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Happy Veterans Day to all who have served our great nation. Thank you for your courage and dedication. Thank you for our freedom. We can’t say it enough.
Applebee’s honors vets and active duty military with a free meal today. Krispy Kreme is doing the same. Or take a vet out to McCormack & Schmick’s or [...]

The Project Valour-IT fund-raiser for wounded troops is still going strong and runs through November 11.
I’m on Team Marines and we need your help to stay in the lead.

Cassandra at Villanous Company has the inspiring story of injured Marine Cpl. Aaron Mankin and his wife and fellow Marine Diana Mankin. Read the whole thing. [...]

Two helicopter crashes in Afghanistan took 14 American lives earlier today.
In Colorado Springs today, Staff Sgt. Glen Hale Stivison Jr. was laid to rest. He was killed on Oct. 15 when a roadside bomb exploded, killing him and three other soldiers:
Six-year-old Andrew Stivison stood tall to receive the folded flag, returned the general’s salute, and [...]

Just got back from a Turkey Trot race. No, I most certainly did not run. As I told my runner husband many years ago, I refuse to run unless someone is chasing me! He did well in the 5k; my daughter ran the children’s race. Unfortunately, she inherited my lungs. It was her first race [...]

Blocking military shipments with babies up front.

Support the troops.

Reaching across the aisle to support disabled troops. Is anybody there?

Worthy cause.

A veteran of more than one tour to Iraq, Navy corpsman “Doc” also has a must-read milblog. Here he addresses the topic of PTSD, and points to others who’ve experienced it themselves.
Another milblogger with some insight into the wounds of war is Chuck Ziegenfuss. Chuck was blogging from Iraq as a company commander, routinely “outside [...]

J.R. Salzman, a milblogger who survived an IED attack in December, has been in surgery all week. He’s blogging his recovery on a voice-activated Valour-IT laptop.

My right arm is healing up nicely now. It’s been two weeks since the final surgery when they closed it up. It won’t be long now and they will be [...]

Looking for inspiration? Yesterday, I found it at a special Veteran’s Day gathering of surviving WWII Doolittle Raiders in Washington, D.C. Five of the famed Raiders participated in a ceremony honoring members of the USS Hornet Crew. We interviewed them about the daring raid, their memories of Jimmy Doolittle, and their thoughts on America at [...]

Hey, readers. Please help us out here. Team Air Force needs a boost in the Project Valour-IT competition. We’re raising money to buy voice-controlled laptop computers for wounded Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines recovering from hand and arm injuries or amputations at home or in military hospitals. Just click on the “Make a Donation” button. [...]

Here’s your Halloween grab bag for the night (scroll for updates):
Reader Daniel K. digs up and sends along his 2004 Halloween Kerry Pshop–still handy two years later:

The left side of the blogosphere is not happy with Lurch, reports Dean Barnett.
The Associated (w/t) Press continues to carry the Democrats’ water tonight:
Democrats Increase Hope of Winning [...]

1. Join Shauna Fleming’s campaign to send thank-you cards and valentines to our troops.
2. Support Operation Homelink to help provide computers to either parents or spouses of deployed service men and women in the ranks of E-1 through E-5, enabling email communications between families and their loved ones deployed outside of the continental United States. [...]

To all of America’s men and women who serve and have served: Thank you and God bless.
Stars and Stripes marks the day.
Read the latest from Michael Yon.
N.Z. Bear has a Veteran’s Day round-up chock-full of links.
The White House Veteran’s Day page is here.
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This is a great day to donate to Project Valour-IT if you haven’t [...]

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It’s the 230th anniversary of the U.S. Marine Corps. A new commemorative stamp series is being unveiled this week. Here are the honorees:
Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone
Basilone received the Medal of Honor during World War II for holding 3,000 Japanese soldiers at bay for 72 hours at Guadalcanal. He also destroyed a Japanese [...]

Bill Roggio at The Fourth Rail brings you news on our latest military offensive in Iraq, which is aimed at closing down the border crossing to Syria and destroying al Qaeda in the town of Husaybah. One Marine has died. At least 36 insurgents have been killed since the assault began Saturday, and about 200 [...]

Please help out with Project Valour-IT, a project of Soldiers’ Angels. The charity provides voice-activated laptops for injured troops who have lost the use of their hands and/or arms.
The group is holding a big fundraising push now through Veterans Day, trying to raise over $80,000 in the next week.
More info at Fuzzilicious Thinking.

QT Monster’s Place has created a new Able Danger blogroll. AJ Strata’s Able Danger archive is here. The latest from Captain’s Quarters here.
N.Z. Bear has added two new topic pages on Able Danger and Hurricane Katrina.
Aaron Matthew Arnwine writes that Lifelike Pundits has reached the 100k unique visitors’ mark. Digger’s Realm hits 1 million page [...]