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The Red Dirt Rebellion is Oklahoma’s only all-female, banked-track roller derby league. If you think you know roller-derby, think again.

I recently had the privilege to attend a renuion. It wasn’t high school or college, it was a war reunion. Four decades ago Gary Bain was shot down over North Vietnam. For the past 40 years Gary has been trying to track down the men responsible for making sure he made it out of Vietnam alive.

This post has been a long time coming…however I suppose it is better late than never. This was a very interesting story to cover because it had several unique aspects. I have covered several soldier homecomings and think each welcome home deserves as much coverage as possible. This wasn’t a group of soldiers, it was a single soldier. But this was like no homecoming I have ever attended.

It was snow day. Already into spring, but there was a winter storm on the horizon. Doomsday predictions, rampant speculation from all sorts of media. We were all in the afternoon news meeting trying to decide what stories to cover for the day. Each reporter trying to pitch a story interesting enough to keep us out of a live shot in the cold weather telling people how cold it is outside.

This story took some work to get put together. I heard about it while checking in with Jack Haley and knew it was too good to pass up, no matter how hard it would be to pull together.

What is it about a police chase that captivates our attention? High speeds? The element of danger? Combine that danger with bigger vehicles and you get a very dangerous situation, but it can also be very exciting.

Should a 12 year-old boy be charged as an adult. Just by saying “12 year-old boy” it would indicate he is a child and not an adult, but investigators say he committed a very adult crime.

The Haley family are quite possibly the most amazing people I have ever met. They have an unshakable faith and have survived an unthinkable tragedy. I would say almost anyone who watches news anywhere around the country heard about what happened to their son.