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Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the GI Film Festival at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley. The Festival took place in one day and showed films that portray American enlisted men and women in a favorable light as opposed to the usual Hollywood fare. This festival was an offshoot of the main GI Film Festival which takes place in May every year in Washington D.C. The main event lasts seven days and includes showings of approximately 50 films. This was a one day shortened version in which the crème of the crop were exhibited. You can...

They came from far: Pakistan, Lebanon and India, organizers said. And from near: 80 percent were African Americans from Philadelphia --snip-- The free event was part of Peco Energy Co.'s Multicultural Series, featuring youth groups, drill teams, schools and community organizations from across the region. The recent allegations that Islamic radicals planned to attack Fort Dix or destroy John F. Kennedy International Airport were not part of this celebratory day. The only security was from those normally working at Penn's Landing events and from the Muslim community itself. "The Bush administration is instilling a lot of fear," said Willie Williams,...

This photograph taken from a CD purportedly by al-Qaida militants in India shows a masked man sitting beside an automatic gun reading a statement by Abdul Rehman al-Ansari, purportedly the chief of al-Qaida Fil Hind or al-Qaida in India, received by Current News Service in Srinagar, the main city of India's Jammu-Kashmir state, on Friday, June 8, 2007. A group claiming to represent the al-Qaida terror network declared a holy war on India over its control over part of the divided Himalayan region of Kashmir, Indian officials said Saturday, adding that they were taking the threat seriously. Word at the...

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Nov. 28, 2005 - Decorated Iraqi War hero, Staff Sgt. Eddie Escamilla was awarded a free apartment for one year by the Trilogy rental community, located in the Cheltenham Township of Pennsylvania. Escamilla was randomly chosen for the apartment from nearly 100 other applican'ts. Each applican't entered the contest at Willow Grove Naval Air Station, located near Philadelphia, PA. The Escamilla family moved in to a newly renovated two-bedroom apartment at Trilogy, which recently completed over $25 million in renovations and upgrades. In addition to the apartment, Trilogy provided the family with all amenities including access to the...