Kurdish refugees arrive in Yumurtalik, Turkey, fleeing the advances of Islamic State extremists on the north Syrian city of Kobani. The U.S. has a responsibility to help global refugees.

Members of the military risk much more than their lives and should be remembered and thanked for their service. Fred Glover, 88, a veteran of the 9th Para Battalion, waits to watch a parachute jump just outside Rainville during D-Day commemorations on June 5, 2014 in Ranville, France.

Harold "Tom" and Shirley Tucker in the wedding photo taken in 1945, left, and present day. Harold and Shirley are celebrating their 69th anniversary this month. The couple met at Cook's Roller Rink (now Pattison's) when Shirley was a 17-year-old high school student and Harold a 19-year-old sailor stationed at Farragut.

Timeline of rules and court decisions on net neutrality. MCT 2014

Toby Burke Hemingway, owner of Hemingway and Pickett, supports a higher minimum wage and pays his four employees that amount or more. Hemingway and Pickett is home decor and gift store in Silver Lake are of Los Angeles. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Two monarch butterflies feed on a Blazing Star plant at the USDA Forest Service's Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Illinois, Friday, Sept. 1, 2006.