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Mark Alexander From Patriot Post Vol. 09 No. 21; Published 28 May 2009 | Print Email PDF "The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations." --George Washington Every week, the greatest challenge I face as publisher of The Patriot Post is determining which subject among all the current news and policy issues concerning liberty and constitutional integrity should be the target of my weekly column. I mention this because deep into this week's treatise and just a few hours ahead of deadline, I received a message from one of...

"A guy like him should shut his face" ----- Clint Eastwood responding to Spike Lee's criticism of Eastwood's Iwo Jima movie "Flags of Our Fathers". Lee noted the lack of African-Americans in Eastwood's movie. Eastwood said, "there was a small detachment of black troops on Iwo Jima as a part of a munitions company, but they didn't raise the flag".

Our Troops Rock!  Thank you for all you do!   For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces.   Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today!     ~ Hall of Heroes ~ Stubby All info and photos from this website.               "Stubby" at the front STUBBYBrave Soldier Dog of The 102nd Infantry The story of STUBBY actually starts with the beginning of the Great War in Europe. From 1914 to 1917 the French, Germans and others struggled with each other...

Good Morning Troops! FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allies military and the family members of the above. Honoring those who have served before. Today will be find another Hero for this graphic. When I originally posted this, others suggested there were many more names to be added, that is your mission for the day. Today is an opportunity to find a hero from War II, or a current War. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WW II MOVIE STARS ??? Hope you find this as informative as I did. They gave...

US military defends Baghdad raid slammed by PM Wed Aug 9, 10:30 AM ET The US military defended itself against criticism by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of a raid on a crowded Baghdad suburb which culminated in a deadly air strike. The army had said the Sunday night assault by Iraqi troops and US advisers was aimed at arresting the head of a suspected kidnap-and-torture cell. But Maliki called it "unjustified" and said he had not approved it. Major General William Caldwell told reporters that Iraqi commanders had taken the lead in launching the operation, with the support...

Mosul Major Mark Bieger found this little girl after the car bomb that attacked our guys while kids were crowding around. The soldiers here have been angry and sad for two days. They are angry because the terrorists could just as easily have waited a block or two and attacked the patrol away from the kids. Instead, the suicide bomber drove his car and hit the Stryker when about twenty children were jumping up and down and waving at the soldiers. Major Bieger, I had seen him help rescue some of our guys a week earlier during another big attack,...

Am I just a wuss or do some of you also have tears in your eyes as you watch this unfold? As the Iraqi woman said it, you who don't like America and President Bush can go to hell! All you naive leftist airheaded fools who want peace, from where do you think peace will come? By waiting for France? By giving in to terrorists? By delaying the day of reckoning until they are more dangerous? No, nitwits. You fight evil. You never back down from evil. God bless our soldiers. God bless the brave Iraqi people. God bless George...

Warren Community College President Defends Professor’s Harassment of Young Conservative Professor Admits Radical Diatribe Student Fights Back HERNDON, VA –Young America’s Foundation exposed Warren Community College’s radical Professor John Daly, who in an email to student Rebecca Beach, vowed to intimidate those students who host conservative speakers and called for American soldiers in Iraq to murder their superiors. Instead of admonishing the professor’s intemperate attack on a student’s right of free expression, Warren Community College President William Austin said Prof. John Daly has “first amendment rights” to harass Rebecca. Furthermore, the President is trying to bully Rebecca into silence. He...

Lourey, son of state Sen. Becky Lourey, has been killed in Iraq, a senate spokesman said. Details of the death of the helicopter pilot were not immediately available, said John Pollard, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Dean Johnson.

    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces.     Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today!       ~ MILITARY SHORT SPEAK ~             The military seems to have a language of its own, with many terms, acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations that aren't generally used in the "civilian world." What is an acronym? It is a word created from the first letter of a series of other words. It is spoken as one word.  What is an initialism?...

War has always been portrayed as hell, and now is also financially unfair to the survivors of the gallant fallen – at least to those who consider the disparity between what a 9-11 survivor can expect as compensation for the loss of a family member and what the survivors of a GI killed during operations in the Afghanistan theater rate as a matter of law. Kenneth Feinberg, the 9-11 fund administrator, announced this month that the average award would grow to about $1.85 million, about $200,000 more than calculated in December. He also guaranteed a minimum payout of $250,000. Additionally,...