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Good news for military vets

Some years ago, I took into my home a guy whom I had believed to be a friend.  He had fallen on hard times:  lost his business, his wife and family, had gone through VA-sponsored rehab and was, at the time, homeless. 

He was a mess, but I believed what he had told me about his Vietnam service as a SEAL and so I took him in to at least give him a home base.  I got him a job with a friend who owned a nearby convenience store, even drove him to and from work on days when the weather was inclement (otherwise he used a bicycle).

Then things started to fall apart.  He fell off the wagon, big-time.  My friend at the convenience store had some questions about the way this guy counted out the cash drawer and wrote up the final report each evening.  And our conversations about Vietnam began to get weirder and weirder...lots of things he said made less and less sense.

I called the CO at the BUDS training facility in Coronado CA, explained my situation, and he was back to me within an hour to tell me that no one with my "pal's" name had ever gone thru BUDS...the mandatory precursor for any SEAL training...ever.

So I prevailed on yet another buddy, who had some clout in these kinds of things, and I wound up getting faxed my "room-mate's" service record. 

It was all a fantasy, a lie.  I threw him out.  I can't stand liars.

Then I started researching all of the "wannabe" vets and award-winners and became thoroughly disgusted.  For years, it's been a felony to falsely represent oneself as the winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor.  Now, a bill has been proposed to make it illegal to claim any military status or award falsely.

Things are looking up!

Link: Phony Purple Heart Taken Off Film Web Site.

Following complaints from a congressman, the producers of "Wedding Crashers" on Monday yanked from the movie's Web site a printable Purple Heart advertised as a gimmick to pick up women and get free drinks.

These guys are two World Wars behind the curve

Reality check: 

The Cold War that Ronald Reagan ended was WW3.  It just never came to fruition, except for a decadent, uninspired, and unsuccessful economic system to roll over and die.  You watched the Wall knocked down, right?  The little chunks of concrete from the Brendenburg Gate and from Check Point Charlie are chunks of history.

President Reagan said: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!"

"As I looked out a moment ago from the Reichstag, that embodiment of German unity, I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: "This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality." Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom."

End of WW3.

And now we're engaged in WW4, a war between civilized societies and nations and cave dwellers who believe in a primitive cult. Will it end in nuclear exchange? Unlikely. Will it end anytime soon? Also unlikely, unless we get access to the secret cave maps where these monkeys get their mail.

But it will end.

And, yes, WW4 is a religious war.

Next question?

Link: Poll: Americans Say World War III Likely.

Some of the widest differences came on expectations of a new world war. Six in 10 Americans said they think such a war is likely, while only one-third of the Japanese said so, according to polling done in both countries for The Associated Press and Kyodo, the Japanese news service. "Man's going to destroy man eventually. When that will be, I don't know," said Gaye Lestaeghe of Freeport, La.

Inside the Mind of an Iraqi Suicide Bomber

Our friend at www.gatewaypundit.com directs us to this article from Time Magazine.  It's an eye opener and leaves you asking a lot of questions about the magazine's responsibilities and ethics.

Link: Inside the Mind of an Iraqi Suicide Bomber -- Jul. 04, 2005.

This is why we have all that stuff in NM

A few years ago Carroll and I visited Albequerque and toured the Atomic Museum there.  This led me to a further study of the military facilities in New Mexico.  It's all pretty cool.  And there's something in Sandia Peak that they don't want us to know about...

In the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, they have been constructing the most elaborate computer models of the United States ever attempted. There are virtual cities inhabited by millions of virtual individuals who go to work, shopping centers, soccer games and anywhere else their real life counterparts go. And there are virtual power grids, oil and gas lines, water pipelines, airplane and train systems, even a virtual Internet.

The scientists build them. And then they destroy them.

Link: Computers Simulate Terrorism's Extremes.