Smith, Mildred Ruth Romine Friday, March 12, 2021
Mildred Smith
Mildred Ruth Romine Smith of Signal Mountain, Tennessee, passed away on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, at the age of 91.
She was the daughter of the late John Carlen and Nora Bell Hooks Mansel originally of Bethpage, Tn. With her late husband, they operated Ralph’s Coiffures for over 40 years in the Signal Mountain community. There she served as children’s Sunday School teacher and faithful member of Signal Mountain Baptist Church.
Known to all as “Ms Ruth,” she loved people. Ruth was always the consummate host whether at the shop or at her home. Everyone she met received her special, warm lilted “well hello there” that made you feel so special. If ever the label humble servant was fitting a persona, it was Ruth. Before family and career, Ruth was first in her class and valedictorian at Central High then later became an executive secretary at Brock Candy Company. Her other passions were ba
authorities say come from directly inside the kremlin. so the question is, what do we do with this information? julie, i know what we haven t done for eight years and that s president obama has really not responded at all to russian aggression. i mean, he has married this soari soaring tough rhetoric with really inaction. and so, for eight years, vladimir putin has had the president s number, and the president s done nothing to push back against putin so it s no surprise that putin feels that he actually has complete impunity to do what he wants when he wants. john carlen, the former head of the national security division tells abc news, if you mess with the yielts, we will mess with you back. he added, it s important the u.s. starts, quote, taking actions to show others that it s not open season on the united states, systems where they are private or government. how much of this could have been prevented by the obama administration over the past eight years?
well, i think john is exactly right. john s a great man and a great american and i think he has a great insight into what has and has not been done and i think those words suggest that eight years of russian aggression, russian cyber attacks, and really cyber attacks by the north koreans, by the chinese, by the iranians, i mean, all our adversaries were gunning for us and i think there s every indication that there was very little that we did in order to create a strong message of deterrence that we are the united states and don t mess with us. the question now is whether incoming president-elect donald trump is prepared to make an example of those who have attacked america in cyber space and considering he once said in a fox news sunday interview, i think it s ridiculous, i think it s just another excuse, i don t believe it, no, i don t believe it at all and then shortly, and i know you know about this, at 6:00 a.m. on friday, he continued to defend russia and putin and he tweeted
fighters are vowing to continue the fight. 40,000 people trapped. john, thank you for that report from jerusalem. julie u.s. officials say china will return a navy drone seized in the south china sea. the pentagon now saying it has secured an understanding with beijing. the chinese navy seizing the underwater device earlier this week sparking more tensions between the two world powers and will carr is live from the nooz room covering this for us. the tension between the united states and chain is palpable right now. china seized the drone on thursday in the south china sea near the philippines. the pentagon says it was $150,000 drone that was unclassified and simply collecting information on the ocean. china has built artificial islands and reeves in the sea and we learned this week they added anti-missile weapons. it s unclear why they took the drone but president-elect trump took to twitter this morning,