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New GI Bill Ads From VoteVets

VoteVets.org’s New Ads on the GI Bill VoteVets.org: VoteVets.org Action Fund is undertaking an ad blitz to ensure passage of the bipartisan 21st Century GI Bill, introduced by Senators Jim Webb and...

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Senate Approves 21st Century GI Bill

The Senate, by a veto-proof 75-22 margin, has overwhelmingly approved Senator Jim Webb's 21st Century GI Bill. Senator John McCain, who opposes the bill, skipped the vote because he was too busy...

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McSame Flip Flops On Supporting The Troops

Three Senators missed the vote for Senator Jim Webb’s 21st Century GI Bill: Senator Ted Kennedy, for health reasons; Senator Tom Coburn, to attend a funeral; and Senator John McCain, to attend a swanky...

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Memorial Day 2008

Rest, comrades, rest and sleep! The thoughts of men shall be As sentinels to keep Your rest from danger free. null Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering...

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I Got Nothing

GRASS by: Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) PILE the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo, Shovel them under and let me work-- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg And pile them...

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Crises Threats To Democracy

Dedicated to 1st Lt. Andrew J. Bacevich US Army, 1st Calvary Division Killed May 13, 2007 [ 3:07 ] His father, Andrew Bacevich — Colonel, US Army (ret), professor at Boston University — knows the truth...

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McCain = Draft, More Wars, Less Veteran Benefits

McCain Doesn't Disagree that We Might Need a Draft Brandon Friedman: This is absolutely amazing. A woman told John McCain today that we might need a draft to accomplish all his foreign policy goals....

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A Return To Basic Respect

Photo credit: Brendan Smialowski, NYT A Coffin, a Flag, a Photograph For the first time in 18 years, the Pentagon granted the news media access on Sunday night to cover the arrival of a coffin to Dover...

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Disrespecting The Troops

As if sending the men and women of our Armed Forces, Reserves and National Guard to fight a war under false pretenses wasn't disrespectful enough.  As if sending those same troops to fight without the...

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Honor Them

Veterans Day, 2009 - A ProclamationWe have a sacred trust with those who wear the uniform of the United States of America. From the Minutemen who stood watch over Lexington and Concord to the service...

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