Tag: war
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July 02, 2009 11:19 AM EDT --
You all have probably heard of the Trail of Tears, when the Cherokee Indians were sent from North Carolina and Georgia to Oklahoma by force in the 1800's.
You may also know, especially if you are from . . .
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October 20, 2007 11:47 AM EDT --
Just as few folks in America would seriously consider Islam a religion of peace, The message in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount also has had no influence on Christianity in history. . . .
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May 26, 2008 09:40 AM EDT --
I'm not talking about the ridiculous expense of it. I'm talking about WAR being such an old fashioned thing that it doesn't work in the modern world for "nation states". A . . .
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June 11, 2008 11:49 AM EDT --
Ha ha, it's funny actually, because the person just didn't see eye to eye with me. Here's a bit of it, and totally out of context.
"I've always suspected it, but now I know . . .
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January 09, 2009 01:19 PM EST --
It looks like Israel is just going to keep doing what it's doing until Hamas stops firing rockets at it.
But what if Hamas won't ever stop.
What if Israel will never . . .
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February 17, 2007 01:30 PM EST --
And it will be darned near impossible for anything to beat this - today or any other day:
(highlighting of lines that made me cheer - by Sandy)
Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman . . .
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July 02, 2009 01:38 PM EDT --
We have a new Georgia law stating that April is officially Confederate History Month.
I could understand a "Civil War History" month. I write a lot about the Civil War myself. And here in the South, . . .
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July 04, 2009 09:27 AM EDT --
I say let the Canadians go. They never bothered anybody and it's wrong for America to keep strong-arming allies. Pretty soon you will stand alone.
U.S. probing ways to keep Canada in . . .
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November 07, 2007 02:19 PM EST --
Darling Husband and I are living historians. Civil War reenactors. Those nut jobs running around in wool and long dresses in the heat in the south.
If I had a nickel . . .
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October 11, 2008 10:51 AM EDT --
Night ambushes are painful.
Watching a trail all night,
fighting sleep
thinking of home, sex
or both,
ignoring mosquitoes feasting on me,
hurt.
When dawn began to break
I was dog tired, . . .
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April 12, 2009 09:44 PM EDT --
This is Easter Sunday.
A day for chocolate eggs, chocolate bunnies,
and other sweets. Some make their yearly church
appearance and hear sermons about Jesus. It’s a popular
day for . . .
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July 03, 2009 10:50 PM EDT --
Fireworks
A rocket splits the air;
it glares
against an ink black sky.
A choral crowd ooohs and aaahs,
the rocket bursts-
a baby cries. . . .
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September 28, 2007 11:40 AM EDT --
I am absolutely riveted to the TV screen as I watch Ken Burn’s production of World War II, and in particular how it affected average families all over the United States. I think Burns has done . . .
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October 15, 2007 09:14 AM EDT --
Sometimes we get "hero stories" - and often with the response, "Why didn't the liberal media tell that nice story? See? There's nice stories coming out of Iraq!" . . .
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October 21, 2007 05:52 PM EDT --
Most the "U.S." troops in Iraq are Blackwater mercenaries. They don't get counted.
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The mercenaries that the U.S. sends to Iraq make tons more money . . .
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June 20, 2008 09:30 AM EDT --
Antidepressant Use Soars Among Deployed
Stars and Stripes | June 12, 2008
For the first time in history, a sizable and growing number of U.S. combat troops are taking daily doses of antidepressants . . .
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January 20, 2008 10:31 AM EST --
With the war in Afghanistan in its 7th year and the war in Iraq in its 5th, the Department of Defense says about 1,500 veterans of the conflicts are homeless so far -- and many more will be in the . . .
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September 08, 2008 04:48 PM EDT --
Completely separate from everything else -- we have a bee problem. Now, the honeybee was supposedly in short supply, so we didn't mind too much when we noticed bees around our . . .
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February 24, 2009 01:20 PM EST --
Beneath the maple tree
Over and over again knobby knees stooping.
Small hands raising the whirlybird seeds high, higher.
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Serious child eyes studying the ragged and sudden descent
over and over . . .
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July 14, 2006 05:23 PM EDT --
©This article copyright Sean-Paul Kelley
Since the war started we've been repeatedly told that we're building Iraqi schools, healthcare centers, and my personal favorite: turning the electricity . . .
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