Month: June 2005

Every soldier’s death diminishes me. Every time a roadside bomb goes off, somewhere in America, parents, brothers, sisters, children, neighbors, classmates feel the sudden sting of death. We have now sent over 1700...

The evening edition The Bar is Closed Please UnRecommend We’ve moved on

Leonard Clark, 860th MP CO, AZ Army National Guard, has been leaving voicemails for his friends back home. MP3 of recent message. Second recent MP3. Typed hurriedly while I listened: “The leadership says we’re...

Now that parents are waking up to the existence of the NCLB legislated database,  our good government has decided to come up with a brand new military recruiting database,  separate from the NCLB database. I know lots...

Bush and P.M. Jaafari press conference, June 24, 2005: BUSH: [Y]ou know, I was pleased to see the other day when I was reading that there’s a lot of air traffic in and out of the airport now, quite a lot of air traffic. In...