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The post below is from Denis Keohane. Denis Keohane is a typical veteran, after graduating high school he enlisted and served in ARADCOM (Army Air Defense Command). Returning quietly to civilian life, Keohane works as a technical writer in the aerospace industry (and a patented inventer, Denis reminds me). Keohane is married, with 5 children. His son's service in Army Special Forces, 1st Group, brings the importance of success in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the morale of his son and his comrades in arms, home to Denis and his family. Keohane started a blog, Obiter Dictum, that has paid much...

Last Monday morning (Feb 25) Scott Swett’s timely article “Newly Discovered Army Reports Discredit ‘Winter Soldier’ Claims” on the discovery of the summary files of the Army CID Investigations of VVAW War Crimes Allegations from the 1971 Winter Soldier Investigation was published at FrontPageMag.com. By late that evening, at the suggestion of a friend, I had gotten the on-line petition entitled “Appeal to the Senate Armed Service Committee” up, and it has been there for less than two full days. Many of the hundreds of signatories have made comments. Many of those show how truly appalled people are that the...