Thanksgiving over there…

Thanksgiving 2010 somewhere in west by God Afghanistan. SGT Williams is thinking about turkey dinner at home next year, to hunkered down to enjoy the day… Thanksgiving Day. MREs look pretty good right now. This dried up chicken could substitute for turkey. The chopper is supposed to drop some turkey dinner with real turkey gravy but…

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9/11

9/11 The numbers 9 and 11 took on a whole new perspective after September 11, 2001. America will never refer to 9/11 the same ever again. One day in the history of this country has forever changed America’s psyche when they are reminded of that day. I was at work when the planes hit the…

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Why celebrate our troops on the 4th?

4th of July what an awesome holiday! Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in…

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Metal of Honor

OFFICIAL NARRATIVE “Duty. Honor. Country. Service. Sacrifice. Heroism. These are words of weight. But as people — as a people and as a culture, we often invoke them lightly. We toss them around freely. But do we really grasp the meaning of these values? Do we truly understand the nature of these virtues? To serve, and to…

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