Monroe Cty 911 :.Chuck Simmins | January 23, 2004
Washington Post photo from the inauguration
Cpl Casey Owens, 22, of Houston, Texas was critically wounded September 20, 2004, in Iraq while on his second tour of duty. Casey has sustained numerous injuries including over 200 shrapnel wounds, broken jaw, broken collar bone, amputation of right leg above the knee and amputation of the left [...]
Chuck Simmins | January 23, 2004
The story of the Canadian deported to Syria after being denied entry into the United States continues. Yesterday, the Mounties raided a newspaper and a reporter’s home in Canada in a search for classified materials on this matter. The search and the warrants issued appear to confirm that Mr. Arar is, in fact, the subject [...]
Chuck Simmins | January 22, 2004
I just had to post this headline from Reuters.
Chuck Simmins | January 19, 2004
An oldie but a goodie, from my LiveJournal, December 17, 2002:
One of the on-going problems in our War on Terror has been the potential for enemies of the United States to use biological or chemical weapons against us. It’s quite clear that, either through legitimate commercial means or through back channel deals, it would be [...]
Chuck Simmins | January 11, 2004
I have a letter to the editor published in today’s Washington Times
Chuck Simmins | January 11, 2004
First of all, go and read Little Miss Attila. She hits the mark with her list of reason why people oppose the President’s guest worker proposal.
People who simply don’t like Spanish speakers
People who feel that crossing the border illegally is a disrespectful act that should be punished, rather than “rewarded” by any sort of [...]
Chuck Simmins | January 9, 2004
The Bush proposal about illegal immigrants, and outsourcing jobs to India, seem to be the hot button topics for many these days. I read primarily right of center blogs, and news sources, and I am increasingly dismayed by what I read. The principles that our side of the aisle espouse and promote seem to be [...]
Chuck Simmins | January 8, 2004
Good discussion over at Bill Quick’s about immigration, illegal immigration, and what the President has proposed.
Here are my comments:Bill, if the estimates are at all accurate, there are millions of illegals in this country. How do we handle the existing problem? I don’t believe that there is even the remotest possibility that we would round [...]
Chuck Simmins | January 6, 2004
Soldier Stories
Spc. Maria C. Flores-Sanz earned the Army Commendation Medal with valor device after driving two Soldiers in her vehicle to safety, and then returning to the scene of a July 3 terrorist attack to help evacuate other injured Soldiers.
Flores-Sanz was part of a three-vehicle convoy traveling from Baghdad International Airport to central Baghdad, when [...]
Chuck Simmins | January 5, 2004
Silver Star WW II: Hoehn, Martin C. HQ, XX Corps, G.O. No. 40 (1944)
Silver Star Korea:
Father Hoehn was a chaplain with my father’s unit in World War II. He and Dad resumed correspondence in the late 1970’s or early 1980’s. Fr. Hoehn won a Silver Star in both World War II and Korea.
Dad’s story of [...]
Chuck | January 2, 2004
Washington Post Pvt. Teresa Broadwell is in the middle of the maelstrom, standing on tiptoe in the turret of a Humvee in a vain attempt, at 5 feet 4 inches tall, to see through the sight of her M-249 machine gun. American soldiers are down in the street. Iraqis are firing at her truck from [...]
