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  • Final Central America Plea

    We are still short funding for a flight home and other expenses. If I can't raise the funds very quickly, the embed may be cancelled. This could be the start of something very good, so if you can, please help. Thanks, and thanks for putting up with...
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  • The IRS has a SWAT team?

    Sadly yes. Rep. Jeff Duncan wants to know why IRS law enforcement agents are training with AR-15 rifles. As chairman of the House Homeland Security oversight subcommittee, Duncan (R-S.C.) toured a federal law enforcement facility in late May and noticed...

  • Along Sword And Gold Beaches

    Memorial to Royal, Merchant, and Allied Navies At times it seemed you could not walk or drive 100 meters without coming across a monumnet of some sort. In some stretches, walking was the only way you didn't miss any. They are well worth seeking out...
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  • Continuing Along Sword Beach

    A restored Churchill on display As you travel along the D-Day beaches, particularly along Sword, there really are monuments and memorials every few hundred meters, if not closer. Part of this has to do with the large number of small towns and villages...
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  • Central America Bound

    My next embed will be in Centeral America. I've had a very generous person buy my ticket down using his frequent flyer miles, and I wanted to see if anyone here might be willing to use their American Airline miles to help me get back? If so, drop...
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  • D-Day

    Sunrise, Omaha Beach 3 June 2013 On this day in 1944, more than 180,000 troops (app. 24,000 airborne and 160,000 soldiers) began the liberation of Europe. The landing zones ran for more than 50 miles, and faced formidable obstacles and determined resistance...

  • Godspeed

    I can't share too many details yet, but yesterday there was a charity run that ended at Utah Beach. The young (44?) year-old-veteran who won the race suffered a heart attack at the remembrance ceremony and died. I ask you to keep his wife, children...

  • Pointe du Hoc

    Someone You Should Know This man never set foot on the ground on D-Day or for some time thereafter. Yet, he is someone any Ranger will not only thank, but buy a round for because he was a crucial part of securing Pointe du Hoc. Pointe du Hoc 7 June 2013...
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  • A Grim Reading of the Recent Intelligence Scandals

    What was the worst thing you learned about American intelligence this week? Here's the worst thing for me. Not the top-level finding, that the CIA's analysis didn't always give specific categories to the people killed in allegedly-CIA-led...
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