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Fly your flag today: Armed Forces Day 2011, May 21

Armed Forces Day honors those Americans who are, today, protecting our freedom, under arms, in the U.S. military services. Veterans Day honors those who protected us in the past.  Memorial Day honors...

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Memorial Day 2011 – Please fly your flag to honor our fallen heroes

U.S. flags wave at DFW National Cemetery, May 30, 2010. Photo by Ed Darrell Our local Rotary Club provides a U.S. flag planted in your yard for flag-flying events from Memorial Day through Labor Day,...

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About D-Day: View from 2011, “I can’t imagine what the world would look like...

At Metafilter, I found these comments on a D-Day thread, “Fading to yellow in a brown leather frame”: When I was in 11th grade, the grandfather of one of my other students, who was at Normandy, came to...

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Why so few streets named after Vietnam veterans?

Junior Cruz of Salt Lake City was 15 when his Eagle Scout Project honored a fallen soldier from our war in Iraq, Adam Galvez.  You can read a stirring story from The Deseret News at Adam Galvez.com....

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Too incendiary for GOPUSA: The facts

GOPUSA, a radically right-wing blog claiming affiliation with the Republican Party, can’t stand the heat, and so works to keep serious comments out of their blog kitchen. That’s the only half-way...

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Fun with Lyndon, George and Bill – and Audie

Five days on the road and we hoped to make it home Friday night. "I've got the Presidential Seal / I'm up on the Presidential Podium. / My Mama loves me, she loves me . . ."* Playing around with the...

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Michigan governor’s office continues practice honoring fallen soldiers

Michigan’s Gov. Rick Snyder chose to continue the practice of his predecessor, Gov. Jennifer Granholm, in ordering flags to be flown at half-staff throughout the state to honor a Michigan soldiers...

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Veterans Day coming November 11 — remember to fly your flag

Friday is Veterans Day, one of the score of “fly your flag” dates recommended in law. Are you ready?  Here’s this year’s poster, from the Veterans Administration (click to get a link for a high...

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President Obama’s Memorial Day message

Remember to fly your flag Monday.  Heck, you can fly it all weekend if you wish.Filed under: Fly your flag today, President Obama, veterans Tagged: Fly your flag, Heroes, History, Memorial Day,...

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Fly your flag today, Memorial Day 2012

U.S. flags wave at DFW National Cemetery, May 30, 2010. Photo by Ed Darrell Our local Rotary Club provides a U.S. flag planted in your yard for flag-flying events from Memorial Day through Labor Day,...

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Lessons of Vietnam: Honor the people who serve

Years ago I feared that many of us learned the wrong lessons from Vietnam, or if we learned the right ones, we weren’t applying what we’d learned.  This was a bit more important in the earlier days of...

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President Obama: On anniversary of ending of Iraq War, a pledge to heal the...

President Barack Obama spoke at Fort Bliss, Texas, On August 31, 2012: Description from the White House: On the two-year anniversary of the end of our combat mission in Iraq, the President speak to...

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In Colorado, Ed Perlmutter in the 7th Congressional District . . .

In Colorado’s 7th Congressional District, anyone not voting for Ed Perlmutter needs to have their red, white and blue examined: Colorado’s 7th Congressional District Rep. Ed Perlmutter (Photo credit:...

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Veterans speak out: We’re not just laundry

From the Truman National Security Project, a video featuring testimony from veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan especially, questioning whether Mitt Romney has what it takes to be Commander-in-Chief of...

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Veterans Day 2012 – Fly your flag today

Veterans Administration poster for Veterans Day 2012, “Honoring All Who Served” (Click for link to high resolution download version) Fly your flag today for Veterans Day 2012. Veterans Day’s falling on...

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Presidential proclamation for Veterans Day 2012

From the White House, November 7, 2012; note particularly the history: Presidential Proclamation — Veterans Day, 2012 VETERANS DAY, 2012 - – - – - – - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A...

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Gracefulness in high places

The ability to say the right thing at the right time is a gift.  Sometimes it’s an earned gift, but a gift nevertheless. Britain’s Prince Harry visited wounded U.S. soldiers in Washington area...

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Memorial Day, May 27 – Fly your flag, at half-staff until noon

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder continued the program started by his predecessor, Jennifer Granholm, to send out notices electronically of occasions to fly the U.S. flag, and when to fly flags at half staff....

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Veterans Day 2013 – Fly your flag today

Surely Veterans Day is one flag-flying day you don’t need a reminder about. At least, I hope so.  Veterans Day gets a lot more attention and due homage in 2013 than it did in 2000.  Good. Poster for...

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Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, 2013

President Obama Honors Veterans at Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day. November 11, 2013.  Filed under: Fly your flag today, President Obama, veterans, veterans day Tagged: Fly your flag,...

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