My beloved wife of 60 years passed and took with her much of my continuing reason for living.

As I age my ability to cope lessens the luster of life fades and loses meaning..

My affairs are in order and I am ready (God willing) to meet my maker at any time.and rejoin my wife in the cosmos.

Our long "adventure" has come to an end only I pray, for a short time.

God Bless !

Soldiers recount deadly attack on Afghanistan outpost

By Steve Mraz, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Saturday, July 19, 2008




Everything was on fire. The trucks. The bazaar. The grass.

It looked surreal. It looked like a movie.

That was what Spc. Tyler Stafford remembered thinking as he stepped onto the medical evacuation helicopter. The 23-year-old soldier would have been loaded onto the bird, but the...

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Sen. Obama wrote an editorial in the NY Times the other day on his plan for ending the war in Iraq. You'll remember that a few days prior to this column, Obama mentioned in a stump speech that he would, of course, consult with military planners and Gen. Patreus, who he commends. The McCain camp jumped on this one statement and cried "False Outrage" by claiming...

There isn't one particular genre of movies that I love more than any other one, although if you were to look at my DVD collection, now approaching 500, the plurality of films tends to be dramas or comedy/dramas now refered to as "dramedies", and then you'll see the rest divided along the lines of foreign films, documentaries, old films, a couple silent ones, a few westerns, a few musicals, some thrillers, and some animated films.

I seem to be lacking mostly in pure comedies...

In spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the former POW insists we could have won. No wonder he talks of occupying Iraq for a century.

By Joe Conason

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