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Two-fer Tuesday

If I didn’t know any better, would swear someone at Ranger Up read a recent post here desiring Outlaw’s aviator weapon of choice on a shirt. Pre-order the below here, the latest piece of apparel sure to rile your thin-skinned friends.

When they designed the Apache Helicopter they pretty much decided to design a [...]

On This Day…

2 FEB 2007, I lost two friends and the nation lost two outstanding leaders and warriors. Rest in peace Keith and Jason, we’ll never forget! Garyowen! See you at Fiddler’s Green.

Thursday Open Thread

That is what they want, this is what they get

Ranger Up’s awesome team, at it yet again with their latest shirt, now available for pre-order. However — and completely sucking up to Outlaw — rather they’d used an Apache firing the kill-shots.

Either:

a) We made this shirt to mock the bastardization of an inane verse in the Koran by Islamic fundamentalists to [...]

The Strength of the Nation

The Fellowship of the Ring

Above is Lt. Cdr. (USN) Minter Dial who died in a Japanese POW camp in the Phillipines in 1945. He gave his Naval Academy ring to a fellow POW to give to his wife Lisa after the War… well… Smithsonian Magazine has the story of this ring…. and it’s a helluva ride. Thank God [...]

On This Date In History…

Aside from Tracy being born, much earlier than that in 1945 THIS happened…

This Citation was awarded to Audie Murphy for “Conspicuous Gallantry and Intrepidity Involving Risk of Life Above and Beyond the Call of Duty In Action With the Enemy”, 26 January 1945. The citation reads: 2d Lt. Murphy commanded Company B, which [...]

Occupy This, Reality Version

The latest shirt from our friends at Ranger Up, tellin’ it like it is. Pre-order as necessary …

There are a lot of ways to change the world.

Sitting around in a park whining is not one of them.

The only way to actually accomplish anything of note, including the “change” this Occupy Wall [...]

Do you see the light?

For my fellow Threedonians who highly recommended I finally watch Band of Brothers as my Christmas vacation homework, mission accomplished and I cannot thank you enough. For better and worse, as the WWII veteran family members to whom I was closest (my grandfathers) served in the Pacific theatre as Marines and Navy, my interest [...]

3D Weekend Five: End-of-the-Year Dartboard

Closing thoughts on the Year That Was: 2011.  Fabulous new TV shows/movies/books/music you discovered? joys? irritations? anyone leave us this year you’ll especially miss? resolutions? regrets?

5.  Downton Abbey (TV show):  It’s soapy goodness in Edwardian England, pre- and during WWI.

4.  TCM’s Robert Osborne:  His time away was too long, but it made me appreciate [...]

Amen, Brother

Good little article over at the National Review On-Line about how we really won in Iraq.

Best line of the whole piece…

shake hands in the light and kill at night

Go read it HERE

I can tell you I was in Baghdad the same time as the author of that piece and while there [...]

A Can Of Whoop Ass, As Viewed From The Inside

Monday Open Thread

Supplies being dropped to the 101st Airborne on December 26, 1944.

Santa… He’s Good For You!

Harder to Believe Than Not To…

Flannery O’ Connor made the above comment. We in the U.S. have turned that statement somewhat askew. It is easier, though becoming more difficult, to be a nominal Christian (espouse belief) than not to thanks in no small part to our Founding Fathers and their belief in “freedom of conscience”. If you don’t believe be [...]

You Have Got To Be Kidding Me…

Aim High! From The NY Times

Air Force Drone Operators Report High Levels of Stress

By ELISABETH BUMILLER

Published: December 18, 2011

WASHINGTON — Nearly half the operators of drone aircraft have high levels of job-related stress, mostly linked to long and erratic work hours because of a tremendous increase in the use of [...]

Way To Go Texans!

Video: Finally home

Marine Scott Wood died four weeks ago after suffering injuries during combat in Iraq. Before his burial, his wife dressed him in two uniforms. On the outside, Scott wore his military dress blues. Underneath, he wore the blue No. 80 jersey of Houston Texans wide receiver Andre Johnson.

Sara Wood had been [...]

Vaclav Havel — R.I.P.

Vaclav Havel, playwright, former President of the formerCzechoslovakia and hero of its Velvet Revolution as the Soviet empire was collapsing has died at age 75.

Mr Havel died on Sunday morning at his weekend house in the northern Czech Republic, his assistant Sabina Dancecova said.

A former chain smoker, Mr Havel had been suffering [...]

Thursday Open Thread

The Peasants Are Revolting…

Sounds like the Oolong Tea Party may be in full swing. How you like me Mao?!? From the Daily Telegraph:

For the first time on record, the Chinese Communist party has lost all control, with the population of 20,000 in this southern fishing village now in open revolt.

The last of Wukan’s dozen party officials [...]