Tragedy Strikes the Marine Corps Again (Updated)
UPDATES: The commander of Marine Corps Base Quantico held a press conference this morning. The following is the transcript: Col....
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Our B-52 Bombers on the Korean Peninsula: ‘Nuclear...
UPDATE: The U.S. Navy says: “On any given day, in your Navy, our team of more than 600,000 professional Sailors and civilians...
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The Iraq War in Numbers
The disaster and the shame that is — still — the Iraq War can be described, measured and quantified in many ways. Over at...
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Dying Iraq War Veteran’s Letter to Bush and Cheney...
Much has been written, is being written and will be written on this tenth anniversary of the beginning of an unnecessary war that...
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Remembering the Bataan Death March (Updated)
A U.S. flag is raised at the opening ceremony of the Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., March 17. More...
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Women in Combat — In Images
We are still in the month of March — Women’s History Month — and just fresh off the lifting of restrictions on women...
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Defense Update in Images and in a Few Words
It is the weekend and time again to dedicate a few words, and images, to our troops. Usually there is a “theme.” This time, just...
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A Senator’s Heart-Searching Discovery – and ...
My very first column at The Moderate Voice five years ago — I was not even a regular contributor then — was titled “I,...
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Marine General on Karzai’s ‘Collusion&...
It never seems to end in Afghanistan — now the longest war in our nation’s history. It never ceases to amaze us — the...
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(Updated, in English) El Nuevo Papa Es de la Amér...
Note: I must admit that I did not know anything about the new Pope when I posted my enthusiastic, Spanish-English post below. I was...
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