Michael Monsoor

President Bush became emotional when presenting the Medal of Honor to the family of a Navy SEAL killed in Iraq. I have read some comments that Bush was faking his emotions during the ceremony, but after watching it, that clearly is not the case. I cannot stand the man, but he is human and pretty [...]

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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell II

Remember the post I wrote last week about the gay soldier, Maj. Alan G. Rogers, who died in Iraq? There was a debate within The Washington Post as to whether the fact he was gay should have been reported with his death. The paper chose not to. I alluded that the Army may not have [...]

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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: “The Story Would Have Been Richer For It”

The quote in the title of this post is a quote from Deborah Howell, Ombudsman of The Washington Post. In late January, Army Maj. Alan G. Rogers was killed in Iraq. In addition to clearly being a special person and soldier, he was gay. While The Post reportedly agonized over its decision, with the final [...]

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Remembering 4000

Jan. 1, 2007 3,000 may be a number to you, but its personal with my head in the clouds, but feet firmly planted in a bear trap, its hard to figure out where i stand. another person i call a friend has been killed,…brutally, and yet for selfish reasons i suppose, i still manage to [...]

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Facts are In: Bush Lied 259 Times

Bush lied? No shit. Certainly no surprise there but now some organizations have done a study proving it! A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks. The [...]

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Veteran’s Day

I should have posted this yesterday, as that was Veteran’s Day. But, since today is when it is observed, I’m forgiving myself for my procrastination. Last week, I posted a blurb about homeless vets. Well, I received a comment from a homeless vet in response. Here’s an excerpt from his blog: Being homeless and trying [...]

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Homeless Vets

I just heard on the news that 1,500 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan war are homeless. Why are we unable to take care of these soldiers? I know that the number of homeless Vietnam vets is essentially an epidemic, but these Iraq and Afghanistan vets just got home. I just cannot fathom how we [...]

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Not Today Fred

Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder I hope that most of you have heard the huge news that the Westboro Baptist Church was ordered to pay nearly $11 million to the father of a deceased US Marine, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder. Mr. Snyder witnessed his son’s funeral picketed by the hate group, who blamed his death on [...]

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Sigh

I thought I had read it all at this point in my life. Until this afternoon. Someone, or a group of someones, decided to vandalize a deceased soldier’s grave in Texas this week. We’ve all heard of cemetary vandalism before, but this hero, Lance Cpl. Jeremy Burris, was recently killed in Iraq and was buried [...]

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The War as We Saw It

The following is an excerpt from an op-ed piece that was published in the New York Times on August 19, 2007. For the entire piece, click here. The War as We Saw It By BUDDHIKA JAYAMAHA, WESLEY D. SMITH, JEREMY ROEBUCK, OMAR MORA, EDWARD SANDMEIER, YANCE T. GRAY and JEREMY A. MURPHY VIEWED from Iraq [...]

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