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HONORING THE FALLEN: US Military KIA, Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - January 2010 by: jimstaro Fri Feb 05, 2010 at 09:49:38 PST April 5, 2009 Dover 'Old Guard' Dover 'Old Guard' team shoulders heavy burden There's More... :: (0 Comments, 3609 words in story)

Recent Vets and PTSD, You Won!!! {Slightly Updated w/links} by: jimstaro Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 05:46:52 PST This is just breaking as I first heard it a short time ago on an NPR news report at top of the hour! Not much up on this as of a few minutes ago. There's More... :: (0 Comments, 400 words in story)

HONORING THE FALLEN: US Military KIA, Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - November 2009 by: jimstaro Thu Dec 03, 2009 at 10:48:47 PST (9 am. - promoted by ek hornbeck) April 5, 2009 Dover 'Old Guard' Dover 'Old Guard' team shoulders heavy burden There's More... :: (0 Comments, 3520 words in story)

Continuing the Veterans Day Messages...... by: jimstaro Thu Nov 12, 2009 at 09:51:56 PST (11 am. - promoted by ek hornbeck) On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 11.11.09, I caught a couple of important discussions in the continuing known by us veterans are the results of wars and occupations of choice, or any war and occupation, as to the veterans and military personal once they've been sent to serve in and then return home, most being discharged from their service obligation after serving the time they signed up for, all at that point or later becoming the veterans of their service. This first one is just a news report I happened upon but hits on the issue many of us are long time advocates of and adds to the rest posted below it. There's More... :: (0 Comments, 1389 words in story)

HONORING THE FALLEN: US Military KIA, Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - October 2009 by: jimstaro Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 12:37:51 PST (10 am. - promoted by ek hornbeck) April 5, 2009 Dover 'Old Guard' Dover 'Old Guard' team shoulders heavy burden There's More... :: (3 Comments, 4654 words in story)

Colin Powell: "Terrorist Industrial Complex" by: jimstaro Fri Oct 16, 2009 at 05:35:19 PDT (noon. - promoted by ek hornbeck) KO visits an interview with Colin Powell in GQ from 2007 that most overlooked and shouldn't have, while many were saying or thinking the same, as to what was happening in the previous administration, Powell says it using Eisenhower's words and warning of the growing "Military Industrial Complex" with the slight change describing the now not "Cold War" fears once used to enrich the Defense Contractors now tuned to "Terrorism", Criminal Terrorism, but as a force to destroy us all and our beliefs, just like nukes but adding in the beliefs to make it even scarier. There's More... :: (4 Comments, 175 words in story)

Richard Engel in Afghanistan at a "Tip of the Spear" by: jimstaro Mon Oct 12, 2009 at 06:49:55 PDT ( - promoted by buhdydharma ) The Video below, not a trailer, is the first video of this series that aired the night of 10.11.09 in an hour special, MSNBC broke it up online into six parts, the rest are linked below the video. One of many of the articles recently written as the focus, after seven years, once again turns to the Afghan occupation as does the debate on being there, occupied now going into the ninth year. It was not secured after ridding the Taliban government and al Qaeda was put on the run when we invaded, destroyed and occupied the innocent people of Iraq where we still have tens of thousands of soldiers and private contractors, some being of our now mercenary army. There's More... :: (0 Comments, 361 words in story)

10.07.09 Eight Years In: Chances Lost in Afghanistan by: jimstaro Wed Oct 07, 2009 at 04:01:57 PDT (9 am. - promoted by ek hornbeck) Afghanistan stopped being anything about 9/11 when the talk and the beating of the war drums started and got louder for invading an absolutely innocent people and country, a country led by our once good friend, and brutal dictator, that some wanted silenced. Now we enter the ninth year of occupying a country that if we had really kept our promises, as we didn't once before, and helped them might look and be a completely different country, for the innocent Afghans. There's More... :: (9 Comments, 259 words in story)

HONORING THE FALLEN: US Military KIA, Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - September 2009 by: jimstaro Sat Oct 03, 2009 at 12:26:02 PDT (9 am. - promoted by ek hornbeck) Dover 'Old Guard' Dover 'Old Guard' team shoulders heavy burden There's More... :: (3 Comments, 4634 words in story)

$3,000 Immediate Checks to be Handed (literally) by: jimstaro Fri Sep 25, 2009 at 15:46:02 PDT This is gonna be short but Real Sweet!! I want you to go over to VetVoice and visit a post Richard Smith just placed with all the good news of How This New Veterans Administration, under the Obama Administration, Really Works!! Richard starts the long subject title with what I've got in mine, then leads into this: {follow me  below} There's More... :: (0 Comments, 278 words in story)

Krakauer Explores Pat Tillman's Death And Cover-Up by: jimstaro Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 14:11:12 PDT I did a post the other day about Jon Krakauer and his new book: "Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman" with a video report from ABC's Good Morning America and from the ABC World News Tonight. He's since been on at least two NPR shows one being All Things Considered which is about a seven minute discussion of the book and the Pat Tillman military service story that was propagandized by both the cheney/bush administration, the pentagon and the military! There's More... :: (0 Comments, 213 words in story)

DAV Virtual March on Washington by: jimstaro Tue Sep 15, 2009 at 04:52:04 PDT (11 am. - promoted by ek hornbeck) The March Has Begun Welcome to the Virtual March on Washington for Veterans "Million Claims March." There's More... :: (2 Comments, 802 words in story)

Pat Tillman "Where Men Win Glory" by: jimstaro Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 16:34:37 PDT (9 am. - promoted by ek hornbeck) This was just reported on ABC World News and apparently ABC Good Morning America also had a report this morning, video from that below. EXCERPT: Jon Krakauer's 'Where Men Win Glory' Krakauer Investigates the Life and Death of American Football Hero Pat Tillman Patrick Tillman, former NFL player, made national headlines when he gave up his lucrative sports career to join the U.S. Army Rangers. There's More... :: (2 Comments, 480 words in story)

HONORING THE FALLEN: US Military KIA, Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - August 2009 by: jimstaro Sat Sep 05, 2009 at 15:51:47 PDT Dover 'Old Guard' Dover 'Old Guard' team shoulders heavy burden There's More... :: (1 Comments, 4651 words in story)

Rest In Peace by: jimstaro Tue Sep 01, 2009 at 06:42:58 PDT Marine killed in Afghanistan served country in many ways Marine Sgt. Bill Cahir was a public servant his whole life. He served as a congressional staffer, as a journalist, as a political candidate and, finally, as a Marine reservist in Iraq and Afghanistan. Snip "There it was," Cahir wrote. "My last, best chance to serve." There's More... :: (4 Comments, 421 words in story)

Deadliest Month {so far} by: jimstaro Sat Aug 29, 2009 at 03:28:25 PDT (9 am. - promoted by ek hornbeck) August Deadliest Month for U.S. Troops in Afghanistan As August becomes the deadliest month for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, post-election tension continues to increase. A Washington Post reporter provides an update from Kabul. There's More... :: (3 Comments, 215 words in story)

Drug Addiction in Afghanistan by: jimstaro Sun Aug 09, 2009 at 04:30:07 PDT ( - promoted by mishima) After 9/11 and the Talibans refusal to turn over the al Qaeda leaders and others we invaded Afghanistan ridding that country of their leadership and Supposedly to go after the guilty of that huge criminal terrorist act against our Nation and People, Then We pretty much Left, taking our military personal and promised rebuilding money with us. The War Drums beat instead for invasion of an innocent country and it's people, Iraq, which became the overwhelming focus while smaller numbers of troops stayed in Afghanistan starting a long stagnated occupation. There's More... :: (3 Comments, 730 words in story)

HONORING THE FALLEN: US Military KIA, Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - July 2009 by: jimstaro Sun Aug 02, 2009 at 10:12:51 PDT Dover 'Old Guard' Dover 'Old Guard' team shoulders heavy burden There's More... :: (2 Comments, 4494 words in story)

Casualties of War by: jimstaro Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 13:01:34 PDT (9 am. - promoted by ek hornbeck) Last week the Colorado Springs 'The Gazette' had another very disturbing report, in two parts, following up previous reports of soldiers of OIF and OEF who committed murders. These, from all I can find out, were just regular teens, no trouble out of the ordinary prior to their military service. But once sent to these occupations, sometimes more then once, they returned like many of our brother 'Nam Vets, very troubled and not getting the help needed or not seeking because of the nature of military service, added to their situations of multiple tours, longer tours then we served and little down time between, their nightmares caught up to them by abusing drugs and alcohol, by acting out in rage, by loosing control. There's More... :: (0 Comments, 1178 words in story)

Valley Forge Village by: jimstaro Thu Jul 09, 2009 at 10:27:54 PDT This comes from Nadia McCaffery who's son Patrick was killed in Iraq. Her campaign to Honor her son, and all that serve: Patrick McCaffrey Foundation Sgt Patrick Ryan McCaffrey May 26 1970 * June 22 2004 There's More... :: (1 Comments, 106 words in story)

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