Honoring Our Veterans
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Vietnam Era Music
Top Ten Hits from each year of the war
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On October 13, the U.S. Navy was established (1775), on the 29th the Internet was created (1969), and a favorite holiday of mine falls on the 31st, Halloween.
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A Rose By Any Other Name...: Can You Spell P.R.I.V.A.T.I.Z.E?
Click here to continue reading October 2008: Volume 9 - Issue 1
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And a good three-day weekend to all. As was said: "Labor Day differs in every essential way from the other holidays of the year in any country. All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day... is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation." --- Samuel Gompers, founder and longtime president of the American Federation of Labor, 1898
--- Regards, Walt
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A Time To Remember, To Reflect, To Heal
The Weekend Of June 6, 2008... A Few Thousand 'Words'
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Out Of The Pockets Of Our Seniors: Our Service Members, Too!
Over the last several weeks, our Congress has once again taken a giant step... in a direction I wish they had not gone. On the 12th of June the Senate fell 6 vote short, while on June 26, by a mere two votes legislation that would have prevented a potential Medicare disaster was stalled in the Senate. What is realized by almost everyone that what is harmful to Medicare is harmful to our seniors. What very few people realize is that it is also harmful to our active duty service members and those who have retired from military service - more on that below. One side point. I realize that "cuts in payments" do not directly come out of the pockets of our seniors. However, if these cuts result in physicians not taking on Medicare patients, isn't the results just that. It will cost our seniors; it will come out of their pockets.
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A Time To Remember, To Reflect, To Heal: The Weekend Of June 6, 2008, Part 2
From my point of view, the "Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall," a traveling, three-quarter-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, is as close to being in 'Washington, D.C. as you can get without actually going there.
