Honoring the Heroism of the Greatest Generation
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 9th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Honoring the Heroism of the Greatest Generation
Salena Zito, RealClearPolitics
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The last thing his commanders said before he dropped from a plane somewhere near Bastogne was “good luck.” It was the Battle of the Bulge, and Allied troops were running out of ammunition, food and medicine; they desperately needed radar capabilities because supplies being dropped sporadically were falling into German hands due to thick fog and high winds. Mike Segal was 21, a self-described Jewish Kentucky boy born with a rifle in his hand. A “Pathfinder” for the 101st Airborne Division, he was the slim hope of surrounded American soldiers. Segal,…
Why Clinton Will Run
Ruth Marcus, RealClearPolitics
WASHINGTON — The last few days have offered vivid illustrations of why Hillary Clinton could decide not to run for president — and why, in the end, I believe she will. Example No. 1 is the ludicrous debate over whether Clinton, in the latest People magazine cover, was leaning on a walker. To buy this scenario would require you to believe that People is complicated in a grand conspiracy to keep Clinton’s enervated physical state from American voters. And that People’s editors and Team Clinton are dumb enough, having hatched this scheme, to have her photographed with the walker cropped out,…
Obama’s Bergdahl Fiasco
Toby Harnden, RealClearPolitics
In the town of Pocatello, Idaho, last Tuesday, Jason Carey stood waving a yellow sign that read: “BOWE IS NOT AS HERO. He Deserted America.” It struck a chord. “People were honking their horns, giving me the thumbs-up,” Carey said. “I only had one guy giving me the middle finger.” Until last weekend Carey, a burly, goateed veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, had been a staunch supporter of Bowe Bergdahl. He gave money to the “Bring Bowe home” campaign. “He was included in my prayers every night.” His first reaction to Bergdahl’s…
