A few weeks ago some friends and I went to see our hometown “professional” soccer team play — the Seongnam Ilhwa. There’s not much interesting to say about it except that the only people there (aside from us) seemed to be young Army soldiers. I grew up in an Army town, but I’d never experienced [...]
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General McChrystal may not have been the most politically savvy person in the lot, but at least he had a sense of humor. In the infamous Rolling Stones article that cost McChrystal his job, it was mentioned that some of his team referred to themselves as Team America… Team America being the exhaustingly hilarious movie [...]
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One of the pieces I get in my blog reader (almost every day) is the New York Times’ Names of the Dead List. Every time a US military servicemember dies in the Iraq or Afghanistan War, the Times runs a small piece listing their names, age, rank, hometown, and regiment. Today’s paper listed the 799th, [...]
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