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Valor Friday

| November 22, 2024 | 4 Comments
Valor Friday

Last week we looked at the heroism of Australian Richard Norden. He recently received a Victoria Cross, the highest award given to those in British or Commonwealth service. The actions for which he was awarded this in 2024 happened decades earlier in the jungles of Vietnam. I briefly mentioned that the Aussies had only once […]

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Army Vet Arthur Frommer dies at 95

| November 20, 2024 | 3 Comments
Army Vet Arthur Frommer dies at 95

Many of you youngsters are too young to remember arguably the most popular travel guides of the post-WWII period, Arthur Frommer’s “Europe on $5 a Day”. “This is a book,” he wrote, “for American tourists who a) own no oil wells in Texas, b) are unrelated to the Aga Khan, c) have never struck it […]

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Valor Friday

| November 15, 2024 | 6 Comments
Valor Friday

We’ve highlighted the delayed awarding of high valor awards many times. The American awards system is nothing if not malleable to the whims of later generations that seek to right the wrongs of the past. The British (and by extension Commonwealth) system of awards and decorations is much more rigid. The British system is complex, […]

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Thursday closures

| November 14, 2024 | 12 Comments
Thursday closures

  Closure,  as in resolution. Today we have three: Monday, Captain Ronald Forrester was laid to rest in Arlington Cemetery. He was originally listed as missing in action in Vietnam. “When daddy was shot down we were told not to give up hope,” said Karoni Forrester. But after years of waiting, Karoni’s hope was shattered […]

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Valor Friday

| November 8, 2024 | 8 Comments
Valor Friday

This week must be another re-post, but as we are nearing the 106th anniversary of the end of World War I, we’re gonna re-look at the tragic death of Henry Gunther. An American, he was the last official casualty of World War I. He died one minute before the Armistice ended the war 102 years […]

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Soldier injured during Hamas Pier mission dies

| November 7, 2024 | 16 Comments
Soldier injured during Hamas Pier mission dies

One of the three soldiers injured, 23-year-old Sgt. Quandarius Davon Stanley,  during Biden’s Hamas Pier mission has died of his injuries. Stanley was from Marion, South Carolina and served as a motor transport operator assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade Expeditionary at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. The brigade is one of the service’s few watercraft-focused […]

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Valor Friday

| November 1, 2024 | 10 Comments
Valor Friday

As I spent all yesterday going between doctor’s appointments (would you believe I slipped a disc in my back from playing pickleball?) and dealing with trick or treaters, this week’s article will be a repeat. Robert Femoyer’s incredible act of gallantry is worth repeating. There’s even a nexus to Halloween, as yesterday would be his […]

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Valor Friday

| October 25, 2024 | 10 Comments
Valor Friday

This week brought sad news of the death of John Kinsel Sr. He was one of the last surviving Navajo Code Talker. The Code Talkers weren’t all Navajo, but they were the most famous. Some of the languages other than Navajo that were used were Lakota, Meskwaki, Mohawk, Comanche, Tlingit, Hopi, Cree, and Crow. Code […]

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