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Guest Post: Military Funerals Are NOT Family Reunions!!!

Steven and Pokey

By Steven Phillips
A Gold Star Dad Blog

Here comes another topic that will probably get me on some shorter list of being someone’s favorite as I have already told a few people what they could do and where they can do it and their either complete ignorance or carelessness as it relates to [...]

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Media Violates OPSEC, Taliban Issues Threat To Kill Or Kidnap Prince Harry

I am a fan of Prince Harry’s. Not because he is Royalty but because he has the substance to step up and do a job most won’t, serve in the military. Now Price Harry could very easily take a cushy job that kept him close to home but twice now he has chosen to [...]

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Chris Hayes “Uncomfortable” Calling Fallen Heroes…I Agree, Sort Of

Excerpted from the Examiner:

On Sunday, the day before Memorial Day 2012, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes said he was “uncomfortable” calling America’s fallen military “heroes.”
“I feel comfortable, ah, uncomfortable, about the word [heroes] because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war,” he stammered.
“Um,” he added, “and, I don’t [...]

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I’m Humbled To Be An American

I often hear people speak about how proud they are to be an American. Well I’m humbled to be an American. I’m humbled to be a mother and wife. I am humbled to be able to write and have others read my words. Too often we get so caught up in our pride that we [...]

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Gold Star Mothers And Families Day

5 yrs ago yesterday I sat in the US Army recruiting office with my son. The Recruiter had his paperwork ready… a signature and he was on the path to joining the Army. “You are joining the US Army ina combat MOS. We are a nation at war. You will be [...]

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Houston Memorial Cemetery~ Its not about YOU!

If you have been reading the news you know there has been a bunch of people up in arms over the director of the Houston Memorial cemetery asking that religion not be invoked by volunteers at funeral services. Seems once again our Fallen are being used as political props.. this time by the Christian Right.. [...]

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Words I Have Waited For “Usama Bin Laden Is Dead” Now Show Me The Pictures

“Usama Bin Laden is dead”… like Most Americans I have waited years to hear those words. And as unpolitically correct as it is they were sweet words to my ears. Yes I was joyous when I heard them. Maybe more so that most. The month of May has always been a [...]

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Running Away to Il Like Going to Afghanistan? Really?

There have been many times over the past three years I have truly wondered if  when that General handed me the folded flag from my son’s coffin and said “On Behalf of a grateful nation” if this nation is truly grateful.  I wonder if the average American understands the sacrifices our troops make daily while [...]

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I’m Humbled to be an American

**I wrote this on my other blog just about one year ago… it still stands true and I felt it was a good time to share it again*

I often hear people speak about how proud they are to be an American. Well I’m humbled to be an American. I’m humbled to be a [...]

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Veteran’s Day.. A Civics Lesson

In the United States we have 3 National holidays that celebrate our military.  Unfortunately it seems most people either don’t know anything about them or they get them all mixed up and push them together. Ok so here is a civics lesson

Memorial Day is the last Monday in May every year. This is the day [...]

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