In 1972, during the Vietnam War, Fonda took a two-week trip to North Vietnam, where she was photographed sitting on an antiaircraft gun that North Vietnamese forces used for shooting at American planes.

After her trip to Hanio: …..Fonda told the world press that U.S. prisoners of war were being well treated and not tortured. Her outrageous claims were later exposed when American POWs were finally freed and told of years of agonizing tortures and inhuman treatment. Fonda responded, not with an apology, but with an accusation calling our returned POWs “liars and hypocrites.”

Traitor Jane Fonda

It has always been my opinion and that of TheMasterOfTheUniverse that
Jane Fonda(Hanoi Jane)aided and abetted our enemy by making propaganda
broadcasts from North Viet Nam to our troops.
This is called treason…. She is as guilty of treason as Tokyo Rose was.
She should have been given a fair trial and then lined up against a wall and shot.
She however was protected because her Father Henry Fonda stepped in.

American Veterans have NO Problem recognizing a traitor,in fact a quick look around the blogosphere has me concluding that just the mention of Hanoi Jane is enough to get
Vet’s pretty worked up.
1stcavmedic has a piece as well as TheGateWayPundit
Nope Jane, not a chance that our Vietnam Vets are gonna get over this.

Thank you to All who have made Freedom a reality. Let’s pray that we continue to be free.
I’d like to share with you a beautiful Panoramic View of the Healing Field of Flags .

It is the VETERAN, not the preacher,
who has given us freedom of religion.

It is the VETERAN, not the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the VETERAN, not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the VETERAN, not the campus organizer,
who has given us freedom to assemble.

It is the VETERAN, not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is the VETERAN who has given us Freedom.

TheMasterOfTheUniverse PROUDLY served the ASA in Vietnam.

I have no idea who wrote this piece….I only know how absolutely true it is.
To the unknown author our thanks.

Photo’s courtesy with our thanks to :

http://www.i-military.blogspot.com,

http://www.thecynicalchristian.blogspot.com,

http://www.slick.com, http://www.asalives.org,

http://www.legion.org/files/constitution_010611_p1_0.jpg

“So Much for a “Secular Nation”!
Thank you for the reminder that our rights come from God and not any man or group of men.
God Bless America and Semper Fi Marine!”

David W. Hedrick
This was on Fox news.

Is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to “The United States of America,” for an amount of “up to, and including his life.”

These Individuals deserve to be honored! There are way too many people in this country today, who no longer understand that fact.
Not sure who originally wrote that but… its a point worth remembering.

Our Veterans, lay or have laid their lives on the line for us. Simple respect is the very least you should afford them.. No I really don’t want to get started.

For all of you that have served or are serving a truly heartfelt thank you, and God bless you and keep you safe.

I was looking at TheMasterOfTheUniverse’s medals the other day. A few years ago I framed them so our grandkids could ooohhh and aaaahhhhh and ask questions which has worked out pretty darn well… He has been off, recovering from surgery. I’ve been driving him crazy of course….
It was really scary to have him be on the other end of the recovery
road, no matter how minor the surgery. He is doing great. For which we are very thankful to God.

But the point of this post is that he is MY HERO!

He has 5 Vietnam campaign medals, Vietnam service medal, national defense service medals, meritorious unit medal, good conduct, army of occupation…….
a few others…
He is MY HERO! I thank God for him.

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

Pres. Bush

If George W. Bush had criticized a state law that he admitted he never even read, would you think that he is just an ignorant hot head?
If George W. Bush joined the country of Mexico and sued a state in the United States to force that state to continue to allow illegal immigration, would you question his patriotism and wonder who’s side he was on?

If George W. Bush had put 87,000 workers out of work by arbitrarily placing a moratorium on offshore oil drilling on companies that have one of the best safety records of any industry because one company had an accident would you have agreed?

If George W. Bush had used a forged document as the basis of the moratorium that would render 87,000 American workers unemployed would you support him?

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a “TelePrompter” installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan’s holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the nonexistent “Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had stated that there were 57 states in the United States , would you have said that he is clueless?

If George W. Bush would have flown all the way to Denmark to make a five minute speech about how the Olympics would benefit him walking out his front door in Texas , would you have thought he was a self important, conceited, egotistical jerk?

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro” (“the 5th or 4th”?) in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the “Cinco de Mayo” (the 5th of May), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?
If George W. Bush had misspelled the word “advice” would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoes as proof of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush’s administration had okay-ed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans , would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?

If George W. Bush had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America , would you have approved.

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George Bush had done this, Would you have approved?

Pres. Obama

Barach Obama has done all these things in less than 18 months

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? And by the way… How’s that HOPE and CHANGE working out for you?

Terry Jones, leader of the Dove World Outreach Centre (“Islam Is Of The Devil”) in Gainesville, Florida is thinking about burning about 200 or so copies of the Koran.

They want to burn these Korans as a reminder of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

This group is affiliated to another hate group led by Fred Phelps, Topeka, Kansas, which gained notoriety in recent years for picketing the funerals of soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He was interviewed August 20, 2010 by Joshua Kors.If you have a strong stomach, have a read.

“If this book burning happens, jihadists tell us “I think the first and most important reaction will be that wherever Americans are seen, they will be killed,” Mohammad Mukhtar, a cleric and an election candidate for the Afghan parliament, said in Kabul. “No matter where they will be in the world they will be killed.”

Enayatullah Balegh, an imam at the Pol-e-Khishti mosque in Kabul, said Afghan religious leaders hope the United States government will find a way to bar the church from burning the holy book.
“If they decide to burn the holy Koran, I will announce jihad against these Christians and infidels,” he said Tuesday. “We will defend the holy Koran.”

Here is an observation, you cannot fight a war knowing your hands are tied, that’s akin to bringing a knife to a gun fight.
That is how we have been dealing with radical jihadists.
If we are going to fight, then fight, quit throwing away lives.

Jihadists outraged? You would think that the outrage would
come from a group that had reason to express outrage.
The American people who have been bleeding and dying to bring freedom to the Muslim world.

Mark Steyn wrote: An “Islamophobic” America might have pondered whether the more extreme elements of self-segregation were compatible with participation in a pluralist society: Instead, President Barack Obama makes fawning speeches boasting that he supports the rights of women to be “covered” – rather than the rights of the ever-lengthening numbers of European and North American Muslim women beaten, brutalized and murdered for not wanting to be covered. America is so un-Islamophobic that at Ground Zero they’re building a 11-story mosque – on the site of an old Burlington Coat Factory damaged by airplane debris that Tuesday morning.

In the past few weeks it’s ALL been about FREEDOM of RELIGION when it comes to the proposed mosque at ground zero. You cannot play the duality game here. Regardless of what you like or dislike,
these individuals have the same protected rights as Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. It is our responsibility to support their rights. Jihad bullies need to stay away. Most folks in small towns are armed and dangerous.
Willing to protect themselves and their families.

It was really nice of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to mention that freedom isn’t free. But that it comes with responsibilities, I’m sure we were all surprised to learn that. Or that he recognized that.
I especially was gratified by the warning that “This is dangerous to our national security” with a Bible lesson tossed in for free, “Jesus said to love your enemy. We are not your enemy.”

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has also been the figure of controversy. “He has chided the U.S. for killing civilians in Baghdad. He said in 2005 that the U.S. had more Muslim blood on its hands than “al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.” He has refused to accept Western governments’ designation of Hamas as a terrorist group. Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, he told CBS’ “60 Minutes” that “United States policies were an accessory to the crime.”

Reasoning with the unreasonable, all protected by the first amendment.

Life is full of irony.

James J. Straine
36 years old.
From: Oceanport, N.J.
James died in a attack by Terrorists on the World Trade Center.

Called Jimmy by friends, the Husband of Trisha,
the father of Finn, and Charlie.
James Straine was a son, brother, husband and father most loved.
He had returned to his job on the 104th Floor of One World Trade Center in Manhattan.
Sept 10th for half days, he had been blessed with a new son, 5 days before.

The last call Trisha received from Jim came about 8am on Sept.11, 2001.
Jimmy had called to see how she was doing; it was to be 2 yr old
Finn’s first day of nursery school. Charlie was 6 days old.
Jimmy was worried bout his wife.

Trisha was missing her lover and soul mate.

There was no way to know that would be the final call.

James is said to have been a kind person, with never a cross word.
He was much loved by friends and family.

He was to have been a groomsman in a wedding on the 15 of Sept, 2001

James was an avid reader, hardly seen without a book.
He loved to Golf, and fish
James was a fixed- income investment salesman, at the Cantor Fitzgerald
center in the World Trade Center.

In August 2001, the Straine family moved to Oceanport, N.J., so that James Straine, and his family, could be near the ocean and the Shrewsbury River.
Everywhere you go in Oceanport you can see water, and it was just perfect for his great passion, fishing.
So weeks before James was murdered by Terrorists, he had realized a
Life long dream, To Live on the Ocean.
He at least had the opportunity to take young Finn fishing once.

Trisha, His love, their Children,
Family, friends,
Beach, water, golf, reading, life

There is a golf tournament held each summer now to help Remember Jimmy Straine.
An annual gathering of friends takes place,
Finn and Charlie hear stories; learn about their daddy second hand from people who loved Jimmy and love them also.

The tournament it is also the way that the James J. Straine, Jr. Memorial Scholarship at Jimmy’s alma mater, Watchung Hills Regional High School in Warren, New Jersey is funded.

Jimmy is at home with the Lord.
His family is here and can use our prayers of support and comfort.

From our hearts to yours, we will never forget.
God Bless America.

Please visit project 2996 To see a complete list of bloggers and Tributes

Thank you Dale for your work bringing this together!

Scott Powell, 35, Silver Spring, Maryland
BTG Inc. confirmed dead, Pentagon.

Scott grew up in Washington, D.C., he graduated from Washington’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts.

He was employed by BTG Inc. He was a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, which led to a job at the Pentagon, where he worked as a civilian contractor.

Scott was not married to the military, but to life.

Scott had a identical twin brother, Art as well as an older brother Shaun.
Brothers who were his dearest friends.

At one time Scott and Art formed a group they called it the “Mable’s Twinzz” formed a music production company, “Dem Twinzz productions.”

Ironically, both had developed a passion for Arabic song, which they played while on a tour together in Sweden and the United Kingdom.

The duo would never perform together again. Over the ensuing days and weeks after the Pentagon catastrophe, friends and family, so long accustomed to being around the two brothers, would call Art, because they missed the sound of Scott’s voice.

He composed songs, most of them rhythm and blues, and played more than a half-dozen instruments from piano to drums.

“He loved music. It really was his life,” said his other brother, Shaun. “Then he developed an interest in computers and that paid his bills.”

Scott was a great musician. He could play anything; drum pads, acoustic piano, keyboards, bass, acoustic guitar.
He could program, sequence, mix, and coach singers on vocals.

He was also very open with people, challenging them to rethink how they behaved with others around him. He was in love with music and the Steelers.

Scott’s mother Catherine had her hands full as the boys grew up; she said her twin sons began playing the drums at the age of 2. Scott later was trained classically on the string bass, she said.

The twins took jobs at the same firm, BTG Inc.

“Every time you saw one of them, the other wouldn’t be far behind,” she said. “That’s what I’ll miss the most. When I see Art, I’ll always be looking for Scott.”

In one tribute, I saw a letter from Scott’s daughter Sydney, who wrote:

dear daddy up in heaven i love u and i miss u lots i kno your watchin me all ways ill write u again soon
your daughter Sydney

But was unable to get more details, I will keep looking.

To Scott Powell’s family, if there are things you’d like added, please contact me.

We will never forget.

2,996 is a tribute to the victims of 9/11.