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Thousands of people in Colorado Springs turned out this morning for the Red, White & Brave parade to welcome home the troops. The Colorado Springs Gazette put the crowd estimate at 45,000 downtown.
It was a privilege to be among the throngs and throngs shouting “THANK YOU!” as our men and women in uniform marched with [...]

They haven’t found the culprits yet who burned the U.S. and military flags of a former Marine in north Dallas this week.
But support and offers to replace the flags have poured in.
Avi Selk of the Dallas Morning News has the follow-up:
Our little story about a few front-porch flags that got burned in Far North [...]

Ugh. I am so maddeningly sick of the never-ending Michael Jackson circus, sucking up all the MSM oxygen and drawing out all the race hustlers and cable TV rats. Al Sharpton. Jesse Jackson. Celebrity lawyers. Sewage on parade.
Here’s a man whose legacy and name you should tell your children about instead: U.S. Marine Corps Col. [...]

Vindication! Vindication! Apologize! Apologize!
This is the gleeful mantra on the Left side of the blogosphere and cable TV.
A father/security guard/hero is dead and all these political opportunists can do is gloat about “vindication” that isn’t there.
I linked Greyhawk’s post on this issue at Mudville Gazette yesterday, but I am linking it again today. Read the [...]

June 25. Mark the date. Bookmark the site:
www.troopathon.com
On June 25th, Move America Forward will be holding our 2nd annual “Troop-a-thon” titled “Honor their Service.”
This cutting edge live webcast event brings together talk radio hosts, megastars of film and television, musical guests, journalists, military and Gold-star families, pro-troop groups and many more.
The goal of this charity [...]

Scroll down for updates…meet the Muslim domestic terrorist suspect, Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad…Where is Obama’s denunciation of the attack?

Holy crap: A shooting at an Arkansas Army recruiting center has left one recruiter dead and one wounded. Pray for the families, please:
One Army recruiter was killed Monday and a second was wounded in a shooting at [...]

Engraved on the Korean War Memorial:

Pearl Harbor:

The Blue Angels’ missing man formation:

Words and men I’ll never forget:
“Others have died for my freedom, now this is my mark.” – Cpl. Jeffrey B. Starr.
“He knew what he was fighting for.” – father of Lt. Michael P. Murphy.
“He felt that what we were doing was just and [...]

President Obama tells us this Memorial Day weekend that veterans have not gotten the respect they deserve:
President Barack Obama saluted veterans and urged his countrymen to do the same this Memorial Day weekend, saying the nation has not always paid them proper respect.
In his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, Obama said people can honor [...]

Matt Burden has a must-read message as we head into Memorial Day weekend. He e-mails “a pre-emptive strike on the attempts of the media to project victimhood. I can’t speak for all of the Fallen, but I know what my three brothers would have wanted me to do on Memorial Day: Honor them by [...]

An important message from milblog Blackfive. Bookmark this one and spread the word.

Truly unhinged.

I was deeply saddened to learn of the death of blogger Bill Faith. He died of a heart attack and had been in ill health.
Bill ran the blog Small Town Veteran and founded/contributed to Old War Dogs. I linked to his work many times over the years. He was also a valuable commenter here at [...]

“You can take my leg, but you can’t take my heart and you can’t take my soul. I’m a Green Beret.”

Infamy.

Some of you will remember my friend Big John Miska, who sent me a classic Photo of the Day a few years ago capturing his encounter with a 9/11 Truther:

Big John is a Vietnam veteran and VFW leader who works tirelessly on charitable efforts for our troops. Last year, my family and I attended his [...]

Happy Veterans Day to all who have served our great nation. Thank you for your courage and dedication. Thank you for our freedom.
Miblogger tributes at Blackfive and Mudville Gazette.
Meet Cpl. Erin Liberty.
Invite a vet to dinner: Golden Corral is once again offering its 2008 Military Appreciation Monday dinner next Monday from 5 pm to [...]

Ok, here is my birthday plea:
Please help out PFC Hunter Levine. My friend Debra Burlingame sends word that his friends, family, and fellow soldiers are asking for support.
Read:
I know a young man who is in desperate need of help. His name is PFC Hunter Levine. He is 20 years old and hails from Houston, TX.
He [...]

CNN’s hatchet job on Col. Bud Day.

The Blue Angels’ missing man formation:

Honoring the fallen at Blackfive.
Memorial Day in Iraq from milblogger JD Johannes:

Words and men I’ll never forget:
“Others have died for my freedom, now this is my mark.” – Cpl. Jeffrey B. Starr.
“He knew what he was fighting for.” – father of Lt. Michael P. Murphy.
“He felt that what we [...]

Let’s roll.

“He served his Lord.”

“We make it our business to Never Forget.”

National debt of gratitude.

“If you go to schools – high schools and even colleges and ROTC – today and ask them what Pearl Harbor meant to them, they haven’t a clue. That’s bad.”

The London Telegraph has a Sunday morning blood-boiler. Britain has a potent strain of moonbat virus going around. What would Churchill do?
Injured soldiers who lost their limbs fighting for their country have been driven from a swimming pool training session by jeering members of the public.
The men, injured during tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, were [...]

Military Appreciation Monday.

American hero.

“You will have a toothbrush and bucket with a placard saying you stole from veterans.”

Last month, talk show host extraordinaire Neal Boortz wrote about a Greensboro, Ga., middle school that refused to allow a Marine to come visit a class of sixth-graders that had written him letters while he served in Iraq. After getting pressure from Boortz’s listeners and others, the local superintendent apologized.
Boortz updated the story yesterday:
Next Monday, [...]