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Call for Volunteers: Frontline Forum

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It’s important that the bar be set high when it comes to accuracy. I cannot read every story and vett for accuracy. But what I can do is provide the groundwork to assemble a group of retired military personnel who can read the stories

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Catch and Release

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He was only 23 years-old but by any measure he was a man. A real man who stood up to the terrorists who were savagely torturing him on an airliner. Those same terrorists shot the young Navy diver and dumped his body onto the tarmac.
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Senator Mikulski Responds

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) and Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) today urged Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice to take immediate action and formally request that the Government of Lebanon arrest and extradite convicted killer Mohammed Ali Hamadi to the United States.
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A tribute for service members and families

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Many people say this is the most important photograph of the Iraq war. Some have called it “a national treasure.”

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Deja Vu in Dohuk

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National Geographic has published one of most intelligently written pieces on Iraq I have seen. I do not know the writer, Frank Viviano, or the photographer, Ed Kashi, but their collaboration entitled “Who’s Winning in Iraq” is precise and cogent.

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Operation Iraqi Children: A Bright Shining Hope

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The soldiers often arrive just to say hello, but at other times they unload trucks full of supplies: pencils, paper, and books. I visited a school far out in the boondocks near the Iranian border, where the villagers told me no Americans had ever been.
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Fight on the Home Front

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The SWAT team in Winter Haven, Florida has some interesting folks. Like Jose Sanchez a Marine who served in Iraq until seriously wounded by an IED last year. He is still recovering from his wounds that include burns to his hands and head and a frag in the face. Fellow officers expect him to return to full duty on the police force and the Marines will soon award him a Bronze Star with a “V” (valor).
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Iraqi Family Loses Children…

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Iraqi and American courage combine to face horrible events:

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Iraqi Courage

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Please read: Injured soldier ‘a beacon of hope’
By Maya Alleruzzo of The Washington Times

January 25, 2006

 

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Pulitzer Prize

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Michelle Malkin was the first serious blogger to suggest that my work deserved consideration for the Pulitzer Prize. Her sentiment was echoed by thousands of email messages and comments on the open forum site, asking me about a Pulitzer Prize, and whether my work might receive such a great honor. I was clueless. I knew that Pulitzer was synonymous with first-rate and prestigious, but that’s about it. A Pulitzer Prize was as far from my mind as the moon was from my feet.

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Brave Men and Demons

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No matter how a person feels about the war in Iraq, or the rationale for having started it, or how it was managed, or whether or not we should be there still, it is increasingly clear that somehow, some way, despite the inertia of history and the fickle meddling of politics, progress is being made in the most unlikely of places. But epic progress is costly.

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Wheelchairs For Iraqi Children

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[This is an important but small story that got lost in the noise of Iraq. The dispatch was written by a mainstream journalist upon my request. The journalist required anonymity; major news outlets tend to censor their workers. This story is the unauthorized product of a mainstream journalist.

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Back To War

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In the few months since leaving the war, I’ve crisscrossed the United States several times, talking with infantrymen in their twenties and veterans in their eighties, helicopter pilots, special forces soldiers, families and friends of wounded and killed warriors, all for a book about the Deuce Four’s Battle for Mosul. But it’s time to take a break from writing to let the facts and details steep. I’ve headed back to war.
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Words of Wisdom for Professional Soldiers Entering this War.

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Words of Wisdom for Professional Soldiers Entering this War.
This excellent paper comes recommended by one of America’s top military experts, Lieutenant General David Petraeus.  The author, LTC David Kilcullen Ph.D., is an experienced and highly educated Australian Army officer.  READ HERE (PDF Format)

 

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Curious Circumstance

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 I met up with an old friend in Dubai. Steve Shaulis and I served together in the Army, and we attended the Defense Language Institute together. After we both left the Army, we headed in very different directions. Steve began doing business in places like Romania, Uzbekistan, Thailand, and Singapore, and I started a business in Poland. Still, over the past twenty years we’ve managed to stay in contact,

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Kabul to Lashkargar

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When we landed in Kabul, Steve put the driver in the back and drove us through the crowded streets. There was a thirty minute ride ahead of us, alternating between racing and jamming in traffic. As we drove away from the airport, there were fewer Coalition soldiers about, and on the hills surrounding the town a dense warren of mud and stone houses that could have been erected thousands of years ago,
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Of Words

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More than a year ago, I wrote from the “Sunni Triangle” that Iraq was in the midst of a civil war, words that received little attention then. I had published that dispatch about three weeks after the unexpected but overwhelming success of the first Iraqi elections. People were understandably distracted by the post-vote euphoria, while the media was largely busy explaining how they so misjudged the mood of the Iraqi people.
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One Reason For Hope

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It is not the Coalition that gives me great hope for Iraq, but that I know there are many good, intelligent and courageous Iraqi men and women. Real sacrifice, real courage, and great hope emanate from this Iraqi man: Please read on…

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Whipping Boy

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The sound lashed across the desert, chased by the sounds of men yelling. There, a hundred yards away, were two men, swinging whips at two other men.

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Dasht-e-Margo

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As our bags were loaded into the Land Cruiser for the journey toward Dasht-e-Margo, the Desert of Death, a man wearing a bomb closes in. Before striking off, we again visit the PRT in Lashkar Gah, where Steve huddles with some Afghan employees. An entire British Army unit has defected..
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