One Brick Short

World War II airmen come home from the jungle

Thoughts on Alpha Company’s return…

An update on American troops who gave their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan

Forget them.

Do I know how to work this?

Here’s the story as told by the Associated Press: Danville police were serving a warrant on a fine, upstanding citizen of that community when they happened to notice a pit bull puppy with its ears cut off. Not just cut off, but sliced off by a man with a box cutter—a razor blade, in other words. Seems it wasn’t just a horrible act of mutilation, it was done on purpose

Roll call:

U.S. Army Sgt. Nicholas A. Robertson, 27, of Old Town, Maine, died April 3 at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, of wounds suffered April 2 while conducting dismounted combat operations in the Zahn Khan District, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Bragg, N.C.

Phone call, raid, Prince Albert in the can

I don’t do it to make an anti-war statement. I don’t do it to make a pro-war statement. The only statement I make is that there are lives in the balance, American lives, names of people who deserve our support until such time as we can bring everyone home and find peace in our time, peace with honor, a war to end all wars and some way for infidels and heathen and the chosen and God’s Own to sit down and make peace.

Both men were members of A Company, 32nd Infantry Regiment, then attached to the 31st Regimental Combat Team (RCT), 7th Infantry Division. The team was beleagured and nearly destroyed by superior numbers of Chinese soldiers who swarmed the reservoir from Nov. 27 to Dec. 1, 1950. Both soldiers died in late November as result of intense enemy fire, but the resulting rout of American forces and forced withdrawal made it impossible to recover their bodies.

They were the shots heard across the county, over the mountain and on the farms. Persons unknown—but a 16-year-old juvenile and 19-year-old Slade A. Woodson stand accused—fired a bunch of .22-caliber slugs at and around cars on Interstate 64, into houses and buildings, through VDOT trucks, at banks and street lights and pretty much anything else that wasn’t standing still.

Continuing efforts to find the missing brings another American home from Chosin

It makes as much sense as anything else, these days

It’s a fine line between immoral and just plain moronic

World War II pilot found, identified, ready for September burial in Arlington Cemetery

4,000 Americans have died in the Iraqi struggle and continue to fight in both Iraq and Afghanistan

High visibility yellow does occur in nature....You just don’t want to find it...

Military press tells how A-Q convinces foreigners to blow themselves up in The Sandbox

Running Walton’s Mountain with the Biker Bee

The latest names of those killed in action

ABC and 1,2,3: Maybe the tree trimmers should have studied harder and learned more...

50 is never having to say ‘I’m sorry.’

Airman identified after 66 years on mountainside.

Here’s the round up of fatalities in the war from the Department of Defense ...

The tolling bell tolls for these ... Americans killed during February in the War on Terror

The Associated Press recently released short stories of American troops killed in war. This is the second installment:

Bronx drug dealer killed in prison remembered as a good guy who wanted to open a candy store but was lured to drugs by the city’s finest. Yeah, right.

Master Sgt. Keeble was a veteran of both World War II and the Korean War. He won the medal for risking his life to save his fellow soldiers during the final allied offensive in Korea. When the Korea War began, Keeble, then 34, served with the 24th Division’s 1st Platoon, Company G, 19th Infantry Regiment and had earned four Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star for actions on Guadalcanal.

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office has identified the remains of three U.S. servicemen, missing from World War II and will return them home for full military burial. The men are U.S. Army Air Corps 2nd Lt. John F. Lubben, of Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.; Sgt. Albert A. Forgue, of North Providence, R.I.; and Sgt. Charles L. Spiegel, of Chicago, Ill.;. They will be buried on April 18 in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C.