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Military Weekend: Honoring Gold Star Mothers and Family (Updated)
Sunday, 25 September is National Gold Star Mother’s Day, also known as National Gold Star Mother’s and Family’s Day. The “Day” — designated the last Sunday of September — was created on June 23, 1936,...
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Testing Democracy
The polls have tightened and the presidential election in the last few weeks has seemed like a toss-up. Trump blusters, lies, and exaggerates at every opportunity and his supporters rally to his side,...
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Bringing Our Heroes Home, No Matter How Long It Takes
Part of the spirit, the culture and the values of the U.S. military is the creed that you don’t leave anyone behind—whether captured, injured or dead. Prior to 2015, three agencies shared in the...
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The Beginning of Respect for the Military?
In July 2015, the inimitable Andy Borowitz wrote a satirical piece at The New Yorker in which he shared with readers “a little-known episode of personal heroism” from the youth of then-presidential...
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(Update) A Change in Tactics, or a Shift in Values?
UPDATE: While Americans anguish over the mounting toll of (unintended) civilian casualties as a result of allied air strikes in the Middle East (below) and the investigations continue, a monstrous...
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(UPDATE) Military Weekend: A Hero Finally Honored
UPDATE: To watch the commissioning ceremony of the USS Rafael Peralta, today, Saturday, July 29, at 1 p.m. EDT, please click here. Original Post: On October 29, 2015, the U.S. Department of Defense...
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On Presidential Visits to Our Troops in Combat
President Lincoln visiting the battlefield at Antietam, Md., October 3, 1862. (National Archives) Throughout history commanders in chief have visited our troops at war, especially during holidays. A...
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Sixteen Years after the Start of the Iraq War, Its Legacy and Questions Continue
U.S. Army soldiers wait to board a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during an air assault mission in the Al Jazeera Desert, Iraq, on March 22, 2006. (DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon, U.S. Air Force.)...
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Yet Another Diaspora. This Time on Our Own Doorstep (UPDATE)
Venezuelans risk life and limb in a desperate search for food, medicine and safety in Colombia. UNHCR Facebook photo UPDATE: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) has just...
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LAUD LIZ CHENEY FOR DEFENDING TRUTH, BUT DON’T FORGET HER FATHER’S LIES
Kudos to Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney. Her House GOP leadership post hangs by a thread because she refuses to mouth Trump’s Big Lie about a stolen election, and Wednesday she boldly framed the stakes: “The...
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Afghanistan: Disaster 20 Years in the Making
by Mike Fuqua The recent events leading up to the debacle that is unfolding in Afghanistan has stirred up the blog juices in me. In addition to being a catastrophe of epic proportions, it’s a ripe...
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At the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, ancient Greece and Rome can tell...
America’s political leaders rushed the nation into war just weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, just like ancient Greeks and Romans did in response to similar traumatic events. David Hume Kennerly/Getty...
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I Have Not Known a World Without the War in Afghanistan. Here is My Perspective.
by Noah Jenkins In a political environment mired with hyper-partisanship, one would think it would be a relief to see a unifying issue. Although it was before my time, I have read much of how...
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COUNTRY FIRST: LET’S REMEMBER COLIN POWELL AT HIS BEST
We’ve long known about Colin Powell’s worst public sin. He finally acknowledged it nine years ago when he wrote, “I was mad at myself for not having smelled the problem. My instincts failed me.” The...
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HOW NOT TO SUPPORT THE TROOPS – UPDATES
Sgt. Richard Ganske, 84th Combat Engineer Battalion working at a burn pit in Balad, Iraq August,, 2004. DoD photo by Pfc. Abel Trevino/U.S. Army. UPDATE II: For those veterans who may have been exposed...
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