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Please click through the link and look at the faces.  Consider the individuals.  

The first page of pictures is of those who died most recently.  This is the first Memorial Day for their families who, instead of thinking of their loved one serving, are still trying to come to grips with the fact that their daughter, their son, their brother, their husband, their cousin, their daddy — is gone.

I think of this as pretty close to the least I can do.  I can look at the photos.  Look at Air Force Captain Mark Voss.  Four weeks ago he was alive.  Now he’s not.

What is Air Force Captain James Steel bustin’ up about?  Something’s going on, off camera, to his right and he’s enjoying it.  Some friends deliberately goofing off, perhaps, or maybe a dog jumping an amazing height to catch a frisbee, and James is just enjoying the sight.

The photo of Army Pfc Markie Sims makes me sad.  He looks sad, don’t you think?  I suppose the photo was taken during basic training, and this was his first deployment.  Maybe he was already wondering what he had gotten himself into.  Maybe he’s just a sad kind of guy and couldn’t brighten up for a photo.

Marine Staff Sgt. Eric Christian looks proud and focused.  At the end of April, his family was just waiting to hear from him again.  Now I suppose they’ve received whatever his last letter was.  They’ve received his personal effects.  They’re not waiting to hear from him any more.

Army Specialist Cody Suggs — what you doing with ear-studs, bud!??  There must not have been a uniform pic available for him, but Specialist Suggs’ life was spent also.  He’s gone.  And I bet some family member will treasure (or wear) Cody’s ear-studs for a long, long time.  Cody, you’re breaking my heart.  You have the goofy ear-rings, like an adolescent who won’t listen to mom — but you went and laid your life down, didn’t you?

Army Sgt Enrique Mondragen, whose shoulder is that you are affectionately leaning into?  Is that your sister? Maybe your girlfriend?  Were they waiting for a call for you on Christmas Day, 2012, when instead they saw uniformed officers walking up to their front door?  Enrique — why Christmas Eve?  Why.  I’m sure the owner of the shoulder wonders the same….why, at all.  And why Christmas Eve.

Air Force Captain Victoria Pinckney, is that your little doll baby leaning in to touch your cheek?  Or a niece?  Whoever that little sweetie is, this photo will be a forever part of their future.

Please go and look at the faces and the names and the dates.  It is, very nearly, the least we can do.

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(Via Townhall.Com) Grief and politics don’t mix. When raw, aching grief and the dirtiest kind of politics meet, a hot volcano of pain and outrage erupts that is unstoppable. But it is necessary. It is the only way things might ever be clean again.

I am thinking of recent casket transfer ceremonies that have taken place at Dover Air Force Base, where senior administration officials have used the solemn occasions — Benghazi, the shoot-down of Extortion 17 — less to comfort grieving families than to lay blame; to establish a narrative; to lie. (more…)

Seven months we’ve been waiting for someone, anyone, to ask the White House staff what was President Obama doing on the night the Benghazi attacks took place.    We have researched this on our own and have him tracked from 4pm to around 7:30pm (EST).  But after 7:30pm it is a total BLACKOUT – an unknown void of information.

Finally after seven MONTHS.  Chris Wallace asks White House Communications Director, Dan Pfeiffer, what was President Obama doing.  [Please watch this video clip in its entirety before continuing]

Of course Dan Pfeiffer pulls the familiar “what difference does it make” angle, with his claim that it is an “irrelevant fact“. (more…)

WASHINGTON DC – Obama administration officials who were in key positions on Sept. 11, 2012 acknowledge that a range of mistakes were made the night of the attacks on the U.S. missions in Benghazi, and in messaging to Congress and the public in the aftermath.

The officials spoke to CBS News in a series of interviews and communications under the condition of anonymity so that they could be more frank in their assessments. They do not all agree on the list of mistakes and it’s important to note that they universally claim that any errors or missteps did not cost lives and reflect “incompetence rather than malice or cover up.” Nonetheless, in the eight months since the attacks, this is the most sweeping and detailed discussion by key players of what might have been done differently. (more…)

POTUS deploys Marines for rain in Rose Garden with Turkish PM Erdogan. twitter.com/MajorCBS/statu…

— Major Garrett(@MajorCBS) May 16, 2013

Only 100 pages?   No-way this is all of them.   They begin on 9/14/12?   Where’s the prior ones?    What questions do you identify?

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WASHINGTON DC – The State Department contributed to heavily editing talking points surrounding the attacks that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Libya, leading to the removal of references to terror groups and CIA warnings about threats in the region, according to emails and documents obtained by ABC News.

The ABC News report says that the White House and State Department were informed by intelligence officials that the CIA was aware of potential threats to the Libyan consulate from terror groups before the attacks. But the report said references to those threats were removed from the final version of the talking points used by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice because of pressure from the State Department.

According to the network, “12 different versions of the talking points” indicate extensive editing was done after they were first drafted by the CIA.

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Rice appeared on Sunday news shows following the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks and argued they were a spontaneous reaction to a video deemed offensive to Islam. The administration later admitted Rice’s claim was made with insufficient intelligence, and labeled the event an act of terror. (more…)

This story deserves to be shared with everyone you know….

“Extortion 17” was the call sign for the Chinook helicopter shot down in Afghanistan on the night of August 6th, 2011.   Among the killed in the crash were 25 special operations forces, including 15 members of SEAL Team 6, five National Guard troops, and eight Afghan nationals.

Yesterday, the families of the military personnel  killed in that crash held a press conference to lay out the cover-up by Obama and the military ever since. (more…)

Washington, D.C.). Three families of Navy SEAL Team 6 special forces servicemen, along with one family of an Army National Guardsman, will appear at a press conference on May 9, 2013, to disclose never before revealed information about how and why their sons along with 26 others died in a fatal helicopter crash in Afghanistan on August 6, 2011, just a few months after the successful raid on the compound of Osama Bin Laden that resulted in the master terrorist’s death.

 DATE: MAY 9, 2013

PLACE: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB (HOLEMAN LOUNGE)

Accompanying the families of these dead Navy SEAL Team 6 special operations servicemen will be retired military experts verifying their accounts of how and why the government is as much responsible for the deaths of their sons as is the Taliban.

The areas of inquiry at the press conference will include but not be limited to: (more…)

Brought to you courtesy of the compassionately “unhinged”.  Words simply fail me.  

…….if Julie Frein has anything to say about it…

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, aka: The Islamic jihadist scumbag, aka: the dead Boston Bomber will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery if one US Air Force Veteran has her way.

Yes, you heard that right. The murdering, older brother who killed three and maimed hundreds more innocent people at the Boston Marathon, including an eight-year-old blown to bits has been offered a National Cemetery burial plot by a USAF veteran named Julie Frein. What?

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