Bookworm on Aug 04 2008 | Filed under: Military
The Dems, aided by old whats her name — um, Gwyneth Paltry — have put together an endless, repetitious ad urging registered voters living oversees to make sure that they vote for Obama. I have no problem with that. If you have constituents living abroad, you should try to reach them. But why, why, why, [...]
Bookworm on Jun 26 2008 | Filed under: Military
A couple of days ago, I let you know about a way you could support the troops by sending words of thanks. Today, I want to remind you about the Webathon for the troops. Michelle Malkin describes it thusly:
I’ll be in beautiful Mountain View, CA all day today for “From the Frontlines,” our ground-breaking web-a-thon [...]
Bookworm on Jun 24 2008 | Filed under: Iraq, Military
I’m sorry to say that, for me, “the troops” have always been somewhat abstract, not because I don’t respect and admire them, but because I really don’t know any troops. Living in my Marin bubble, where the military is anathema to the average person, you simply don’t have a large number of people entering the [...]
Bookworm on Jun 09 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Military
My dog is the sweetest dog in the world — and totally submissive. When you call her, she comes running, then drops into a submissive crouch, body canted slightly sideways, to show that I can do with her as I will. She trusts me not to harm her. Unfortunately, Obama wishes to reduce us to [...]
Bookworm on Jun 06 2008 | Filed under: Military, Uncategorized
I got this as an email and had to share it with all of you. (Thanks, W”B”S.)
WHEN A SOLDIER COMES HOME:
When a soldier comes home, he finds it hard….
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Bookworm on Jun 02 2008 | Filed under: Military
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
Shakespeare, “Henry V” (5.3.44-51)
I thought of a [...]
Bookworm on May 26 2008 | Filed under: Media matters, Military
I don’t know how it is that I never got around to watching it before, but last night marked the first time I ever saw that classic 1941 movie Sergeant York. It’s a biopic, starring Gary Cooper as the eponymous Sergeant York, who was the most decorated hero of World War I. Unlike [...]
Bookworm on May 19 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Military
In honor of Tom Harkin’s most recent attack on American troops, John Hawkins, at Right Wing News, has assembled a fine collection of quotations from the Statists, in which they express their deep, abiding feelings for those Americans who put their lives on the line daily to protect us. Some examples:
“Through every Abu aib and [...]
Bookworm on May 16 2008 | Filed under: Media matters, Military
I don’t doubt that something unsavory will pop up about Matthis Chiroux, the media’s latest conscientious objector poster boy, simply because something unsavory always seems to be lurking around these keys (not that the MSM lets its readers know). So that’s not what interests me. What caught me was the first two sentences [...]
Bookworm on May 11 2008 | Filed under: Military
The other day, I had a delightful lunch with Staff Sargeant Jason Eck, the Army’s recruiter in Marin. I wrote about it here, at Pajamas Media.
Bookworm on May 04 2008 | Filed under: Military
It was sent to me by a military friend as unclassified, so I’ve felt free to go ahead and publish:
I am an Australian and my son is an Australian - as far as we are concerned there is not place on God’s earth better than Australia, and there are no people better than Australians. That [...]
Bookworm on May 04 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Barack Obama, Israel, Military, Palestinians
We received in yesterday’s mail a warning (a very nice warning) that my 5th grader is struggling with geometry. As a former geometry struggler myself, I’m all sympathy. We did not get mad at her. What is infuriating, though, is her absolutely unwillingness to learn geometry. After 1.5 years in public [...]
Bookworm on Apr 21 2008 | Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Military
Our local public radio station was replaying the most recent Hillbama debate, and so I listened to a piece of it that had slipped under my radar the first time. It’s actually quite funny, despite the scary implications of what Hillary is saying she’ll do regarding Iraq if she’s elected President. Here’s what [...]
Bookworm on Apr 06 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Iraq, Media matters, Military
A couple of nights ago, I watched a Frontline show entitled Bad Voodoo’s War, which followed a platoon of National Guard soldiers who were deployed to Iraq at the beginning of the Surge in 2007. The show’s editor/producer did not go to war with the men. Instead, she gave them video cameras, and they recorded [...]
Bookworm on Apr 03 2008 | Filed under: Military
The MSM has been very low key about this one (natch), but we in the blogosphere don’t have to abide by MSM constraints. I therefore wanted to make sure all of you knew the story of Michael Monsoor, the first Naval hero to be awarded a Medal of Honor in the Iraq War. [...]
Bookworm on Apr 02 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Military, World War II
The Progressives are crying for our boys to come home, but these seem to be crocodile tears, designed to hide a desire to harangue and insult them when they do return. After all, whether you’re looking at the Ivies’ refusal to allow military recruiters on campus or Code Pink’s assault on the Marines, you [...]
Bookworm on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, Military
I loved this short, but true, story:
A teenager learned it is not a good idea to try to rob a former U.S. Marine at knifepoint, no matter how old he is.
Santa Rosa police Sgt. Steve Bair said an 84-year-old man was walking on Fourth Street with a grocery bag in each arm when the boy [...]
Bookworm on Mar 25 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Education, England, Military
This morning we read about the Minneapolis high school that turned away the Vets for Freedom bus. It turns out that this attitude, in its most extreme form, is epidemic in England:
Teachers today vowed to oppose military recruitment campaigns in schools that are based on Ministry of Defence “propaganda”.
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) [...]
Bookworm on Mar 24 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Iraq, Israel, Media matters, Military
As is the rest of the media, the Times is making much of the fact that 4,000 American troops have died during more than five years of war in Iraq. I won’t repeat here (or, at least, I won’t repeat at length) my oft-stated belief that, while each death is a personal tragedy, this [...]
Bookworm on Mar 24 2008 | Filed under: Iraq, Media matters, Military
If nothing else proves that most MSM journalists are hacks, it’s their inability to break free from the phrase “grim milestone” whenever they talk about a new reportable number of American deaths in Iraq. They’ve taken a phrase that should give a sense of tragedy and, instead, turned it into something so hackneyed it’s almost [...]
Bookworm on Mar 16 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Military
Our local paper, the Marin Independent Journal, has a surprisingly nice, fact-filled article about the uphill work of being an Army recruiter in Marin County. There’s a small amount of harassment, but mostly there’s just a huge lack of interest — which is sad, since Marin, as one of America’s most affluent areas, is at [...]
Bookworm on Mar 13 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Media matters, Military
In the wake of past wars (pre-Vietnam), noncombatant men used to lie about having served as a way to increase their status: even though one of these confabulators might have spent the war as a sidings salesmen in Paducah, he could increase his standing amongst the credulous by claiming to have fought his way [...]
Bookworm on Mar 12 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Military
Rob Riggle, at the Daily Show, demonstrates that people who support the military may find that their best weapon is simply to let Code Pink talk, and talk, and talk. Man, those gals are stupid.
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Bookworm on Mar 05 2008 | Filed under: Military
There’s a big hoo-ha about the “Marines killing a puppy video,” a bit of nastiness, whether real or faked, that is giving the anti-military crowd a lot of grist for their “the military creates monsters” mill. I learned something interesting, though, at From my position . . . on the way! It turns out that [...]
Bookworm on Mar 01 2008 | Filed under: Media matters, Military
I’ve long been a fan of Bill Maudlin’s wonderful WWII cartoons depicting life on the front line. Todd DePastino, another admirer, has written a biography, Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front, that definitely looks worth the read. David Michaelis, writing for the New York Times has a nice review of the book. It’s also [...]
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