[BenLurkin]

" BACK FROM GULF - U.S. Navy Fire Controlman Brent Sforzini, assigned to the USS Shiloh, speaks with fifth-graders at Lincoln Elementary School in Lancaster. At Friday morning's assembly in the school yard, students cheered and waved small American flags to welcome Sforzini back to the Lancaster neighborhood where he lived for 11 years before joining the Navy at age 18. "

ROB LAYMAN/Valley Press

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Great post - thanks!

"I make enough money to have a car, to buy food and have a house. I'm not underpaid."

Phew...certain 'fundraisers' (exploiters) last week made it sound as though we left the children of our military starving and without a future. Our troops will get the respect they deserve, finally - Americans will see to it, but accusing us of starving our soldiers when we aren't? That's not right.

[gcruse]

All that martial violence, while excising mice and owls from textbooks because it might harm the children. Our culture has massive fault lines that never get resolved, just widened.

[Brimack34]

I wish we would have a cable channel devoted too the men and women of our military. I would love too hear the stories of each and everyone of them. Most of all the ones that did not make it. I want too hear the stories their family and friends have. Put a story to the face.

[Rudder]

"All politics is local." (Tip O'Neal)

These community efforts really do show what America and the Heartland are all about.

[Brad’s Gramma]

This is SO GREAT! Sure wish it would grab hold around the country.