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      On November 10th, 1775, our Corps was born as the Continental Congress raised the "first and second battalions of American Marines." Each Year as we celebrate our birthday, we pause to reflect on the...

Posted at the Veterans for America group blog:  I last blogged in the early days of this organization's weblog, under Veterans for Common Sense. I'm going to start up again with my first posting...

Now that Saddam is going to meet with some consequences for his past actions, how about we begin to go after some of his collaborators? You know – folks like our Vice President and...

Fellow Marine, Gulf War veteran and unapologetic libertarian Thomas L. Knapp is also unoffended by Kerry's remarks and had this to say in response to the cynical GOP manipulation of Kerry's botched joke being used...

From the San Francisco Chronicle (via Truthout): "An editorial scheduled to appear on Monday in Army Times, Air Force Times, Navy Times and Marine Corps Times, calls for the resignation of Secretary of Defense...

A MARINE FROM THE FIRST GULF WAR RESPONDS TO A MARINE IN IRAQ A new letter, presumably written by a Marine in Iraq, found it's way to me today.  As this screed will undoubtedly...

I've been following the faux outrage of the GOP following Senator Kerry's remarks on intellectual laziness.  Let's clear the air here folks. The snippet of audio being pimped about by neo-cons, ditto-heads, GOP hacks,...

Gene Healy summed up Jonah Goldberg's recent admission of error on the Iraq War:  "So we carried out a countrywide Waco. At least we don't stink of patchouli."   Given Jonah's self-righteous past support...