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Tim Mak, former Army medic and NPR correspondent, will be providing Daily Kos weekly dispatches from inside Ukraine—kos Would you rather not know the fate of your missing son? Or know for certain that he was a prisoner of war, being held by...
by Timkmak
on Sun May 28, 2023 at 07:26 AM PDT
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It remains one of the most iconic moments of the illegal invasion of Ukraine. Throughout April, largely cut off from outside support and pushed back into a series of bunkers and tunnels that run beneath the giant Azovstal steel plant, these last...
by Mark Sumner
on Thu Sep 22, 2022 at 08:04 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. America has essentially been at war, nonstop, since the weeks after the 9/11 attacks. Those “forever wars,” as they’re now...
by TomDispatch
on Tue Jan 12, 2021 at 09:19 AM PST
with 3 Recommends
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So today Trump decided to “honor” the more than half million Americans who were captured and held as POWs. Some honor. He even wrote the word right there in his tweet: “captured.” Except Cadet Bone Spurs doesn’t like military men and women who are...
by Mother Mags
on Thu Apr 09, 2020 at 05:03 PM PDT
with 24 Recommends
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Needless to say, there’s a big difference between this:
“He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”
And this:
Of course, the chance that Trump actually wrote that tweet is...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
on Tue Apr 09, 2019 at 01:07 PM PDT
with 11 Recommends
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As Donald Trump continues to attack, criticize and whine about the late war hero and former Arizona senator John McCain, a new query has emerged. During an interview on Thursday with Anderson Cooper, former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey, a colleague of...
by Leslie Salzillo
on Fri Mar 22, 2019 at 01:45 AM PDT
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by Nick Anderson
on Mon Aug 27, 2018 at 02:50 PM PDT
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Now that everyone may finally be coming to terms with ...
by Mark Fiore
on Fri Oct 27, 2017 at 04:51 AM PDT
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My father was a POW and he WAS a Hero! I could never vote for a man who said that POWs are not heroes, who says only the ones who escaped capture are heroes. And I don’t see how any person who has or had a POW in their family, or even a soldier in...
by FrancesMurrayFlaherty
on Sun Oct 16, 2016 at 03:40 PM PDT
with 8 Recommends
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Up until 2015, Senator John McCain
had a lot of things to be proud of. He had served his country bravely, he handled himself honorably in the eyes of most all Americans when he was captured by the North Vietnamese in Oct 1967 during a bombing...
by Brianm1968ca
on Sat Oct 08, 2016 at 02:32 PM PDT
with 0 Recommends
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“What gone bad a morning can’t come good a evening” is the chorus of the popular sixties Jamaican Ska song Everything Crash by the Ethiopians. This chorus is relevant to the way the GOP has ...
by melshim
on Mon Jul 20, 2015 at 06:02 AM PDT
with 4 Recommends
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by Brainwrap
on Sat Jul 18, 2015 at 01:58 PM PDT
with 458 Recommends
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Below is a brief biography of my father, Col. Dewey L. Smith USAF ...
by vlboyd53
on Tue Jan 06, 2015 at 11:10 PM PST
with 1 Recommend
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One of my favorite movies was shown on TCM last night. John Ford's, "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," with John Wayne staring in the role of Captian Brittles. For some reason, I connect this movie with ...
by vlboyd53
on Sat Dec 20, 2014 at 11:15 PM PST
with 28 Recommends
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Yesterday, on the Pentagon River Terrace Parade Field a ceremony was held in recognition of the POW's once held over these many years and our wars from and the Missing, thousands still are MIA!
As ...
by jimstaro
on Sat Sep 20, 2014 at 05:10 AM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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Originally posted by Hondo at This Ain't Hell. He wrote it so well it is worth reposting.
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SSgt. David R. Kittredge, 450th Bomber Squadron, 322nd Bomber Group, Medium, 9th Air Force, ...
by DrillSgtK
on Tue Aug 12, 2014 at 01:02 PM PDT
with 8 Recommends
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Was it Evan Buetow's responsibility, as team leader, to have secured the post so that the Taliban, nor anyone else, " could just walk right up " into Bergdahl's base?
Did Buetow fail to secure ...
by TeamSarah4Choice
on Fri Jun 13, 2014 at 09:44 AM PDT
with 34 Recommends
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I saw this Washington Post article early this afternoon, before it was referenced in another diary currently on the Recommended list. I wanted to diary it myself then, but was busy at work with no ...
by candid psychiatrist
on Wed Jun 11, 2014 at 10:45 PM PDT
with 234 Recommends
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The Washington Post published an article today based on private writings of Bergdahl. Normally I would think twice about posting something like this (his family has suffered enough), but these ...
by DiesIrae
on Wed Jun 11, 2014 at 12:35 PM PDT
with 173 Recommends
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Some of these beards are patriotic, others are just like the Taliban. Can you spot which is which?
Conservatives have kindly given us an illuminating inside look into their world view ...
by kos
on Tue Jun 10, 2014 at 11:25 AM PDT
with 641 Recommends
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