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Desmond Doss - Conscientious Objector - Medal of Honor Recipient

You'd think that in this day and age, those two things just wouldn't go together. Well perhaps that's true for the baby boomers, but not for their betters.

Blackfive reports the sad news of Mr. Doss' passing.

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The War In Iraq Is Saving Lives

From Gatewaypundit, comes a comparison of how many Iraqis Saddam was killing per day and the number of daily deaths after our liberation of Iraq. Looks like we're saving lives to me.

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3 Years And A Million Miles Later....

Today's Washington Post includes a story on the experiences of various Iraqi veterans while they were in Iraq. The WaPo interviewed 100 veterans of the Iraqi campaign with open ended questions designed to elicit expansive responses. For example, on media coverage:

But it was not bad in the ways they see covered in the media -- the majority also agreed on this. What they experienced was more complex than the war they saw on television and in print. It was dangerous and confused, yes, but most of the vets also recalled enemies routed, buildings built and children befriended, against long odds in a poor and demoralized country. "We feel like we're doing something, and then we look at the news and you feel like you're getting bashed." "It seems to me the media had a predetermined script." The vibe of the coverage is just "so, so, so negative."

No big surprise there.

The story is complex. The answers are multi-dimensional. The article is well worth your time.

h/t to Mudville Gazette. Visit Mudville for the closing thoughts regarding their service in Iraq from those that paid the ultimate sacrifice.

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