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Some people run away from the storm.
Others run into it.
Because someone has to be there when hope runs thin.
This is why I serve.
https://talesofmanythings.com/blog/2025/12/02/why-i-serve-reflections-on-a-life-in-search-and-rescue/
#SearchAndRescue #Volunteer #Duty #Why #Altruism

#USA #USConstitution #America #RuleOfLaw #InternationalLaw #UCMJ #Honor #Duty

this is a war criminal who will be prosecuted, triad, sentenced, punished

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🇩🇪 Ah, #Germany, where the simple act of #coding in your underwear can now be considered a #civic duty! 🤖 Because obviously, saving the world with open-source code is right up there with volunteering at the local soup kitchen. 🥣 Bravo, petitioners—please, take a bow for your noble keyboard heroics! 🎩👏
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The state of Saarland is reeling from the fatal shooting of a court official in Bexbach on Tuesday morning, an incident that has ignited a national debate regar... https://news.osna.fm/?p=24836 | #news #dead #duty #enforcement #germany

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Hello chums.

I have an odd question. I have a friend in Scandinavia who runs his own photography business. I am in the UK.

In the past he has very kindly sold me photographic film at cost price (I was actually worried this alone was fishy but have been placated that that is his prerogative). I used to go out to visit his city a fair bit as my company were based there. Each time I took the film through carry on.

I no longer work for that company but still have colleagues who do, so am hoping to ask if someone is willing to be a mule for me.

My question is, what is the bad or worse case scenario if customs find these goods.

Can they confiscate them?
Would the carrier need a receipt (even if this shows at cost value)
Would it just be a case of paying an import or customs charge and if so is that levied there and then

Sorry if this is a little woolly, and TIA

#Import #Customs #Goods #GoodsFromEU #CustomsAndExcise #Duty #Charges #ImportCharges

"The technical skills he mastered in war defined bis success in peace." - Futurist Jim Carroll

Today, as we mark November 11 - known as Remembrance Day in Canada - I'll share the details I learned about my dad's service in World War 2 after finally obtaining his war records.

One key point - one of his primary roles as an intelligence scout had him busy on motorcycles on the front lines for a time. In that context, tomorrow, I will I will tell the story of how his father, who went by the stage name Cannonball Mack as a stunt motorcycle rider but with the real name Alred Morrell, died in a motorcycle accident when my dad was but 3 years old! Wait until you see that story!

My dad was actually born in the USA, in Norwich, Connecticut, and after that accident, he moved with his mom to Halifax, Nova Scotia. She remarried to an Edmond Carroll, who was a soldier in WW1 and subsequently worked in the merchant marine. And then, at the age of 16 - after backdating about his age on his signup sheet - he joined the Canadian Army and began to serve.

That was one bit of remarkable insight. The second, which I share below, was that he voluntarily downgraded his military rank while in the Italian theater to be an intelligence scout for his unit - the eyes and ears out on the front lines - instead of being a corporal back of the active lines. He sought combat - and he sought to play a role.

To piece all this together, I dug deep. Many years ago, I sought his war records from Library and Archives Canada. Tremendously overworked and underfunded, this proved to be a process, but I eventually received them in two tranches, spread over a decade. I just received the second set a few weeks ago and began to summarize what I could find.

This is where AI proved to be wonderfully remarkable, particularly Google Gemini. Many of the records were barely legible, given the cursive writing, but it was able to extract relevant details.

And some of it is absolutely fascinating! It turns out he was, somewhat, as he often joked, a little bit of a 'spy!'

#Remembrance #Service #Sacrifice #Honor #Courage #History #Duty #Veterans #Gratitude #Legacy

You'll want to read this story in the blog post, right here: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/11/daily-inspiration-the-technical-skills-he-mastered-in-war-defined-bis-success-in-peace/

事実　факт
現実、又は事実とは、有りのまま、生々しく語る物で有る！
Реальність, або факти, - це те, що розповідається як є, яскраво!

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#trump #maga have no #shame #morality #patriotism #duty #honor #respect #history ... With #Veteransday approaching #US #Government has quietly removed a #memorial to #Black #soldiers who died in #WorldWarII from the #Netherlands #American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. All of the approximately 10,000 service members honored at what is now known as the Netherlands American Cemetery 8,291 have been adopted by local families https://bsky.app/profile/chriso-wiki.bsky.social/post/3m56rvvqicn2h

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36

More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #goodattitude #goodwill #attitude #benefactor #cheerfulness #duty #goodcheer #happiness #meme #goodmood

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. - Stevenson

Một chiến sĩ đã hy sinh anh hùng khi làm nhiệm vụ xây dựng công trình quốc phòng. Hạ sĩ Vũ Văn Bình đã phát hiện đá sạt trên nóc công trình và kịp thời đẩy đồng đội ra khỏi vị trí nguy hiểm trước khi bị lượng lớn đất đá vùi lấp. Anh đã dành trọn tình đồng đội, hi sinh để bảo toàn tính mạng cho đồng bào đồng chí.

#HySinhAnhHung #QuanNhan #CongTrinhQuocPhong #VietNam #Military #Hero #Defense #Soldier #Duty #Bravery #Camaraderie #ConstructionWork #MilitaryDuty #Vietnam #Respect #Memorial

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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

Men are born for the sake of each other. So either teach or tolerate.

[Οἱ ἄνθρωποι γεγόνασιν ἀλλήλων ἕνεκεν: ἢ δίδασκε οὖν ἢ φέρε.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 8, ch. 59 (8.59) (AD 161-180) [tr. Hammond (2006)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/8014…

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I just voted earlier this morning. I think only the 2nd or 3rd time I did in a non-presidential election year. It was necessary. #duty

Awareness Over Renunciation - Robert Ryan and Duncan Trussell

#renunciation #dream #duty

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 10 “Is Happiness Still Possible?” (1930)

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A quotation from Hannah Arendt

What stuck in the minds of these men who had become murderers was simply the notion of being involved in something historic, grandiose, unique (“a great task that occurs once in two thousand years”), which must therefore be difficult to bear. This was important, because the murderers were not sadists or killers by nature; on the contrary, a systematic effort was made to weed out all those who derived physical pleasure from what they did. The troops of the Einsatzgruppen had been drafted from the Armed S.S., a military unit with hardly more crimes in its record than any ordinary unit of the German Army, and their commanders had been chosen by Heydrich from the S.S. élite with academic degrees. Hence the problem was how to overcome not so much their conscience as the animal pity by which all normal men are affected in the presence of physical suffering. The trick used by Himmler — who apparently was rather strongly afflicted by these instinctive reactions himself — was very simple and probably very effective; it consisted in turning these instincts around, as it were, in directing them toward the self. So that instead of saying: What horrible things I did to people!, the murderers would be able to say: What horrible things I had to watch in the pursuance of my duties, how heavily the task weighed upon my shoulders!

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, ch. 6 (1963)

More info about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/13940/

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“A lover was affectionate and a husband was authoritative. His work was always way more important than his family. His work and his needs were to be accepted as uppermost in every way. She could take leave from her work for one day to take her child to the carnival but he could not.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#Bot #Quote #Children #Compromise #Compromise #Duty #ImportantThings #Love #MarriageLife #Responsibility #Work