combat boots

The difference between me and the boy in my second grade classroom who claimed his dad could beat up everyone else’s dad was that I believed mine actually could.  My father was in Vietnam.  He let me wear parts of his uniform, stumble around the house in his combat boots, touch his medals - once.  He wasn’t drafted; he enlisted.  Twice he fought, First Cavalry Division, hol

Newscoma brings home the importance of Senator Lowe Finney’s endorsement of Mike Padgett for U.S. Senate:

Mike Padgett and Kenneth Eaton have been wearing out the shoe leather in northwest Tennessee. Reminds me of days of old when Big Ned was in office. Ahhh, the glory days when we had politicians falling out of the woodwork here in Hoots.

CONGRESSMAN COHEN TO HOST TOWN HALL MEETING TODAY, SATURDAY, MAY 17

Today, Saturday, May 17, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) will host a Town Hall Meeting, which is open to the public, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Orange Mound Community Center, 2590 Park Ave.

Bob Tuke is walking across Tennessee. What an original idea! And he's wearing his combat boots. He's an ex-Marine. But how could you not know that? With nearly every breath he takes, he tells us that he was a Marine.

As the Donkey’s Mouth and Sean Braisted report that Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Bob Tuke will be marching across the State in his combat boots which he did not get at an Army surplus store:

Bob Tuke, U.S. Senate candidate to challenge incumbent Senator Lamar Alexander, is putting up his loafers and strapping on his old combat boots to juxtapose his marine-issue footwear to the gimmicky plaid shirt the senior senator has used in his extensive career of political campaigns.

Candidate for the Democratic nomination to the US Senate, Bob Tuke, is wiping the dust off of his old Marine combat boots to march across the state, much like Lamar Alexander leisurely strolled across it so many years ago.

Eight men in bright orange t-shirts, combat boots and cargo pants encircled us as we walked to Daniel’s house from the church that serves as his Compassion project.  A few minutes into the journey paved streets turned into rocky paths and steep descents.