One wears his to remember. The other one for show. Many of us know that John McCain wears the bracelet of a dead soldier, Army Specialist Matthew Stanley, who was killed in combat outside of Baghdad just before Christmas, 2006. It was given to McCain by Matthew’s mom, Lynne Savage. During the Presidential debate, Barack [...]
I posted a short little snippet of this a while ago and called it good … for a minute. It just flew all over me, but I was going to let it go at that one little bit and a referral to the original article. But you know me, I can’t let it go. It [...]
Amber Birdsall only wanted one thing for her 7th birthday. She wanted her stepfather to be home to help her celebrate. That wasn’t very likely to happen seeing as her stepfather was serving a ten month tour in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Amber told her mother what she wanted and her mother told her stepfather, Army [...]
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The anti-war left is preparing to stage a rerun of the infamous “Winter Soldiers†travesty, and here’s one of their star witnesses, identified only by her first name “Jen:†A Soldier in Winter. The ludicrous stories this woman is telling are… read more | digg story
It figures this would come out after my son is out of Baghdad, but he’s still in Germany so I’ll still take advantage of this! The USPS is supporting the troops. They have put out a larger flat rate box and are offering it for shipment to military destinations at $2 less than domestic destinations. [...]
Feb 072008
Angelina Jolie showed up to have lunch with our Troops in the Green Zone in Baghdad today. She was there in her role as U.N. Ambassador to assess the humanitarian issues there. Of her mission, Angelina has said: “There’s lots of goodwill and lots of discussion, but there seems to be just a lot of [...]
Clockwise from top left Mohammed Irfan, Hamid Elasmar, Amjad Mahmood, Zahoor Iqbal, Parviz Khan and Basiru Gassama A group of six British muslims who have built up a terrorists cell in Birmingham are at trial for their plot to kidnap a muslim soldier and behead him ‘like a pig’. They planned to film the attack [...]