Disposable Warriors
PTSD – Some Valuable Perspective
Doc Bailey has a post up worth reading: His last paragraph captures his point as far as us ‘Nam vets so I’ll quote that: The real tragedy is that because there are so few people that have served, and because the public has largely ignored the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, these men and women […]
Oh crap… Perfect Timing or What?
Via Doc Bailey and FB. Blame him! Up to 64,000 Graves at Arlington Misidentified or Misplaced, Army Report Finds ARLINGTON, Va. – Thousands of grave markers at Arlington National Cemetery may need to be replaced or added to accurately account for the dead, following a meticulous Army review of each of the nearly 260,000 headstones […]
How Far Would YOU Go?
It’s taken me a coupla days to calm down enough to post this one. I kept reading about the thing and getting pissed. For something different each time, mind you, but even as semi-literate as I am a post with little more than WTF! said over and over seemed a waste of time. So here […]
Carters’s Army, or maybe BOHICA?
J. D. offers up some history and perspective at his place. I Remember Carter’s Army I remember President Carter’s Army. I remember Carter’s gasoline lines. I remember Carter’s interest rates. I remember his turn your thermostat down and wear a sweater energy policy speeches. I remember him really showing the Russians how tough we were […]
Seems Appropriate to me?
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a […]
In the Wreckage of an Almost-Shutdown
Today, a lot of us are taking a slightly ragged breath and relaxing a bit. Last night, around 11PM, a deal was reached that would extend for a week the operations of government as we know it. This is particularly meaningful for all of our servicemembers, many serving in harm’s way, who had already opened […]
The real difference.
Recently Travis Bishop commented on a post about him a few days ago. One thing that he did bring up was the group called Disposable Warriors. Now don’t let the name fool you, this website is very different from it’s alleged counter parts that Travis linked it with in his post. The person running the […]
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