Death, Duty, D-Day
“He that outlives this day, and comes safe home will stand a tip-toe when this day is named… Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, but he’ll remember with advantages what feats he did that day.” — Shakespeare, Henry…
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7 articles
Duty and Sacrifice
For the majority of Americans, Memorial Day is first and foremost a three-day weekend. Time to watch the Indianapolis 500 or a baseball game; time to open the swimming pool or have a picnic. The American flag will be appropriated…
Routine Evil
There was an awful inevitability to what happened to those two American soldiers.
Gangland Slaying
Ahmed Fadhil Nazzal al-Khalayleh was a murderous Jordanian thug who might have died relatively unknown. But the sullen, quick tempered, semi-literate gangster, thought by some in his own hometown to be a dangerous half-wit, had "found religion" as the expression…
Confronting 'He Who Confronts'
If I may paraphrase the late Richard Pryor. That Saddam. He BAD.
Armor All
Pfc. Steven Tschiderer fell thunderously when a high power round from a Dragonoff sniper rifle hit him in the chest.
An Ugly Little Reality
The bomb attack on the Palestine Hotel, in Baghdad, last week was typical of the vast majority of terrorist bombings in Iraq. It was a military failure, but to some extent a propaganda success in that it got the attention…