Iowa

Exclusive–UIOWA Repeat Offender Fails in Attempt to Mock YAF 9/11 Memorial with Paper Airplanes

The University of Iowa Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter’s annual September 11 ‘Never Forget’ memorial was targeted Wednesday by a student who threw a paper airplane at the display. One effort fell short, while another reached the memorial but caused no damage. The incident occurred on the 24th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, in which 2,977 people were killed at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and aboard United Flight 93.

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Retired Navy SEAL Rep. Derrick Van Orden Uses Makeshift Tourniquets to Save 11-Year-Old: ‘He Would’ve Bled to Death’

Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), a retired Navy SEAL, helped save the life of an 11-year-old boy injured in a car accident along Interstate 35 near Osceola, Iowa, on Saturday, August 16, by using makeshift tourniquets until first responders arrived, an experience he later reflected on in a post marking the anniversary of his daughter’s passing.

Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., leaves a meeting of the House Republican Conference at the