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I meant to post this yesterday, but time got away from me:  many, many, many congratulations to the Marines and their Afghan allies for the Marjah victory.  I never doubted that they would win, but I certainly understood that each Marine and Afghan soldier faced the risk that he would make the ultimate sacrifice for [...]

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A friend sent me this powerful (non-exclusive) image from Michael Yon:

Yon describes it as follows:
A crew from the United States Air Force spent Saturday night and Sunday morning airlifting different groups of wounded soldiers from Kandahar to Camp Bastion to Bagram, back to Kandahar, then back to Bagram, and back to Kandahar. These patients were [...]

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On the subject of the “secular humanism religion” that guides liberals, it’s informative to read this quotation from William Kristol, writing about Obama’s sudden imperative need to do away with Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in the American military:
But the repeal is something that Obama campaigned on. He believes in it. But with all due respect [...]

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I’m sorry posting today was limited, at best.  I had wall-to-wall appointments and meetings, and am now starting the carpool rounds. I also took time out to do something nice.
Some months ago, I was able to convince my 10 year old son that, rather than getting more stuff in his life, he should take some [...]

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Over at The Dawn Patrol, Greyhawk has put together a very special list:  he’s compiled links to (and holiday messages from) active duty bloggers serving at home and abroad.  He asks that you visit their blogs and send them holiday greetings in the comments section.  That sounds like a plan to me.  It’s such a [...]

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I’ve been following, although not blogging about, the story of CJ Grisham.  Briefly, he’s a milblogger who received accolades from the White House on down, both for his bravery in battle, and for the quality of his milblog reporting.  Recently, however, while living in Huntsville, he got into a wrangle with his kids’ school over [...]

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For my birthday, my husband gave me an Amazon Kindle.  It’s a sensible gift for me, since I read voraciously and often find myself waiting around in various places because of carpools.  Since the Kindle fits in my purse, I always have something to read.
The only problem with the Kindle is the expense.  Hardback books [...]

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Do you ever wonder what it’s like to live in Iowahawk’s brain?  I do.  Brilliant satire flows out of him so effortlessly that I know that his brain functions in a very different, and much more sophisticated, way than mine does.  Take the Nanny State approach to war.  Unable to come up with my own [...]

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Mudville Gazette reports that some Republican lawmakers haven’t forgotten the three SEALS facing court-martial for having given a fat lip to a suspected Al Qaeda murderer during his arrest.
This is no little thing.  SEALS are the creme de la creme of our military forces.  If they’ve done wrong, that’s one thing.  But if they haven’t, [...]

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There’s yet another movie coming out about the way in which the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq destroy lives and turn young men into pathetic losers:
There is a grim timeliness to the release of “Brothers,” Jim Sheridan’s movie about the effects of war on the family of a Marine serving in Afghanistan. Whatever the other [...]

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Not that we didn’t know it before, but we’ve been getting a rash of statements lately that make it clear that liberals don’t understand the military.  When Bush was Commander in Chief, the troops were maniacal killers or politically useful body counts.  Now that Obama is Commander in Chief, the rhetoric has shifted so that [...]

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In the “better late than never” category, I discovered a few days ago that my local conservative radio station, KSFO, maintains a rolling archive of all the shows they’ve aired over the preceding seven days.  This means that, finally, I can listen to Rush, whose radio show normally comes along at the world’s most inconvenient [...]

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Right after the Fort Hood shooting, I referred in an email to Major Nidal Hasan.  Steve Schippert, who was one of the email’s recipients, immediately wrote me back saying that I should never use the word “Major” in the same sentence as that killer’s name.  Through his act of murderous treason, Steve, said Hasan had [...]

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Here’s our Commander in Chief speaking of the situation in Afghanistan while he was running for office:  “We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there.”
This post is not about the [...]

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As Barack Obama seems poised to turn Afghanistan into another Vietnam, it’s no surprise that troops in Afghanistan are increasingly demoralized.  It turns out that Xerox is doing something to help that situation.  If you go here, you can create a thank-you card for the troops, which Xerox will then send out for you — [...]

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In a field rich with excellent conservative writers, I always think Mark Steyn is the best.  The joyful days, though, are the days when he outdoes even himself.  In this week’s column about the fluffy multiculturalism that reared its head both before and after Hasan’s deadly terrorist attack at Fort Hood, Steyn outdoes himself.  Here [...]

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You know how you never drink a toast to yourself?  Well, in Obama’s world, it’s all about him.  As he made clear at the Berlin Wall ceremony, history has culminated in him.  He transcends all things and is now, at least in his own mind, the living embodiment of America.  And as Lucianne discovered with [...]

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Obama has known for more than 12 months that he was going to become CIC, with responsibility for Afghanistan.  This means 12 months of presidential advisers able to give this neophyte help in figuring out the best strategy for the war that he declared, during the campaign, was the essential, central battlefield in the war [...]

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If it wasn’t in a news story, I’d actually think that this was an O. Henry story, because the ending is such a twist.  You see, it all started when a young man, walking down a dark street at night was mugged and robbed at gunpoint:
A Milwaukee Army reservist’s military identification earned him some street [...]

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It’s fitting that today — Veterans’ Day — is the last day for donating to Project Valour-IT’s annual fundraiser. Please remember how much our men and women in the service have done for us, and do something for them. And — Go Navy!

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I always have a difficult time on Veterans’ Day, trying to figure out what to say.  Words seem very inadequate to the task of thanking those who have given so much to defend the freedoms that we often take for granted.  My mind becomes a kalaidoscopic jumble of images — sepia photos of putti clad [...]

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Project Valour-IT’s annual fundraiser ends tomorrow, so there’s still time to give. Remember, they give so much for us. Now it’s our turn to give back to them. And — Go Navy!

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November 10 marks the 234th birthday of the United States Marines.  The Marines themselves have produced an excellent video celebrating their own history and the brave men and women who serve:
It’s fitting, somehow, that the birthday of the Marine Corps, which has given so much to our nation, falls one day ahead of Veterans’ Day.

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An eyewitness heard those words — Allahu Akbar — come out of the killer’s mouth.  Private Joe Foster, though, is still ready to do his job, as he did at the time of the shooting, and that despite a bullet strike on his femur.
UPDATE:  You must — MUST — check out Mudville Gazette to see [...]

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These are a matched set, and you must read them, one after the other:
Janet Napolitano, the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, having thought long and hard, decides that the real victims of the Fort Hood massacre are  . . . wait for it . . . Muslims.
On the flip side, Cassandra, at Villainous Company, talks about [...]

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