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The USS Forrestal is scraped but the memory is forever of the sacrifices made.

President Trump spent several moments during his address to the joint session of Congress on Tuesday honoring the bravest among us: our soldiers. Upon the mention of our military, the entire room--Republican and Democrat--were on their feet. Well, almost everyone.Unbelievably, a handful of Democratic women who had dressed in white (for reasons hard to understand) to protest the president, remained seated at the mention of our soldiers. You would think supporting our military would be a bipartisan issue. Shortly after that, Trump recognized fallen Navy SEAL William "Ryan" Owens, who died in a raid on an al Qaeda compound in Yemen in...

Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori. -- It is altogether fitting and proper that a man lay down his life for his country. We all know – moreso since the horrors of Sept. 11 – that the United States military is our nation’s guardian, the faceless phalanx that walks the wall and protects our way of life. When that way of life is threatened and damaged, as it was in the skies that day, even amid the cries of anguish and anger is heard a clarion call to arms. Ordinary men and women turn from their well-worn lives to...