With all the news media completely focused on the presidential elections and the weather, it seems no one is remembering we are at war. Our young men and women are fighting in several faraway places, in extreme heat and under extreme conditions. I know that this election is historic, in that a young black man is running for the highest office, for the first time. ...more

September 2, 2008

With all the news media completely focused on the presidential elections and the weather, it seems no one is remembering we are at war. Our young men and women are fighting in several far away places in extreme heat and under extreme conditions. ...more

August 31, 2008

A soldier who fled to Canada rather than fight in Iraq has been sentenced to 15 months in prison after pleading guilty in Fort Carson, Colo., to a reduced charge of desertion. ...more

August 23, 2008

A U.S. Army specialist who fled Fort Bragg for Canada after learning his unit was going to be deployed to Iraq was ordered deported Wednesday. ...more

August 14, 2008

I read a piece in the paper that Tim Mahoney helped sponsor a bill for tomato growers. Does he not remember when the growers dumped their tomatoes in the fields with no regard for anyone? Did they remember soldier and sailors homes plus others in need? Mexico was the cause of the problem with veggies. Let them take responsibility and pay for damages! This is part of the reason Tim Mahoney should be called one-term Tim plus other factors in his voting record. He has never helped the American people in their woes. Tim, in my opinion, has done nothing for our elderly, youth, working Americans, veterans gas and oil prices. He has never answered my question of how much oil is shipped out of country, how much they are paying for our oil per barrel? ...more

August 4, 2008

TAMPA A combat veteran wounded during his third tour of Iraq was awarded the Purple Heart on Thursday during a ceremony at the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital. ...more

July 17, 2008

For more than a year, Gordon Dibler held out hope that his stepson, Army Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, would return home from Iraq. Then military officials delivered the grim news that the bodies of Fouty and another soldier captured in an ambush south of Baghdad had been found. ...more

July 12, 2008

Many college graduates will soon be wondering whether they should aggressively pay off their student loan debt or let it linger and make monthly payments for the next 10 years or even decades to come. ...more

June 29, 2008

This military base in the far West Texas desert stood as the last Army post in America where if you were old enough to fight and die for your country, you were old enough to drink a beer. ...more

May 30, 2008

There is no other freedom as we are enjoying here in the U.S.A. I have enjoyed 53 years of "the life" here and 49 years of this as a naturalized citizen. What a country. ...more

February 21, 2008