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Posted at 8:09pm on Jul. 1, 2008 Good Stewardship Begins At Home
By Justin Case
The next time you are told that it's useless to drill off the Continental shelf because the oil would not be available for ten years, simply reply that trees planted today, to offset one's carbon footprint, won't make an real impact for about ten years. So why bother?
Don't get me wrong, my wife and I plant new trees or transplant young trees every year. We perform this chore in the dead of winter - which is the time of year that provides the most success. While I do not argue that trees are good for the environment and air quality, they also provide beauty and shade and help keep our precious soil from eroding. We have a stand of white pines that we planted twenty years ago. They make an excellent wind break and the wind blowing through them makes one take pause and just feel glad.
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Posted at 7:30am on Mar. 26, 2008 Clinton's Lie
By Justin Case
Senator Hillary Clinton's lie about Bosnia is one that should not be allowed to go away - especially among veterans.
Several years ago, a Pulitzer Prize winning writer and history professor, Joseph Ellis, told lies to his students at Mt. Holyoke College when he fabricated stories about Vietnam service. The truth is that during the Vietnam era Mr. Ellis was teaching history at West Point.
I would gladly have traded places with Professor Ellis many times during my tour of duty in Vietnam.
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Posted at 9:23pm on Nov. 9, 2007 Scout Dogs: A Veterans Day Tribute
By Justin Case
For the second night in a week we had come under attack by the Viet Cong. We were hit hard with mortars and rocket propelled grenades, and tear gas rounds for good measure. Sappers had blown a hole in our wire with satchel charges.
When the dust settled a bit, some of our guys got on line and began walking through the breach in the wire. They hadn't walked more than a few feet outside the perimeter when a bad guy jumped up and threw a grenade. A couple of men were badly hurt. I helped get them on a medevac chopper. When the chopper left I headed back to my platoon.
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Posted at 9:18pm on Nov. 8, 2007 Whatever Happened To The Donate Button
By Justin Case
on RedState?
Haven't seen it for a while and my plastic is burning a hole in my billfold.
Is donating a seasonal thing or can one make a contribution at any time?
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Posted at 8:22am on Oct. 17, 2007 A Matter of Principle
By Justin Case
This Republican election cycle is beginning to remind me of the Democrats in 1968.
First, in early '68 Eugene McCarthy did well in NH. Shortly afterwards, LBJ decided to not seek reelection. Then Robert Kennedy was assassinated.
None who were of age that summer will forget the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Remember Mayor Daley cursing Senator Ribicoff from the floor of the convention? Later on, Daley claimed that he was using the word, "Faker". It was the only time I can remember my staunch Republican father supporting Mayor Daley. He applauded "Hizzoner's" actions against those who vowed to "take over the city". (If you think our modern day Left is chilling, read a transcript of the Chicago Seven Trial).
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Posted at 1:45am on Aug. 19, 2007 We Will Never Forget
By Justin Case
Art played chess the same way he led our infantry company in Vietnam. Aggressively. In a few opening moves he threatened my bishop's pawn with his knight, his bishop and his queen. His son whispered to him, "You'll have him in two more moves." I moved one of my knights and covered the pawn and, a couple of moves later, I moved my other knight and threatened to fork his queen and his rook. He moved back his queen.
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Posted at 8:19am on Jun. 18, 2007 Republicans Eat Their Own
By Justin Case
In the past I've defended President Bush mainly because of his willingness to take the fight to terrorists in the GWOT.
I know of Libertarians who have managed to overlook his "spending money like a drunken sailor" in order to vote for a President who would keep us safe.
I've cut him slack for the war in Iraq simply because there is no such thing as a perfectly managed war.
There has been a laundry list provided by writers in this forum that deal with the mistakes he has made while President.
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Posted at 9:51am on May 26, 2007 "To Fallen Comrades"
By Justin Case
It's been thirty-seven years since the night Jerry and I shared guard duty in the 81mm gun pit. He was a radioman with the Command Post and I was in the mortar platoon.
Someone on the perimeter had called in a routine fire mission for illumination. I dropped a round down the tube, the shot was out, and we waited for the familiar pop and the subsequent intense light that the round provided as it drifted slowly back to the ground from several hundred feet in the air
The descending illumination revealed a nearby hillside covered in jungle. Jerry and I laughed as the flare drifted towards the hillside, waking a multitude of chirping birds who mistook the glow from the flare for a sunrise. The din from the birds stopped suddenly - as if a switch had been flipped - when the flare burned out.
Vietnam was a lonely place. Amusement came easy.
Read on . . .
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Posted at 1:26am on Apr. 30, 2007 April 30, 1975
By Justin Case
Tomorrow is April 30th. United States helicopters evacuated the last Americans from Saigon on April 30,1975.
The ghosts are a bit more noticeable on anniversaries. This is not unusual for veterans. Certain days stand out.
I recall working as a janitor at W.T. Grants in Kingsport, Tennessee on April 30, 1975. A Vietnamese woman was doing some shopping. She had to have been one of the first refugees of that war, or she was possibly married to an American.
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Posted at 8:50am on Feb. 23, 2007 Vietnam Deja Vu
By Justin Case
Democrats like Nancy Pelosi are a disgrace. They do not support the troops when they propose resolutions that express their unwillingness to reinforce them.
Republicans who go along with the resolution, although they initially voted to support our effort in Iraq, are no better.
When I returned from Vietnam in late 1970 I encountered silence.
A homecoming celebration was not expected to be provided by anti-war people. But was it beyond expectation to receive recognition for having fought for my country from those adults in my life who said I should go? Silence.