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This is a comment on the sacrifices our troops make every day.

About eight years ago, my son received a letter from our Commissioners of Election claiming that someone in another county was showing the same social security number as his. When we called their office, as instructed, we were told that the matter had been cleared up but they wouldn't give us any details.I had forgotten about it until I recently found the letter again while cleaning out my file cabinet. With all the more recent publicity about illegals using fake and/or stolen SS numbers, I need to know how I can verify whether or not my son's SS number is...

About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury,...

Justice Department gets Quran shooting info By Karina Gonzalez Staff Writer FBI Agent Tim Burke told area Muslims on Friday that his office has turned over information in the case involving the shooting of the Quran to the U.S. Department of Justice and the Hamilton County district attorney’s office. "Right now we are going to let the Justice Department decide if this case will be tried," Mr. Burke, FBI supervisor for the Chattanooga area, said while speaking to members of the Annour Islamic community. The FBI began a preliminary investigation last week after the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a national...

DAYTON, Tenn. — Hearty applause arose from within the two-story house as white vans rolled up the gravel driveway to pick up a group of Mexican workers to return them to Mexico. "If God is willing, we will all come back next year," 27-yearold Francisco Ocañas said last week, speaking in Spanish. Mr. Ocañas was among the group of 29 men who spent six weeks harvesting fruit at a local farm under a guest worker program. For Mr. Ocañas, the 32-hour bus ride back to the Mexican town of Nuevo Leon is familiar. He first came to work in Tennessee...

Would someone please inform me if the laws have changed? Otherwise, why are some politicians acting as though making illegal immigration a felon would be a new law? Federal Immigration and Nationality Act Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii)Section 274 felonies under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, INA 274A(a)(1)(A): A person (including a group of persons, business, organization, or local government) commits a federal felony when she or he: * assists an alien s/he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him or her to obtain employment, or * encourages...

Dear friends and family, In light of certain protest against the war in Iraq I am compelled to write to you as a service member, so that I may share with you my feelings on the matter from that perspective. This letter is to you, friends and family, but I will share it also with certain members of the media, because it is my desire that my thoughts on this subject be widely expressed. Feel free to pass this message along. My time in service is rapidly coming to an end; the chances of my dieing at this point by...

While waiting for my flight leaving Atlanta, I struck up a conversation with a young soldier who was returning home on leave from Iraq. He was dressed in desert camoflauge and apologized for not having been able to bathe in three days. He spoke of exiting his first flight in the US and was awed when everyone around him applauded. (I was so pleased to hear that today's military guys were so warmly received.)I think he was in the army, and I mentioned that my son was in the navy so that he would know that my interest was a...

This is my first attempt to post, so please excuse any errors I have probably already made. I have given a lot of thought to illegal immigrants, especially wondering why our government makes no effort to solve this problem. I have to say, that until 9/11, they didn't see it as a problem. People from third world countries (especially Mexico) were willing to risk life and limb to make a better life. Too many of us welcomed the cheap labor, seeing no harm in paying less for our goods and services, while enabling so many to make a better life...