Military Life
Saturday, May 17, Armed Forces Day is coming to a neighborhood near you. Granted, you haven’t done six weeks of shopping to prepare for the Big Day, but are your children jazzed for the Big Day? If you check the polls, the same U.S. holidays turn up as the most
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A curious visitor dropped in on his local church to hear a Sunday sermon. Later, a friend asked him how it had gone. The visitor's reply: "A preacher is a mild-mannered man, standing up in front of mild-mannered men, telling them they gotta be more mild-mannered." A preacher like that
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This author remembers a family chat over the dinner table, now more than 45 years ago. Grandpa was talking about the "mustard gas" that they used to use in World War I. "They outlawed that," he said. "Why did they do that?" your author - age 5 - asked. "Because!" Grandpa
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This author sat down to write about our first President. He called to his wife, "I'll be in the office for a while. I've got to get into the frame of mind to write something about George Washington's military skill." She replied with a straight face, "Do you want me
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Robert Fulghum wrote a witty book for us, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. That's funny, and true, too. Play fair. Don't hit people. Clean up your own mess. Goldfish and hamsters die, and so do we. Yep, you learn a lot when you go to kindiegarten,
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In the movie Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, the rebels try to use the young heroine Katniss as a pivot point to rally others to their cause. They put Katniss in front of cameras and give her scripted lines to read through. She's worthless at that kind of acting. The
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We'll take Military Rumors for $200, Alex. During the past few years, the Internet has been buried in a blizzard of myths, legends and bizarre rumors about the U.S. military. Some of these even turn out to be true. How good are you at separating the real from the hoax? Here
Military Policy
Whether you are a foreign threat or merely a trivia buff, the U.S. Army has more than its share of surprises. Did you know? The Army is older than the United States itself. During a Presidential campaign, Alan Keyes was once challenged to find a reference to God in the Constitution;
Military Policy
Robert Fulghum wrote a witty book for us, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. That's funny, and true, too. Play fair. Don't hit people. Clean up your own mess. Goldfish and hamsters die, and so do we. Yep, you learn a lot when you go to kindiegarten,
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"There are no atheists in foxholes," said President Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied Forces that invaded Normandy. No one is granted a clearer view of the Higher Power than a servicemember who is minutes from death. In the U.S. justice system, for example, the "dying declaration" law allows