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• CBS News: President Obama Wants New Options for Afghanistan War

  
  The Political Bridge — Authority: 145
  (AP)  President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government, a senior administration official said Wednesday. That ...
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• Blogging and Social Networking in the American Military: a Short History

  
  gnovis - Georgetown University's Journal of Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT) — Authority: 126
  In the waning moments of the final Veterans Day of the decade, I cant help but to think of my late Grandfather—a purple heart recipient and a combat veteran of World War 2.  While he lived long enough to see the Internet become an important social force, if he were still alive today, undoubtedly he would be amazed ...
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• Veterans Day Reflections

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 148
  On this Veterans Day its hard not to think of those who have served their country in the armed forces - particularly in an area such as Hampton Roads with such a large military presence. Moreover, my late father and all of his brothers served in World War II and my mothers father and mother both served in World War I ...
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• In Memoriam - Happy Veterans Day

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, originally posted to VVAW.NET, was forwarded to the blog by David Zeiger, November 11, 2009 Please Dont Thank Me For My Service - Veterans Day Any Year I can see That Wall in DC. Im thinking of those two hundred names and faces I cant remember, eighteen and nineteen year old boys from my Basic Training ...
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• Honoring 14 Dead in the Attack on Fort Hood

  
  Maggie's Notebook — Authority: 646
  The following needs no introduction except to say Pvt. Francheska Velez, known as Cheka to family and friends, was 3 months pregnant, bringing the total dead in the attack on Fort Hood to 14. She had plans to become an Army psychiatrist. Captain Russell Seagar was a civilian psychiatrist. He joined the Army to counsel ...
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• Happy Veterans’ Day

  
  One Free Korea — Authority: 520
  Sure, I could link to a sappy YouTube tribute, but my weakness for empirical data gets the best of me in my weaker moments, so I decided to link to the latest Brookings Iraq Index instead. If you’re like me, you also look forward to the day when Iraqis are banning GI’s from their booking clubs, protesting the ...
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• Lack of health care killed 2,266 US veterans last year: study

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 158
  WASHINGTON (AFP) – The number of US veterans who died in 2008 because they lacked health insurance was 14 times higher than the US military death toll in Afghanistan that year, according to a new study. The analysis produced by two Harvard medical researchers estimates that 2,266 US military veterans under the age ...
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• Cop who stopped Fort Hood shooting, Kimberly Munley, says training took over

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 590
  The fearless civilian police officer who traded gunfire with Fort Hood killer Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan , said her training kicked in when she confronted the madman Thursday outside the Soldier Readiness Processing Center. "The entire incident was very confusing and chaotic," Sgt. Kimberly Munley, told "The ...
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• Upper Deck launches Million Pack March for U.S. military

  
  The Beckett Blog — Authority: 559
  Upper Deck has joined forces with Operation Gratitude, a non-profit organization that sends 100,000-plus “care packages” annually to U.S. service members, to launch a campaign to get trading cards -- a little piece of home -- into the hands of military troops serving overseas.
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• Hasan warned: such killings are for Islam

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 590
  The Washington Post shows the slides shown by the Fort Hood jihadist before he acted on his beliefs: Maj. Nidal M. Hasan , the Army psychiatrist believed to have killed 13 people at Fort Hood, was supposed to discuss a medical topic during a presentation to senior Army doctors in June 2007. Instead, ...
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• Coming home to another war - Soldiering on? The invisible injuries of war

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Krystalline Kraus, was posted to rabble.ca, November 6, 2009 On November 11, veterans will get only two minutes of recognition -- if people stop to reflect at all -- while the rest of the year their sacrifice is forgotten. If Canada’s mission in Afghanistan does end in 2011, 35,000 men and women ...
  13 hours ago

• Supporting Veterans

  
  Northwest Harley Blog — Authority: 117
  On this Veterans Day we still feel the shock of the 13 who were killed and the 43 injured on the base of Fort Hood just 6 days ago. I have not been injured or nearly killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq.  Nor do I personally understand the trials and long road to recovery that the injuries of war demand.  In war, ...
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• Another Veterans Day

  
  Reflections From a Murky Pond — Authority: 421
  It’s once again Veterans Day, the 11th day of the 11th month of the year. Originally it was called Armistice Day because 11:00, November 11, 1918 marked the end of World War I, which people optimistically called “The War To End All Wars.” It is a day when Americans specifically remember and honor the best of ...
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• Pakistani magazine article: The Saudi-is…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 453
  Pakistani magazine article: The Saudi-isation of Pakistan. Soldiers, policemen, factory and hospital workers, mourners at funerals and ordinary people praying in mosques have all been reduced to globs of flesh and fragments of bones. But, perhaps paradoxically, in spite of the fact that the dead bodies and ...
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• Burning questions: since the Bush administration spying on us anyway, why didn’t they catch Nidal Hasan?

  
  The Reid Report — Authority: 480
  The right is itching to blame the Fort Hood massacre on Barack Obama. They want to charge that in the politically-correct Age of O-quarious, even the United States Army is too timid to confront an openly-declared Islamist terrorist in their midst, or even to call him such by name . They are dying to say that Obama ...
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• Obama in troops to Afghanistan talks

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Officials said an increase has been agreed in principle, but the size of the deployment is yet to be confirmed Barack Obama held a war council at the White House today to discuss the final four options for deployment of extra US troops to Afghanistan in an effort to stave off defeat at the hands of the Taliban. ...
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• When Michelle Malkin is Right, She’s Right

  
  The Political Voices of Women — Authority: 98
  Before the post begins, I’d like to send wishes: to our readers in the US, Happy Veterans Day; to Canada and Australia, Happy Remembrance Day; and to every one else, Happy Armistice Day. Now to the post — Ok readers, you can get up off the floor now. I haven’t suddenly lost my mind. But you know ...
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• A salute …

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 143
  … to all United States armed service members both past and present.
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• The Politically Correct Will Kill Us

  
  An Ol' Broad's Ramblings — Authority: 532
  Free Speech Rights Prevented Probe Into Hasan E-Mails, Investigators Say The claim comes as officials in different branches of law enforcement and the military squabble over who knew what when about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s leanings toward faith-inspired violence, and as charges fly that ‘political ...
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• ‘The Surge’ Shows That Numbers Matter

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 814
  While President Barack Obama  prepares to discuss potential military strategies  for the war in Afghanistan today, the nation prepares to honor veterans of our nation’s wars. On the Monday before Veterans Day, the nonprofit, nonpartisan  Institute for the Study of War  took a constructive look at major military ...
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