Chuck Simmins | December 31, 2008

All the indices for influenza are below critical levels at this point in the flu season. Type A viruses make up about 80% of the cases and type B the remainder. So far it has been a mild year.
Category: Influenza, Medicine |
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Chuck Simmins | December 31, 2008

Two Female Marines from the 2nd Marine Logistics Group came together this holiday season to donate more than 26 inches of hair to financially disadvantaged children.
Category: Marines, Military, Our Best: Military Women |
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Tags: 2nd Marine Logistics Group, Cpl. Kendra Hernandez, Cpl. Kimberly Pike, Locks for Love
Chuck Simmins | December 31, 2008
During a routine Close Combat Air escort mission, two ISAF aircraft identified eight insurgents with weapons moving into fighting positions this morning in eastern Afghanistan. The aircraft engaged the insurgents, killing six.
Category: Afghanistan, Terrorist Death Watch, War on Terror |
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Chuck Simmins | December 30, 2008
Here are ten men who have inspired us at America’s North Shore Journal in 2008.
Category: Heroes, Military |
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Chuck Simmins | December 30, 2008
The Consulate General of Israel in New York is on Twitter, and will hold a Twitter news conference this afternoon.
Category: Our Allies, Tech, War on Terror |
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Tags: Consulate General of Israel in New York, governments using social media, Israel, social media, Twitter
Chuck Simmins | December 30, 2008

Photo: These are the slippers that the lovely wife’s great nephew wore one evening during our trip to North Dakota.
Category: Me and Mine |
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Chuck Simmins | December 30, 2008
“The Taliban came and said we were not Muslim, that we were of another religion. They caught the eight people working for me and put them in the Taliban’s jail.”
Category: Afghanistan, Rebuilding, War on Terror |
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Tags: Afghan refugees, Afghanistan, returning to Afghanistan, returning to kabul, Sozo International, taliban
Chuck Simmins | December 30, 2008

Terrorists can never come back and do what they did in Taji last year. Normal life is returning here.
Category: Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror |
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Tags: Amu Baba, and Hammiat, Emmanuel Baba Dano, Iraq, New England Revolution MLS team, Rekiya, soccer tournament in iraq, Staff Sgt. James Pepoon, Taji, the “Pele” of Iraq
Chuck Simmins | December 28, 2008
I’ll be home late Monday. The lovely wife will be staying as long as needed for her brother.
Memorial service was mercifully short. Why do ministers feel compelled to make a larger point at these times?
Many pics of family.
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Chuck Simmins | December 24, 2008
The lovely wife’s mother passed this morning, quietly, in hospice care. She was nearly 90. Posting will be limited for sometime.
Category: Me and Mine |
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