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During the 2008 Olympics my now-wife (we had only been dating for seven months then) was a sports copy editor intern at the Denver Post. From inside that vast, and might I add vibrant, newsroom - the same newsroom where Post columnist Woody Paige records his piece on ESPN's Around the Horn - I watched American swimmer Michael Phelps win one of his eight gold medals in Beijing.

On Veterans Day, a bell rings out in a small church in Gilroy. Candles are lit in the sanctuary of St. Mary's. A rifle salute is given and "Taps" is played at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6309 on Sixth St. Two-hundred people come out to publicly thank the local men and women who have served America in all wars and to give special remembrance to those who never came home.

SAN JOSE

What a couple of weeks it has been in world politics. Here in

November is National Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, a time