Mar 13, 2012 1 Comment ›› Angelia
The Atlantic Wire: Just when Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was beginning to sound somewhat sane, he goes and says something like this: "We don't need to build (atomic) bombs," he told a crowd at a ceremony inaugurating a new dam in Western Iran. "Bombs are for retarded people." The Adam Sandler-esque soundbite comes from a ...
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Sometimes a single picture speak all the words one needs on the sacrifices our troops make and why they fight... not because they hate what is in front of them but because they love what is behind them. Credit for Photo to Oh Penelope Photography
Continue ReadingFeb 28, 2012 21 Comments ›› Angelia
NPR: Since the Gay Marines Facebook page posted it on Saturday, a photo of Sgt. Brandon Morgan and his partner Dalan Wells sharing a welcome home kiss in Hawaii has been getting quite a bit of attention: — 15,000 or so "likes." — 2,700 or so shares. — About 3,300 comments. — A rapidly growing number of posts. Including one ...
Continue ReadingFeb 26, 2012 No Comments ›› Angelia
USA Today: The U.S military announced Sunday that it has recovered the remains of the last American service member who was unaccounted for in Iraq, an Army interpreter seized by gunmen after sneaking off base to visit his Iraqi wife in Baghdad during the height of the insurgency. The remains of Staff Sgt. Ahmed al-Taie, who was ...
Continue ReadingFeb 24, 2012 10 Comments ›› Angelia
?"salam alaikum, hi yes, i'll have a small berry blast, no, no wait.... peach smoothy and a list containing the locations of known terrorists and associates. Oh whats that now? You're out of peach? Ok thats fine I'll just take the terrorists." - comment on picture by one of the men in it. (I love ...
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Soldiers from the Minnesota National Guard complete a ruck march to earn the Expert Infantryman Badge at Forward Operating Base Gerber, in Kuwait, on Jan. 27, 2012. The Expert Infantryman Badge is awarded to soldiers who hold infantry or special forces military occupational specialties and complete a series of tests. DoD photo by Cpl. Trisha ...
Continue ReadingFeb 8, 2012 No Comments ›› Angelia
The young dead soldiers do not speak. Nevertheless, they are heard in the still houses: who has not heard them? They have a silence that speaks for them at night and when the clock counts. They say: We were young. We have died. Remember us. They say: We have done what we could but until it is finished it is not done. They say: ...
Continue ReadingFeb 5, 2012 3 Comments ›› Angelia
Christmas day 1915: one of the most famous football matches ever took place between English and German troops who had been shooting at each other from the trenches the day before. Both sides came out peacefully into no man's land between the trenches and kicked a football around. One soldier estimated that there may have ...
Continue ReadingFeb 4, 2012 4 Comments ›› Angelia
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Continue ReadingFeb 4, 2012 1,130 Comments ›› Angelia
The Shark Tank: President Obama’s latest policy outrage makes no attempt to hide his contempt for our military, as he is ordering that our troops serving overseas in war zones overseas are not to receive combat pay unless they are being shot at. A Marine who lives in Florida has just posted a note on Facebook ...
Continue ReadingFeb 3, 2012 2 Comments ›› Angelia
FoxNews: An Army officer ordered a court-martial Friday for a low-ranking intelligence analyst charged in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history. Military District of Washington commander Maj. Gen. Michael Linnington referred all charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning to a general court-martial, the Army said in a statement. The referral means Manning will stand trial for ...
Continue ReadingJan 28, 2012 3 Comments ›› Angelia
I am personally torn on this issue. I am one of those peace through superior firepower we need a KICK ASS military types. But I have said for years Afghanistan should have stayed a Special Ops war. However I also see that Iraq needed to be a boots on the ground ...
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