GREAT MATES

07/27/2024

Civilians killed and wounded as Russia and Ukraine trade attacks. Russia claims gains in the east

07/26/2024

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country". "There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country".

07/26/2024

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him". "The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war

07/16/2024

07/15/2024

07/15/2024

"I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism".

"The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude".

"The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men".

"Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay".

"America without her soldiers would be like God without his angels

07/15/2024

07/14/2024

Congratulation to Spain on today's victory

07/14/2024

TOUGH TIME DON'T LAST. Tough people do.

07/14/2024

When gunshots pierced the evening air at Donald Trump’s rally in western Pennsylvania on Saturday night, they echoed generations of political violence in some of America’s most troubling moments — giving terrifying, percussive emphasis to a chaotic 2024 presidential election that is unlike any in U.S. history.

The assassination attempt wrote a ghastly new chapter in the story of deepening division and American political polarization over the past decade. Intense us-versus-them rhetoric has climbed between liberals and conservatives as trust in reliable information sources has fallen, replaced by bad-faith actors on insufficiently moderated social media platforms. And unprecedented events shaking the nation’s political system keep accumulating.

And now Trump, on the precipice of officially accepting his third consecutive Republican nomination at next week’s GOP convention, has survived an assassination attempt. It’s the first time a president or presidential candidate has been wounded by a would-be assassin in more than four decades, since President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981.