The Guam National Guard recently celebrated the promotion of Col. Sheila Compton-Rivo, the first woman to ascend to the rank of colonel within the Guam National Guard.
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A little praise is always nice except when it is a tad too honest.
One day, if the stars are aligned and you’ve worked hard to do the right thing, you, too, might be lucky enough to receive a lovely compliment like the one Nancy Phelan, of Baraboo, Wisconsin, got a few years back. “When I was visiting my son, his fiancée, and her children,” Nancy wrote to
Reader’s Digest, “I made them a specialty of mine: breakfast pizza. After eating several slices, my eight-year-old future grandson leaned back in his chair and proclaimed, ‘This is so good, it makes my tongue dance!’ ”