A Crying Shame ...

My son, David and I visited this place inside Burma a few months ago, March 8, 2009.  The kids were laughing at this village near the Thai-Burma border called Ler Per Her -- a relatively “safe” place...

McCain's VP Pick: Just Politics or Being McCain???

When I first read a few hours ago the news of John McCain's pick of Sara Palin as his choice for VP, I was a bit stunned.  Then, I was disappointed, because it struck me that John McCain had just "settled"...

Sadr-City, Iraq: An Insider's View of the Situation

This is an excerpt of an email that I received yesterday from a young SGT who is currently serving a tour of duty in Sadr-City in Iraq -- an area with some of the heaviest and ugliest fighting. He is 8 months into his tour with an infantry division and who also served in...

Olympic Brotherly Love

Sitting here in the Tokyo airport, returning from 18 days at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, I'm struck by what we just witnessed and were part of. It was truly both historic and also amazing. Not just that China...

Burma: Act Now, Think Later! Let's Go!

OK, here is an unbelievable, "once in a lifetime" opportunity to help those suffering immensely  in Burma -- both as a result of the dictators complete lack of response to the devastation of the May 9th...

The Last Words of a Soldier -- "Hope Rides Alone"

For all our sake, I hope this isn't true. When people are WILLING to die for what they believe, you want to think that people will listen to what they had to say while they were still alive. How many of us would make that sacrifice if it came to it ... fewer than we'd like to...

War is an Ugly Thing, But not the Ugliest of Things!

Last week, on a flight from Dallas to Louisville,  I sat next to a young Specialist 4, infantry soldier from the 10th Mountain Division, named Greg Pittenger, who has served in Afghanistan and was on his mid tour break (for 18 days), while serving in Iraq.  To say...

Burma - The Irony of Destruction

A friend who knows that we've been financially supporting emergency relief efforts by the Free Burma Rangers (FBR) www.freeburmarangers.org to the 1 million internally displaced people (IDP's) in the...

Burma: “Is This Genocide and Why isn’t the World Doing Something About it...

Take a look at what’s going on in Burma today. Check out this first hand report that summarizes the last year of attacks by the Burma military regime against the various ethnic people of Burma....
 

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