who have fought and died for us. their legacy is not in their death. it is ultimately not in their sacrifice. it is in the sunrises and sunsets, the birthdays and the holidays, the first dates, and the first-borns, all the cherished moments they have made possible for the families they left behind and for the thousands of their brothers and sisters in arms still out there, on point, and on patrol. i am here tonight to deliver a very special message to our troops. it is simple and short, but it cannot be more heartfelt. you honor us with your service and sacrifice. you humble us with your commitment to duty. and so we say to all of our troops tonight, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. i want everyone to realize that these aren t just graves, they aren t just numbers, they re real people and they had real families, they had husbands
jazeera. almost all of it is so grisly we could only show you those two frames. that set off a weekend of outrage as activists raisen zeitouni put it to the washington post, torture is usual in syria. what was special about hamza is he was only 13 years old. a pro-regime television station disputes the allegations, with the doctor who did the autopsy phoning in, saying there s no evidence of torture. he says what you saw came from decomposition. now, right here we need to point out that we have yet to independently confirm these allegations, but bodies don t get covered in cigarette burns when they decompose. they don t lose organs. they don t show every sign the deceased in this case a 13-year-old boy was brutally tortured. and again, the assad regime, father and son, has a long, long record of brutality. according to human rights groups, more than 1,000 people have been killed and 10,000 arrested since the anti-regime protests began. nor has the regime shown the slightest
alkhateeb. just 13 years old. he disappeared from an anti-government rally on the 29th of april. now look away if you need to. these next photos get very, very hard to take. this is what he looked like when his body came home. his kneecaps had been smashed. his head was swollen. his body covered in cigarette burns. he had been embassy claited. according to family accounts on arabic news channels, syrian government officials came to their home last wednesday asking them to sign a waiver accepting hamza s body but only if they wouldn t show the body or say anything about the circumstances of his death. they signed but were so horrified by the condition of his body they could not keep quiet. so they consented to a video of their son s body. it later turned up on al jazeera. almost all of it is so grisly we could only show you those two frames. that set off a weekend of outrage as activists raisen zeitouni put it to the washington post, torture is usual in syria. what was speci
sandbox, oh, man. you re crazy. i love it. do we have another story, don? we re going to move on. i m going to ask you this last thing. i m going to talk about sexuality and gender. couples whose first-borns are girls have a higher rate of divorce. what does that mean? this was a story looking at the labor market and women who tend to have boys first tend to stay out of the labor market longer, be more fertile, have longer marriages and have more babies. but if you have a first-born girl, you have a higher divorce rate, fewer children, and you work harder and longer hours. i put this out to my facebook friends, and guess what many of them came up with, this interesting theory. since more women file for divorce than men in america, two thirds of divorce filings are done by wives rather than
d.c. based peace players national. as one of the charities you can send donations to in lieu of gifts. in health news this morning, according to a new study, oldser siblings are likely to suffer from food allergies. first borns were more likely to have itchy runny noses. when it came to asthma, birth order did not impact children s susceptibility. you can check out the health page at msnbc.com. coming up, denver is happy with carmelo. one player has the nhl saying enough is enough. plus, things get nasty between the knicks and the celtics. your first look at sports is straight ahead. you are watching first look on msnbc.