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Fred A. Datig Jr. driving the Jeep

My father, Fred A. Datig Jr., a veteran of the Korean War and World War II, was an armored infantryman and a scout-observer in the European Theatere of Operations of Italy, France and Germany, where his unit liberated the concentration camps of Dachau. He was awarded the coveted Infantryman Badge, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, the European-African-Middle-Eastern Campaign Medal with four Campaign Stars, the French Croix de Guerre and he was a Chevalier (Knight) of the French Legion of Honor. He also served with the ordinance Department at Aberdeen Providing Ground where he was associated with the Foreign Material Branch and was understudy to that Unit’s commanding Officer. He was retired from the Army in 1950 after having spent one and a half years in Army hospitals from being hit by shrapnel and of getting frozen feet.

The Independent: Deryck Whibley: Alcoholism And The Shocking Decline Of The Sum 41 Frontman - Get well soon Deryck. One day at a time.

Deryck Whibley in better times with Avril Lavign

By Ella Alexander, May 19, 2014

This weekend, Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley announced that he is being treated in hospital after alcoholism “finally caught up” with him.

In a post shared on his website, entitled Rock Bottom, he discussed how his addiction to alcohol had led to his collapse, sharing a series of harrowing pictures from his hospital bed.

“Hey everyone, it’s Deryck here. Sorry I’ve been so m.i.a. lately, but I’ve been very sick in the hospital for a month and was pretty sick for a few weeks leading up to my trip to the hospital,” he wrote. “The reason I got so sick is from all the hard boozing I've been doing over the years. It finally caught up to me.”

He told of how he was “drinking hard every day” until one evening he poured himself another drink and sat down to watch a film when he collapsed unconscious.

“My fiancé got me rushed to the hospital where they put me into the intensive care unit,” he said.

“I was stuck with needles and IV’s all over. I was completely sedated the FIRST WEEK. When I finally woke up the next day I had no idea where I was. My mum and step dad were standing over me. I was so freaked out. My liver and kidney’s collapsed on me. Needless to say it scared me straight.”

Deryck defeated by alcoholism

The musician – who was once married to Avril Lavigne – can no longer drink as doctors have told him that if he has “one drink the docs say I will die”.

Whibley’s pictures will shock many, who remember the musician as a pop-punk kid pin-up; a skateboarding guitarist with huge dimples and enviably spiky hair.

The Canadian singer was born in 1980 to a single teenage mother. They struggled financially and were forced to move regularly to make ends meet. He never met his father and later in his career wrote a track, Dear Father, venting his frustrations with having been “ignored”.

His pop punk band, Sum 41, rose to fame in the early 00s, selling over 30million albums. He briefly dated Paris Hilton, before marrying Avril Lavigne in July 2006.

Source:  www.independent.co.uk

Radaronline.com: Pam Anderson: ‘I Was Molested At Age 6, Raped At 12 And Gang Raped In My Teens’

Pamela Anderson

By Radar Staff, My 18, 2014

Pamela Anderson shocked guests at a fundraiser during the Cannes Film Festival when she revealed a dark chapter from her childhood.

“I did not have an easy childhood. Despite loving parents, I was molested from age six by a female babysitter,” she told the 200 guests at the launch party for her animal rights charity, the Pamela Anderson Foundation.

“I went to a friend’s boyfriend’s house and his older brother decided to teach me backgammon which led into a back massage, which led into rape. My first heterosexual experience. He was 25 years old and I was 12.”

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The former Baywatch babe added that a few years later a boyfriend “decided it would be funny to gang-rape me with six friends. I wanted off this earth.”

Anderson wore an extremely low-cut Vivienne Westwood maxi-dress to the event. There were several nip slips as the ruffled bodice struggled to contain her ample girls.

Anderson was accompanied to the glamorous event by husband Rick Salomon, who she married for the second time in January, and her son, Brandon Lee, whose dad is the blonde blombshell’s second husband, rocker Tommy Lee.

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The actress told her audience that she was making the shocking revelations about sexual abuse to explain why she became so enamored with animals.

“This meant I had a hard time trusting humans,” she said.

“My loyalty was to the animal kingdom. I vowed to protect them and only them.”

Source: www.radaronline.com

Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe Threatens To Punch Colbert In The Face (Video)

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CBS News: Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls Spotlights Human Trafficking

The international outcry to "bring back our girls" is putting new focus on protecting young women from terrorists and human traffickers. Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe and New York Times columnist and co-author of "Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide" Nicholas Kristof discuss the situation in Nigeria with the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts.

Source:  www.cbsnews.com

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Human Trafficking Survivor Michelle Knight Sings "Firework" with Band on Fox 8

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