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September 11 – what Oliver Stone left out
This item was first printed here on October 9, 2003. U.S. Army Lt. Gen. James R. Helmly, Chief, Army Reserve, will present the Soldier’s Medal, the highest peacetime award for heroism, to Captain John Chovanes, an Army Reservist with the Army Medical Corps. The ceremony will be held today, 1 December 2003, at the Pentagon in Room 2B548 at 2 pm. In the aftermath of the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11th, 2001, Captain Chovanes at risk to his own life, voluntarily rendered medical aid, and assisted in the rescue of a New York Port Authority officer. The officer was buried well below the surface of the collapsed buildings. Rescue efforts involved slowly digging free the buried officer due to debris being above and around the rescue site. Captain Chovanes administered … Read entire article »
Filed under: Heroes, Military, War on Terror, WOT Heroes
September 11 – Rick Rescorla
The following was first printed here on September 9, 2003. Lt. Rick Rescorla, Platoon Leader, B Co 2/7 Cav A hero for our time, England and Cornwall’s finest! Lt Rescorla survived that engagement and many others. He had grown up in a village on England’s southwest coast and left at age sixteen to join the British military. He’d fought against Communists in Cyprus and Rhodesia. He then came to America, he said, so that he could enlist in the Army and go to Vietnam. He welcomed the opportunity to join the American cause in Southeast Asia. He worked his way up through the ranks to Sergeant before being commissioned… After fighting in Vietnam, he returned to the United States and used his military benefits to study creative writing at the University of Oklahoma. Literary minded, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Heroes, September 11, War on Terror, WOT Heroes
That Day, That Damned Day!
Reprinted from August 2003 September 11, 2001 dawned for me like many had that summer, sunny and warm. I was out of work for nearly a year, working a 4 hour per day temp job at the time. About 9 or so my boss came in and asked if I had a news station on my radio in the bookkeeping office. His daughter had called and said that a plane had hit a skyscraper in Manhattan. I turned the radio to WHAM, the local 50,000 watt Clear Channel talk station and sat in horror for the next three hours. I suppose I did something that morning, but I have no recollection. I called my wife at work and told her, and told her that I would be going straight to the … Read entire article »
Filed under: September 11, War on Terror
Presentation of Soldier’s Medal for Heroism
U.S. Army Lt. Gen. James R. Helmly, Chief, Army Reserve, will present the Soldier’s Medal, the highest peacetime award for heroism, to Captain John Chovanes, an Army Reservist with the Army Medical Corps. The ceremony will be held today, 1 December 2003, at the Pentagon in Room 2B548 at 2 pm. In the aftermath of the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11th, 2001, Captain Chovanes at risk to his own life, voluntarily rendered medical aid, and assisted in the rescue of a New York Port Authority officer. The officer was buried well below the surface of the collapsed buildings. Rescue efforts involved slowly digging free the buried officer due to debris being above and around the rescue site. Captain Chovanes administered lifesaving medical treatment throughout the night to the buried … Read entire article »
Filed under: Heroes, Military, September 11, War on Terror, WOT Heroes
September 11
The pundits are having a field day with the facts that are emerging about our intelligence and security services and September 11. Each day the President, his national security team, and select members of Congress receive a briefing that details, perhaps, dozens of threats to America, its citizens, and its interests worldwide. These threats are categorized as best as it possible as to reliability of information and seriousness. Let me repeat, certain key Congressmen who oversee these national security issues ARE briefed on these warnings. In the months between President Bush’s inauguration and September 11, 230 days or so, there were probably between a thousand and ten thousand threats brought to his attention, and thousands more where the reliability or information was suspect and not passed to him. In retrospect, we can … Read entire article »
Filed under: Commentary, Original writing, September 11, War on Terror
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Murder – the Crime Is Murder
September 11th, 2008 | 1 Comment
Seven years have passed since the events of September 11, 2001. Lots of words have been used to describe those events but the one word, the most important word, that ought to be used is MURDER. A group of well-educated men plotted for years to commit murder. Some were wealthy, some were doctors, engineers, college professors. They had but two things in common, an overwhelming desire for power and the willingness to commit murder. Nothing that Americans … Read entire article »
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