Free Republic

This last week was like a bad bet, one where President Trump insisted he could get Democrats to defend Iran and someone said there was just no way that was possible. If this hypothetical existed, President Trump would’ve won, easily. Maybe I grew up in a different country, but I swear there was a time when the country rallied together in times of crisis. Petty differences always existed, but as a nation we had the “your mamma” rule – where someone could say anything they wanted about their mother, but there was a line for everyone else. Americans are...

It’s one thing to say, “Thank a veteran.” It’s another to actually do something to show that gratitude. Take the World War II veterans that made headlines last month during the government shutdown. Largely overlooked in the furor that erupted when they were barricaded from their own memorial is how they got to Washington, D.C., in the first place: through a non-profit group known as the Honor Flight Network. The seed that would create the HFN was planted shortly after the WWII memorial opened in 2004. Earl Morse, a retired Air Force captain working in a Department of Veterans...