Joel Travera, an army vet received a $450,000 home but not for no good reason. Shortly before Joel's 21st birthday he was injured in a rocket attack on his humvee. The attack killed three of his comrades and left Joel himself blinded and without the use of his right leg and four fingers and severe burns on 60% of his body.

Simply Amazing we need more of this in the news 

the hero

Joel Travera is a true American hero and his sacrifice is great. I however wish Joel's story and the story of other vets. were in the news. Not just the tragedy though, the news stories we see everyday seem to be extremely depressing and horrible. I think stories like this were hero's are recognized and helped where they need int needs to be in the light of the media.

Occupy

With the occupy movement becoming violent in some areas people question how to handle the situation. Protesters are sometimes violent towards police some protesters (a small sect) is putting out antisemitic views and struggling businesses are being hurt. While the Occupy situation proclaims a peaceful goal of fixing our broken nation it seem that they may be damaging it even more.

Marchers Promote Tolerance and Protest Torched Cars and Anti-Semitic Vandalism in Brooklynand-anti-semitic-vandalism-in-brooklyn/

Crime Stunning Revelation by NYC Police Commissioner: Protesters Had a ‘Countdown’ & ‘Charged’ Cops

Occupy Oakland Shut Down a Port Already Struggling for Survival

While I personally believe that the protesters have a right to voice their opinions and protest in a peaceful fashion I think it must be just that peaceful. There have been to many instances of of violence in the occupy movement that seem to be simply over looked by the media because it seems to fit their agenda. I feel as if even one of these events would have happened under a tea party rally it would have been played over the news for weeks if not months. In fact news sources and the media in general tried to make the tea party to look as if they were racist when the openly spoke out against racism and even forced a man at the rally who was promoting racism to leave because they did not what those ideals to be mixed in with their movement.

Rep. Carson

Study Finds Tea Party 'Not Racist'

"What would you do"

Obviously stealing is wrong but the fact that more people didn't take a bigger role in stopping the theft of gas on this weeks what would you do blew my mind. while a few people gave glances some stopped and stared and others made some remarks as they drove away a surprisingly small amount of people actually did anything about the problem. This personally upsets me because I know how expensive gas is with almost all my money going towards gas I would be devastated if my gas was stolen. Usually I use the remainder of my money on gas seeing as I can't work many hours while also juggling school and sports. I would hope someone would stop the person stealing from me the same way I would for them.

Troops to Africa

President Obama has announced that he plans to send troops to Central Africa to teach locals how to defend themselves and fight against Lord's Resistance Army a violent group that kills, abducts forces children into taking part in hostile acts, and forces women and children into sexual enslavement.
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-10-14/africa/world_africa_africa-obama-troops_1_obama-orders-south-sudan-central-african-republic?_s=PM:AFRICA
Many applaud the president for taking a more active role in the region, but we have know about the LRA for more than a decade. The group formed in 1987 and for many years was at war with the Ugandan government. The real question should not be what will we do in Central Africa to stop these travesties but why have we not already taken care of the problem. The U.S. has since 2008 provided aid to Central Africa and non-lethal supplies but we have not taken actual action against this group until now. Another question we should be asking ourselves is with the president executing U.S. Citizen Anwar al-Awlaki without trial for speech crimes (a very controversial topic seeing as some feel even though his message was clearly disturbed and morbidly wrong disgustingly so that he still had freedom of speech.)
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/a/anwar_al_awlaki/index.html
Why have we not already executed military action against Joseph Kony (the leader of LRA) and other high ranking members of the group as Obama now plans. Why has the U.S. allowed such a terrible and ongoing tragedy to stay for the most part out of the public's eye only to go in now years after the problem started?

Qaddafi's Death

After 42 years of dictatorship Qaddafi is ousted and killed, The way he was killed though leaves many questions.http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/10/24/libya-transitional-leader-orders-investigation-into-qaddafis-death/