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He was in the Air National Guard. That means Air Force National Guard. Also, only U.S. Army troops (including U.S. Army National guard and U.S. Army Reserves) are called SOLDIERS, not the Sailers, Marines and Airmen. Why is all the media taking shortcuts and playing so loose in regards to specifically referencing these proper titles? Just like President Bush should be labled PRESIDENT and not Mr. Bush or whatever the liberal shortcut is. Does anyone else have any pet peeves like these? I hate it.

Swiftboat Veterans for the Truth spokesman John O'Neill dared Sen. John Kerry on Sunday to sue him for libel if, as Kerry's presidential campaign maintains, key claims in O'Neill's book "Unifit for Command" are not true. "I invite him to sue me for libel," O'Neill, who co-authored the overnight bestseller with Jerome Corsi, told WABC Radio's Monica Crowley. "If he was actually in Cambodia on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day he should sue me. If, in fact, those other five [Swift]boats, on March the 13, [1969], if they all fled like he did, instead of staying like he knows...

There's something about a campfire that makes us gaze. Our eyes focus on the dancing flames. We stare. We contemplate. We don't know what we're thinking about, as we poke the embers for no apparent reason, but we feel as warm inside as the middle of a toasted marshmallow. Just last week, when an early September chill grasped the night air, we piled a bunch of sticks inside a ring of rocks in the backyard and struck a match. We never had the patience to rub two sticks together. There's something about a campfire that attracts the neighbors' kids. Or...