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I found a picture of my father in 1945. He had just joined the Navy, and was home for a bit before shipping out to the Pacific on the USS Bedoing Strait (CVE 116). When I laid it next to one of mine from Afghanistan in 2004, I was struck by a similarity or two. See for yourself here.
Some bad things can happen......you might be outed as a fan of the USAF.
"The RAF have been utterly, utterly useless," Loden was quoted as having said, referring to two instances involving Harrier warplanes during close ground combat.I would love to have been in the office of his Battalion Commander's office when the call from London came in....."A female Harrier pilot 'couldn't identify the target,' fired two phosphorous rockets that just missed our own compound so that we thought they were incoming RPGs, and then strafed our perimeter, missing the enemy by 200 meters," he wrote, according to British news reports. An RPG is a rocket-propelled grenade.
In contrast to the Royal Air Force, Loden said, the U.S. Air Force had been "fantastic."
I am not sure why we are seeing this furor about Osama being dead. Everyone who follows "The World's Only Reliable Newspaper" has already been informed that Osama got caught last month. Just click below...
CLINTON:Ok, now let’s look at all the criticisms: Black hawk down, Somalia. There is not a living soul in the world who thought that Bin laden had anything to do with black hawk down or was paying any attention to it or even knew al Qaeda was a growing concern in October of 1993.
Somehow I think the Iran-Contra hearings made sure that anyone who even had a clue as to what was going on in the Middle East retired or left the service. I seriously doubt that all the souls who had a clue are no longer living.
Guantanamo inmates turn to library books
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Men held captive at this U.S. military base are confined to small cells, but their minds can wander far and wide by reading philosophy, history, murder mysteries — even Harry Potter.
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Nonfiction — particularly philosophy, biographies and Arabic history — is most popular, the librarians say. But fiction is also big. Popular authors include Khalil Gibran, a Lebanese-American; Agatha Christie; and J.K. Rowling, who penned the Harry Potter series about an English wizard in training.
Not all is Muggles and Butterbeer for our erstwhile wizards:
Some detainees have tried to use books to pass messages to each other, comprising some of the 414 "unauthorized communications" that were intercepted at Guantanamo during the past year, military officials say.
Don't worry though, those writing clandestine message get their library privileges revoked...for a week.
And finally, not everybody is a fan of the young Hogwarts student:
In June 2005, an interrogator was observed trying to wear down a detainee by reading a Harry Potter book aloud. The prisoner turned his back and clapped his hands over his ears.
Having read Andrew Sullivan's increasingly lunatic rantings on the subject (Harry Potter, I don't know what he has to say about torture), I can sympathise.
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