9/11 Ten Years On - NIMBY: UpDate on VA Care Facility
I posted this rather quickly last night while in another of many rages of the past decade, still am, and want to re-post with some comments I added to the one at my site, and here, on this September...
View Article9/11 for Fun and Profit
Like most of you, I sat through at least five "salutes" to the brave and innocent victims of the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor. I saw dozens of people srtruggling to control their...
View ArticleTepublican Audience Boos {Spits On!} Gay Soldier
That, is the 'Real Spitting on the Soldiers', the 'nixonian spitting' I've always called it, of the long folklore of hippies doin, from ours, the verbal and symbolic, as we returned from Vietnam and...
View ArticleCongress Searching for Info On Veterans Needs????
Huh????They have to Visit Afghanistan in relation to Veterans Issues??Typical obstructionist ideology, decades now, ignore what's right in front of you and waste time and money doing the foolish, by...
View ArticleLets Hear It For Occupy Grand Rapids: Veterans Day!!
Has anyone heard a questioner ask these Tepublican candidates, in the new TV reality show call debates, if they'll Finally Demand Sacrifice from the Country as to their wars of choice they fully...
View Article{RePost} Lets Hear It For Occupy Grand Rapids: Veterans Day!!
{Reposting this from yesterday}Has anyone heard a questioner ask these Tepublican candidates, in the new TV reality show call debates, if they'll Finally Demand Sacrifice from the Country as to their...
View ArticleComing Home: A Three Part Series
No Revenue = No Sacrifice = No Support! Now a decade long added to the previous decades of an underfunded Veterans Administration, and in to many cases politically run, while country supports it's wars...
View ArticleGiven the anti-Muslim rhetoric of Republicans
I thought I might remind people of this (The New Yorker, Elsheba Khan at the grave of her son, Specialist Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan.) >, Elsheba Khan at the grave of her son, Specialist Kareem...
View ArticleMeet OIF Veteran Chris Miller (IL-12)
I'm not from nor in Illinois, but it is very refreshing when one see's, reads or hears clear comments made about what this Country needs to do instead of the established spinning and flip flopping all...
View ArticleVets: On FLOTUS and SLOTUS, "Best - Ever"
The subject title and much of the reason about I placed in an open thread here last night and lead with, decided to expand on it for those especially who do New Years Resolutions.Join the First and...
View ArticleDoesn’t Generate Enough Interest to Meet Veterans’ Needs??
We who serve this Country in it's Military and either continue serving or become the Veterans of 'Serve the Country and it's Constitution' as said by all who take the Oath of service to!We don't serve...
View ArticleTop Comments - "So When Will I Die?"
I originally wrote this diary some months ago for use on a night when no diarist was available. It looks like tonight is the night! ::smile:: I hope you find it interesting!But First, A Word From Our...
View ArticleSt Louis: "Welcome Home Soldiers" {UpDated w/live feed}
Welcome Home Little Brothers and Sisters!! And there will Still be No Demand for Sacrifice by Country, as Afghanistan Theater Continues!!
View ArticleShould Country Have Iraq Welcome Home Parades {!?}
Sorry there Rachel, but the soldiers Did Do It Alone, with their families, and have and will continue to do so, Nobody In This Country Has Sacrificed A Dime, as the costs of both were put on the credit...
View Article"we're not going to increase taxes to fund (veterans programs)"
That is the long standing mentality, for decades now but especially this past one and counting still, found in the countries federal congressional representative bodies as well as state capitals and...
View ArticleHomeless Veterans Could Get a Place to Live "IF!!"
There should be No "If's""And's" or "But's" about it, especially as to the previous decade rhetoric of empty words of 'Support' with cheap symbols and flag waving while yelling USA, USA, USA....on who...
View ArticleEnthusiasm for 'Welcome Home Parades' is Great, But
Rachel I'm glad you're really hyped about these 'Welcome Home' parades, but you like most of the country and especially congress, outside of the present administration being the only ones speaking and...
View ArticleSo You All Want a National 'NYC Ticker Tape Parade'
And while the main mission for us being in that region continues since we abandoned that mission, actually related to 9/11, and our promises to those people in that country so long ago, the second time...
View ArticleChild Mummy Exhibition Generates Controversy in Argentina
Some years ago, a group of archaeologists found the frozen corpses of three indigenous children atop a volcano, which they determined had been Inca sacrifices. Today, the perfectly conserved corpses...
View ArticleHow Stressed are the Troops - A No Brainer
After a decade of two Wars of Choice, Afghanistan became as soon as the first drumbeat pointed at Iraq and the abandoning of the main mission, and Countries promises to the Afghans after years of...
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