Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denison Forum, and this is the Daily Article for Wednesday, August 1, 2018.

My wife and I recently saw the sixth installment of the Mission Impossible franchise. We were not

alone. The film grows $61.2 million in its first weekend. You can't see one of these films

and not wonder if Tom Cruise does his own

stunts. It turns out he does, or at least the most death-defying ones. Christopher McCory directed

Cruz in his two most recent Mission Impossible movies, Rogue Nation and Fallout. He was asked by the New York

Times to rank the most difficult stunts he and his star have executed.

According to McCory, Cruz did his own motorcycle chasing in Fallout, sometimes, quote,

going in excess of 100 miles an hour with cars chasing him and coming at him.

The scene in fallout where he jumps from an airplane at 25,000 feet, Cruz actually did that. He made

106 jumps in total to film the sequence. He hung from an airplane in Rogue Nation and qualified

for pilot certification so he could pilot a helicopter in Fallout. Cruz didn't have to do any

of this, but as he and the movie cast explained, such realism makes the movies better.

Heroism takes many forms.

Four firefighters died last month while battling wildfires in California.

At least 54 American law enforcement officers have died while on duty this year.

The courage of those who risk their lives to protect

ours should never be forgotten. It especially takes courage to do what our culture rejects.

A Bible has been removed from the missing man table at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base near Cheyenne,

Wyoming. The table is a P.O.W.M.I.A. Memorial, common in

military-based dining halls, hospitals, and ceremonies since the Vietnam War. It's set for a meal

honoring prisoners of war, the missing and action, and the fallen. A Bible is traditionally

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