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Students adopt a soldier

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:22:28 PM
Allied World War I soldiers by Dunechaser.
War is hell. But in the imaginations of second-graders, the everyday life of soldiers like Ben Chambers is more like play.

To the students at Bryan Elementary in the Millard school district, soldier Ben is someone to wonder about. Someone to whom they can send a handmade holiday or birthday card.

To Chambers' family, he's the son, brother, cousin and nephew constantly on their minds and in their prayers. The one they wish they could have sung "Happy Birthday" to on New Year's Day, when he turned 22.
Chambers, a Bryan alumnus whom the whole school adopted in the fall, is a platoon leader with the 101st Airborne Division out of Fort Campbell, Ky. His unit traversed mountains near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan after its permanent outpost was bombed on Thanksgiving.

"Every day when he wakes up, he knows he has to save his life," said his mom, Laura Henry of Omaha.

But the Bryan second-graders aren't told that. Teachers give the children limited information about the Army specialist's duties. Nothing is said of the dangers.

When the second-graders drew birthday cards for Chambers, they were told that their soldier was part of the 3rd Platoon fire support, but that "he's not a fireman."

(Read more of the above story students adopt a soldier.)
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Father still grieves for son but supports Troops

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Monday, December 01, 2008 11:18:05 AM

 

Video Professor supports our troops by The Video Professor, John W. Scherer.

 

 Lonnie Ford had one message for U.S. Sen. John McCain when the two met recently.

"Don't go withdrawing those troops," Ford told the then-presidential candidate in regard to the ongoing war in Iraq.

Ford's brief visit with McCain occurred last August in Sturgis, S.D., where Ford had gone to participate in that community's annual motorcycle rally, and where McCain had stopped to campaign.

"I don't want an immediate withdrawal. That will admit defeat," Ford said recently while seated at the kitchen table in the white, square farm-type house in Pender where he and his wife, Linda, raised their combined families.

It's the same house that is within a mile or two of the cemetery where his son, Joshua, is buried; the house that is just down the street from the brick building where Ford teaches and where Joshua attended school; the house that now sits on what has been renamed Sgt. Josh Ford Avenue.
Living on the street named after his late son provides a small element of comfort for the father who is still openly grieving. Tears well in his eyes as he talks about the life cut short by an explosive device that struck the vehicle Joshua was riding in during a mission in south-central Iraq.
(The media doesn't put this father  on the 6:00 P.M. news too often because unlike  Cindy Sheehan  he supports what America is trying to do in Iraq. Read more about this dad,  Father still grieves for son.)

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McCain beating Obama in Israel

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:00:33 PM
An Israeli pollster says that if the country were on the U.S. election map, it would be bright red. (  Survey: shows McCain beating Obama in Israel - )

A survey of Americans in the Holy Land released Thursday found that absentee voters supported Republican John McCain over Barack Obama by a three-to-one margin.

The survey interviewed 817 Americans who have cast absentee ballots for next week's presidential election. It was conducted by Vote from Israel, a nonpartisan group that has encouraged Americans to vote.

An estimated 40,000 Americans living in Israel are expected to vote.
 
(It looks like the people of Israel understand something that I hope most of  the American voters will see come Tuesday, we need a leader who is committed to see the 911 war finished with victory.)
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Krauthammer Sums Up The Case For McCain

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Friday, October 24, 2008 10:18:45 PM

 

 

krauthammer by jethropalerobber.

The case for McCain is straightforward. The financial crisis has made us forget, or just blindly deny, how dangerous the world out there is. We have a generations-long struggle with Islamic jihadism. An apocalyptic soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. A nuclear-armed Pakistan in danger of fragmentation. A rising Russia pushing the limits of revanchism. Plus the sure-to-come Falklands-like surprise popping out of nowhere.

Who do you want answering that phone at 3 a.m.? A man who's been cramming on these issues for the past year, who's never had to make an executive decision affecting so much as a city, let alone the world? A foreign policy novice instinctively inclined to the flabbiest, most vaporous multilateralism (e.g., the Berlin Wall came down because of "a world that stands as one"), and who refers to the most deliberate act of war since Pearl Harbor as "the tragedy of 9/11," a term more appropriate for a bus accident?

(The above is from  Charles K's column today:

(The voters of America must never forget we are in a war with radical Islam. McCain is ready to lead in that war.)

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Thank our military

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:00:00 PM

This is pretty cool.....(30 second video)... Have you ever wanted to say thank you  as you have seen one of our military walking past you  but weren't sure how or it felt awkward? Watch this video and perhaps you will see a cool way to do it.  By the way it is called  The Gratitude Campaign; ...and then tell all of your   friends
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Memorial Day Arlington

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Monday, May 26, 2008 8:35:20 PM
  Memorial Day Tribute to members of the United States Armed Forces who now rest in peace in Arlington National Cemetery - set to the song - "Arlington"  We give thanks to those who made the ultimate sacrifice and pray for the loved ones they left behind.
Watch this video Memorial Day - Arlington  and yes Thank God for those who made the ultimate sacrifice .




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Freedon Isn't Free

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Monday, May 26, 2008 8:24:07 PM

Cal Thomas in a radio commentary this Memorial Day reminded us that Freedom isn't always free. Another gave up his freedom so we could be free. Do listen to Cal's radio  commentary  right here.

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'Miracle' Marine refused to surrender will to live.)

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Monday, May 26, 2008 2:20:13 PM
  The young Marine came back from the war, with his toughest fight ahead of him. Merlin German waged that battle in the quiet of a Texas hospital, far from the dusty road in Iraq where a bomb exploded, leaving him with burns over 97 percent of his body.
No one expected him to survive.
But for more than three years, he would not surrender. He endured more than 100 surgeries and procedures. He learned to live with pain, to stare at a stranger's face in the mirror. He learned to smile again, to joke, to make others laugh.
He became known as the "Miracle Man."
But just when it seemed he would defy impossible odds, Sgt. Merlin German lost his last battle this spring — an unexpected final chapter in a story many imagined would have a happy ending.
"I think all of us had believed in some way, shape or form that he was invincible," says Lt. Col. Evan Renz, who was German's surgeon and his friend. "He had beaten so many other operations. ... It just reminded us, he, too, was human."
It was near Ramadi, Iraq, on Feb. 21, 2005, that the roadside bomb detonated near German's Humvee, hurling him out of the turret and engulfing him in flames.
When Renz and other doctors at the burn unit at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio first got word from Baghdad, they told his family he really didn't have a chance. The goal: Get him back to America so his loved ones could say goodbye.
But when German arrived four days later, doctors, amazed by how well he was doing, switched gears. "We were going to do everything known to science," Renz says. "He was showing us he can survive."
Sometimes his repeated surgeries laid him up for days and he'd lose ground in his rehabilitation. But he'd always rebound. Even when he was hurting, he'd return to therapy — as long as he had his morning Red Bull energy drink.
"I can't remember a time where he said, 'I can't do it. I'm not going to try,' " says Sgt. Shane Elder, a rehabilitation therapy assistant.
From the start, his parents, Lourdes and Hemery, were with him. They relocated to Texas. His mother helped feed and dress her son; they prayed together three, four times a day.
Merlin German died after routine surgery to add skin under his lower lip.
He was already planning his next operations — on his wrists and elbows. But Renz also says with all the stress German's body had been subjected to in recent years, "it was probably an unfair expectation that you can keep doing this over and over again and not have any problems."
The cause of his death has not yet been determined.
"I may no more understand why he left us when he did than why he survived when he did," Renz says. "I don't think I was meant to know."
(Today in honor of this marine thank another who has gone to battle or is in battle fighting so you and I can remain free. Read the rest of the above story 'Miracle' Marine refused to surrender will to live.)
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Prince Harry doesn't like British Press

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Saturday, March 01, 2008 9:07:05 PM
   Prince Harry may be returning from the Afghan frontline to a hero's welcome, but he seems far from happy with England, notably life on the media frontline, according to remarks released Friday. Officials have praised the British media for strictly adhering to the embargo on reporting Harry's deployment, which came after he was unable to go to Iraq last year due to concerns for his security.
But Harry, third in line to the British crown, didn't seem overly happy with his homeland's press, who have given generous coverage in recent years to his partying escapades in the nightclubs of London and elsewhere.
 
(Read more of the above story  'I DON'T LIKE ENGLAND THAT MUCH'...)

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Prince Pulled out of War

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Friday, February 29, 2008 10:39:35 AM
  Britain's defense chief decided Friday to immediately pull Prince Harry out of Afghanistan after news of his deployment was leaked on the U.S. Web site the Drudge Report.
Air Chief Marshal Jock Stirrup, chief of the Defense Staff, said he decided to withdraw the prince after senior commanders assessed the risks, the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
The decision was based on concerns that worldwide media coverage of Harry in Afghanistan could put him and his comrades at increased risk.
(Read more on this story at the link below. It looks like to me this was the right and proper thing to do. The evil people that the Prince is fighting would love to make the news for killing a prince.)
Britain: Harry's Afghan deployment
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McCain says early withdrawal from Iraq would mean 'genocide'

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Saturday, February 16, 2008 3:18:10 PM
  Republican frontrunner John McCain spoke on CNN  about some big differences between him and his   Democratic White House rivals over Iraq. McCain said  an untimely US withdrawal would bring about "genocide."
"Both Senator Obama and Clinton want to set a date for withdrawal. That means chaos. That means genocide," the 71-year-old Arizona senator told CNN's Larry King late Thursday.
 
Read more on this issue here. 
One of the key issues if not the key issue in this year's President election  is fighting those who want us dead. No matter what you think of McCain on other issues he is 100% right on the war.
 
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