CNBNEWS CHEERS AND JEERS FOR August 2013

\”Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our
obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?\”

RONALD REAGAN, address to United Nations general assembly, Sep. 21, 1987

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CHEER–To \”The Amazing Brookers\” for winning the 2013 American Legion World Series (ALWS). In order to advance to the World Series they also had to win the state title and the mid-Atlantic region title. Since 1960, Brooklawn Post 72 has made 15 appearances in the ALWS, was runner-up in 1984 and 2012, and was World Series champion in 1991 and 2001.