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I saw not only Atlantis and the International Space Station flyover my neighborhood tonight, but I also saw the spy satellite scheduled for missile destruction on Thursday/ Michelle Obama, eat your heart out. This is one proud American.

The Vermont Air National Guard will fly over Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., when the New England Patriots host the San Diego Chargers on Sunday in the American Football Conference championship game. The winner of the game will advance to Super Bowl XLII in Glendale, Ariz. The Air Guard will fly four F-16s in a formation flyover during the patriotic opening ceremony of the championship game. The Vermont Air Guard is well known among New England sports fans, having flown over Boston's Fenway Park for the Red Sox's Opening Day, American League Division Championship Game and the 2007 World Series....

Valle de la Pascua 22.09.06 – Two of the most important cities of Venezuela´s Llanos saw impressive levels of support in rallies for opposition candidate Manuel Rosales. The first in San Juan de Los Morros and the second in Valle de la Pascua was, according to local resident Orlando Vale, the biggest rally the city had seen in many years. ¨What we saw today we hadn´t seen since the days of the first campaign of Carlos Andres Perez¨ said Vale, who added with emotion ¨and there are even more people today!¨ The rally started in a chavista neighborhood known...

SIERRA VISTA — The sky over Sierra Vista and Palominas will see an Independence Day aerial salute Tuesday morning as a four F-16s from the Arizona Air National Guard fly over the area. The quartet will be led by a Hereford resident. For years the active duty Air Force and Air National Guard units have responded to requests for flyovers on special patriotic holidays, including Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, POW/MIA Recognition Day and Veterans Day. This year, the 162nd Fighter Wing at the Tucson International Airport approved a flight over Southern Arizona, which includes Sierra...

WHEN FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, businessman Howard Dahl boards a plane for the East Coast or flies to Europe and beyond, he is often struck by the views of the people he encounters, especially their preconceptions about his part of the country. "There's a lot of condescension. You'd think no one here ever read a book," Dahl says, "or ever had a thought about anything. They think we're religious fanatics."To Dahl, a successful international exporter of agricultural technology, this contempt is sometimes hard to understand. A devout Christian who spent three years at a Lutheran seminary, he comes from an increasingly...

The Air Force's next-generation stealth fighter, the F/A-22, is in big trouble. So the service is looking to the Super Bowl to save the jet. The Pentagon's proposed budget for next year calls for a cut of $15.5 billion in funds for the so-called "Raptor," trimming the fleet of F/A-22s from 277 planes to 180. In response, the Air Force brass is mounting a major league PR campaign for the fighter. Last month, Air Force chief of staff John Jumper flew a Raptor over Florida at nearly Mach 2, to show the plane off. Now, the Project on Government Oversight...

Why Liberals STILL Don't Get It By Ron Marr CNSNews.com Commentary November 05, 2004 In the chic salons of Manhattan and the trendy bistros of Los Angeles they are saying they same thing. "How could Bush have won?" ponder the elitist vanguard of the left-wing status quo. "I don't know a single person who voted for him." On the networks -- 12 hours after the rest of us realized that John Kerry had fallen -- Dan Rather scribbles permutations on colored Post-It notes in an attempt to prove to himself that his chosen man could still take the day.

Vietnam Memorial Traveling Wall Comes to Grants Pass, OregonLast weekend, June 24th-27th, 2004, the Vietnam Memorial Traveling Wall came to Grants Pass, Oregon. A touching tribute to the over 58,000 fallen heros of the Vietnam War, this Wall is a replica of the one in Washington D.C.The four days of events included a flyover, bagpipers, speeches by local politicians and veterans, and an awards presentation by representatives of various Indian tribes.It was sponsored by Point Man Ministries, The Vietnam Veterans of America - Three Rivers Chapter #867, and former Oregon State Senator Brady Adams.The Wall was open 24 hours a...

NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Country comedy is currently a hot commodity, spawning strong-selling CDs and DVDs and receiving plenty of TV exposure. Among the genre's stars are Jeff Foxworthy (news), Bill Engvall (news), Rodney Carrington, Ron White, Larry the Cable Guy, Cledus T. Judd (news) and T. Bubba Bechtol. The burgeoning popularity of the country comedy genre is succinctly explained by J.P. Williams, head of Parallel Entertainment. The management company handles Foxworthy, Engvall, Larry the Cable Guy and White. "To a large degree, everything in comedy skews to hip-hop, urban and Hispanic," Williams says. "But between Los Angeles and New York...

    Army flyover to kickoff Super Bowl WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Jan. 30, 2004) -- U.S. Army aviation assets will help kickoff America's most-watched annual sporting event Feb. 1, when four Apache helicopters fly over Reliant Stadium in Houston prior to Super Bowl XXXVIII. The 2nd Battalion of the 149th Aviation Regiment, Texas Army National Guard, will fly the Apaches over the Stadium just before the Carolina Panthers begin playing the New England Patriots. The retractable-roof stadium will be open and plans call for the helicopters to appear following the National Anthem, Army officials said. "It's one of those...

Anyone know why there are f-16s flying formations over NYC as I type?

An Israeli soldier holds an Israeli flag during a commemoration ceremony attended by 200 Israeli Army soldiers at the former Nazi Death camp Auschwitz Birkenau, southern Poland, Thursday Sept. 4, 2003. During the ceremony three Israeli F-15 jets flew over Birkenau. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz) Lt. Col. Rabbi Zvi Black holds a Torah during a commemoration ceremony attended by 200 Israeli Army soldiers at the former Nazi Death camp Auschwitz Birkenau, southern Poland, Thursday Sept. 4, 2003. During the ceremony three Israeli F-15 jets flew over Birkenau. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

The museum at the Auschwitz extermination camp in Poland has condemned plans by a team of Israeli fighter jets to fly past the site. Three Israeli F-15 aircraft - piloted by descendants of Holocaust survivors - will on Thursday fly over the railway tracks which transported more than a million Jews to their deaths during the Holocaust. The museum, which runs the site, said it felt such a display was inappropriate. But Israel has defended the plans as a way to honour the camp's mainly Jewish victims. 'Military might' The Israeli pilots who will stage the fly-past are in Poland...

Closing a symbolic circle, three IAF F-15s, all piloted by sons and grandsons of Holocaust survivors, will stage a fly past over Auschwitz next month. Proudly displaying the blue Star of David, the three jets, the most lethal aircraft in the IAF's arsenal, will swoop down low and fly straight over the train platform where the Nazis held their infamous selections that sent hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths in gas chambers. The feat will also demonstrate long reach of the fighters, which will fly the 1,600 nautical mile route. "It gives me goose bumps just thinking about...

Three F-15 fighter jets, some piloted by sons and grandsons of Holocaust survivors, take off Thursday for an historical booming fly past over the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Proudly displaying the blue Star of David, the three jets, the most lethal aircraft in the IAF's arsenal, will swoop down low in next week's September skies and jet straight over the train platform where the Nazis held their infamous selections that sent hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths in gas chambers. The feat will also demonstrate Israel's long-arm reach of its premier fighter jets which will fly the...

Three F-15 fighter jets, some piloted by sons and grandsons of Holocaust survivors, take off Thursday for an historical booming fly past over the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Proudly displaying the blue Star of David, the three jets, the most lethal aircraft in the IAF's arsenal, will swoop down low in next week's September skies and jet straight over the train platform where the Nazis held their infamous selections that sent hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths in gas chambers. The feat will also demonstrate Israel's long-arm reach of its premier fighter jets which will fly the...