Buying a Foreclosed VA Home Get a Deal that Makes Cents The VA saves many people money on their home each year by selling properties that have been foreclosed. Anyone can buy a VA foreclosed home, even if you are not a veteran. There are homes in every state available from the VA and the [...]
Apocalypse Now (1979) – A DVD Movie Review Vote Now for the Greatest Vietnam War Movie When Saving Private Ryan was released, many touted it as the best war movie ever made. Although the first thirty minutes were gut wrenching, the rest of the film was typical post-E.T. Spielbergian emotional manipulation. You can’t award a [...]
Dual protests square off in CrawfordDemonstrators take sides over Iraq war along a dirt road in Texas LEFT: Cindy Sheehan, greets supporters Saturday as they arrive for a peace rally at Camp Casey CRAWFORD, Texas – A dirt road divided hundreds of supporters and protesters of the Iraq war as they rallied Saturday in near-100-degree heat [...]
Anti-Gay Church Protests at GI Funerals Tennessee National Guard Funerals Marred by Baptist Church Protest SMYRNA, Tenn. – Members of a church say God is punishing American soldiers for defending a country that harbors gays, and they brought their anti-gay message to the funerals Saturday of two Tennessee soldiers killed in Iraq. The church members [...]
Airman plays catch with Randy Moss of the NFL Oakland Raiders NAPA, California - Chad Peterkin and a bus load of his fellow airmen from Travis Air Force Base attended Raiders practice Tuesday as guests of the team. No one told Peterkin he needed to bring his football shoes and gloves. Peterkin broke from his group [...]
U.S. gravestone guidelines changedMarkers for Iraq, Afghanistan troops include Pentagon slogans LEFT: Gravestones at Arlington National Cemetery show a change in style from earlier conflicts ARLINGTON, Virginia – Unlike earlier wars, nearly all Arlington National Cemetery gravestones for troops killed in Iraq or Afghanistan are inscribed with the slogan-like operation names the Pentagon selected to [...]
The Crawford Texas Experience; August 20 21, 2005 2 Days in Crawford with Thousands of Peace Activists By Carly Miller I can’t imagine Hell being much hotter than Crawford, Texas. Exhausted, saddened and inspired, I have just returned from a two-day stint at Camp Casey, located adjacent to President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, where the [...]
U.S. Veteran Pat Robertson calls for assassination of ChavezTelevangelist calls Venezuelan president a terrific danger’ to U.S. Is a Call for State Sponsored Assasination right for America? Illegal? Some U.S. Church Leaders Call for his Arrest on Inciting Terrorism. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Religious broadcaster and U.S. Veteran Pat Robertson called on Monday for the [...]
War stress blamed for shootings by vetsSome question whether Army doing enough to help soldiers LEFT: Marine Sgt. Daniel Cotnoir is escorted into a Lawrence, Massachusetts, courtroom One was a skinny 20-year-old discharged from the Army who couldn’t shake the piercing rat-a-tat-tat reminders of combat. The other, a decorated Marine family man whose job preparing [...]
BALITANG BETERANO FIL-AM WW-II VETERAN’S BENEFIT CLAIM FROM THE UNITED STATES By Col (Ret.US) Frank B. Quesada Military service of Filipinos under the U.S.flag commenced when Pres. F. Roosevelt exercised his powers as Commander-in-Chief, authorized under the Philippine Independence Act of 1934, and the Ordinance appended to the constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines when [...]
Bush says Iraq constitution will be landmark event Veterans of Foreign Wars 106th Convention Host President Bush SALT LAKE CITY – President George W. Bush on Monday said the development of an Iraqi constitution would be a landmark event both for that country and for the Middle East and said he believed the final document [...]
Gold Star Family Member Writes to President Bush On February 13, 2004, I lost my son, Sgt. Jeremy R. Smith, U.S. Army Reserves, while he was on active duty preparing for deployment to Iraq. Jeremy was killed on Highway 36, just outside of Gatesville, TX on the way back to Ft. Hood after renting a [...]
Station won’t air anti-war ad before Bush visitSpot featuring war mom Sheehan deemed inappropriate’ by Utah affiliate SALT LAKE CITY – A Utah television station is refusing to air an anti-war ad featuring Cindy Sheehan, whose son’s death in Iraq prompted a vigil outside President Bush’s Texas ranch. The ad began airing on other area [...]
Treasuring Benedict Arnold papers New York museum works to preserve rare 18th century artifacts ALBANY, New York – The major general was so well known that even his abbreviated signature — “B. Arnold” — was sufficient on a pass to ensure anyone safe passage. But in September 1780 that signature sealed Benedict Arnold’s fate, as [...]
Bush, Cleland offer clashing views on Iraq warEx-senator, Vietnam vet says do it right or get out President Bush on Saturday said the United States is fighting “terrorists in Afghanistan, Iraq, and around the world,” and a former U.S. senator who fought in the Vietnam War denounced the Iraq war effort, saying “its plan for [...]
Pink Floyd’s Waters’ makes album inspired by World War II loses NEW YORK – Back in his days with Pink Floyd, Roger Waters took on the big issues of life. In high-concept projects like “The Dark Side of the Moon” and “The Wall,” he grappled with such challenging topics as social oppression, the long shadows [...]
San Francisco Shuns Retired USS Iowa SAN FRANCISCO – The USS Iowa joined in battles from World War II to Korea to the Persian Gulf. It carried President Franklin Roosevelt home from the Teheran conference of allied leaders, and four decades later, suffered one of the nation’s most deadly military accidents. Veterans groups and history [...]
Soldier-athlete being all he can be Josh Holden is a man on two missions. As a 2003 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and a first lieutenant in the Army, he is committed to serving his country. As an outfielder for the Billings (Mont.) Mustangs, the Cincinnati Reds’ advanced rookie level affiliate, [...]
Former aide: Powell WMD speech ‘lowest point in my life’ Was the Case for War Fabricated to suit? LEFT: Former Secretary of State Colin Powell presents the case that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction in 2003 A former top aide to Colin Powell says his involvement in the former secretary of state’s presentation to [...]
COMING HOME: A movie review Jane Fonda, Bruce Dern, and Jon Voigt Vote Now on the Greatest Vietnam War movie of all time Vietnam was a hot topic for movies in 1978, the same year that would see the release of the Best Picture winner, The Deer Hunter. Unlike that movie, Coming Home deals almost [...]
Kissinger finds parallels to Vietnam in IraqFormer diplomat cites ‘divisions in the United States’ LEFT: Kissinger said the United States is battling to stop the spread of radical Islam WASHINGTON – An architect of the U.S. war in Vietnam more than 30 years ago said Sunday that he has “a very uneasy feeling” that some [...]
Hagel: Iraq growing more like VietnamRepublican Senator says Bush should meet with protesting mom LEFT: Sen. Chuck Hagel said the United States should not set a timetable for troop withdrawal WASHINGTON – Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska on Thursday said the United States is “getting more and more bogged down” in Iraq and stood [...]
British Soldiers Get Germ-Fighting Undies Our Allies have better underwear left: British soldier Sergeant Paul Buckley displays an item of anti-microbial underwear, that will soon be… LONDON – British troops combating the heat and dust of Iraq and Afghanistan have a new weapon in their armory, defense officials announced Thursday, germ-fighting underwear. The antimicrobial underpants have [...]
Marine’s mother: Support the fightDyer among the Marines killed in the August 3 bombing in Iraq LEFT: U.S. Marines honor Lance Cpl. Christopher Dyer Wednesday in West Chester, Ohio WEST CHESTER, Ohio – The mother of a Marine killed in Iraq urged mourners Wednesday not to let their anger and sadness turn them against the [...]
CLASSIC ESCAPE TO FREEDOM - WW II Tales from Greatest Generation by Frank Quesada Part – I Colonel (Ret,US) Frank B. Quesada, an associate, Philippine Military Academy, class ’44. The class that was overtaken by World War II, and earned their baptism of fire before graduation. It was the class that did not have any [...]
Camp Casey Revisited Crawford Texas continues to be center of the Protest I went back out to Crawford this week to see for myself how things are going and what it’s like there now. I couldn’t believe my eyes. It was just absolutely amazing. I left in the wee hours of the morning Saturday to [...]
U.S. Veterans cares for wounded in Iraq but can’t return to care for sick son Veteran of Iraq War denied trip home to Cuba WASHINGTON – Cuban-American Carlos Lazo won a Bronze Star for caring for his wounded comrades in Iraq, but he can’t get to Cuba to care for a sick son. Lawmakers from [...]
Women Soldiers contribute to 36th Infantry Division history By Spc. Kia Riddley-Colbert56th Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs OfficeTexas Army National Guard LEFT: Spc. Janie Reyna, of Plainview, Texas, and a Soldier of the 56th Brigade Combat Team, 36th Infantry Division, Texas Army National Guard, holds an Iraqi child she befriended during a civil affairs mission [...]
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