Dems and Lord de l’Isle and Dudley
You know, I hate to sound curmudgeonly, I really do, but didn’t we just see a report, not two weeks ago, pretty much clearing the air re the “Gitmo abuses?” Didn’t some Democrat lawmakers go over...
View ArticlePulling out of Germany, sixty years on
Varifrank has one of the best and most insightful pieces I have yet read on the whole idea of pulling out of Iraq, and the fact that we are finally “pulling out” of Germany. …At this point the story of...
View ArticleFrom Beauty Queen to Gy-rene?
Is that how to spell Gy-rene? Please correct me, you Marines, out there! Anyway, she’s not joining the Marines, she’s joining the Army. But Army didn’t rhyme. :-) This is a pretty cool story. Last...
View ArticlePat Conroy proves my father right
When I was a little girl, the nightly news was full of young men dying in Vietnam and other young men (usually bearded, long haired “counter-culturalists” wearing the latest trendy “counter-cultural”...
View ArticleHillary missed “Mister Soldier” moment
I was struck to read this piece from Richard Cohen, a good writer who is by no means a “wingnut conservative,” passionately taking on the MoveOn.org ad from last week. The ad managed to smear Gen....
View Article"The stuff priests are made of…" UPDATED
Wow, a great photo via the Crescat, who recounts the story she found here and marvels at “the stuff priests are made of”: 4 June 1962. Navy chaplain Luis Padillo was giving last rites to dying soldiers...
View ArticleHappy Labor Day!
As you gather with your families today, for one last cookout, enjoying your easily-purchased beer, cold-transported from the brewer, your propane grill -probably invented by someone who’d forgotten to...
View Article"They're my nukes…" Let's eat cake.
Remember the Irishman in Braveheart who declared that Ireland, “is my island!” Seems President Obama thinks our nuclear arsenal is his weaponry. Thank Ace for the boldface: Obama has rejected the...
View ArticleLib Blog: Afghan support was a political tactic
It’s refreshing to hear the truth, even if the truth is a shameful one that played with the lives of our service people while politicians and pundits postured. An astonishingly honest assessment — one...
View Article"Goodnight, Chesty"
I had never heard of “Chesty Puller” until reading this piece just now, but it sounds like a film needs to be made, here: Enlisting in the Marine Corps in 1918 he would serve until 1955, rising in rank...
View ArticleRandom Must-Reads
Collected in my tab-bar since I started feeling cruddy – might as well share with you all the things I have either read or “been meaning to get to reading…” All submitted mostly without comment,...
View ArticleUS Flag not flying in Haiti Relief Compound?
Other nations are proudly flying their flags as they assist Haiti in recovering from a devastating earthquake. But the United States is not. Our nation has conducted relief efforts for decades through...
View ArticleYear of the Priest: Military
Excerpts from a great photo essay on military chaplains, coming to us via the Crescat, who loves to celebrate the manly priests: Catholic military chaplain Cpt. Carl Subler on March 5 at a small U.S....
View ArticleThe North Platte Canteen
Since the Greatest Generation came up here, thought I’d share this, from reader Dennis S. I’d known nothing of this story; what a good movie it might make! Also, (via New Advent), it seems some...
View ArticleA Family of Heroes
If you are looking around and feeling like the world is bereft of heroes, allow me to introduce you to a family made up of them. We need to know that grace abides in the world. Here is grace. In...
View ArticleMemorial Day: Heroes
Remembering the heroism of Staff Sgt. Martin Richburg , who did this in 2006: Staff Sgt. Martin Richburg byMonte Morin / S&S Here’s the thing about real heroes: they never think they’ve done...
View ArticleA belated Memorial Day Must-Read
Check this out, by Anthony Esolen, on The Soldier’s Rough Charity “. . .we look to the soldier, who may well make his career in or from the service, yet who endures privations we can hardly imagine,...
View ArticleObama-McChrystal-Petraeus Reactions
On NPR this afternoon, I heard a report that some military folk on the ground at Kandahar believed McChrystal would get off with a tongue-lashing for the Rolling Stone piece, particularly since it was...
View ArticleVeteran's Day; Soldiers & Saints
Fr. Tim Vakoc, Military Chaplain, RIP A Hero is as a Hero Does Nice posts at Hot Air and at Deacon Greg’s place and elsewhere, but I like this piece by Frank Weathers, because it reminds us that (as...
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