Photo Credit: Getty ImagesHe’s somewhere in the South today. Could be Mississippi. Could be Georgia by now. It would be easy enough to call Mike Viti and talk to him again, but it’s better this way. It’s better to not know for sure, to imagine this former Army fullback — this former U.S. Army captain — in any number of states, because to isolate him to any one state or one town, or even one roadway, wouldn’t do justice to the magnitude of his mission.

His mission? Walking across America. More than 7,000 kilometers, one for every US soldier — Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines — who has died serving you and me in the wake of 9/11 and our country’s subsequent war on terrorism. Your politics are your politics, and you have the right to them, but Mike Viti’s mission is pure and selfless and staggering.

On April 26 he left DuPont, Wash., and headed down the West Coast. Oregon. California. Then a left turn into Arizona, then New Mexico and into Texas. He walked through the hottest states in America in the hottest months of summer, 120 degrees one day in Yuma, Ariz., where Viti was joined by 49ers linebacker Dan Skuta, who wanted a small piece of this gigantic love offering submitted by Mike Viti. Skuta walked 12 miles alongside Viti on July 23 in honor of US Army Spc. Joseph D. Johnson, Skuta’s boyhood friend from Flint, Mich., who died in June 2010 in combat in Kunduz, Afghanistan. What’s your job? Mine is writing about sports. Johnson? He disarmed improvised explosive devices.

He wasn’t able to disarm his last one.

That’s just one fallen soldier. There had been more than 6,800 when this former Army fullback started walking in their honor in April, but the sad truth is he knew his journey would last nearly eight months, and that the number would rise along the way. He planned to walk 7,100 kilometers, or 4,144 miles. He hoped that would be enough. He hoped that would be too many.

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Lunch meat, a couple of crackers, a slice of cheese and two pieces of cauliflower qualified as lunch in Chickasha Public Schools Monday.

Student Kaytlin Shelton took a photo of the skimpy lunch and showed it to her parents.

“It makes me want to take that and take it to the Superintendent and tell him to eat it for lunch,” the girl tells Fox 25.

“I can go pay a dollar for a Lunchable and get more food in it,” her father, Vince Holton, says.

Shelton is pregnant and eating for two, complicating the problem.

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Photo Credit: AP / Stacy Ehrisman-MickleAn immigration judge in Atlanta denied an attorney’s request to delay a hearing that fell during her six-week maternity leave and then scolded her in front of a packed courtroom when she showed up with her 4-week-old strapped to her chest and the infant began to cry, the attorney said.

When Stacy Ehrisman-Mickle took on two young brothers as clients in early September, she immediately filed a request to postpone their next hearing, which was set for a month later, she said. In an order denying her request, Immigration Judge J. Dan Pelletier Sr. wrote, “No good cause. Hearing date set prior to counsel accepting representation.”

Reached by phone Thursday, Pelletier said immigration judges can’t make public comment and referred questions to the public affairs office of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the branch of the Department of Justice that oversees immigration courts. That office said in an email it couldn’t comment on the judge’s action and that a complaint had been filed and was being processed.

Ehrisman-Mickle’s clients came to her in early July for a consultation, but they couldn’t afford to hire her right away, she said. They went to their first immigration court hearing on Sept. 2 without a lawyer and then came to Ehrisman-Mickle’s office with their mother four days later, on a Saturday, to hire her.

Ehrisman-Mickle told them she would take their case but that their next hearing on Oct. 7 fell during her maternity leave. She told them she’d have to file a motion to delay the hearing but that it shouldn’t be a problem because two other immigration judges had already granted similar motions based on letters from her doctor, she said.

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