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Two interesting views of Senator Kennedy, as a part of the Liberal sentimentalizing of their fallen hero. Which, when he's *not* your hero, falls discordantly on the ear.
First up -
Melissa Lafsky bravely addresses the Mary Jo Kopechne story from an outside the box and very fresh perspective. Read all of it, right down to the last sentence. Heh.
Ed Klein, former foreign editor of Newsweek and editor-in-chief of The New York Times Magazine, recalling on air that Ted Kennedy liked to joke about Chappaquiddick.
No, really. -the Armorer
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A Marine general officer, who's name escapes me in the mists of time, made this observation to a group of Army officers at a conference on warfighting. "May your enemies always be arabs."
This is why. -the Armorer
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In today's
From the Front: (Click on link to read stories highlighted below)
Bouhammer: Firefights can happen in Medical Clinics too
Rich Oppel - At War: Drinking From Socks
The Canada-Afghanistan Blog: The Price Of Deserting Afghanistan Now
Photography, Software, and Sand: Time to go home
Joshua Foust: The Case for Afghanistan: Strategic Considerations
Noah Shachtman: A Close Fight, and a Couple of Miracles
Iraq Says Syria Must Give Up Terror Suspects
Security developments in Iraq, Aug 28
Iraq leaders mourn death of key Shi'ite figure
LAR puts a sniper’s eye to counter smuggling
Afghan Civilian Deaths Decline Under New US Tactics
Accusations Of Vote Fraud Multiply in Afghanistan
Afghan Taliban Commander Is Captured in Raid
19 Pakistanis killed in suicide bombing at Afghanistan crossing
AND MORE...
- David M
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True Heros honored by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mullens:
“These are individuals, without arms and legs at that point, who had one common desire -- and that was to get back with their unit,” Navy Adm. Mike Mullen said Aug. 25 at the presentation ceremony for the 2009 International Brain Mapping and Interoperative Surgical Planning Society’s Beacon of Courage and Dedication Awards in Boston. “Their only concern was, ‘How do I get out of here and get back with them?’”
- David M
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Read the complete post at http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/08/hi_fires_28_aug_1.html
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Aug 28 2009, 10:03 PM
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