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RUMinations of the USS Ironsides in 1798

Lies and Damned Lies!– Twitter Alert for Veterans; This is not Stolen Valor

When things occur in bunches it usually means an invisible hand is at work.

Suddenly we’re seeing a spate of “Viet and Gulf War vets” claiming that Trump is among other things, a draft dodger.

Real Vietnam-era vets, whether Viet War #1, 1962-1968 (JFK-LBJ’s War) or Viet War #2, 1969-1973 (Nixon’s War.) know the difference.

Consider: Most young people under 50 were never taught there was a Vietnam…

Why WWII Navy Veterans Added Salt to Their Coffee

(Photo) Crewmen have coffee aboard the USS Corvina while docked at New London, Connecticut, 1943. (Nationals Archives and Records Administration)In 1914, Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels banned alcohol from all U.S. Navy property, and ever since the cup of coffee has replaced the sailor’s grog aboard American ships.

(Story from Military.com, — Blake Stilwell can be reached at blake.stilwell@milita…

100-Year-Old Florida Man Remembers Expedition to Antarctica

100-year-old Bob Johnson gestures in the room of his home that contains photographs and mementos from his 20-year career in the U.S. Navy and his Antarctic explorations with Admiral Richard Byrd July 7, 2020 in Jacksonville, Florida. Robert Johnson, who turned 100 on Tuesday, a hot and sunny Florida day, barely hesitated when asked what he’d do if given another chance to go to Antarctica, the…

In Memory, PumaByDesign, RIP, June 30, 2019

At this very time one year today our dear friend, Puma, who none of us ever met, spoke to or ever saw in a photograph, was preparing to take herself to the hospital for surgery, a surgery she knew she might not survive.

Sometime in the next 24 hours, she didn’t. We were never able to find out for sure.

A Christian and conservative, and absolutely tireless worker for our Cause, she was also a…

Overwar, a Photo Gallery of Air Force in Vietnam, by Cade Martin

From a friend and contributor, Ray Kasey, this covers many of the pilots alive today from the Vietnam War. Each has his tale. Cade Martin a fine photographer and patriot.

Just click “Overwar” to open.

Vassar

http://cademartin.com/overwar/

God Bless America, and the Way They Looked, Why it Matters Now

On this Memorial Day, add this short piece to your Great Awakening file, for it gives you some idea how words and mere looks can scare the bejeezus out of America’s enemies, just in the knowledge that the fight they have started with us will not be over until one of the other side is destroyed. Japan miscalculated. Germany miscalculated.

And now has the American Left. We will be looking at how we…

Memorial Day Tribute to the Shoulders We Stand On

Memorial Day Tribute to the Shoulders We Stand On

Posted by: Vassar

(I’ve posted this and other Memorial Day pieces annually for nearly a decade, but this year it has special meaning in that I get the sense that now that the Vietnam generation is in its 70s, as is the AntiWar generation, and some of those are now in political power in various states, an would like to hurry us on out of memory…

Covid-19, a Report from Bulgaria from an Old Friend

Her name is Maria Georgieva, and I have known her for over 20 years. I last saw Mimi in 2008 just after I began writing at RedState. Their baby, Georgi, was only two or three then. Now her children are 20,18 and 14. For Many Easters I would send them Peeps, those little packages of 100% sugar candy baby ducklings that are guaranteed to rot kids’ teeth out.

Mimi had a prominent sales location at…

A Sense of Honor the Left Cannot Fathom

“Long Black Veil” was written in 1959 by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin. I first heard it on a Kingston Trio LP around 1963. We had a folk group in those days, and in our neck of the woods, deep mountain Appalachia this sort of song touched a central theme of life in the mountains, a dark fatalism.

It’s a dark story of a man who was with his best friend’s wife when a murder took place in the town…

When you get your butt kicked all sorts of lessons from history come to mind. But when that butt-kicking is self-inflicted the analogies narrow

The lessons most learned from the Republicans’ self-immolation in the failure of their Obamacare repeal (sic) in 2017, then hand-over of the House in 2018, are that our own history proves these are sometimes unavoidable, but necessary, losses to point out…

Exclusive: Legendary special operations aviator reveals bin Laden mission details for the first time

(Kinda long, over 9000 words, you may want to read in 2-3 sessions, but printed in full.)

BY: Alex Quade, a prize winning journalist

It was just 30 seconds into the mission to kill Osama bin Laden in May 2011 when special operations Chinook pilot Chief Warrant Officer 5 Douglas Englen heard the…

Kissed by an Angel, Where Violins are the Angels’ Voices, and the Cello Sings Harmony

         SSG Marshall D Roberts, 28, of Oswasco, OK and

       Spec Juan Miguel Mendez Covarrubias, of Hanford, CA,

        were killed by hostile fire on 9 March, 2020

Rest in Peace, Gentlemen

Vaya con Dios

Job well done.  

A mourning nation thanks you.

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By an Angel’s Kiss, SSG Marshall D Roberts, 28 (Air National Guard) and Spec Juan Covarrubias, 27, (Army) Iraq

Kissed by an Angel, Where Violins are the Angels’ Voices, and the Cello Sings Harmony

         SSG Marshall D Roberts, 28, of Oswasco, OK and

       Spec Juan Miguel Mendez Covarrubias, of Hanford, CA,

        were killed by a rocket attack on Camp Tajj inside Baghdad on 11 March, 2020

Rest in Peace, Gentlemen

Vaya con Dios

Job well done.  

A mourning nation thanks you.

&amp…

A Special Tribute to Maj Guy, RIP

You may recall my stories about Maj Guy in the two tales of Manos restaurant in Tokyo in the 1970s, My first adventure, and the time Maj Guy and I took our wives to Manos, just to prove out innocent intentions. It was very exclusive brothel of sorts, with only foreign women, which Japanese men at that time were very enamored with.

Earlier this week I did a long post on “Jefe”, who was Maj Guy’s…