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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Japanese-Americans who were forced from their studies in the 1940s at the University of California, Davis will be given honorary degrees Saturday. Forty-seven people who were students at UC Davis when the United States entered World War II will receive honorary degrees, although few will attend. Some of those being honored will be represented by friends and family. At the time they had...
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NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
The politicians always make them sound like wars of abstraction so nobody has to talk about the blood of young American soldiers. It was like that yesterday on the Sunday news shows as this country prepares to send even more soldiers to Afghanistan.
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NYDailyNews (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
The politicians always make them sound like wars of abstraction so nobody has to talk about the blood of young American soldiers. It was like that yesterday on the Sunday news shows as this country prepares to send even more soldiers to Afghanistan.
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The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Bullets whizzing by your head are one thing. IEDs just waiting to blowup passing troops is a daily occurrence. Such are the hazards of trying to survive in a war-zone. What isn’t expected though is to die because of toxin laden water. However such is the case of Indiana National Guardsman Lt. Col. Jim Gentry who when he passed away this past Tuesday was classified as the first American soldier...
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One Female Cultural Creative (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
I'm not being a scrooge! Here's the best way to show support for the troops By Herb Weisbaum msnbc.com contributor updated 9:17 a.m. PT, Thurs., Dec . 6, 2007 Herb Weisbaum I don’t mean to sound like a scrooge, but don’t waste your time or postage mailing a holiday card to a recovering soldier at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Maybe you’ve seen the e-mail going around. It...
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America's Watchtower (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
The most decorated living American soldier from WWII, Colonel Van Barfoot, has been told that he must take down his American flag because the homeowners association bans flagpoles where he is living. The homeowners association claims that this is not an issue of a person flying the American flag, but rather the flagpole itself. [...]
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Many people working in Afghanistan at the grass roots are watching the Obama escalation with a sinking feeling, writes columnist Nicholas D. Kristof. We understate the risk of a nationalist backlash to the American soldiers occupying their land.
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Each American soldier that President Barack Obama sends to Afghanistan has a price tag on his or her head. Why? It takes $1 million dollars to maintain that soldier for a single year in a war zone.
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
In the aftermath of President Obama's important speech on the U.S. escalation in Afghanistan, I would like to update John Kerry's famous question in 1971: "How do you ask someone to be the last American soldier to die for a mistake?" This has caused me to wonder: Well, who was the last soldier to die for the Vietnam mistake? And what can we learn from that example? To my surprise,...
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GayandRight (Free subscription) | yesterday
... had breakfast with Brigadier-General Daniel Menard, who recently assumed command of Canada's 2,800 soldiers in Afghanistan, along with another few hundred American soldiers from the 1st battalion of the U.S. Army's 12th Infantry. Long before U.S. President Barack Obama's long-awaited troop surge announcement, American soldiers had been pouring into Kandahar, allowing...
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Knowledge is Power (Free subscription) | yesterday
I was literally giddy for hours after receiving this. Needless to say, it has made my week if not my entire year. Godspeed *American soldier, wherever you are. [*Personal info redacted] Troopathon 2009
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New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Two people who may have once been married — a 9/11 defendant and a woman accused of trying to kill American soldiers — will be in the same Manhattan courthouse in separate cases early next year.
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Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Worse than pretending a simplicity of enemies, the hubris of the McCrystal-Obama policy America has now set out to embroil Pakistan and Afghanistan in a deeper conflict that could have immensely dangerous consequences, or - at best - simply result in the deaths of thousands of civilians and hundreds of NATO and American Soldiers and Marines in a conflict that is fundamentally unimportant,...
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The US House of Representatives Tuesday adopted a bill asking the US president to report to Congress on incitement to anti-American violence on television networks in the Middle East. Lawmakers adopted the measure in a decisive 395-3 vote. The bill asks the US president to report, six months after the text has passed, "on anti-American incitement to violence in the Middle East, and...
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Piece Of Mind (Free subscription) | yesterday
The removal of inhibition can be liberating as well as criminal. Recently, a Reuters reporter expressed frustration that American soldiers stationed in Iraq would tell him nothing until he went to the latrines. “You have to go to the Port-o-Potties. For some reason, they talk there. You can read how they really feel – all [...]
