Photogallery–the world of trench warfare
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-37025.html

This guy is consistently the best writer at HotAir.

Gaunilon on November 11, 2009 at 6:02 PM

Doctor Zero is pure poetry. Ed is pure logic. A powerful combo.

If we don’t stand behind our professional soldiers, and give them the tools to do their jobs now, we will all become soldiers before this enemy is defeated.

Gah! Why are there so many out there who just can’t/won’t wrap their brains around this fact? Thank you for writing it.

Thanks again to all veterans for their gifts.

Wow! We are indeed blessed.

Charlie

I take care of my mother now. She’s a WWII veteran, a WAVE. She enlisted when Pearl was bombed and hitchhiked to California to serve her country. Then she graduated from college as a pharmacist (on the GI bill) and ran a small pharmacy with my father – also a WWII vet. She did all that while raising 3 kids. You will pardon my pride.

God bless all our men and women in uniform, today and every day.

It is possible to achieve the peace that pacifists dream of, through disarmament and capitulation. This is the peace of subjugation, the peace of the grave. It secures the comfort of the elite, by allowing aggressors to make endless war on their citizens.

Indeed, Doc.

Vietnam Vet.

Munley DOES deserve a purple heart and more. I would give her mine if I could pry it out of my sons’ hands.

Sometimes you find a piece that’s more of a “yeah, I guess I need to read this” and you’ll browse through it over lunch.

And then there’s the ones that, after the first line, you’re going to sit there dropping crumbs on the keyboard because you have to read read every word before you take the next bite.

This was a remarkable piece of wordcraft.

The last 9 days have been a troubling time in America: Debates over Healthcare, leading to the passage of a bill that aims to destroy the greatest Healthcare System in the world, followed by the dispicable Act of Terrorism inflicted……

Simply marvelous. Thank you for your honor.

This day is a keen reminder that freedom isn’t free. The events of the last week also remind us that the fight for freedom does not begin at the water’s edge and, sometimes, the battles for freedom wage hotter here than they do overseas.

Today, remember and recognize. Tomorrow, fight with all of your might against the forces of tyranny, oppression, anti-Constitutionalism, islamofascism and statism.

…and the battle rages.

Thank you for your magnificent words honoring them, Doc.

My heartfelt thoughts, prayers and thanks go to each and everyone of those brave souls who stood watch over us and our great country over the decades, living and dead.

Thank you one and all.

Nothing says ‘copy, paste, send (all) and save’ like a Doc Z. post.

cntrlfrk on November 11, 2009 at 3:17 PM

should be a button on here for that.

Eloquence is your trade.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them

To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night

It is possible to achieve the peace that pacifists dream of, through disarmament and capitulation. This is the peace of subjugation, the peace of the grave.

A heartfelt amen…

Your writing is always powerful, Doctor, flatly moved me to tears at the sixth paragraph.

Take a look at How Fort Hood’s Maj. Hassan Was Taken Down. Sgt Mark Todd should be included in your post.

There has been confusion since Thursday’s rampage about whose bullets actually brought Hasan down. At first, Munley’s supervisor said it was her shot to Hasan’s torso that leveled him, but Army officials would only say that an investigation was under way.

Munley was down by the time he engaged Hasan, Todd said. He wasn’t sure if Munley had wounded the suspect, because “once he started firing at me, I lost track of her.”

Thanks to all those in service to our nation’s protection!

Long live our Constitution. Long live America, land of the free and home of the brave.

RIP, our fallen heroes and to all Veterans who pass through eternity. Peace be with you. We are grateful for your valiant service to our Constitution and may you be rewarded for your sacrifices made on the behalf of America.

We are America. E pluribus unum.

To keep the home fires burning bright in our hearths, to appreciate our service men and women, WE American citizens must defeat ‘out of one, many’ divisive PC “diversity” as America at home is under attack.

Thank you, to all who have served and serve still today. In humble gratitude.

American soldiers are not just the guardians of peace… they are its architects. They build it with the invisible bricks of atrocities that did not occur, because the murderers were sensibly afraid of tangling with them. They add the mortar of countless acts of kindness and mercy, performed in war zones and disaster areas.

This has to be one of the most beautiful statements about our armed forces that has ever been written. A stunning and vivid image – thank you.