Thanks and Welcome!

Funny stuff posted here from radio personality, columnist, author and blogger Hugh Hewitt:

The Pentagon announced new rules for the fall 2004 Army-Navy-Air Force-Marine Corps football tournament.

1. Only flag football will be played. The Joint Chiefs of Staff deemed
tackle and touch football too dangerous. First, because of the CNN
factor, the public will no longer tolerate even one field casualty.

Read it all. I laughed so hard on the next-to-last paragraph that the kids complained that I was drowning out the TV in the next room.

And lest you think he's having fun at the military's expense, I assure you he is not. Mr Hewitt "gets it", as he aptly demonstrates in his pre-thanksgiving column here:

I do not think it is possible to thank the men and women of the armed services often enough for the sacrifices they make. Many serving in Iraq, Afghanistan or other faraway places are reservists who dropped everything in their civilian lives to answer a call. The regulars are just as far away from home this holiday season. If the military provides a Thanksgiving feast in some hall at Bagrham or in Mosul, it may be hot and it may be good, but it will still lack the rhythms of home and spouse and children. Thousands will be on duty throughout the day and night ... some will be in combat.

I'd salute him for that column alone but now I get the added honor of thanking him for blogrolling MilBlogs - thank you sir. Welcome aboard.