nearing Philippines 

L) The Little Mermaid

M) 3PM local time

N) “boxes of paper”

O) Methodist

P) Orcas

Q) U of Iowa Athletics director Gary Barta

R) short range tactical nuclear weapons (Threat of nuclear conflict?)

S) the EPA – the decision was on what exactly is a wetland. Decision could cut as much as 50% of America’s wetlands

T) Dr. Caitlin Bernard. She was singled out by the Indiana AG.