We're not lost, Sergeant, We're in … France

For those who aren’t adherents of American Rules Football, this is the first weekend of our playoffs, known as “Wildcard Weekend”, since the teams that made the playoffs as “wild cards” without wining their divisions, made it into the playoffs.

• Leadership is usually not found in politics, but CDR Salamander managed to find it in Newark, of all places.
• There was a legend about a soldier who brought beer in his helmet to soldiers in the makeshift infirmary in Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. It turns out that it was true and the soldier who did it was Vince Speranza.
• A dying mother, a late train and a good samaritan.