Combat
Note: This is a repost of a blog I wrote on September 11, 2009, but I think the message is just as relevant today. – Bad Nick Today I hope you take at least a few moments to remember our fellow Americans who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on our nation ten years [...]
Despite the August 31 deadline to end combat operations in Iraq, and President Obama’s declaration that the U.S. combat role had ended there, yesterday American troops found themselves in the middle of a gun battle, when insurgents attacked their base in Baghdad. Combat knows no calendar. According to an Associated Press news story, twelve people [...]
The newscasts Wednesday were full of video clips of smiling American troops rolling out of Iraq and across the border into Kuwait, with reports that the last combat troops were finally leaving that desert hellhole, seven years and five months after the U.S. invasion to overthrow dictator Saddam Hussein. I’m sure that those soldiers are [...]
In America, two states, Washington and Oregon, legally allow assisted suicides for terminally ill patients who choose to end their lives. 34 states have laws making assisting suicide a crime, and the remaining states have laws somewhere in between, or do not have an official stand on the matter. The Supreme Court has ruled that [...]
At one time I knew a woman who had been a teenage victim of incest. It was a terrible thing to have happened, and I truly sympathized with her for a while. But the more I got to know her, the more I realized that she had never dealt with the experience, in spite of [...]
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