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6 other times US embassies were attacked

The 2012 attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya wasn’t the first time such an outpost was stormed by locals. It wasn’t even the first time one was attacked in Benghazi. The Foreign Service of the United States isn’t all handshakes, ribbon cuttings and talk. The people dedicated to improving relations with other countries while advancing U.S. foreign policy inherently put themselves at risk.

U.S. diplomatic posts had been attacked with varying tactics and varying success before the infamous assault in Benghazi. Here’s how six others went down:

1900 – Peking (Beijing), ChinaAnti-foreign, anti-Christian

sentiment combined with severe drought in China led to armed violence against foreigners in the country as well as a general uprising against all external forces. The militias were called “Boxers” in English. The Qing Empress Dowager Cixi supported the uprising as the Boxers converged on Beijing in full force, declaring war on all foreign powers. Five hundred diplomats, foreign civilians and Christians barricaded themselves inside the two-square-mile Foreign Legation Quarter in the Chinese capital. The Boxers laid siege to the diplomatic area as German and U.S. Marine defenders kept them at bay, even under intense artillery fire.

A 20,000-man relief army from eight nations invaded China — Japan, Russia, the British Empire, France, the U.S., Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary. The army marched 100 miles from Tianjin to the capital in just over two weeks. British, Russian, Japanese and French troops fought the Chinese Boxers at the city walls, trying to breach the gate. The Americans attempted to scale the walls instead of assaulting a fortified gate. Indian and Sikh troops from the British contingent were the first to break the siege of the Foreign Legation. Fifty-five of the almost 500 besieged were killed.

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By Jeri JacquinMilitaryPress

The date of Sept, 11, 2001, is a po-larizing day in American his-tory. In a matter of moments our country stopped breathing and

moving. Our perceptions changed, and what we knew to be true had to be reex-amined. The world became a place many no longer recognized, and the way we lived our lives would never be the same.

As each year passed, the new normal took over. We accepted taking our shoes off to go through metal detectors at the airport, having our bags checked before going into big events and keeping an eye out for one another. Americans embraced it as best we could, even if nostalgic for the days when the world’s evils were not so close to us.

On Sept. 11, 2012, Americans would again experience a moment where our country stopped breathing and moving — but this time because of what was happening half a world away. In the U.S. State Department Special Mission Compound and a CIA Base in Benghazi, Libya, America would once again come under attack.

Without warning, the compound was taken over through a hail of gunfire that would start 13 hours of hell.

Author Mitchell Zuckoff wrote the book “13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi” recounting events on that Sept. 11th in 2012. In doing so, Zuckoff, along with the Annex Security Team inside the CIA Base, bring the truth straight from those who lived and died to tell this story.

This week, director Michael Bay will bring the book “13 Hours” to the big screen in a film of the same name starring John Krasinski, Pablo Schreiber, Max Martini, Dominic Fumusa, Toby Stevens, James Dale, David Denman David Giuntoli, Demetrius Grosse and Christopher Dingli.

I had the humble opportunity to speak with three men from the Annex Security Team, Mark “Oz” Geist, Kris “Tanto” Paronto and John “Tig” Tiegen, who were not only in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, but have put their heart and soul into both the book and film “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.”

I walked in the door of the interview with my copy of the book filled with slips of Post-it notes bulking out of the top. Having a set of questions ready to go, it

would only take moments before I realized these three men were going to speak openly and answer my questions without me having to ask.

As we make our introductions, Paronto sees my book and the tabs of Post-it notes sticking out, takes it and smiles before opening it and signing it.

Paronto: OK, first question!Alright, how did the decision to come

about to make the film “13 Hours?”Tiegen: It all actually came about from

us doing the book. We were tired of the politics of it all and wanted to make sure the truth was told and the honor was given where it needed to be given. Richard, he heard the story from these guys and knew this was going to be a movie.

Paronto: We really didn’t have to do anything, and to be honest it was meant to be a movie.

It seemed like a fast process from book to screen.

Tiegen: Anyone we’ve ever talked to about this process says exactly that — that this is the fastest they’ve seen a book go to film to theater. Mitch (Zuckoff, writer of the book “13 Hours”) said they were

THE HEROES OF BENGHAZIThe men behind ‘13 Hours’ tell their story

BENGHAZI, continued on Page 10

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By Jessica KiangThe Playlist

The world just got a bit smaller and less wonderful, and the stars look very differ-ent today. David Bowie’s passing is an in-calculable loss to the world of music, but it is also a heavy blow to the movie world. His legacy as an actor may be dwarfed by that of his era-defining, decades-spanning music career, but that says less about the former than simply proving the near-plan-etary size and scale of the latter.

His film career was as individual and eclectic as you could hope, but running through almost every role and every per-formance, certainly the strongest ones, like a steady chord of impossibly long sus-tain, was a common note of the purest, cleanest intelligence. Oftentimes, it was an intelligence so piercing and singular as to feel almost alien: there is an otherworldly quality to the best of his roles that may not always be writ as large as it was with, say, his Ziggy Stardust persona, but it’s there.

Here are some films of his you might want to seek out again as you mourn the passing of one of the most towering and deeply beloved figures of modern culture. Rest in peace, you who meant so very much, to so very many of us.

‘Absolute Beginners’ (1986) “Now, my kids will watch anything, but

they couldn’t watch this. Nor could their friends. I don’t think I’ve ever seen worse acting in a major British film… That song, in my opinion, was the only good feature of the whole film.”

So wrote Jake Eberts, whose company Goldcrest Films financed, and was sunk by, Julien Temple’s 1950s-set musical “Ab-solute Beginners.” And by “that song,” he means Bowie’s theme of the same name,

obviously. Eberts isn’t entirely wrong — the film is a gigantic folly. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t fascinating, and Bowie’s per-formance as well as his song, are one of the movie’s major redeeming features.

It’s a hot mess, dramatically and aes-thetically, but it’s entirely fascinating for it, and Bowie has enormous fun as the near-satanic ad executive who takes lead Colin under his wing. Not enough of the star’s film appearances let him flex his mu-sical muscles, but both the title track and his lizardly seductive “That’s Motivation,” atop a giant typewriter, are heads and shoulders above the rest of the movie.

‘The Hunger’ (1983)Tony Scott’s feature debut is character-

istic of the late director’s eye for a lavish visual (especially if it involved billowing curtains), but not of his soon-to-be-trade-mark kinetic pacing. Actually, the rhythm of his vampire love triangle is languor-ous to the point of labored, but the cast, including Catherine Deneuve, Bowie and Susan Sarandon, and the off-the-charts coolness factor, just about keep you there.

Plus, while such a thing could conceiv-ably feel old-hat in these vamp-saturated times, it’s key to remember that that was one of the first contemporary takes on the genre and Bowie’s inherent modernity (his 200-year-old vampire is even introduced during a performance of gothic art-rock outfit Bauhaus) certainly contributes to that. As does his essential agelessness; his vampire John suffers the horrific fate of remaining untouched by time for a couple of centuries, before suddenly and rapidly aging, without being able to die.

It is certainly one of the most tragic of parts that Bowie would ever play and he seems so ideally suited to the part of the beautiful, amoral immortal, that it’s a bit of a shame he is sidelined as it progresses.

‘Labyrinth’ (1986)Unsurprisingly, perhaps, securing Bow-

ie’s involvement as the Goblin King Jareth was such a major feat in the development of Jim Henson’s fairy tale fable “Laby-rinth,” that the orbit of the film shifted slightly to accommodate him.

The film’s writer, Terry Jones of “Monty

Python” fame, rewrote the script (under protest) to allow more screen time for the character and for his songs, and when Bowie reportedly felt the script lacked hu-mor thereafter, it was again rewritten to keep him onside.

It was a flop on release, which allegedly depressed Henson so much he never di-rected again, and critically the reception was mixed at best. But the film developed a life on VHS thereafter and for a whole generation of sleepover-aged kids, Bowie’s Jareth, with his ’80s fright wig and “you re-mind me of the babe” nonsense dialogue, is one of his most indelible creations.

While the Maurice Sendak-indebted film is not an out-and-out success, the casting of Bowie is kind of genius, as he brings his trademark ambiguity to making the villain both attractive and repulsive, lending the film, which is all puppets and riddles elsewhere, a slightly more grown-up slant as a result.

‘The Prestige’ (2006)It’s hard to believe there ever was or

ever will be Bowie’s like again. And yet, a few times in his movie career he played real-life historical figures, and each time it made a certain kind of sense. And so somehow the news that he was to play Ser-bian physicist/inventor/engineer/genius Nikola Tesla (who famously worked for and then fell out with Thomas Edison over alternating vs direct current) in Chris-topher Nolan’s underrated adaptation of Christopher Priest’s brilliant novel, came as the kind of surprise that immediately felt unsurprising, to the point of obvious.

Indeed, Nolan himself stated he couldn’t think of anyone else for the small but piv-otal role, and went so far as to fly out to meet Bowie to convince him, after he’d initially turned the part down. As with all the real-life characters he played, it’s hard to tell if Bowie feels right here because he brings Tesla to life, or because he makes us think that maybe Tesla was a bit like Bow-ie — mercurial and magnetic and a little above the petty affairs of men.

But whether Bowie was an actor of great versatility and range seems somewhat be-side the point when he brought something that simply no one else could have.

DAVID BOWIE’S ESSENTIAL MOVIE PERFORMANCES

David Bowie’s death sent shock waves through the music world, but he will be missed for his film roles as well.

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‘Friends’ cast reunion coming to NBCOne of TV’s biggest comedy hits ever is

getting a long-awaited curtain call. The “Friends” cast will reunite on NBC

for a two-hour special, NBC announced at the Television Critics Association’s press tour in Pasadena on Dec. 13.

The special is a tribute to “Friends’” leg-endary comedy director James Burrows, who also helmed iconic series such as “Taxi,” “The Bob Newhart Show,” and “Cheers.” Burrows recently shot his 1,000th episode of television.

While the special is about Burrows, the reunion of the cast of “Friends” — which launched in 1994 and ran for 10 seasons — is obviously the key buzzy highlight. All six

original cast members (Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer) are on board. Efforts to wrangle all six cast mem-bers for reunion stunts have proved difficult in the past, with one or more members typi-cally resisting behind the scenes.

NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt was asked if the network would have six to appear together in the same room, or if they’ll be split up throughout the episode. “I’m hoping all six will be in same room at same time, I’m not sure we can logistically can pull it off,” Greenblatt told reporters.

The special will air Sunday, Feb. 21.

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CHARGERS KEEP FANS IN LIMBOBy Jim AlexanderOC Register

If it was a crazy day in Houston, where the NFL’s 32 owners went back and forth before reaching a consensus on Los Ange-les, it seemed even harder on the emotions in San Diego.

The only place where people live and die with the Chargers went from apprehension to despair, to hope, to … what, exactly?

At the end of the day, San Diego was in limbo. How long that lasts depends on Dean Spanos, and as undependable as Chargers fans have considered him over the last year and a half, there is no reason to believe their hearts won’t eventually be broken with finality.

The decision, finally approved by a 30-2 vote of the owners — and gee, I wonder who the two dissenters were — handed the keys to Los Angeles to the Rams, whose history in the market and following already in place made that the most reasonable result.

Spanos’ Carson project with Raiders own-er Mark Davis earned, by a 5-1 vote, the rec-ommendation of the Committee for Los An-geles Opportunities — which, truth be told, had been leaning toward Carson for months and had even participated in the process.

But it was a flop among the larger own-ership, which preferred Stan Kroenke’s vi-

sion and checkbook to the Spanos/Davis partnership with Goldman Sachs.

So the decision to give the Chargers a year’s option to join the Rams in Ingle-wood could be interpreted two ways. It was either a bone thrown toward Spanos, who previously had insisted he had no interest in Inglewood or partnering with Kroenke, or it was one last bit of L.A. as leverage di-rected toward city officials in San Diego.

We don’t know, but probably will soon, whether Spanos will use this opportunity to seriously re-engage with San Diego, or alternatively to pursue his own ballot initiative to determine if the city actually wants to keep its team.

In the meantime, Spanos seemed un-happy when he stood before cameras and microphones, reading a prepared state-ment and taking one question before bail-ing out of the news conference.

“My goal from the start of this process was to create the options necessary to safe-guard the future of the Chargers franchise, while respecting the will of my fellow NFL owners,” he said. “Today we achieved this goal with the compromise reached by the NFL ownership.

“The Chargers have been approved to relocate to Los Angeles at the Inglewood location,” he continued, and then stum-bled over a passage regarding league assis-

tance, in the form of an extra $100 million toward a new stadium “in the event there is a potential solution that can be placed before voters in San Diego.

“I will be working over the next several weeks to explore those options that we have now created for ourselves to determine the best path forward for the Chargers.”

The only things missing were the “14 years” and “nine stadium proposals” talking points, but then he was no longer in the po-sition of having to sway his fellow owners.

There is still a possibility the Chargers have played their last game in San Diego, just as there’s still a possibility they’ll be back for at least one more season and the entire excruciating process will resume.

The Chargers reportedly will have to decide by March 23, the final day of the next league meetings, to decide whether they will play at Qualcomm Stadium in 2016, or at the Coliseum. If they stay in San Diego one more year, they will have

until Jan. 15, 2017, to make a definitive decision on joining Kroenke. If they pass on Inglewood, Davis and the Raiders will then have a year’s option to join Kroenke.

San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer and board of supervisors chairman Ron Rob-erts, whose efforts toward a new stadium in Mission Valley were rebuffed by the Char-gers, approached the latest news guardedly.

“If Mr. Spanos has a sincere interest in reaching a fair agreement in San Diego, we remain committed to negotiating in good faith. We are not interested in a charade by the Chargers if they continue to pursue Los Angeles,” they said in a statement.

That pretty well mirrors the mood of Chargers fans, who are alternately mo-rose, plaintive and exhausted emotionally by the entire ordeal.

They can be assured this much. It may be two months, or it may be 12 months, and it may end either well or badly. But the end of their ordeal is in sight.

Chargers owner Dean Spanos has the option to move the team to L.A. within a year.

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By Tech. Sgt. John Hughel142nd Fighter Wing

PORTLAND AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Ore. — With endurance cycling, nearly every part of the sport is tough; from the demands of distance and the quality of the competitors, to the changing natural elements on any given day.

For Tech. Sgt. Dwayne Farr, those dif-ficulties pale in comparison with split-ting his time between the grind of bicycle training to his no-fail mission with the Or-egon Air National Guard.

Over the past eight years, Farr has been assigned to the 142nd Aircraft Mainte-nance Squadron at Portland Air National Guard Base, where he is currently the NCO in charge of aircrew egress. It has only been in the past four years that cu-riosity has transformed him into an elite international cyclist.

“It started off really simple,” Farr said. “I wanted to see if I could commute from home by bike and use the time going back and forth to get in some exercise.”

Yet six months after jumping on his bike, Farr was involved in racing events on week-ends around the Pacific Northwest. The en-deavor served to refuel his desire to partici-pate in sports at the competitive level.

At slightly less than 6 feet tall, slender and with a constant and contagious grin, Farr’s unassuming and easy-going personal-ity obscures his deeply competitive nature. At Ridgefield High School in Vancouver, Wash., he was a standout point guard for the school’s basketball team, which made several appearances in the state finals.

“He was an incredible basketball player growing up and into high school,” said Chief Master Sgt. Don Brice, the 142nd Fighter Wing alert superintendent of maintenance, and also Farr’s stepfather.

Brice said that Farr’s style on the basket-ball court over the years put a great deal of impact on his knees and other joints.

“He has an amazing cardiovascular re-serve that has translated well into biking, where he now doesn’t do all the cutting and slashing, both up and down the court,” Brice said of Farr.

Brice has been the father figure in Farr’s life since the age of 11, and he made the phone call when Farr wanted to talk to the Air Guard recruiter eight years ago. “One of the reasons I joined was definitely be-cause of him (Brice),” Farr said.

But Farr struggles with a dilemma; bal-ancing his two passions — cycling and his job with the Oregon ANG. Biking takes time away from his career and continuing education goals, yet the demands of his job makes training problematic because of time and energy constraints.

“He feels a real responsibility to his fellow Airmen, especially since he is the shop super-visor with the demands of the mission,” Brice said. “Yet knowing how much the coaching staff and military organization want to sup-port him, he struggled for a while to find the time to commit more to the sport.”

To create a win-win situation, Farr was able to compromise with a work schedule that allows him to thrive at both endeavors. He sat down with his supervisor, Lt. Col.

Tech. Sgt. Dwayne Farr competes in the Sea Otter Cycling Classic in 2013. Farr is one of 10 members on the Defense Department road bike racing team, and the only team member who is in the Air National Guard.

Airman balances cycling with Air Guard mission

CYCLING, continued on Page 7

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By Deroy MurdochNational Review

People died. Hillary lied.Obama lied, too.They lied early.They lied often.

They lied deliberately.They lied about the slaughter of four

Americans in Benghazi, Libya, at the hands of al-Qaeda-tied terrorists.

They lied, but not to protect vital national secrets or flummox America’s enemies.

They lied to get reelected.And they lied directly, knowingly, and

repeatedly to the American people.I long had cut them some slack re-

garding their first comments about the Benghazi attack. Thanks to the fog of war, I thought, they could not be blamed if they initially misattributed this deadly onslaught to a mob inflamed about an incredibly amateur Internet video that dissed the Prophet Mohammad. If they innocently got it wrong in, say, the first 12 hours after the assault began, they might deserve a grudging pass — at least for those early announcements.

Alas, I was unjustifiably generous to-ward Hillary and Obama. Instead, I should have been profoundly cynical.

As FactCheck.org chronicled, and L. Gordon Crovitz detailed in the Wall Street Journal, Clinton issued a state-ment on the attack at 10:32 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Sept. 11, 2012. It read, in part: “Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflam-matory material posted on the Internet.

The United States deplores any inten-tional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.”

But that was a lie.At 11:12 p.m., just 40 minutes later, Hill-

ary e-mailed her daughter, Chelsea, with the truth: “Two of our officers were killed in Benghazi by an al Qaeda-like group.” Hillary’s e-mail was addressed to “Diane Reynolds,” Chelsea’s code name.

This smoking e-mail surfaced during Hillary’s Oct. 22, 2015 hearing before the House Select Committee on Benghazi.

At 11:49 p.m., Hillary contacted Libyan president Mohamed Magariaf, also with the truth: “There is a gun battle ongoing, which I understand Ansar [al] Sharia is claiming responsibility for.” This group is al-Qaeda’s Libyan franchisee.

The next day, Sept. 12, 2012, Hillary re-sumed her public lies:

“Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior, along with the protest that took place at our embassy in Cairo yesterday, as a response to inflammatory material post-ed on the Internet,” she said in a speech at the State Department. “America’s commit-ment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear — there is no justification for this, none.”

Echoing Hillary’s lie du jour, Obama chimed in with his own lie that day: “Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths,” he declared in the Rose Garden. “We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. But there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence. None.”

Obama’s press secretary, Jay Carney, lied even more explicitly that day: “We have no information to suggest that it was a planned attack.”

Hillary toggled back to private-truth mode at 3:04 p.m., when she phoned

Hisham Qandil, prime minister in Egypt’s Islamist Muslim Brotherhood govern-ment. She told him: “We know the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack — not a protest. Based on the information we saw today, we believe that the group that claimed responsibility for this was affiliated with al-Qaeda.”

Hillary reverted to public lies that Sept. 14, during the ceremony at An-drews Air Force Base in which she and Obama welcomed home the flag-draped caskets of U.S. ambassador J. Chris-topher Stevens, technical officer Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.

“We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful In-ternet video that we had nothing to do with,” Hillary said.

Hillary took things a totalitarian step further when — according to Tyrone Woods’s father, Charles — Hillary told him, “We will make sure that the per-son who made that film is arrested and prosecuted.”

“You had a video released by somebody who lives here, sort of a shadowy char-acter, who has an extremely offensive video directed at Mohammad and Islam,” Obama told TV host David Letterman on Sept. 18. Obama added that “extremists and terrorists used this as an excuse to at-tack a variety of embassies, including the consulate in Libya.”

Fully 14 days after learning that the Benghazi attack was a coordinated, al-Qaeda-linked Islamic-terrorist broadside against American territory and person-nel, Obama stood before the United Na-tions General Assembly and lied, lied, lied: “There is no video that justifies an attack

By Dan RosenthalU.S. Army veteran

It’s extremely common for fraudu-lent “vets” to tell stories of their fic-tional service that, due to the extra weight of authority and perceived

experience of the storyteller’s military experience, are taken as the gospel truth. These stories then become part of a fictional public perception of what the military is, how it works, how soldiers operate, how they feel, how they act, what they experience etc.

In the U.S. we have an overwhelm-ing civilian-military divide, a knowl-edge and experience gap in which the vast majority of Americans simply don’t know much of anything about the mili-tary other than snippets they get from the news, TV, Hollywood, and games. There are several reasons for this, but they don’t really matter as much as the existence of the gap itself.

And herein lies the real, insidious harm of “Stolen Valor.” The “war stories” that these fake vets tell serve to widen this gap. They further the creation of a false perception of what military life is like, and what the challenges are that real soldiers face. For every person who pretends to be a hard-charging Ranger having killed a dozen Taliban with a knife and a pistol while alone behind enemy lines, there are three more who will hear this and believe it.

So what happens when the message they’re trying to send is that being an infantryman and having to shoot some-one or watch your friends die is “no big deal” and that those who suffer from PTSD are “a bunch of pussies?” You get a population that is unaware of the fact that 22 military veterans commit sui-cide every day.

You end up with a public that has no clue of the enormous divorce rates in the special operations community due to the incredibly stressful opera-tions tempo, or has no idea of the war-rior mindset that enables someone to ruck 50 miles through a swamp with leeches all over their body, simply to ob-serve a target for a few hours, report in, and ruck 50 miles back out through a swamp without leaving a trace.

And ultimately, this disconnect be-tween civilian and military grows wider, and deeper as more cases of “Stolen Val-or” arise. And as the gap grows, there become fewer and fewer civilians capa-ble of realizing when a story is fake, and when it’s true.

That is the greatest harm that Stolen Valor can cause, more so than a free din-ner at Applebees once a year.

HILLARY AND OBAMA’S LIES ON BENGHAZIFar too many to count, but let’s try

The real harm fake vets cause

LIES, continued on Page 15

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Congressman calls Navy secretary a greater threat to Marines than ISIS

U.S. Rep., Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine) has declared that Ray Mabus, the Secre-tary of the Navy, is “a greater threat to the Marine Corps than ISIS” because of his efforts to open combat roles to women in spite of a study conducted by the Marines that indicated that warfighting effective-ness would suffer as a result.

“The reason the military is there is not to be a transgender, corporate organiza-tion,” Hunter told POLITICO, referring to the Pentagon’s plans to allow transgen-der service members to serve openly. “The military is there to execute American pol-icy overseas, protect our allies and kill our enemies. It’s not a corporation. We’re not all treated equal.”

Hunter is most tweaked about Mabus’ memo to the Corps directing them to gen-der-integrate boot camp and to lose the word “man” from military job titles.

“These are long lasting,” Hunter said. “These changes that they’re making are

not thought out, they’re not researched, they’ve not been debated. The American public has no idea what’s going on … It’s going to get people killed.”

Court: Wearing unearned medals is free speech

A federal appeals court has tossed out a veteran’s conviction for wearing military medals he didn’t earn.

A specially convened 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Jan. 10 that wearing unearned military honors is free speech protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution.

Elven Joe Swisher of Idaho was con-victed of violating the Stolen Valor Act. Investigators looked into his military claims after he testified at the 2005 trial of a man charged with soliciting the murder of a federal judge. Swisher wore a Purple Heart on the witness stand.

Prosecutors say Swisher enlisted in the Marine Corps a year after the Korean War ended but was never wounded in the line of duty.

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Todd Hofford, the 142nd Aircraft Mainte-nance Squadron commander, and created a schedule that permits him to work four 10-hour days each week, allowing one full day to train with his local team.

“It’s pretty incredible to realize what a professional athlete we have working here every day,” Hofford said. “Not only has he put Oregon on the map, but he’s integrat-ed a team of officers and senior enlisted. He is the fastest contributor (of the team) and also the junior-ranking member.”

Hofford emphasized that the positives outweigh the negatives in Farr’s circum-stances and stressed that he inspires co-workers and leadership throughout the maintenance group.

“When you talk to him about his story — from just jumping on a bike one day for recreation to where he is today — it’s incred-ible,” Hofford said. “His energy and positive approach to everything is infectious.”

Farr was one of more than 8,500 ath-letes from 123 nations that participated in the 2015 Military World Games in Mungyeoung, South Korea, in October. Of the seven U.S. military competitors who made up the cycling team, Farr was the only enlisted member of the squad.

On a mostly flat course, the 95-mile bike race on Oct. 6 included competitors from 16 nations.

“My job was to cover the early moves and breakaways of the other riders,” Farr said of the event and his team’s strategy for the race.

As the race progressed, Farr said that it was up to teammate Ian Holt to chase down the final lead riders. “Ian’s a sprinter and track guy so, by the end of the race, we held our own but were not able to cover other team moves,” he said. “In the end, there was no final card to play.”

Still, Farr said the experience left him with a new level of excitement, representing the U.S. on a world stage. “It is something special, and yeah I have to admit, there were chills at the starting line,” he said.

Prior to his trip to South Korea, Farr said he had competed in other races ear-lier in the summer to prepare him for the games and once again underlining some of the unique challenges he faces with a dy-namic dual career.

During a competition Sept. 4-7 in Ver-mont, Farr said he competed in four dif-ferent events on four separate days, and finished eighth overall. He said his team director and coach, George Gonoung, a retired U.S. Coast Guard commander, told him he was probably the only person with a full-time job to finish in the top 20.

Farr said he communicated almost daily with Gonoung, who lives in Washington, D.C., sharing training data and discussing diet, weight, cross-training workouts, and other performance topics.

Now that it’s the offseason, Farr has re-flected on the past year and wonders about what it would take to proceed to the next level of his cycling career.

“To sign with a pro team means I would need to quit my job here,” Farr said. “I don’t want to do that.”

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the Solomon Islands on Jan. 15.Soviet officials announce that the Red

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The drugs Vicodin and Lortab are first produced March 23 in Germany.

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already working on a screenplay before the book was even done.

Paronto: It was almost a one-stop shop with 3Arts (Entertainment), who already had Mitch and Chuck Hogan, who is a screenwriter. They also had Erwin Stoff, who produced “Unbroken,” he executive produced “The Matrix” and “The Blind Side,” so they already had everything lined up. All we did was say “yes.”

Tiegen: Once the pitch was done, Paramount was the only one with cojones to stand by us, saying this is a great story.

When the idea of the book came up, what was your initial reaction?

Paronto: We were all working and Mark was injured severely. We continued to deploy for almost eight months. There wasn’t any idea to do a book when we came back. That wasn’t our intention at all.

But when the story of what took place on the ground continued to be misconstrued and then utilized by politicians for agendas, it kept pushing us. We’d hear things that were incorrect or people writing books about that night, and they weren’t even there. It just got to the point where our integrity was being tested.

Also, the fact that people were not being honored that died that night, we just came together as a team and decided as a team

to do the story and the book. We chose that medium because we figured it was a good way to keep it from being political. You try to go to a news organization and it’s either right or left, so that was that.

How was getting this put down into words for each of you?

Geist: We were forced to by Mitchell Zuckoff (all three men break out laughing). I would do is go drive the dirt roads to a pasture and tape it. Using a digital recorder, I would drive around and talk.

Paronto: He gave us a questionnaire, and we would talk into the recorder

and send them back to Mitch. It was all separate. We never did it together until we had the first draft down. He wanted to get us all separately to tell our story.

When he found that separately we were saying the same thing, he knew that we were on the level. I think that reinforced for him that he wanted to do a good job and honor us, because I think he realized that we were going through hell with the misrepresentations.

Was there a time you couldn’t speak about what happened in Benghazi?

Tiegen: Yes, and it’s because of who we

worked for. The only other people I could talk to was my wife and these guys. I talked to our team leader a couple of times about the frustration of what was happening on television, and there really wasn’t anything we could do about it.

When putting the script together, how much input were they relying on you for?

Paronto: When Mark and I were doing the pitches, Chuck was there doing the pitches as well, and we were there to put our two cents in. When the script was written and we got the first draft, we sat with Michael and Erwin at Bay’s studio to

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We voiced our concerns about it because if you had a guy in the wrong spot, the story wouldn’t work. Bay would say it might look better cinematically, but we’d say, “No, this guy needs to be in the right spot.”

Did he change it?Paronto: Yes, yes he did. I imagine that it would be important.Paronto: It is important. It is to us. He

would say it flows with the story better, and I’d say I don’t give a shit — this guy did this act and he needs to be seen doing this act!

When you learned that Michael Bay was going to be a part of this project, what was your reaction?

Geist: There were always reservations about giving up your life rights, because it means you have no control. So it was one of the things we had to be concerned with. We told him from the get-go that this was our issue. Because you can take this and do whatever with it and if you do that then …

Paronto: … we will not promote it.(The men break out laughing again)The final product in the casting — are

you pleased?Geist: Absolutely. They put together a

really great cast. I mean to me, because in the end when we watch the movie I can see Tanto’s and Tig’s mannerisms. All of them brought to it a level of professionalism, and I can’t judge having not been at this level before — but you couldn’t have asked for better or more. The same with Michael Bay, he just approached this from a different level.

Tiegen: It’s like he wanted the movie to be about what really happened. It’s about what happened — not losing it with an A-list actor being more important than the story. There were those actors that were interested, is what we had been told, and people who thought that’s how it should be.

Geist: Bay said no, it has to be about the story. Hey, not that any of these actors are small time, it’s just that they aren’t so big that, well …

… so big that they name takes away from the story of the film.

Geist: Yes! Do you feel like the film honors the book-

to-screen?Geist: Yes, they did. That was our biggest

concern. For me personally, I felt like if they kept the spirit of what was between the covers, then I’d be happy. If they didn’t, then we’d go after Michael Bay (joking of course). He knocked it out of the park, I think at least from our point of view, and our opinion is the only one that matters.

Paronto: Always, that’s what I tell everybody. The other thing is that there were no prima donnas on the set either. I think many of these actors will be propelled even higher, and they so deserve it.

Geist: They absolutely deserve it. It’s the whole “pay it forward” thing. What happened to us, happened to us, and we were blessed being able to have a New York Times best seller and a movie made by

Michael Bay. If people involved can utilize it to help others, then that’s a win-win.

That’s the thing I was waiting for in reading the book — the political, but it never appeared in the pages.

Paronto: There isn’t any.Mitchell kept it factual.Paronto: We don’t know what went on

in Washington, D.C., and that’s why we said, “Don’t talk about that.” They didn’t speculate in the book or in the movie either. The information came for us.

Tiegen: It didn’t come from one source either, it came from several. Michael was saying there were a couple of issues about

the location of other assets that could possibly have been available. It’s more of an illustration of it,

because they throw down a map and circle different places where assets could be and where they were drawn too.

Michael got that information from other sources. It doesn’t say they were sent or that someone told them to stand-down. In the movie, it’s depicted as this is what could be there.

Paronto: It was correct as well. The Department of Defense had assets getting spun up to come. It doesn’t get to the flights and how they were diverted because that’s speculative and if it’s speculative, then we didn’t want it in the book, and we didn’t want it in the movie and adding that stuff delegitimizes the story.

That’s why I didn’t have you read all those little notes I have stuck to the book. I had so many questions, but by the end of the book I realized those questions didn’t matter.

Paronto: It’s good that it raises questions because it is supposed to raise questions too.

What finally, are you doing now?Tiegen: This is what we are doing,

pushing the story to get it out there as much as we can. We want everyone to know what happened. We had the loss of an ambassador of over 30 years. That’s another reason we wanted to make sure it was written down correctly. The book is a history book.

Thank you very much for your service and spending time with me today!

Geist said he knows San Diego from his days at Camp Pendleton. We spoke about Tyrone “Rone” Woods, and the bar The Salty Frog when he suggested to Tiegen and Paronto that they go have a beer for their fallen friend.

These are the men that helped each of us sleep easier at night because they had the strength and courage to do what was necessary, and are doing so again with “13 Hours.” They are humble, determined, playful, straight-forward, familial, direct and hilarious. Their friendship turned into a tight and protective family — bonded brothers sharing in an unthinkable experience, and asking us all to listen, learn and, most of all, remember.

Their 13 hour experience is not about politics or finger pointing — it is about the plain truth.

Jeri Jacquin is the Movie Maven. For more on films and television, visit http://moviemaven.homestead.com/.

For a chance to win a signed movie poster and to read Jeri Jacquin’s review of “13 Hours,” go to militarypress.com.

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The British sent eight warships led by the aptly-named HMS Vindictive while

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The American and British sailors returned fire with overwhelming force, silencing the Chinese guns each time. Only one British and one American sailor were killed.

1967 – Benghazi, LibyaTwo years before Muammar Gaddafi’s

coup toppled the regime of the Elderly King Idris I, the people of Libya were still fiercely proud of their Arab nationalism. At the onset of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Egyptian propaganda convinced the locals of Benghazi that U.S. Navy planes were assisting Israel in their preemptive strikes against Egyptian airfields and other military targets.

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The British tried numerous times to break through the mob to rescue the battered Americans, who stayed on the roof, trying to destroy classified material throughout the day. Eventually a British armored column managed to break through and extract the Americans.

They also helped hundreds of Americans trapped in the area of the city by protecting them inside the British camp. The British moved the Americans to an airfield where they were extracted by U.S. Air Force cargo planes.

1968 – Saigon, South VietnamIn 1967, during the Vietnam War, the

United States turned over the defense of Saigon to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam). By 1968, the U.S. Embassy in the capital at Saigon was defended by four Vietnamese police posts, with two U.S. Army military policemen at the entrance gate, two U.S. Marines in a guard post, with a third Marine on the roof of the embassy.

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shots were fired.Inside, the Marines locked down the

embassy and started shooting into the breached wall. Inside the embassy, the three Marines, two Vietnamese, and six American civilians jocked up and prepared for the VC assault. Meanwhile, Marines in their barracks five blocks away proceeded to the embassy a sa quick reaction force, but met with heavy resistance from the VC inside.

As dawn broke, military policemen shot the locks off the gates and drove through it in a jeeps as MPs and Marines stormed the grounds. The 101st Airborne landed by helicopter on the roof and cleared the building.

1979 – Islamabad, PakistanThe Masjid al-Haram, or Great Mosque

of Mecca, the holiest site in the Islamic religion, was itself taken over by Islamic

fundamentalists. These terrorists believed their leader was the Mahdi, the redeemer of the Islamic faith, and called on the overthrow of the Saudi Arabian regime. Naturally, this caused ripples of outrage throughout the Islamic world.

Radio reports varied, but some in Pakistan erroneously suggested the United States was responsible, and began climbing the walls and trying to pull them down.

The staff retreated to the secure communication vault as the embassy was burned down around them. They locked themselves in the building until nightfall, when a Marine snuck out the back door. The Marine found the entire embassy empty and so the 140 people quietly escaped the grounds. A similar event happened at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, at the same time, for the same reason.

1979 – Tehran, IranWhen the Shah of Iran abdicated the

throne in 1979, he jetted around the world from place to place, searching for a country who would grant him asylum. Unbeknownst to much of the world, the Shah was also suffering from terminal cancer. In an act of compassion, U.S. President Jimmy Carter allowed the Shah to enter the U.S. for treatment. The people of Iran saw this act as complicity with a brutal regime and worried the U.S. was setting the stage to reinstall the Shah’s dictatorial regime once more, as they had done in 1953.

The Tehran Embassy had been taken over on Feb. 4 and held for three hours before the Foreign Ministry of the new government of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini convinced the attackers to give it back within three hours.

On Nov. 4, students at the University

of Tehran planned and stormed the embassy again and would hold hostages for 444 days.

The Iranian government used the hostages to secure passage of its Constitution and other Khomeini-era reforms, and hold parliamentary elections. A U.S. military attempt to rescue the hostages the next year failed miserably in the deserts of Iran.

After the 1979 embassy takeover, U.S. diplomatic posts worldwide were subjected to mortars, RPGs and vehicle-borne improvised explosives, but a U.S. ambassador hadn’t been killed in the course of duty since armed Islamic extremists in Kabul, Afghanistan, killed Ambassador Adolph Dubs in 1979.

That all changed in September 2012, when an armed militia stormed a diplomatic compound in Benghazi and killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.

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So he stands up and falls on his face. He decides he’ll try it one block at a time, and at every block he falls flat on his face.

Finally he makes it home, stands up and falls on the bed. In the morning his wife wakes him up. “You were drunk again last night, weren’t you?”

“How did you know?”

“The bartender called. He said you left your wheelchair at the bar.”

Failed to noticeAfter a quarrel, a husband said to his

wife, “You know, I was a fool when I mar-ried you.”

She replied, “Yes, dear, but I was in love and didn’t notice.”

High-octane hoochBud and Jim were a couple of drinking

buddies who worked as airplane mechanics in Atlanta. One day the airport was fogged in and they were stuck with nothing to do.

Bud says, “Man, I wish we had some-thing to drink!” Jim says, “Me too. Y’know, I’ve heard you can drink jet fuel and get a buzz. You wanna try it?” So they pour themselves a couple of glasses of high-oc-tane hooch and get completely smashed.

The next morning Bud wakes up and is surprised at how good he feels. In fact he feels GREAT! NO hangover! NO bad side effects. Nothing! Then the phone rings... It’s Jim.

Jim says, “Hey, how do you feel this morning?” Bud says, “I feel great. How about you?” Jim says, “I feel great, too. You don’t have a hangover?” Bud says, “No, that jet fuel is great stuff — no hangover, nothing. We ought to do this more often.” “Yeah, well there’s just one thing...” “What’s that?” “Have you farted yet?” “No.....”

“Well, don’t, ’cause I’m in PHOENIX!!!”

It’s the coolness factorA computer programmer happens

across a frog in the road. The frog pipes up, “I’m really a beautiful princess and if you kiss me, I’ll stay with you for a week.” The programmer shrugs his shoulders and puts the frog in his pocket.

A few minutes later, the frog says “OK, OK, if you kiss me, I’ll make love to you for a week.” The programmer nods and puts the frog back in his pocket. A few minutes later, “Turn me back into a princess and I’ll make love to you for a whole year!” The programmer smiles and walks on.

Finally, the frog says, “What’s wrong with you? I’ve promised to make love to you for a year from a beautiful princess and you won’t even kiss a frog?”

“I’m a programmer,” he replies. “I don’t have time for sex... But a talking frog is pretty neat.”

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on an embassy,” Obama said that Sept. 25. “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”

Just two days into that future, Los An-geles County sheriff ’s deputies fulfilled Hillary’s chilling prophecy to Charles Woods. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the Egyptian Coptic Christian who created the notorious Internet video, “Innocence of Muslims,” was arrested, supposedly be-cause he used a pseudonym and thereby violated parole on an unrelated bank-fraud conviction.

He subsequently was sentenced to a year in the La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution in Texas. Never mind that the First Amendment should have shielded his right to produce whatever video he wanted on Mohammad or any other reli-gious figure. (Rather than molder behind bars, the producers of Broadway’s “The Book of Mormon” still laugh all the way to the bank, as hard as their audiences howl nightly.)

Nakoula was a convenient patsy. As such, Hillary appears to have transformed him from a poor-quality filmmaker into a political prisoner.

Hillary and Obama buried the truth beneath an Oriental rug of lies. It covered up painful facts, lest they contradict the comforting campaign theme that Obama unveiled at the Democrat National Con-vention just five days before Benghazi: “al-Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama

bin Laden is dead.”And it worked!The truth about Benghazi, what Hill-

ary and Obama knew, and when they knew it, remained obscured until the House committee began investigating. This helped Obama win the White House in November 2012, and put Hillary in a comfortable position from which to run as his successor.

Regardless, with this much of the truth now out in the open, nothing that either of these two liars utters can be taken at face value ever again. They already were unbe-lievable, thanks to the Liar-in-Chief ’s “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan” serial deceptions on Obamacare and other multifarious matters.

Ditto Hillary’s decades of mendacity, from cattle futures to “there is no classi-fied material” on the clandestine e-mail server that she willfully hid from scrutiny for seven years.

Whatever embers of credibility either of these reprobates may have possessed were extinguished with the ice water of Hillary’s testimony before the committee.

Obama’s and Hillary’s lies about the Benghazi massacre confirm, once and for all, that they are twin moral vacuums. They deserve all of the scorn, disrespect, and rejection that such a disgraceful dis-tinction demands.

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University.

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