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Happy Birthday to the USMC - and Thanks

10 Nov, 2008 – 10:48

There’s a nice birthday card at GoDaddy, believe it or not. Nicely done video.
Happy 233nd Birthday to the United States Marine Corps!
The Coalition of the Swilling also are saying Happy Birthday, and have a nice link to the history of the US Marine Corps.

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By Kathy Kinsley | Comments Off

Veteran’s Day

11 Nov, 2006 – 06:42

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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Good for them!

4 Nov, 2006 – 13:15

Local Gold Star Families Take Secret Trip to Iraq
“In a stunning and historic trip under the utmost secrecy, a delegation of families of fallen U.S. troops have traveled to Iraq to counter critics of the war effort, just days before the Nov. 7 midterm elections.”

The anti-war bunch aren’t going to like this.
(Thanks [...]

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By Kathy Kinsley | Also posted in Fighting Back, Iraq | Comments Off

Human Nature and Human Spirit

16 Jul, 2006 – 09:22

Please go read this post at Rantings of a Sandmonkey: In praise of the human spirit. (In fact, just bookmark that blog, if you haven’t already.)

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By Kathy Kinsley | Also posted in Middle East | Comments Off

The Battle of the Kegs

4 Jul, 2006 – 00:00

Gallants attend, and hear a friend, Trill forth harmonious ditty, Strange things I’ll tell, which late befell In Philadelphia city.
“Twas early day, as poets say, Just when the sun was rising, A soldier stood, on a log of wood, And saw a thing surprising.
As in amaze he stood to gaze, The truth can’t be denied, [...]

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By Kathy Kinsley | Also posted in Historical background | Comments Off

Memorial Day

26 May, 2006 – 18:35

In Flanders Fields. In Flanders field the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with [...]

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By Kathy Kinsley | Also posted in General news | Comments Off