This does look like a much more sensible solution/approach to recognizing outstanding service rather than a separate medal. Good move Mr. Hagel.
and for those of the younger group it wasn't just Mork and Mindy that he started on. His great improv skills were the envy of his...
His hypothetical situations at the judiciary committee hearings included a 9/11 type national emergency, or a Pearl harbor style attack. However...
I wasn't referring to the "letter", but to Holder's reply to the judiciary committee the day before Rand Paul started his grand-standing. Holder...
You guys do know that the day before the attention getting Paul filibuster, Eric Holder answered that question with a flat "no". Don't you?
Thank you all for your support and extremely kind words, I am humbled to have so many cyber-friends. I hope to lurk around as a "non-staffer", a...
great project, I love the old BMW and Soviet copies of them from those years. Good luck to you John, hope the wallet isn't too thin?
He and I were long time cyber friends when THC was still a functional forum, a few years back he and his lady made a trip up my way and I met him...
Of the approximately 110 or 112 thousand Japanese interned, about 62% were American citizens (Nisei) who, under the Constitution were entitled to...
This "barred the Jews" is false, the immigration policy he inherited when he took office was based upon area, not religion or ethnicity. A great...
Not only did they have a hot dog feast, they were also entertained by Native American dancers. As a rather funny aside, the Queen couldn't open...
If nobody has included the link for Amtrak rail, there are packages, national park trips, and many others at special rates. Goto:...
BERLIN -- As a 22-year-old German army lieutenant, Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist volunteered to wear a suicide vest to a meeting with Adolf Hitler and...
This isn't totally on or off topic, but a quite interesting video concerning Manstein and both his personality, and his military talents....
It will without doubt take this particular old fart some time to figure out how to do anything, but that said; Congrats Otto on deciding to make...
Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I am so pleased that your back problems are finally easing up enough for you to become active again Otto....
The JCS is welcome to his opinion, however it is not the rule being put forward by the DoD and Leon Paneta. The one that actually applies. Once...
The standards are NOT going to be changed for females, if she cannot do the job she won't be assigned to an infantry combat role. This is the...
First off, women being allowed in "combat roles" isn't exclusive of front line duty. Also it is written into the change that only females who can...
On the Civilian conservation. From 1933 to 1942, over three million young men between the ages of 17 and 23 enrolled in the CCC, the thing which...
