Honoring Our Veterans
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A Look Back at Ted Williams
One of the greatest hitters of a baseball that ever played the game.
When asked to name the greatest team he was ever on, Ted said "The United States Marines".
Click here to continue reading May 2014: Volume 14 - Issue 8
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A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside. "Your son is here," she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times before the patient's eyes opened.
Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw the young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached out his hand. The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man's limp ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement. The nurse brought a chair so that the Marine could sit beside the bed. All through the night the young Marine sat there in the poorly lighted ward, holding the old man's hand and offering him words of love and strength. Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine move away and rest awhile. He refused.
Click here to continue reading April 2014: Volume 14 - Issue 7
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Received From a Good Friend of Mine
Joe Carfora
As we face a new year, I recall visiting with three old friends, a few years back, at a park in the nation's capital. It seems like only yesterday that we were all together, but actually it has been 42 years. There was a crowd at the park that day, and it took us a while to connect, but with the aid of a book we made it. I found Harry, Bruce and Paul. In 1970-72 we were gung-ho young fighter pilots on America and Constellation off Vietnam, the cream of the crop of the U.S. Navy, flying F-4J Phantoms. Now their names are on that 500-foot-long Vietnam War Memorial.
Click here to continue reading February 2014: Volume 14 - Issue 5
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Heroes of the Vietnam Generation
By James Webb
The rapidly disappearing cohort of Americans that endured the Great Depression and then fought World War II is receiving quite a send-off from the leading lights of the so-called 60s generation. Tom Brokaw has published two oral histories of "The Greatest Generation" that feature ordinary people doing their duty and suggest that such conduct was historically unique.
Click here to continue reading December 2013: Volume 14 - Issue 3
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A Soldier Died Today
He was getting old and paunchy,
And his hair was falling fast,
And he sat around the Legion,
Telling stories of the past.
Of a war that he once fought in,
And the deeds that he had done,
In his exploits with his buddies,
They were heroes, every one.
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You may have already known of this, but I sure didn't.
In spite of watching film about WW II and the European theater, I never thought to wonder how all the military vehicles were supplied with fuel.
They sure couldn't just stop at the corner station and fill up their vehicle, tank or jeep or car. I found this film fascinating.
Joe Carfora 1962
