SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:56 P.M. ET:

WELL DONE – FROM BREITBART:   A Memorial Day service in Salt Lake City on Sunday honored Japanese-American veterans, including those who served in World War II.  One of the few remaining World War II veterans in the community, 93-year-old Masami Haisashi, told local Fox13 News he was thankful so many young children attended the service, to help keep the memories alive.  “I think the main thing that struck me is that I don’t have many friends left from WWII,” said Haisashi, who served as an interpreter and translator for military intelligence in the Philippines during the war. “I’m missing a lot of people. That’s the first thing I notice. I’m the only one around. The others are either sick or not able to walk.”  Japanese-American soldiers served with great honor in World War II, despite anti-Japanese feeling caused by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.  It's good to see them honored. 

WHO WOULD WANT TO HURT BERNIE? – FROM THE HILL:   Members of Bernie Sanders’s Secret Service team surrounded him as audience members at a rally on Monday tried to rush the stage, according to multiple reports.  At least three people were led away by security at the Oakland, Calif., event, held eight days before the state’s June 7 presidential primary.  The Vermont senator, who is trailing Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, was unharmed when agents leaped on the stage and pulled him away from his microphone as the unidentified attendees pushed through audience barriers.  Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs said, "It was handled professionally by the Secret Service,” according to CNN.  First time in American history that a 74-year-old socialist candidate for president was saved by the Secret Service.  Sanders will probably now start a "Socialists' Lives Matter" movement.

MAYBE HILLARY HAD IT – FROM AFP:   One of the machines used to send coded messages between Adolf Hitler and his generals sold for £10 on eBay after being discovered in a shed in England, the buyer said Sunday.  Researchers at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park saw a “telegram machine” for sale on the auction site for £9.50 (12.5 euros/$14), and believed it may have actually been a Lorenz machine, used by the German army to send top-secret coded messages.  “My colleague was scanning eBay and he saw a photograph of what seemed to be the teleprinter,” John Wetter, a volunteer at the museum in Buckinghamshire, south England, told the BBC.  To investigate further, Wetter traveled to the southeastern town of Southend where he found the machine, which resembles a typewriter, on the floor of a shed, covered “with rubbish.”  “We said ‘Thank you very much, how much was it again?’ She said ‘£9.50,’ so we said ‘Here’s a £10 note — keep the change,” he added.  Hillary should take inspiration from the fact that she isn't the first public official to get sloppy with national secrets.

May 30,  2016