Archive for the 'Military' Category
Friday, November 18th, 2005
America’s nuisance, Cindy Sheehan, just refuses to go away: WASHINGTON (AP) — Iraq War protester Cindy Sheehan and 26 other peace activists were found guilty Thursday of protesting without a permit near the White House. They were each ordered to pay $75 in fines and court costs, but Sheehan’s lawyer said he plans to appeal [...]
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Friday, November 11th, 2005
I once read a story in Reader’s Digest about a soldier who had served in Viet Nam and was wounded terribly. Even though the story told about the soldier’s fight with his health upon return to America, the story was, I thought at the time, one of the most uplifting and inspirational I had ever [...]
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Friday, October 14th, 2005
Leave it to liberal America to desecrate a cherished American symbol of sacrifice and honor: For almost a century, the gold star has been a symbol — both of national pride and of a parent’s worst nightmare. It means someone’s son or daughter has died fighting for his country. The gold star elicits respect, sympathy [...]
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Thursday, September 1st, 2005
A friend has sent me these two Power Point presentations showing the damage sustained by Keesler AFB in Mississippi. Apparently, most of the personnel stationed there (who are not in Iraq) have been sent to help the coastal towns with rescue and recovery operations. Keesler AFB Damage – Slide Show 1 Keesler AFB Damage – [...]
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
Cindy Sheehan, America’s Grief Pimp®, is apparently not the sad, grieving mother we have been led to believe she is. Rather, she is a left wing media hound. Via the Indepundit, Curtis Loftis writes: I arrived at the original Camp Casey at 2:30 in the afternoon. It was hot and dry and the assembled demonstrators [...]
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Monday, August 29th, 2005
This is a poem submitted to me by my wife, Rene. She is understandably proud of her father’s long and distinguished career in the Air Force, from which he retired a full-bird Colonel. He spent over a year in Laos on a top secret assignment where his job was to make sure that the military [...]
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Friday, August 19th, 2005
Cindy Sheehan has left Texas to attend to her mother, who has suffered a stroke: CRAWFORD, Texas — The woman who started an anti-war demonstration near President Bush’s ranch nearly two weeks ago left the camp Thursday after learning her mother had had a stroke, but she told supporters the protest would go on. Cindy [...]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2005
Yet another “celebrity” has come out to support Cindy Sheehan, and says that President Bush should meet with her: What is this president so afraid of? What could possibly be the downside of listening to another human being—in this case, a mother who lost her son in a war that President Bush led us into. [...]
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Monday, August 8th, 2005
Something is fishy about Cindy Sheehan’s 180 degree turnaround in her feelings about the President: The mother of a fallen U.S. soldier who is holding a roadside peace vigil near President Bush’s ranch — has dramatically changed her account about what happened when she met the commander-in-chief last summer! Cindy Sheehan, 48, of Vacaville, Calif., [...]
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Friday, June 17th, 2005
Captain Nicole “Fifi” Malachowski has been named as the first-ever female member of the Air Force Thunderbirds. Captain Malachowski, 30, will turn a new page in history as the first female demonstration pilot on a U.S. military high performance jet team. The Blue Angels, the Navy’s precision jet demonstration team, has never had a female [...]
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Friday, January 21st, 2005
Sometimes, you just have to wonder why the United States even bothers to help other countries when they have a disaster. Ed Stanton (a pen name used by a career U.S. Navy officer currently serving with the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group) has written a first hand account of how things are going for [...]
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