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To all of our veterans, I say “Thank You” for your service. For our Viet Nam vets who didn’t receive a hero’s welcome when you came home, I’d like to extend a hand of thanks for the service you gave to your country. This story, as I’m sure you may have heard, is about Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal lying about his service record. Specifically, he states that he served in Viet Nam when he really didn’t. Many people are making a specific point to expose this lying politician for what he really is…a service dodger. I agree that he...
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After 89 birthdays, Henry "Jim" Latimore figured there wasn't much left in life to surprise him. But fate had other plans for the World War II veteran. While he was quietly retired in Tucson, villagers an ocean away were on a mission to immortalize him, 66 years after he floated into their midst when his warplane crashed near a castle in Belgium. Latimore is one of nine crew members - three still living - of a downed B-24 Liberator whose names will be inscribed on a new memorial in Leefdaal, population 4,000, about 15 miles east of Brussels. He and...
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Hundreds of local law enforcement officials paid tribute to the area's fallen officers Thursday at the third annual Pima County Regional Law Enforcement Memorial. The event, held in the Tucson Convention Center's Grand Ballroom, honored the 42 officers killed in the line of duty in Pima County since 1878, when two U.S. marshals were shot to death near Davidson Canyon. "This serves as a stark reminder for the danger faced and the sacrifices made by our law enforcement," said former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, who spoke at the event. "A law enforcement officer never knows when that life-threatening moment...
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WASHINGTON, April 22, 2010 – Two Pentagon Force Protection Agency officers credited with stopping a gunman at a Pentagon entrance March 4 were recognized in the Pentagon’s Hall of Heroes yesterday. Pentagon Force Protection Agencies Officers Marvin Carraway, right, and Jeffery Amos receive the Harry E. Neal Award from the Association of Former Agents of the U.S. Secret Service during a ceremony at the Pentagon’s Hall of Heroes, April 21, 2010. DoD photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Elliott Fabrizio (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Officers Marvin Carraway and Jeffery Amos each received the Harry E. Neal Award from...
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This week Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas once again honored the memory of the terrorist Dalal Mughrabi - this time by sponsoring a ceremony celebrating the 50th anniversary of her birth. Mughrabi led the worst terror attack in Israel's history in 1978, when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus and killed 37 civilians. Present at the ceremony were Palestinian dignitaries and a children's marching band. Earlier this year, Abbas sponsored a computer center named after Mughrabi.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 20, 2009 – President Barack Obama today paid a long-overdue tribute to the Vietnam War-era soldiers of Alpha Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, in a ceremony at the White House Rose Garden. Obama awarded the Presidential Unit Citation, the nation’s highest award for a military unit, for the troop’s actions March 26, 1970, in Vietnam. Eighty-six former soldiers who served in Alpha Troop then were on hand for the ceremony, and although it’s been nearly four decades since many of them served, Obama said, the heroism they displayed will never be forgotten. “Welcome to a moment...
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10/19/2009 - CHARLESTON AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. (AFNS) -- A Charleston Air Force Base technical sergeant was honored Oct. 15 for his heroism and bravery while suffering from injuries sustained during a patrol on his seventh deployment to the Middle East. Tech. Sgt. Michael Williams, an explosives ordnance disposal technician with the 437th Civil Engineer Squadron, was on patrol Aug. 2 near the Mushan Village in Afghanistan after one of the locals said they knew where an improvised explosive device was located. With one step, his foot landed on a different land mine with an IED on it. "(Following the...
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BOSTON – President Barack Obama led the nation Saturday in mourning and remembering "the greatest legislator of our time," celebrating the indelible impact of Edward M. Kennedy as a senator for nearly a half-century and leader of America's most famous family during tragedy and triumph. Delivering an emotional, simple eulogy for Kennedy that capped a two-hour Roman Catholic funeral Mass, Obama employed humor, his own experiences and timeless anecdotes to memorialize the senator, who died Tuesday at 77 after battling brain cancer for more than a year. The country may have viewed him as "heir to a weighty legacy," Obama...
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The combat equipment that once belonged to two fallen Iraqi Special Operations Forces Soldiers is displayed during the memorial service held in Baghdad, July 28. The fallen Soldiers were fatally wounded by an assailant when they entered a house while serving a warrant issued by the Criminal Investigative Court of Karkh. Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jimmy Pan, Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force - Arabian Peninsula. BAGHDAD — The atmosphere was somber and emotions ran high among U.S. and Iraqi Special Operations Force Soldiers as they mourned the loss of two fallen comrades during a recent memorial service...
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ARLINGTON, Va., July 14, 2009 – Chaplains have myriad reasons for serving their country, but recognition usually isn’t one of them. Army Chaplain (Capt.) Rebekah Montgomery will be recognized as the Military Chaplains Association’s Chaplain of the Year July 17, 2009. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. S. Patrick McCollum (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “Chaplains are often in the position where we love to serve so much, it’s always a surprise to be rewarded for it,” said Army Chaplain (Capt.) Rebekah Montgomery, who will receive the Chaplain of the Year award from the Military Chaplains Association on July...
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