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I was able to take a tour of the VW site in Chattanooga last week. This is truly a great story. The site was an old ammunition factory during WWII and was horribly polluted. Chattanooga paid big bucks to reclamate the site and now they have attracted VW to set up [...]

This issue of not being able to hear, well, it’s bothering me.

Here’s something I never even knew existed: live color film footage of the famous (second) flag-raising on Iwo Jima - the one that was captured in the legendary Joe Rosenthal photo and became the basis for the Iwo Jima memorial statue.

There are times that I find out things that I didn’t know. It’s an oddity rather when you have perceptions about things and then you find out stuff like this.

John McCain on the War in Iraq:

Christopher Chantrill over at American Thinker has a fascinating essay on "A Century of Taxes." He points out that the federal government raised taxes enormously during WWII, for good reason, but that taxes never came down afterwards.

What is wrong with people that they have no respect for our elderly and Veterans? This is just sad that an 87 year old WWII and Vietnam Veteran should have to go to these lengths so his American Flag isn’t stolen by thugs!
Flag-flying Bedford senior has faced tougher problems than thieves
BEDFORD - Archie Mayes [...]

I was disturbed to read in a Jim V post this evening that the purported cost of the war in Iraq is $3 Trillion (believe it or not, someone has written a book about it!). That is a staggering sum. “Dang,” I thought (Jim facilitated me), “think of all the things we could have used that money on . . . think of how much we could have done for future generations?!”

First I wondered if that

Homer knows. Squirrel Queen knows. Big Daddy knows.

You see, this month is the anniversary of my mother’s death. It’s significant. We love and we lose.

We do.

And we remember. And if we don’t, shame on us.

She was named after a box of shoes that my grandmother saw on a box in Michigan during WWII. She didn’t have a middle name because my gram thought her name was long enough.

You know, I do this every year, and each year, it g

The Defense Department's proposed 2009 budget request of $515.4 billion is the highest (adjusted for inflation) since WWII and it does not include the billions requested in supplemental spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that a nation that continues to spend more on the military than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritua