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The Oklahoma Honor Flights will take 82 veterans — including six from the Bartlesville area — to Washington, D.C. for a one-day trip to visit the World War II Memorial, the Korean War Memorial, the Vietnam Wall, the Lincoln Memorial, the Iwo Jima Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery and other sites on Wednesday. The Oklahoma Honor Flights is a hub of the national Honor Flight Network. This will be its 20th flight from Oklahoma and the eighth from Tulsa…
An Oklahoma National Guardsman received the Star of Valor award for his heroic acts in saving a stabbing victim from her attacker and treating her wounds.…
…Listed below are some of the various commanders, vice-commanders, etc. who have been relieved, fired, forced into early retirement and otherwise let go of…or, gotten rid of…depending on how one chooses to interpret all this. Grand Total thus far: 197 (Mostly Colonel and above. 127 AF majors included…they all occurred at one time, apparently). Also, provided are 11 links to various articles about said officers and the various ends of their military careers.…
So if horserace broke his leg in France why did they fly him to Switzerland?
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Someone in the entourage saw the Swiss flag and thought they were headed toward a first aid station?
Jack Leroy Tueller - one sentimental night in Normandy. [Video, 2:14]
Pausing today to remember the sacrifices of our fallen warriors, it has been difficult to watch the gains of ISIS in Iraq’s Anbar Province and the subsequent fall of Ramadi where America’s first Navy SEAL, Marc Lee, was killed in a ferocious firefight.…
…Yesterday, Cody set up a Missing Man table for Memorial Day. He didn’t know he needed a permit to go inside the Marietta National Cemetery, but that didn’t stop him. Cody set up his table outside, and remained at attention for two hours.…
Of all the places to locate the National D-Day Memorial, why Bedford?
Because of the Bedford Boys.…
memorial contains the name of every Allied soldier who died in the invasion of Normandy.
Four thousand, four hundred and thirteen men.
It is the most complete list of any memorial in the world.…
The plight of Lance Corporal Monifa Sterling seems unbelievable – a member of the Armed Forces criminally prosecuted for displaying a slightly altered passage of Scripture from the Old Testament: “No weapon formed against me shall prosper.”
Sterling, who represented herself at trial, was convicted February 1, 2014 in a court-martial at Camp Lejune, North Carolina after she refused to obey orders from a staff sergeant to remove the Bible verses from her desk.
…“But where are we going?” I asked.
“We are going to America,” my father said.
“Why America?” I prodded.
“Because, son. We were born Americans, but in the wrong place,” he replied.
My father said that as naturally as if I had asked him what was the color of the sky. It was so obvious to him why we should head for America. There was really no other option in his mind. What was obvious to him, unfortunately, took me nearly 20 years to learn. But then, I had to “un-learn” a lot of things along the way. …
Major Michael O'Donnell, "Six Seconds," Remembering Melvin Garten, Remembering the "Forgotten War," more…
On May 26, 2008 Sgt. Raymond Hubbard gave a touching Memorial Day speech. He was wounded during his tour in Iraq and is a recipient of the Purple Heart. His speech is so incredibly heartfelt and honest. He reminds us just how much our brave men and women have put on the line for our freedom.… [Video]
Be sure to remember the people who made it possible for all of us to do so. We owe them a debt which can never be repaid. [Video]
Ronald Reagan could deliver a speech almost like no other President. 31 years ago, Reagan delivered an address to commemorate an unknown serviceman in the Vietnam War. Never one to make such moments about himself, the speech is a brief 9 minutes long.… [Video]
…Rolling Thunder, an annual event that has been bringing motorcyclists and spectators to the National Mall in downtown Washington since 1988, started the "Ride for Freedom" at the Pentagon in Virginia, crossed the Potomac River over the Memorial Bridge and circled the Mall. Organizers estimated that more than a million bikers and spectators attended, making it the largest one-day motorcycle gathering in the world….
It’s Memorial Day – but please don’t put a “Happy” in front of it like the clueless, tactless @TheDemocrats. Memorial Day is a somber day – a day to honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of our freedom. For many vets, remembering those sacrifices, stings.…
As we do on this day each year, we pause to remember the men and women who died fighting for our freedom. We stand by humbly, gratefully, silently, to honor their sacrifice.… [graphics]
A ceremony that has been taking place for 115 years in Bartlesville took place again Monday morning to honor our military veterans.…
… For 70 years, the Dutch have come to a verdant U.S. cemetery outside this small village to care for the graves of Americans killed in World War II. On Sunday, they came again, bearing Memorial Day bouquets for men and women they never knew, but whose 8,300 headstones the people of the Netherlands have adopted as their own. For the American relatives of the fallen, it was an outpouring of gratitude almost as stunning as the rows of white marble crosses and Jewish Stars of David at the Netherlands American Cemetery.…
[The bluebird picks up some nice political panels for Memorial Day.]
Just a thought on Memorial Day greetings
Please, do not say “Happy Memorial Day”.
Memorial Day isn’t a day to be “happy”. It is not “celebrated”, it is observed.…
In the face of this electoral season's acrimony, it behooves us all as Americans to every now and then declare a truce, step back from the brink and to take stock of this awesome Nation of ours.
Of all of ours. …
Remember the price of freedom. Our deepest gratitude to those who paid it on our behalf. #MemorialDay #CommonSoldier [video]
…The U.S. arranged papers for Barwari’s mother but, due to a clerical error, baby Lava wasn’t allowed to leave with her. She nearly had to stay in Iraq, left to the whims of Hussein’s brutal regime. That’s when an American soldier named Greg Peppin stepped in. … She grew up hearing stories about the man who saved her life but, until this past week, she had never met the former soldier….
There are no words that can express my outrage, as an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, to see the black flag of ISIS flying in Ramadi. There is no excuse that the current commander-in-chief can make. And as we head into Memorial Day weekend, I would prefer President Barack Obama just not make an appearance issuing empty words.
To those of my brothers and sisters who fought, lost limbs, and to the families who lost their loved ones — God bless you, and I for one shall honor your service and commitment.…
One Marine was killed and 21 others were hospitalized Sunday after an Osprey aircraft made a hard landing in Hawaii, causing a fire that sent dark smoke billowing into the sky. …
The bodies of all eight people on board the U.S. Marine helicopter that disappeared this week during a relief mission in earthquake-hit Nepal have been recovered, Nepal's army said Saturday.… [I have seen no word on why this helicopter might have gone down.]
Nepalese rescuers on Friday found three bodies near the wreckage of a US Marine helicopter that disappeared this week during a relief mission in the earthquake-hit Himalayan nation, and officials said it was unlikely there were any survivors from the crash.…
A missing Marine helicopter has not been spotted, a spokesman for U.S. Pacific Command told Military Times on Wednesday. …was carrying six U.S. Marines and two Nepalese soldiers when it disappeared Tuesday during a mission in a remote mountainous region in Nepal
…U.S. Marine Corps helicopter providing assistance in the wake of the Nepal earthquake is missing. … near Charikot, Nepal, on Tuesday. … part of Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 469.…
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