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Dover 'Old Guard'
Dover 'Old Guard' team shoulders heavy burden
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Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 12:50:41 PDT
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Dover 'Old Guard'
Dover 'Old Guard' team shoulders heavy burden
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Tue May 05, 2009 at 12:58:43 PDT
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 Iraq, Rapidly becoming the Forgotten War!!
There have been 4,603 coalition deaths -- 4,286 Americans, 2 Australians, 1 Azerbaijani, 179 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, 1 Czech, 7 Danes, 2 Dutch, 2 Estonians, 1 Fijian, 5 Georgians, 1 Hungarian, 33 Italians, 1 Kazakh, 1 Korean, 3 Latvian, 22 Poles, 3 Romanians, 5 Salvadoran, 4 Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, 2 Thai and 18 Ukrainians -- in the war in Iraq as of May 5 2009, according to a CNN count. { Graphical breakdown of casualties }. The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose deaths have been reported by their country's governments. The list also includes seven employees of the U.S. Defense Department. At least 31,230 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon. View casualties in the war in Afghanistan.
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Mon Apr 06, 2009 at 09:46:03 PDT
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First Photos of Fallen Soldier Ends 18-Year Ban - 4.05.09
An airman stands next to the coffin containing the body of Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers as it is lowered from a plane upon its return to the U.S. at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware April 5, 2009. Myers, of Hopewell, Virginia, died April 4 near Helmand province, Afghanistan of wounds suffered from an improvised explosive device. For the first time since the Obama administration reversed an 18-year-old ban on news coverage of returning fallen soldiers, the military allowed media to cover to cover the arrival tonight of an airman killed in Afghanistan. Collapse
(Joshua Roberts/REUTERS)
I wish to thank the families who allowed the press photo's showing the respect the fallen receive and the real cost of war!!
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Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 16:07:30 PST
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 Iraq, Rapidly becoming the Forgotten War!!
There have been 4,572 coalition deaths -- 4,255 Americans, 2 Australians, 1 Azerbaijani, 179 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, 1 Czech, 7 Danes, 2 Dutch, 2 Estonians, 1 Fijian, 5 Georgians, 1 Hungarian, 33 Italians, 1 Kazakh, 1 Korean, 3 Latvian, 22 Poles, 3 Romanians, 5 Salvadoran, 4 Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, 2 Thai and 18 Ukrainians -- in the war in Iraq as of January 6, 2008, according to a CNN count. { Graphical breakdown of casualties }. The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose deaths have been reported by their country's governments. The list also includes seven employees of the U.S. Defense Department. At least 31,089 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon. View casualties in the war in Afghanistan.
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Tue Jan 06, 2009 at 06:23:02 PST
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'GoldStar Moms' Honor Their Fallen, Christmas 2008
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Tue Dec 02, 2008 at 13:40:25 PST
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If you visit any of the lists of the KIA's or Injured in the Iraq Theater one thing you'll notice, the Only Occupation Forces numbers rising, being Killed and Maimed, are American Forces these last number of months!! I find myself wondering how many are on a first tour, or second, or third, or forth..................................., in Both Theaters!!
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Sun Nov 02, 2008 at 06:02:21 PST
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Iraq
If you visit any of the lists of the KIA's or Injured in the Iraq Theater one thing you'll find, the Only Occupation Forces numbers rising, being Killed and Maimed, are American Forces these last number of months!! I find myself wondering how many are on a first tour, or second, or third, or forth..................................., in Both Theaters!!
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Sun Oct 05, 2008 at 05:12:53 PDT
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Iraq
  There have been 4,491 coalition deaths -- 4,177 Americans, 2 Australians, 1 Azerbaijani, 176 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, 1 Czech, 7 Danes, 2 Dutch, 2 Estonians, 1 Fijian, 5 Georgians, 1 Hungarian, 33 Italians, 1 Kazakh, 1 Korean, 3 Latvian, 22 Poles, 3 Romanians, 5 Salvadoran, 4 Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, 2 Thai and 18 Ukrainians -- in the war in Iraq as of October 3, 2008, according to a CNN count. { Graphical breakdown of casualties }. The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose deaths have been reported by their country's governments. The list also includes seven employees of the U.S. Defense Department. At least 30,680 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon. View casualties in the war in Afghanistan.
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Sat Sep 20, 2008 at 00:27:16 PDT
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Lost Treasure ©2008 Emily Duffy Photo by Sibila Savage
Cross-posted at my blog.
Dimensions: 29" x 29" x 21"
Description: Small wood coffin filled with gold soldiers and coins. Inside, lid has an abused reproduction of the Bill of Rights (burned, torn, dragged through the mud, bled on) and an American flag on outside. Base has pertinent news clippings.
Materials: Wood, velvet, metal, paper, toy soldiers, gold coins (plastic) gold metallic paint, amber varnish.
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Sun Sep 07, 2008 at 04:30:50 PDT
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There have been 4,468 coalition deaths -- 4,154 Americans, 2 Australians, 1 Azerbaijani, 176 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, 1 Czech, 7 Danes, 2 Dutch, 2 Estonians, 1 Fijian, 5 Georgians, 1 Hungarian, 33 Italians, 1 Kazakh, 1 Korean, 3 Latvian, 22 Poles, 3 Romanians, 5 Salvadoran, 4 Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, 2 Thai and 18 Ukrainians -- in the war in Iraq as of September 5, 2008, according to a CNN count. { Graphical breakdown of casualties }. The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose deaths have been reported by their country's governments. The list also includes seven employees of the U.S. Defense Department. At least 30,568 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon. View casualties in the war in Afghanistan.
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Sun Aug 03, 2008 at 06:59:08 PDT
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Staff Sgt. Alex Jimenez comes home for funeral
A hearse bearing the remains of 25-year-old Staff Sgt. Alex Jimenez came to a halt in front of his father's house in Lawrence, the scene of a 14-month vigil as the family awaited word of his fate. A memorial shrine with floral arrangements and half-burned votive candles was on the sidewalk. (7-25-08)
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Mon Jul 14, 2008 at 07:22:53 PDT
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The Iraq War, for it or against it, justified or unjustified, has not been reported fairly. On this point, everyone agrees. That the good news has not been shown is just as true as that the bad news has not been shown. The truth about just what has been reported is in question here.
The ACLU recently reported the extent to which the Pentagon has tightly controlled the flow of information that is available to the American Public. There are no photos of caskets, no battle field footage that hasn't been re-run thousands of times, no images of dead people. Read that last one again... no photos, videos or even realistic reporting about DEAD people. It's almost as if the war has been sanitized to the point that even the "official" casualty lists do not sound real. What's goin' on?
With all due respect to both sides of the debate, the American people have not ever yet truly participated in the experience of the war. We haven't seen dead soldiers return in flag draped coffins and we haven't been able to mourn them or truly honor their sacrifice. We haven't seen the extent of the human casualties both civilian and military, enemy and ally to truly appreciate the horror of what has been accomplished. We've only seen the scrubbed version of the war, the sanitized version that the Pentagon has gone to great lengths and considerable expense to present to us.
"At every step of the way, the Bush administration and Defense Department have gone to unprecedented lengths to control and suppress information about the human cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan," said Nasrina Bargzie, an attorney with the ACLU National Security Project. "Our democracy depends on an informed public and that is why it is so important that the American people see these documents. These documents will help to fill the information void around the issue of civilian casualties in Iraq and will lead to a more complete understanding of the prosecution of the war."
When the real sights and sounds, horror and bloodshed of the reality in Iraq finally become known, will history treat our government harshly or will it be regarded as a necessary component of modern war? Did the military truly learn the lesson of Vietnam in that the bloodshed, violence, and mayhem of war be hidden from the citizenry at all cost? We're there, we're not leaving, and we the people are ignorant of the true cost in blood and sacrifice.
Yes, we do not hear the good news, but neither do we hear the bad. I fear that the war WILL go on forever, as long as the official Pentagon version of the events in Iraq is all we hear. I fear that the citizens of this country will not be stirred to truly rise up against it, because we've been anesthetized to it's horror. I fear that the horrible reality of war has been transformed into glorious conquest in a cruel attempt to justify it's fearful cost.
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Sat Jul 05, 2008 at 07:09:20 PDT
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Last night, on the PBS Newshour, they had an appropriate July 4th interview, especially in these times of two occupations:
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Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 09:21:22 PDT
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A Nation that sends its Sons and Daughters into Occupations?
 A C-17 Airforce Transport plane arrives in Kandahar, Afghanistan to receive the bodies of five U.S. service members killed. Though more than 1,000 US and coalition forces were on hand to participate in the "ramp ceremony," a Los Angeles Times reporter and photographer were asked to leave the area by a military public affairs officer. A Pentagon policy banning coverage of this particular event was cited as the reason. [Photo: Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times]
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Wed Jun 04, 2008 at 14:00:47 PDT
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Arlington South Memorial -Memorial Day Weekend '08
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Sat May 03, 2008 at 05:19:04 PDT
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 There have been 4,373 coalition deaths -- 4,065 Americans, two Australians, 176 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, one Czech, seven Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, one Hungarian, 33 Italians, one Kazakh, one Korean, three Latvian, 22 Poles, three Romanians, five Salvadoran, four Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians -- in the war in Iraq as of May 2, 2008, according to a CNN count. { Graphical breakdown of casualties }. The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose deaths have been reported by their country's governments. The list also includes seven employees of the U.S. Defense Department. At least 29,911 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon. View casualties in the war in Afghanistan.
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Thu May 01, 2008 at 07:45:48 PDT
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May 1, 2003, is another day of infamy for the Bush administration and America. In the kind of staged bravado dictators relish, George W. Bush donned a flight suit, pretended to fly, and then used an aircraft carrier as the backdrop for a speech to declare the mission in Iraq accomplished. Every cable news channel carried the event live as if history were somehow being made. It is time to look back at five years of accomplishments in Iraq.
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Sat Apr 05, 2008 at 04:07:54 PDT
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Arlington West - March 2008 - Honoring The Fallen
The Video was produced for the New York Times and can be also seen At Their Site
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March on Washington
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