Here is the link <—- But I am posting it here, in entirety just in case someone is too lazy to click the link.
Anti-war wounds
By Katie Dyer
For The Register-Guard
Published: April 20, 2008 12:00AM
We’ve marked the end of the fifth year of war in Iraq, and the 4,000th soldier killed there. They hold a peace [...]
Saw this at Blackfive first, Marine Slam Poetry…..
One of those, “If you don’t get it, go vote for Hillary, kthxbai”
Via Dean Esmay, Sgt Hook posts a letter from a soldier in Iraq to his mother.
I present it here without any comment, because I can add nothing worthwhile.
Mom,Be my voice. I want this message heard. It is mine and my platoon’s to the country. A man I know lost his legs the other night. He [...]
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If you can read this, thank a teacher, if you can read it in English, thank a soldier.
:Anonymous
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It is the Soldier,
not the reporter who has given us freedom of press
It is the Soldier,
not the poet who has given us freedom of speech
It is the Soldier,
not the campus organizer who gives us freedom to demonstrate
It is [...]
Happy to see some people still get it.
Hat Tip Evilconservativeblog.
“Honoring a hero’s way home”
from Rhymes with Right
As usual, I get caught up in my own busy, important, yet insignificant life on a holiday.
All I have to say is Thank you to those who have lived and died for me to have such a life.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank
God that such men [...]
Head over at Head’s Bunker alerts of to another simply wonderful Politically Correct Zero Tolerance at school clusterfuck.
A high school girl brings in a picture of her brother who is stationed in Iraq right now.
The picture was to be posted on a bulletin board showing the graduates from this school “at work”.
No problem right?
Wrong
See the [...]
Summary:
HL is an Army Officer commanding a Basic Training company, and he feels like he is not living up to his end of the GWOT. (Global War On Terror)
You can read his post here.
I commented there as well.
I have a friend who was actually a reservist, and he has been considering getting back in to [...]
I realize that we want to believe that all of our soldiers are Heroic to the point of absurdity, carelessly disregarding their life for the well being of their brothers at arms.
Don’t get me wrong, there are seemingly countless reports I have read about just such sacrifice and honor and heroics on the battlefield.
But it [...]
Kim has some tragic news.
Sgt Adam Plumondore has given his life so that I have the chance to continue blogging, looking at motorcycles on TV and watch my daughter grow up. I do not say these things to sound frivolous or pompous, I say them because they are true. The American Soldier goes to war [...]