Category Archives: Got our backs

Veteran’s Day

Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye.Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg — or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul’s ally forged in the [...]

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Thanks.

Rice says all hurricane aid offers from other countries will be accepted
It’s nice to know they’ve offered - whether or not anything comes of it.
Update: Chuck Simmins has more.

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For What It’s Worth.

We’ve got your back.

Yeah, I might be a bit presumptuous in speaking for the Aussies but I doubt they’ll mind.

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Heh. Indeed™.

Thanks America
“Thanks,” this Australian says, in glowing prose… “and while you are at it, would you terribly mind doing just one more thing?” (That’s where the ‘Heh’ comes in… we’ve heard that before.)
If I had my way, we would do that one little thing. (And that’s where the ‘Indeed’ comes [...]

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A Salute to Our Mates Down Under

April 25th is Anzac Day on the other side of the big pond.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. — Laurence Binyon, For the Fallen
Thanks [...]

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Thanks, mates.

Australia Commits More Troops to Iraq

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