Vietnam Veteran’s Day Weekend! I went to the Vietnam Veteran’s Day Weekend held in Raleigh. It was sponsored by the North Carolina Museum of History & The North Carolina Vietnam Veterans, Inc. This turned out to be a very moving day. First, I will say it was a real honor to talk to several of…
Do you like Bald Eagles! I love Bald Eagles and I really enjoy Mike Powell’s wildlife photography. He does a lot of fantastic shots of many species of birds, but I especially like his great Bald Eagle pictures. I guess it is just the patriot in me. If you are a bird watcher, you may…
Memorials are important historical signposts. While the frantic fringes in our country are trying to eradicate history and tear down memorials, in other countries some are working hard to preserve them. This article posted by GP Cox on his blog, Pacific Paratrooper, tells the tale of one such hard-working patriot in the Philippines. via Current…
What can an individual do to support our troops? Whatever we can do to support our troops, we should! I was messaging with my nephew who is with the 4/25th and currently stationed in Afghanistan. He is attached to my old unit … the 1/501st Parachute Regiment. The 1/501st was airborne during WW II. However,…
PTSD and the Vietnam War! A former Marine I recently met, Frank Lazzaro, who’d served in the Vietnam war. shared this poem he’d written on PTSD some time ago. He told me I could share it if I wished to. I did think it was pretty good and definitely worth sharing, so I decided to…
Remembering Today Hurricane Irma My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone in the path of Hurricane Irma. I have relatives in both Orlando and Tampa, Florida … and so far, they seem to be okay. I must say I have never seen such an outpouring of support and help being offered to victims of…
I do not favor punishing children, most of whom are now adults, for the actions of their parents. But we must also recognize that we are a nation of opportunity because we are a nation of laws.
FLOTUS Wears Spike Heels to View Texas Damage … Left-wing Media in a Tither! Spike heels … are you kidding? Of course you can see from the photograph, she must have somehow found time to change from Spike Heels into sneakers on the flight down from Andrews AFB. It is obviously hard for the…
The FBI should arrest the Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Post. Charges of treason may be a bit unreachable, but knowingly releasing classified information to the public is a crime!
If you control the language, you can control the story. Therefore, words are weapons. The radical left has learned this and is using that fact to destroy this country. My brother, Dan Gilbert, penned the below post. I just made a few edits. It sums this idea up very well. Words Are Very Powerful! Words…