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Michelle Malkin and Melanie Morgan are holding an Internet telethon and we are less than $20,000 from hitting 1 MILLION dollars to send care packages to the troops.
Get to Move America Forward and donate.
UPDATE: People donated $1.055 MILLION dollars to send care packages to the troops. Very nice.
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American Thinker reminds us that today is the 64th Anniversary of D-Day. I wonder how many young Americans know that, before D-Day, and barring some English-based bombing raids that did not involve “feet on the ground” fighting, America’s War had taken place entirely in the Pacific. Europe had been mostly stagnant: Hitler had taken over [...]

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For all of you who have been so kind as to make a USO donation, I wanted you to see the kind of things that money buys.
General Petraeus cut the ribbon on a brand new USO office right in Iraq - where it can do the most good. From the press release:
The new center is [...]

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In my opinion John Murtha owes the Marines and the entire military a big — public — apology, AND he needs to contribute some funds to help pay the legal expenses of the Marines he slandered. Can they ever get their reputations back? I don’t know. Can you ever gather all the feathers from a [...]

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After nearly four years of hoping, waiting and praying, the family of Sgt. Keith Matthew Maupin (captured by insurgents in April 2004) learned Sunday that their missing son died in Iraq.
A Defense Department official also confirmed the identification, saying Maupin’s remains were found last week but DNA results just came in.Maupin, who was 20 [...]

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His final post, written for the purpose of being released in the event of his demise. Respected milblogger, he is now the first Iraq casualty of 2008.
I do ask (not that I’m in a position to enforce this) that no one try to use my death to further their political purposes. I went to Iraq [...]

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I travel quite a bit for work and when I am in the airports I see a lot of men and women in uniform. I go up to them, shake their hands, and thank them for their service to our country. They always say “your welcome” or “no problem” but I can see in some [...]

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Today we celebrate Veteran’s Day though tomorrow is the day it will be observed. The United States is a great country because it has a history of fighting for what is right and for joining others in fights for what is right. Leading the charge throughout history is the American Military and the great men [...]

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National Museum of the Marine Corps.

Happy birthday, to the noble warriors who would be utterly useless to us in an imaginary world where nobody ever wishes harm on anybody else.
Since that world has been, is now, and always will be a work of pure fiction — even though a lot of citizens fail to realize [...]

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