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Once again our one party media is pretending to have uncovered a story that is years old so to forward their agenda and have a tie in to the allege Marine atrocities at Haditha.From the DNC's Associated Press: A South Korean soldier stands guard at the tunnels of No Gun Ri. The west tunnel walls were resurfaced and reinforced at some point to prevent them from collapsing.U.S. Policy Was to Shoot Korean RefugeesBy CHARLES J. HANLEY and MARTHA MENDOZA (Associated Press Writers)From Associated PressMay 29, 2006 More than a half-century after hostilities ended in Korea, a document from the war's...

March 7, 2006 Expect Journalistic Tongues to Loosen By Jack Kelly Journalists will be paying rapt attention when Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman go on trial next month for violation of the Espionage Act of 1917. Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman were officials of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee. They received classified information from Lawrence Franklin, an analyst at the Department of Defense, which they passed on to an Israeli diplomat, and to journalists. They are the first private citizens ever to be prosecuted under the Espionage Act. Mr. Franklin pled guilty Jan. 20th and was sentenced to more than...

Description American Gunfight is the fast-paced, definitive, and breathtakingly suspenseful account of an extraordinary historical event -- the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in 1950 by two Puerto Rican Nationalists and the bloody shoot-out in the streets of Washington, D.C., that saved the president's life. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Hunter, the widely admired and bestselling novelist and author of such books as Havana, Hot Springs, and Dirty White Boys, and John Bainbridge, Jr., an experienced journalist and lawyer, American Gunfight is at once a groundbreaking work of meticulous historical research and the vivid and dramatically told story of...

SEOUL — For the 10th consecutive year, U.S. personnel are searching for the remains of U.S. troops missing in action in North Korea, the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced Wednesday. A 27-man team — composed of military and civilian specialists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii — entered the communist country April 16. The team will focus on two areas: Unsan County, about 60 miles north of Pyongyang, and an area near the Chosin Reservoir, in the northeast. U.S. troops battled Chinese units in Unsan County in November and December of 1950, and about 300...

<p>Granted, there is upheaval in the world and there are battles where a great deal is at stake -- life itself. All the more precious, then, the minor skirmishes on the home front that mean a great deal in a small way and remind us of how lucky we are to feel innocent hatreds, from summer to summer, at the ballpark.</p>