backdrop for movies like home alone and ferris buhler s day off. police say a gunman fired on people along the parade route from a rooftop. a barrage of bullets just after 10:00 a.m., causing spec to it tors, mostly families with children, both young and old, to scatter. right now officials say the victims range from 8 to 85 years old. five adults died at the scene, a sixth person later passed away at the hospital. witnesses describing chaos where strollers and belongings lay scattered on the streets that have become a crime scene. i picked up my kids and ran again, i put them in a garbage dumpster, and then i ran back to look for my partner and her daughter, and i saw people shot on the ground. all of a sudden, there was a stampede of people coming, and then i realized it was gunshots. i literally thought to myself, this is how it s going to end. we hope to learn more about a man who they say has not been charged but is a person of interest. within eight hours after
april 14, 1972, the battle of fire support base charley, loan lone american on the base was major john duffy. they called him dusty cyanide. that was his call name. in those days leading up to april 14th, the battalion command post had been destroyed. major duffy had already been twice wounded, refusing evacuation. efforts to resupply the base had failed. fsb charlie was surrounded by the battalion-sized element. for hours american gun ships guided by dusty cyanide took air strikes on enemy positions. major duffy repeatedly exposed himself to danger in order to direct the gun ship s fire and keep the battalion from being overrun. he even called in one strike, extreme danger close to his own position in order to drive back