POST V4.08-24-09
 



The Men's and Women's Golf Associations of Dataw Island have joined forces with the Military Order of Purple Heart and the Beaufort Lion's Club to sponsor the 2nd benefit golf tournament to support America's wounded warriors on their road to recovery. Last year, the residents of Dataw raised over $10,880 for this very worthwhile benefit. Please mark your calendar for Tuesday, November 10, 2009. More details to follow.  Questions:  please contact Glenn and Susan Blackburn, blackburngs@aol.com 


MRAP INCIDENT
what’s it like to ride in a trojan horse? 

the driver damaged his ribs, but not a single rider was killed in this incident - proof of your tax dollars at work and proof every penny spent on armoring up these  ponies is worthwhile! 

HEY YAH
a deck of cards and two good friends hang out in tent city 
nonfiction by CHARLOTTE BROCK

COURTESY MNF-IRAQ 
Send your Message to the Troops
 


Staff Sgt. James Simmons, a platoon sergeant with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, takes a quick pause during a seven-hour firefight as an U.S. Air Force B-1 bomber drops a 500-pound bomb on insurgent positions here, Aug. 13. Simmons is from Winter Park, Fla.

Read more at DVIDS




Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl 


SCARS ON MY HEART: VIGNETTE 12, GOOD-BYE
a marine wife faces another good-bye as her husband departs for iraq
WRITTEN BY MONICA GREER
INTERPRETED BY LESLIE WILKINS 

ETX.
MY WORLD WAR TWO IN RETROSPECT
nonfiction by BOB GEORGE

Preface for a Reading at Nahant Library                             
                     (“Please come to read for us from your new book.”)
poetry by TOM SHEEHAN
 
THUCYDIDES: THE HISTORIAN WAS A GENERAL
nonfiction by VLAD

THE GEARS MAKE THE MACHINE
nonfiction by A.L. ‘O.A.T.S’ SYOR

ATSURO RILEY READS “HUTCH” and other poetry selections from ROMEY’S ORDER (university of chicago press). 
“hutch” is featured as the epigraph in 
 milspeak: warriors, veterans, family and friends writing the military experience  

SUBJECT: THE CORPS
COURTESY OF SGTMAJ DOUGHERTY

VETERANS-FOR-CHANGE
FOUNDER JIM DAVIS REPORTS IN

PLUS
“TBD”
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