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Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown. Founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast |
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Depressed by crooks and slimeballs coming out of the woodwork every five minutes? Get a tonic from an HBO video that was shot to help the New York City Police Foundation raise money. Yes, it has the scary stuff about gunshots and knives that make up the unpredictable day in the life of a cop, but there’s also a heartwarming story by 68th Precinct Officer Susan Porcello. She answers a 911 call and finds herself entering the life of a handsome, elderly Marine. Not what you think. He’s ill and alone in the world. Porcello—a social worker with a gun—relates what happened to him and to her. It made me cry. If you are able to open your wallet for the New York City Police Foundation, every dollar helps. |
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The ACLU and the rest of the left will wonder if this video was done on government time and paid for by taxpayer's money.
From another lonely veteran, thank you Officer Porcello. You are a credit to the NYPD and humanity.
I, too, cried while viewing this video. My dad spent his last 16 years in a veterans' home in northern New Jersey, and there I got to know dozens of handsome, sweet and valiant World War II, Korean War and Viet Nam vets. Here in Edgartown, Mass., we have seven WWII vets in their eighties and nineties that I know personally, but surely there are more. I teach the young ones here to salute them, something old fellas love. God bless Officer Porcello.
I'll take the beauty, humanity, and ambassadorship of Officer Porcello any day over that of Miss California! It is painful to realize the capped teeth, artificial breasts, bleached hair, and false eyelash shallowness we all celebrate. Thank you, Tina Brown, for doing otherwise.
Thank you.
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