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A Soldier's Words
  During a recent email conversation I had with Sergeant Evan Webb, who spends the majority of his days and nights outside the wire in Iraq, the topic of patriotism came up. "I've always been patriotic. The "Star Spangled...
Posted by britgal - Mon Jul 7, 2008 15:20:27 PDT
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Support our Troops?
I see this slogan everywhere. Yellow ribbons on cars, big baloons.... and I can't help but think how ethnocentric we are as a country. Where is the support THEIR troops sticker? We send naive young men and women over to kill Arabs with a...
Posted by Tridge - Fri May 23, 2008 17:37:37 PDT
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The Korean War Result - An Example For Today
We left Portland at about 3:30 PM for a seventeen hour flight to Seoul. We chased the Sun deep into Asia before it finally set a little before Japan, about two hours from Seoul. In the late 1980's, prior to 9/11, we were highly...
Posted by rahlisha - Thu May 22, 2008 11:37:49 PDT
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Bud: A war hero to me
I am haunted by the gentle countenance of the young Army Air Corps Lieutenant in the old snapshot discovered among my mother’s personal papers after her death.  The old photo stirred many memories, but in particular reminded...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Mon Mar 24, 2008 16:32:50 PDT
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Sending care package to troops in Kuwait — need help!!!
You can buy Girl Scout Cookies to donate in this package going out in March to soldiers in Kuwait. A dear friend of mine's daughter, Candace, is there with the US Air Force. They are on duty out in the desert there. We love and respect...
Posted by tajwilly - Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:55:07 PST
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Loss — and rediscovery — with a letter
Lt. Enoch P. Burley of the Army Air Forces never made it home to his wife, Yvonne. He was shot down over New Guinea, along with 15 of his flying brothers while piloting a Red Cross plane transporting wounded in August 1943. Mrs....
Posted by citizenjournalist - Fri Oct 5, 2007 16:52:43 PDT
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My Thoughts on the War
My son will soon be deploying for his second tour of duty in Iraq. In fact, the actual date is September 27, 2007. Its too close for comfort. I'm the very proud and terrified mother of  United States Marine Cpl. Jose Rodriguez III....
Posted by LoriD - Tue Sep 18, 2007 16:24:35 PDT
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war in Iraq
I believe that we are fighting for a good cause. I do have many friends who are fighting and who have fought, one who was sent home because he and his unit were victims of a car bomb. Many lives will be lost to this war, many have...
Posted by drphill - Mon Sep 17, 2007 09:30:36 PDT
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What do you think about the war in Iraq?
Since the war in Iraq began more than four years ago, American public opinion has changed from overwhelming support to dissatisfaction. But polls and numbers cannot describe the feelings of a mother whose child is shot at daily, or a...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Sat Sep 15, 2007 10:56:45 PDT
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The War in Iraq
Just think, if Saddam was so bad, now as Bush n company try to pull sway there, more people have died in the last year than in all the years that Saddam was in power so who's the greater evil?, We seem to be worse!...
Posted by Vleeds - Thu Aug 9, 2007 15:19:18 PDT
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Welcome home can take time for soldiers
My Uncle Alfred was one of 16 children whose transition from childhood to manhood took place suddenly outside of Watonga, Oklahoma. The weight of responsibility he shouldered exceeded his age but not his character. He quit school in the...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Fri May 25, 2007 16:49:05 PDT
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