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Five years on, and now back on the front line, Andy admits the incident still plays on his mind. ‘Not a day goes by when I don’t think of those two guys,’ he says.

With a swift push from a comrade’s boots, a Mason City man’s introduction to ground combat in the Mekong Delta in 1968 began more abruptly than he anticipated.

We are entering the end-game in Afghanistan. Both Prime Minister David Cameron and American President Barack Obama have committed to withdrawing the majority of combat troops by the end of next year.

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It doesn’t matter if the Future Farmers of America did it to protest the cancellation of their ice cream social, it’s still terrorism.

“It was no place for a tank,” said the Clear Lake resident. “The terrain was terrible. The enemy could see us coming a mile away.”

Coming home between tours as an officer, he said he didn’t feel the same sense of being ostracized in the same way commonly felt by enlisted soldiers.

"Earlier this summer, Black Lives Matter activists held protests at both the Fraternal Order of Police legislative headquarters in Washington, D.C. and the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, which represents NYPD officers, in New York City. The protesters said the unions were a major force behind "blue lives matter" bills and blocking efforts to improve police transparency and accountability."

Pay no attention to the Orthodox (and Catholic in other parts of E Europe) priests and monks and nuns shot or sent off to the gulag behind the curtain.

“They could have just set down where they were and had someone rescue them. But, there would have been more died,” Cleveland said. “How some people think there’s football heroes and baseball heroes — that’s the real heroes.”

The bullet damaged the nerve in his left hand and resulted in Parcher having permanent limited use of his left thumb.

"…there is a way to counter extremism that’s potentially as effective as it is unpopular. It’s a social and intellectual strategy that aims to undermine the religious beliefs that motivate jihadists—and one of the most controversial set of ideas to emerge in the West in the last quarter century: New Atheism.