Father of fallen Marine attends homecoming LEFT: Bob Remington hugs his son Marine Lance Cpl. Mathew Remington, at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina - John Prazynski stood in the sea of welcome home signs and wondered why he was there. Prazynski’s son, Lance Cpl. Taylor Prazynski, wasn’t going to be among the 900 [...]
The Famous VJ Day Kiss Many have claimed to be the couple kissing in Times Square on VJ Day Tomorrow is VJ Day, the 60th anniversary of the U.S. victory over Japan that ended World War II. And while it’s nearly impossible to think of that day without also thinking of the famous Life Magazine photo of [...]
War Without MercySixty years later, veterans of the Pacific War remember: ‘Kill or be killed.’ James Bowell, signalman third class, was standing on the bridge of his ship when the kamikazes came. “The sky was full of airplanes,” he recalls, flown by pilots bent on killing as many Americans as possible at the sacrifice of [...]
Grieving mother’s war protest draws supporters50 join woman who camps outside Bush’s ranch during his vacation Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville, Calif., stands in front of her tent on the road that leads to Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, on Thursday. Her son was killed five days after he arrived in Iraq. CRAWFORD, Texas – Cindy [...]
The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe – NAZI Oskar Schindler of China saved over 300,000 people Sad to say, when history judges the actions of a person, their personal affiliations affect how they are remembered. It’s not enough to say that a person did good things – other political beliefs and [...]
The Great Raid – A Movie Review New World War II Movie about Rescue from Japanese POW Camp By Robert Koehler Set to be released on August 12 at a movie house near you, Freddie Joe Farnsworth, James Franco and Benjamin Bratt are soldiers sent to rescue American POWs in the Philippines in ‘The Great [...]
Air Force EOD team relies on high tech Raw nerves to dispose of suspicious package By Master Sgt. Lek Mateo56th Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs OfficeTexas Army National Guard ALI AIR BASE, Iraq Soldiers of the Texas Army National Guard’s 56th Brigade Combat Team, 36th Infantry Division, encounter explosive situations daily when they travel along [...]
Sorrow and Debate A bloody week in Iraq leaves 14 Ohio Marines dead. And the pro-war town that lost its sons begins to ask: is it worth the sacrifice? Paul Schroeder and his wife, Rosemary Palmer, spent Wednesday morning in a state of controlled panic. The couple’s 23-year-old son, Augie, was a lance corporal with [...]
Mother of Fallen Solider a Threat to National Security? King George and his idea of National Security by Amy Branham For the last couple of days I have been hearing that Cindy Sheehan will be considered a threat to national security if she does not leave her post by Thursday. At this point, it’s important [...]
FUTURE OF U.S. TROOPS IN IRAQ HANGS IN THE BALANCE By Diane M. Grassi At the end of July 2005 the Pentagon announced, through General John Abizaid, head of the United States Central Command in Iraq, that some fairly substantial reductions in U.S. troops could be expected by the spring and summer of 2006. General [...]
House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Updated Hearing Schedule August 2005 Health SubcommitteeOversight hearing on Rural Veterans’ Access to Primary Care: Successes and Challenges.DATE/TIME/PLACE: August 22(Monday), 9:00 a.m., Room 501, Rangeley Hall Eastern Maine Community College 354 Hogan Road Bangor, Maine September 2005 Full Committee joint with Senate Veterans Committee Annual legislative presentation of The American [...]
Thank you, America! Notes from the Frontlines in Crawford – “We want to end this war. We want to bring our soldiers home” by Amy Branham, Gold Star Families for Peace This morning I sit at my keyboard in awe of the events of this past weekend. Cindy Sheehan’s trip to Crawford to talk to [...]
FREEDOM IS NOT FREE I am the Mother of Fallen Hero Sgt. Jeremy R. Smith, I know by Amy Branham When I see bumper stickers with that sentiment I just want to scream. I think the people who display them probably haven’t had to pay the ultimate sacrifice for our country and don’t know what [...]
Mission Statement: We as families of soldiers who have died as a result of war (primarily, but not limited to the invasion/occupation of Iraq) are organizing to be a positive force in our world to bring our country’s sons and daughters home from Iraq, to minimize the human cost of this war, and to prevent [...]
Soldier’s mom digs in near Bush ranchSenator sees ‘echoes of Vietnam’ in vigil to meet president A mother’s protest at President Bush’s Texas ranch Gold Star Families Challenge The Justification for War CRAWFORD, Texas – A mother whose son was killed in Iraq says she is prepared to continue her protest outside President Bush’s ranch [...]
A soldier leaves a last message of loveTwo brothers head to war in Iraq, but only one would return In times of war, military families make extraordinary sacrifices. And no one knows that better than the Salie family. Its men have served in every conflict since World War II, living to tell the tale each [...]
CIA Commander: We Let bin Laden Slip Away Cornered? Bin Laden was in Tora Bora, a new book says During the 2004 presidential campaign, George W. Bush and John Kerry battled about whether Osama bin Laden had escaped from Tora Bora in the final days of the war in Afghanistan. Bush, Kerry charged, “didn’t choose [...]
60 years after A-Bomb, foes meet over divideU.S. veterans, Japanese survivors gather for controversial commemoration TINIAN, Northern Mariana Islands – Sixty years ago today, the world went black for Keijiro Matsushima, then a 16-year-old Hiroshima schoolboy. He vividly recalled an airplane he now knows was the Enola Gay shimmering in the sky like a “flying [...]
President Truman and THE DECISION TO DROP THE BOMB “That was not any decision you had to worry about.” President Harry S. Truman While Americans and Japanese alike expected the war to end only after a bloody invasion of Japan, the U. S. government was readying a secret weapon that would dramatically affect the war’s [...]
60 Years Ago Colonel Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. bombed his way into History A Profile of the Man who dropped the first Atomic bomb There are only three crew members from the Enola Gay still living. Dutch Van Kirk was the navigator, Weapons Specialist Dick Jeppson who lives in Las Vegas and the pilot, Paul Tibbets, now [...]
Moment of silence as Hiroshima recalls bomb Tens of thousands gather for memorial on 60th anniversary of attack THE BOMB KILLED OVER 90,000 SIXTY YEARS AGO! On the morning of August 6,1945 at 8:15, the first atomic bomb dropped in history exploded approximately 580 meters above the center of Hiroshima. In an instant, it reduced the [...]
Soldier’s Mom protests near Bush’s Ranch The angry mother of a fallen U.S. soldier staged a protest near President Bush’s ranch Saturday, demanding an accounting from Bush of how he has conducted the war in Iraq. Supported by more than 50 demonstrators who chanted, “W. killed her son!” Cindy Sheehan told reporters: “I want to [...]
VA CHAIRMAN STEVE BUYER AND RANKING MEMBER LANE EVANS RECOGNIZE THE 223rd ANNIVERSARY OF THE PURPLE HEART Sunday, August 7, is the anniversary of the Purple Heart, which is awarded in the name of the President of the United States to members of the U.S. Armed Forces who are wounded in conflict with an enemy [...]
ALASKA’S SENATOR TED STEVENS RECALLS FIRST FLIGHT TO PEKING by Everett Long I parked my C-46 right up there next to the Japanese Bettys . The 46 dwarfed their Bettys. We had taken a striped down weapons carrier on board for our ground transportation. They couldn’t believe it when we just opened the doors — [...]
CRAIG STAFFER NOMINATED BY PRESIDENT BUSH FOR VETERANS AFFAIRS POST Washington, DC – A member of U.S. Senator Larry Craig’s committee staff has been nominated by President Bush for an important position with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. William F. Tuerk has been chosen to be the next Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for [...]
TECHEXPO announces it August Top Secret Hiring Events In Maryland on August 9 and Virginia on August 11 Hiring in the defense and government services sector shows no sign of slowing, so take this opportunity to meet face to face with hiring managers and recruiters from government agencies and federal contractors. They offer jobs in [...]
VA CHAIRMAN BUYER CONFIRMS QUALITY CARE FOR COMBAT WOUNDED Buyer Visits Minnesota Polytrauma Center Washington, D.C. Chairman Steve Buyer and Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.) on Tuesday inspected the care being provided to veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom recovering from combat wounds at the VA Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center (PRC) in Minneapolis, Minn. [...]
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