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I just finished watching the most interesting film on TCM starring Spencer Tracy and Katheryn Hepburn about a widow who's husband was a patriot and a report who tries to get to the bottom of the story about how he died and winds up making a startling discovery. The discovery rings so close to what is happening right now in America it is scary. It talked about this hero (Robert Forrest) who had been built up by advertising, by reporters, by media to become an Icon and beneath it was a corp group of people setting up a facsist gov't,...

2007 Keeper of the Flame Award Center for Security Policy | Oct 17, 2007 (Washington, D.C.): On Wednesday, the Center for Security Policy paid tribute to Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and Defenders of the Home Front – the men and women who work daily to keep us and our families safe here at home. Senator Lieberman's address to the nearly 350 attendees at this elegant black-tie dinner held at Washington's landmark Union Station was preceded by a welcome from Mr. Linden Blue, Vice Chairman of General Atomics, and remarks by The Honorable Francis...

Ed Berman doesn't just collect war stories. He rescues them from the scrapheap of history. Take the woman in World War II so slender she was lowered head first to weld between ships' hulls. Or the American captured by Italian troops, who escaped when his plane crashed on the way to a prison camp, then fought alongside Italian partisans until he was captured by the Germans. And the man whose combat wound saved him from making the Bataan Death March, but not from the tin mines in Japan, where he weighed 85 pounds when rescued. "His wife said afterwards, she...