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| Kos Katalogue Challenge for All of Daily Kos: Could You Do THIS? It Will Help Lots of People
I am reposting the diary from late last night in the hope that more of you would see fit to consider the simple request I made, which is rather easy to implement. As OPOL wrote far more ... |
JekyllnHyde | 07/12/2013 | 29 | 65 | 2 | - |
| "Today we have peace. Tomorrow you fight for your country. I fight for mine. Good luck."
I first posted a version of this diary on Christmas Eve 2011. Even in the midst of unprecedented carnage in World War I, soldiers on both sides found within themselves a modicum of human decency ... |
JekyllnHyde | 12/24/2014 | 39 | 92 | 2 | - |
| Poets and Propaganda in a Time of War: "The Old Lie: Dulce Et Decorum Est, Pro Patria Mori" The War to End All Wars? On September 1, 1939, the armed forces of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany invaded Poland with overwhelming force, lightning speed, and unprecedented ferocity. World War II had begun and the term "Blitzkrieg" would enter our... |
JekyllnHyde | 11/11/2019 | 32 | 30 | - | - |
| The Christmas Truce: For At Least One Night, the Guns of War Fell Silent I first posted a version of this diary on the night of December 24, 2011. Wars suppress the natural urge of men to behave in a manner that has no bearing and can even remotely be construed as civilized behavior. Combat does terrible things to human... |
JekyllnHyde | 12/24/2019 | 29 | 41 | - | - |
| Memorial Day! 'Flags In' Tradition and the Real Joe Biden Just a gathering of links on the start of this Memorial Day weekend to hopefully bring real reflection, not for those of us who've served or are serving but the 99% who never did nor are, and not ... |
jimstaro | 05/28/2012 | 11 | 15 | - | 109 |
| Lawmakers want to cut military benefits
Support the troops? Honor our veterans? No so ... |
Joan McCarter | 10/24/2011 | 95 | 72 | 1 | 335 |
| Our Women Suffer Too--Hearing Their Voices As we approach Memorial Day, I would like to take a moment to thank all of our women troops, both veterans and those currently serving. I would also like to honor the fallen, most recently USAF MSG ... |
joanbrooker | 05/27/2011 | 233 | 146 | 1 | 654 |
| NFTT @ Netroots Nation - Military Sexual Trauma: The Women's War On Friday, June 8th, at 3:00PM at Netroots Nation , Netroots for the Troops will be hosting a panel on Military Sexual Trauma: The Women's War. I will be joined by Elizabeth Stinson, LMFT and ... |
joanbrooker | 06/03/2012 | 53 | 30 | - | 219 |
| Netroots Nation - The Women's War For the brave women who suffer from MST and deserve to have their stories shared to a wide audience, I am asking upfront that you recommend this diary. We want to see Ballroom C at Netroots Nation ... |
joanbrooker | 06/08/2012 | 41 | 27 | - | 121 |
| This Memorial Day, Let's Pay for Our Wars On Memorial Day , Americans in big cities, small towns and rural communities commemorate those who made the ... |
Jon Perr | 05/31/2011 | 9 | 13 | - | 46 |
| Military Sexual Trauma: An Epidemic In the last few years, as the debate played out surrounding the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, it was easy to get the impression that by allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in our armed ... |
julimyers | 05/30/2012 | 20 | 31 | 2 | 205 |
| From Ripples to Waves I have spent most of my life wondering how, if at all, I could make a difference. It’s a lofty ideal, but it didn’t mean much because I never allowed myself to get past the part where I ... |
julimyers | 05/31/2012 | 17 | 26 | 1 | 155 |
| Our Undeclared War If you are attending Netroots Nation #12 this weekend in Providence, RI, you will have a plethora of sessions from which to choose, everything from Lizz Winstead to effective tweeting to carrying ... |
julimyers | 06/07/2012 | 16 | 37 | - | 270 |
| Mr Romney, what about the troops? It is unimaginable in today's world that while accepting the nomination from his party, a candidate for president wouldn't say a single word about the war in Afghanistan. And he wouldn't mention ... |
Kaneblues | 08/31/2012 | 3 | 8 | - | 27 |
| Nurse Kelley Sez: If you like this love story, donate to NFTT On March 20, 1942, a young first lieutenant sat down at a table preparing to write a letter. His stationery was embossed with a seal and a heading in red, "Field Artillery School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma" |
KelleyRN2 | 05/30/2011 | 38 | 66 | - | 194 |
| NFTT: Nurse Kelley shares a wartime love story ♥ On March 20, 1942, a young first lieutenant sat down at a table preparing to write a letter. His stationery was embossed with a seal and a heading in red, "Field Artillery School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma" |
KelleyRN2 | 02/23/2012 | 63 | 115 | 1 | 314 |
| Mortgage Relief for Troops, Veterans h/t lulu57
This afternoon President Obama will hold his first full news conference since November to discuss new protections and payouts for troops that were harmed by unfair mortgage practices. ... |
kirbybruno | 03/06/2012 | 23 | 22 | - | 117 |
| We Fight Our Country’s Battles On Monday, March 19th, 2012 the swallows returned to Capistrano and a few miles away at Camp Pendleton, my son was deployed to Afghanistan along with 400 other United States Marines. My wife and I ... |
LCaseRussell | 03/23/2012 | 11 | 28 | 3 | 180 |
| Netroots for the Troops….Oops I consider myself lucky to be a member of the Daily Kos community for a variety of reasons. I visit the site every day, and post diaries on occasion. My son is a United States Marine, currently ... |
LCaseRussell | 06/21/2012 | 31 | 124 | - | 406 |
| When Adam Comes Marching Home On August 8th, 2012 my son returned safely home from his deployment to Afghanistan. I would like to like to thank family, friends, coworkers and the complete strangers who offered support to Adam, ... |
LCaseRussell | 08/28/2012 | 18 | 24 | - | 141 |
| Update: For Vets: The Veteran's Certificate Created for People in my Building Last Veteran's Day Last Veteran's Day a few of us held a "Veteran's Day Thank You" lunch for the building I live in. This would be the first time anyone held a celebration for veterans in this senior building. I ... |
Liberal Granny | 05/28/2012 | 14 | 24 | - | 152 |
| Dawn Chorus: Creature Comforts (NFTT) There you are, thousands of miles from where you were born and raised. You and thousands of others, similarly clad to blend in with the surrounding terrain. Some have made this trip before, but ... |
lineatus | 05/06/2012 | 103 | 97 | - | 333 |
| Testvet & LLBear ask "Where are you?" We are now at $39,357.56 It's all about your Care Package
When either of us undertake a mission, we see it through to conclusion. Well, this is one we can't do alone. We ... |
llbear | 09/30/2011 | 117 | 109 | - | 546 |
| The Last Care Package / The Care Continues At this moment at Net Roots Nation, the magic begins. Caring people are showing up to pack Care Packages. The magic? Each US Postal regulation box contains 1 part product to 4 parts love - your love. |
llbear | 06/18/2011 | 80 | 79 | - | 301 |
| Testvet - we got 'er done! This morning I had two interesting conversations I want to share with you. The first was with TexDem. Last night Vetwife and he talked . . . at length. She is thrilled, relieved, and humbled by your ... |
llbear | 09/14/2011 | 73 | 55 | 1 | 308 |
| Testvet This will be very, very short and to the point:
Mike Bailey, Testvet, has come through surgery in great shape. His wife, Dorrie, called me to express her thanks - and Mike's - for ... |
llbear | 05/04/2012 | 127 | 435 | 1 | 1787 |
| Testvet - we need some "Happy Dance" time Over the last two weeks I've been checking with Mike Bailey [testvet] & Dorrie. Mike is coming around but still in post-heart surgery pain. He also experiences a shortness of breath ... |
llbear | 09/30/2011 | 84 | 52 | - | 193 |
| Protecting Military Service Dogs Just One Dog , written our own Noweasels along with Cas and DavidSeth told us this about Cpl. Megan Leavey and her partner Sgt. Rex. Cpl. Leavey received the Purple Heart, ... |
llbear | 03/19/2012 | 41 | 63 | 1 | 243 |
| Netroots for the Troops - revealed classified secrets: Letters to my parents + cookies & matches I have an unusual war to share with you. My Viet Nam experience wasn't like what real soldiers experienced. First of all, most soldiers – real soldiers – didn't have the time to write long ... |
llbear | 05/10/2012 | 112 | 79 | - | 271 |
| VETWIFE's Emergency - UPDATE 5:25 EDT I'm going to let VetWife tell you later tonight exactly how two incredible Kossacks plus a host of donors resolved this situation. Right now, Vetwife and I need a break.
UPDATE 5:25 PM EDT: Those ... |
llbear | 07/06/2012 | 64 | 234 | 2 | 2278 |
| RIP CA Berkeley WV CA Berkeley WV, a woman active at Daily Kos at one time, has died. She passed away February 15, 2015. Her death was confirmed to me this AM by her daughter.
Her name irl was Terri Taylor Miskovsky and a link to her obituary is here.
I met... |
maggiejean | 05/21/2016 | 19 | 93 | - | - |
| The Great War's 100th Anniversary The Great War began one hundred years ago this very summer. But while the 70th anniversary of D-Day made headlines for a week and more across the nation, our memory, when it comes to the First World ... |
Matthew R Bishop | 06/25/2014 | 28 | 21 | - | - |
| DK Quilt Guild: NFTT Round Robin DK Quilt Guild: A place for quilters to gather, share ideas, projects, and to make the world a better place, one quilt at a time. Join us and share your thoughts, projects, questions, and tips. ... |
Melanie in IA | 01/29/2012 | 34 | 26 | 2 | 140 |
| NFTT Issues a Friendly challenge to All Daily Kos Groups Each year for the past three years, we at Netroots for the Troops™ have raised money to send hundreds of ... |
Meteor Blades | 04/06/2011 | 76 | 93 | 4 | 549 |
| Live long, fight hard and prosper Because of deeply personal issues I am taking a leave of absence from Daily Kos. Other than to say my reasons are not related to my health, I am not willing to discuss the matter in public. My ... |
Meteor Blades | 08/10/2011 | 1256 | 1605 | 67 | 10267 |
| Sen. John Kerry writes in support of Netroots for the Troops Sen. John Kerry wrote this diary, but because of a computer problem asked that I post it here for him. —Meteor Blades.
By John Kerry
Sen. John Kerry Just a quick post about your "Netroots for ... |
Meteor Blades | 02/24/2012 | 33 | 103 | 1 | 250 |
| NFTT - My friend joined the Army, I want to honor his service My friend Mike joined the Army. I call Mike a kid but he is not that much younger than me, he is in his mid-twenties, I'm not that much older than him, but I look at him like a younger brother, Mike ... |
MinistryOfTruth | 05/15/2012 | 35 | 59 | 1 | 197 |
| $1000 Match for NFTT: Remembering Megan In a comment in joanbrooker’s heartbreaking diary Friday night, [Our Women Suffer Too Hearing Their Voices http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/27/978566/-Our-Women-Suffer-TooHearing-Their-Voices? |
noweasels | 05/29/2011 | 179 | 89 | 1 | 486 |
| Just one dog.
These are United States Marine Cpl. Megan Leavey and Sgt. Rex. They were wounded together during their second tour of duty in Iraq. Cpl. Leavey received the Purple Heart, the Combat Valor Medal ... |
noweasels | 03/19/2012 | 153 | 234 | 1 | 1216 |
| NFTT- Where is my Daddy? Why is he gone? At the end of last year he left again for another deployment.
This is the fifth one. Twice in Iraq was bad enough. Now Kandahar awaits, again.
This time is different. Last time there wasn't ... |
Oke | 05/10/2012 | 42 | 63 | - | 250 |
| Joe Biden's speech to Military Heroes will rank with one of the best ever This is a speech that will rank up with the best ever given. I love Joe. |
Olympia | 05/27/2012 | 97 | 249 | 6 | 1387 |
| Ceiling Cat sazs "Letz Tehre be teh Lite of NFTT!" | Onomastic | 03/27/2011 | 76 | 39 | - | 308 |
| NFTT - We Need You. More Importantly, They Need You. | Onomastic | 04/05/2011 | 31 | 28 | - | 146 |
| What talk of Butterflies, Budding Tree Leaves, and Spring Flowers can do. Yes, of course he's brilliant, all three of the grand boys are, if I do say so myself. But the four year old beautiful boy out did himself the other day. We were talking about the quick change ... |
Onomastic | 05/03/2011 | 22 | 25 | - | 123 |
| "Do You Remember Me?" "I don't ask for much.....
All I want is for you to say, I'm proud of you. I remember.
I'm lucky and grateful to have you in my life.
I love you.
I miss you.
I'll be home soon.
Remember ... |
Onomastic | 04/21/2011 | 57 | 77 | 1 | 545 |
| Words are Tumbling, Shifting like Sand. How do I Say - They need You? There are too many memories of 9/11 and the days, weeks, months that followed, bubbling up today. The grief over the lives lost on that day and in the years following is ever present. Normal, I ... |
Onomastic | 05/02/2011 | 31 | 30 | - | 170 |
| An Ceiling Cat sayed, O hai! Letz tehre be Peeps for teh NFTT! But, in teh beginnin Ceiling Cat no has Peeps. An Ceiling Cat sayz, I haz eggz furst? And tehre ... |
Onomastic | 04/23/2011 | 66 | 92 | 1 | 551 |
| "Morning has broken, like the First Morning.." | Onomastic | 04/24/2011 | 43 | 55 | - | 316 |
| On This Day, of All Days - For our Troops and Their Families - Thank You Our goal for Netroots for the Troops TM 2011 is $100,000.0 (cash or in-kind donations) |
Onomastic | 05/02/2011 | 17 | 25 | 1 | 96 |
| Help! Help!! We Need Bharns! Lots of Bharns for bubba!!!! What? No! Not that kind of bharns....... |
Onomastic | 05/05/2011 | 16 | 11 | - | 127 |
| On this Mothers' Day - A Decade of Deployment for Military Families - Does Anyone Care? There's been far too many goodbyes. |
Onomastic | 05/08/2011 | 43 | 38 | - | 159 |
| International Currency 101 - Is that a dong in you pocket or are you ready to donate? | Onomastic | 05/15/2011 | 15 | 24 | - | 117 |
| This is personal This morning he woke up again on the couch, as he always does. He hasn't been in our bed, my bed, in a long time. It took the wise words of our god-daughter, someone who works with Veterans, to ... |
Onomastic | 05/17/2011 | 250 | 326 | 8 | 2133 |
| Update! $1000 waiting to be matched is now $1500! Lets do This! NFTT Match Diary! No, this isn't a pyramid scheme. |
Onomastic | 05/18/2011 | 317 | 155 | 2 | 785 |
| Doing the Funky Chicken! Why? You met the $1500 Match for NFTT! But wait! There's more! Wanted to put together a little fun diary to tell you about the good news! We raised $3000 dollars last night thanks to all of you meeting the $1500 Match Challenge. Isn't that ... |
Onomastic | 05/19/2011 | 28 | 36 | - | 123 |
| Mr. Olbermann? Mr. Lieber? Rep. Grijalva? Gov. Dean? It's about Memorial Day. Do you have a minute? I'm sorry to bother you, especially on a Sunday. But Daily Kos has been trying to do something wonderful and we're running out of time. You see, our ... |
Onomastic | 05/22/2011 | 75 | 78 | - | 534 |
| "...Where are they gone? The song vanished away...." Those words are part of a song from Tad Williams' The Dragonbone Chair - Book One of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. |
Onomastic | 05/23/2011 | 43 | 28 | - | 198 |
| Swinging and Shaking a Broken Hearted "Au revoir" to Dancing with the Stars ::sniffle:: Yes, it's true. I watch Dancing with the Stars . Now before you burst into a horrified "How could you'??!!!!", or throw a copy of ... |
Onomastic | 05/24/2011 | 60 | 43 | 1 | 321 |
| Without you, there is nothing. I've been wanting to write something wonderful, something meaningful to convey just how much what you've all done matters. The last days, weeks (Yikes! Has it really been months?) ... |
Onomastic | 05/31/2011 | 57 | 65 | - | 292 |
| Senator Kerry, Elizabeth Warren, and Governor Dean, will be on Dkos next week!
Yes, they are ALL stopping by. A plethora of riches indeed. Why? They are helping kick off our annual Netroots for the Troops , or NFTT, fund raiser with a blogathon. ... |
Onomastic | 02/19/2012 | 97 | 101 | 1 | 471 |
| Why Netroots for the Troops? It's still personal. Netroots for the Troops needs diary writers for this week's fundraising blogathon - especially today and tomorrow. I wanted to help get out the word and spent a good chunk of time trying to decide ... |
Onomastic | 02/21/2012 | 35 | 51 | 1 | 151 |
| Have a spare rec or comment? bubbanomics wants to give away $1000 and you can help! Yes, my beloved kossacks, he does!
I'll match each dollar pledged herein.
I'll throw in a dollar for each rec.
I'll throw in a dime for each comment.
Up to a cap of $1,000 from me. That makes me ... |
Onomastic | 02/21/2012 | 12 | 28 | - | 150 |
| An Ceiling Cat sayed, O hai! Letz tehre be Peeps for teh NFTT! In teh begininz Ceiling Cat no haz Peeps. So Ceiling Cat sayed, I haz egg furst? And tehre waz egg.
An Ceiling Cat sayed, O hai, make moar eggs kthx. An dont worry i ... |
Onomastic | 04/08/2012 | 53 | 96 | 1 | 581 |
| Because it's all too damn much and yet, it can't be I need you, not that you can do anything about what has been pulling at my heart for over thirty years. That's how long my son has been fighting his own war of survival against health issues that ... |
Onomastic | 05/03/2012 | 119 | 225 | 1 | 916 |
| It's Cinco de Mayo! It's almost post time! There's a Flower Moon rising! Wait a minute. What? I wanted to do a diary for Netroots for the Troops but how with all this great stuff happening? It's celebration time. Party time. Magic time. And all in ONE day!
Today is Cinco de Mayo , a ... |
Onomastic | 05/05/2012 | 125 | 107 | 1 | 426 |
| Slut Shaming in the United States Armed Forces Hey y'all did you hear I am a "psyco [sic] jizz gobbler" and a "slam pig" Of course you did-rape survivor and name calling they go hand in hand. Its okay. I know that if Mother Theresa (RIP MT) was ... |
Panayiota Bertzikis | 06/22/2012 | 22 | 51 | 1 | 255 |
| NFTT: Sometimes Soldiers Live on our Care Packages (Plus $1,000 Matching Donor) (Photo by kayakbiker) After Bush first started the illegal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, I "adopted" several soldiers over the course of a few years, and sent care packages each month. We sent an ... |
Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse | 02/24/2012 | 66 | 99 | - | 395 |
| Netroots For The Troops: Random Meanderings on a Rainy Tuesday Netroots For The Troops is a group which is very dear to my heart. Many thoughts run through my mind as I sit here on a very dreary, rainy Tuesday. As Mets102 reminds us in his posting, Thank A ... |
PoliSigh | 05/08/2012 | 27 | 57 | 1 | 137 |
| NFTT: It’s not goodbye – it’s “I’ll see you in 7 months” Those are the words my Marine son said to me when he left for his first deployment in early 2005. I will never forget them, and they were words I held onto for dear life.
As he walked through the ... |
Proud Mom and Grandma | 05/04/2011 | 47 | 62 | - | 255 |
| NFTT: "It seems like you just got home" Those are the words I said when my son called me to say he was deploying for a second time. “This is what I signed up for, Mom,” he said.
In my mind, those six months stateside flew by so fast. |
Proud Mom and Grandma | 05/12/2011 | 35 | 34 | - | 148 |
| NFTT: “I just have to give you one last hug…” To give my Marine son that hug before his third deployment, I drove 2000 miles back to the Midwest. His emotional detachment for this third deployment was very extreme. He didn’t want to fly out ... |
Proud Mom and Grandma | 05/25/2011 | 65 | 45 | - | 184 |
| NFTT: “All gave some….Some gave all” I have been acquainted with this saying for a long time. I grew up in the Vietnam era, graduated from high school in 1965 with a fairly large graduating class. Because of the draft at that time, ... |
Proud Mom and Grandma | 05/30/2011 | 104 | 179 | 2 | 564 |
| NFTT: The “Anythings” After 3 Deployments This fundraiser for our military is one that is near and dear my heart. As I wrote about last year, I am the very proud mom of a U. S. Marine, who did three deployments in three years. I wrote ... |
Proud Mom and Grandma | 02/22/2012 | 35 | 56 | - | 177 |
| We Got Osama bin Laden – Now Let’s Get Out of Afghanistan The news of Osama bin Laden’s death at the hands of a small group of Navy SEALs, after hiding in plain sight for years, reminds us that we spent a generation deploying ever more troops to fight an ... |
Raul Grijalva | 05/10/2011 | 176 | 304 | 5 | 748 |
| NFTT: It's been a decade. Ten years is a long time.
Way back when, I was told that to serve, I needed to shop. Get out the credit cards. Pump that gas. Debauch and have fun. That was my patriotic duty.
Flag-draped coffins ... |
rb137 | 02/23/2012 | 42 | 93 | - | 327 |
| Netroots for the Troops - The Family Gram FLASH TRAFFIC...RICHARD SENDS...
It's been said that submariners are a crazy lot – as in, literally nuckin' futz. Perhaps that explains a lot about me. What else would possess anyone to ... |
Richard Cranium | 02/22/2012 | 38 | 53 | - | 143 |
| Buy this quilt at NN12 today. Support our troops. The DailyKos Quilt Guild has made a quilt, named Better Together!
The quilt will be auctioned off at a silent auction today at Netroots Nation at 1:30 PM Eastern time. All funds will be donated to ... |
RLMiller | 06/14/2012 | 15 | 55 | 1 | 211 |
| Community Quilt for Scott Olsen, Wounded at Occupy Oakland [http://communityquiltproject.com/2011/11/12/community-quilt-for-scott-olsen/ Cross posted from the Community Quilt Project] |
Sara R | 03/11/2012 | 143 | 118 | 2 | 460 |
| "The Invisible War"; a disturbing film that screams for action Yesterday I drove to the Laemmle Theater in Santa Monica to watch "The Invisible War" . It was opening night for this documentary that won the Audience Award at the Sundance Festival.
This is the ... |
Shockwave | 06/24/2012 | 55 | 159 | 3 | 810 |
| NFTT: A Soldier's Thank You I was 28 when I arrived in Afghanistan. I was a Private in the US Army. I was beginning my first and only 12 month tour as an Army Infantryman. At the time, I had no idea how much my life was about ... |
Showtime | 12/14/2011 | 30 | 65 | 1 | 265 |
| Soupin It Up W/Sped: Back with a Cause :::dusts off the soup pot::: I'm back! Many of you will remember my series of diaries called [http://dailykos.com/news/soupin%20it%20up%20with%20sped Soupin It Up W/Sped] which featured a different ... |
Spedwybabs | 05/12/2011 | 29 | 43 | 7 | 216 |
| Breaking! Pootie Strike Ends! (NFTT) Thursday a tragedy occurred here on Daily Kos. The pooties went on strike and their only demand was that everyone should contribute $ to Netroots for the Troops.
I'm thrilled to report you came ... |
Spedwybabs | 03/28/2011 | 14 | 29 | - | 158 |
| NFTT: A very special announcement Greetings from wet and cold Washington, DC. It's Opening Day here and the excitement is in the air... and I'm hoping that excitement will carry over to this diary, because I have a very special ... |
Spedwybabs | 04/01/2011 | 50 | 47 | - | 263 |
| You got Questions? The Progressive Caucus has Answers! Not only do they have answers but they have two ways for you to get those answers!
Update: Rep. Grijalva has been invited to be on the Lawrence O'Donnell show on MSNBC at 8 pm EST sooo ... |
Spedwybabs | 04/11/2011 | 8 | 28 | - | 122 |
| Sports are for Stupid People Did the outrageous title of this diary prompt you open it? If so, that was what I intended. It’s a shame that we have to go to these lengths to get people’s attention around here.
Sorry to ... |
StateOfGrace | 05/20/2011 | 233 | 367 | 1 | 2325 |
| NFTT: Once a Marine, Always a Marine During the spring of 1945, there was a war on in the Pacific, as well as over Europe. At home young men were being called up to fight in what Studs Terkel called "The Good War."
Even though his ... |
Susan Grigsby | 05/06/2012 | 35 | 78 | - | 240 |
| Netroots for the Troops: Taking care of those who serve us Today, less than one-half of 1 percent of this nation is serving in uniform. We have come a long way from the Vietnam era when we foolishly punished troops as a proxy for a war many did not support. ... |
TammyDuckworth | 05/07/2012 | 41 | 105 | 1 | 261 |
| Netroots For The Troops--A tiny FUNDRAISER!!! One of the great experiences I had at NN 2011 was volunteering for Netroots for the Troops. Yesterday, Chris (Electablog) asked for volunteers. I can't be at NN12 so I sadly could not throw my ... |
Tasini | 06/05/2012 | 2 | 8 | - | 38 |
| Netroots For The Troops Well it's time to start our little group for NFTT. We're looking for followers, members and editors.
Followers just so you'll know when we write a diary. Editors if you think you may write an NFTT ... |
TexDem | 02/15/2011 | 18 | 25 | - | 96 |
| Mojo Friday - Netroots For The Troops 2011 - Edition On this weekend where many will be extending their celebration of St. Patrick's Day and others are looking with great anticipation to Spring, let us not forget we still have members of our military ... |
TexDem | 03/18/2011 | 786 | 73 | 1 | 598 |
| Mojo Friday - NFTT Matching Challenge - Edition One of our most successful methods of fundraising diaries has been those where there's been a challenge to match a potential donation based upon how much the diary receives from the readers. With ... |
TexDem | 03/25/2011 | 962 | 65 | - | 578 |
| Mojo Friday - NFTT, It's No Joke - Edition There was a moment where I was tempted to do a April Fool's Joke Mojo Friday, that moment passed. Nothing about Netroots For The Troops TM is a joke. as the burdens on our military ... |
TexDem | 04/01/2011 | 722 | 76 | - | 636 |
| NFTT Issues a Friendly challenge to All Daily Kos Groups - II Writers Note;
This was originally posted last night ... |
TexDem | 04/07/2011 | 11 | 35 | - | 141 |
| Mojo Friday - Netroots For The Troops, Group Challenge - Edition On Wednesday night of this week Meteor Blades posted a diary issuing a ... |
TexDem | 04/08/2011 | 812 | 76 | - | 573 |
| Mojo Friday - Are You Up To It? - Edition Three groups have taken up the challenge issued to all Daily Kos groups to support NFTT. |
TexDem | 04/15/2011 | 823 | 68 | 1 | 636 |
| Netroots For The Troops Challenge Update I thought I give an update as to where the NFTT Daily Kos Group Challenge stands. There'... |
TexDem | 04/20/2011 | 6 | 22 | - | 57 |
| Mojo Friday - NFTT, It's Time - Edition It's time to step up Daily Kos, here we are in our fourth year of trying to support our military deployed in combat areas and this site with the exception of those involved with NFTT and IGTNT have ... |
TexDem | 04/22/2011 | 1295 | 75 | - | 688 |
| Mojo Friday - A NFTT Auction For Two Netroots Nation Registrations - Edition Netroots For The Troops is the beneficiary of someone's inability to go to NN 2011. They have turned their situation into a positive for Netroots For The Troops. NFTT has two registrations available ... |
TexDem | 04/29/2011 | 724 | 59 | - | 595 |
| Mojo Friday - $3000 Challenge For NFTT - Edition In the past we here at Daily Kos have raised that sum in a single day for Netroots for the Troops™ , can we do it again? There are professionals on this site who have the income ... |
TexDem | 05/06/2011 | 721 | 76 | 1 | 478 |
| Troop Morale at Five Year Low A NFTT Diary
"We're an Army that's in uncharted territory here," says Gen. Peter Chiarelli, Army vice chief of staff, according to the report. "We ... |
TexDem | 05/10/2011 | 33 | 55 | - | 226 |