Today’s column will begin and end with positive news. The first comes from the Seafair festival in Seattle where a college student saved the lives of three young girls who were drowning.
“A college student is being praised as a HERO after she saw 3 little girls drowning in Lake Washington, jumped in, and saved ALL THREE GIRLS. The last one was UNCONSCIOUS, underwater, tangled in a rope, only her hair was still floating. All 3 SURVIVED!!!!
Her name is Lillie Vehling. She is an engineering student at UC Davis and an attacker on the women’s water polo team. She was in Seattle for a summer internship and went to Seafair for the very first time, sitting at Genesee Park waiting on the Blue Angels with a book in her hands. Then she scanned the water. Three girls were out past the buoy line, bobbing, screaming, going under. She is a certified lifeguard who started her own swim lesson program, so she knew exactly what she was looking at. One of the girls was pushing the other two under just to get a breath. That is when she went in. She grabbed that girl first, to stop her from taking the other two down with her. Got her to shallow water. Went back for the second one. Then she went back a third time. By then the third girl was already gone under. Lillie: “I just saw her black hair in the water barely floating.” The child was unconscious AND tangled in the rope of a buoy she had been clawing at to save her own life. Lillie got an arm under her, lifted her head out of the water, and hauled her to shore. The little girl coughed up the lake and came back. Seattle Fire paramedics met them on the beach. One girl went to Seattle Children’s Hospital in stable condition. All three lived. Seafair’s president found her that same day. Her first question was whether Lillie was okay. Her second was whether she could give her a hug. That night they brought her to the gala and knighted her “Lady Guardian of Lake Washington.” Admirals lined up to meet her. And Lillie? She is chasing a career in the nuclear Navy. Seafair’s president says she hopes the next time Lillie comes back to that lake, it is in a Blue Angels cockpit. “To save three people, I didn’t think twice about myself.” GOD BLESS Lillie Vehling, and GOD BLESS the firefighter who raised her.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/california-college-water-polo-star-092855999.html
JM: Lillie Vehling is a hero for saving these three girls. I am sure her experience as a water polo player helped her do it. She was in the right place at the right time. Kudos.
JM: AOC does an interview over the weekend where she teases the fact that she is going to run for President, and two days later announces she is breaking things off with her fiancé. Coincidence? I doubt it. Just step two of the process.
JM: This story is so sad. Winfield is a small community where everyone pretty much knows everyone. I will never understand why people do things like this. Those kids were 100 percent innocent.
JM: Violent crime is down all across the United States because the Trump administration is deporting illegal criminals who entered this country during the Biden administration. Keep it going.
JM: Karoline Leavitt was exponentially better than Biden’s press secretary was. I never really liked her, though. She is smart and knows her stuff, but in my opinion, she spews a lot of propaganda that most people don’t want to hear. Her best quality is sparring with the biased, deranged leftist press who ask ridiculous questions while trying to reinforce their worldview. The press pool acts like a bunch of crazed wolves when a Republican President is in office, and they turn into sycophants when a Democrat President is in office. I find it disgusting, but I guess there is nothing we can do about it. Just hope President Trump finds a great replacement. I’m sure he will.
JM: This Amazon driver video is a welcome change to a lot of the Amazon driver videos that we see. Patriotism is alive and well! U-S-A! U-S-A!