North Island completes 5-year Spanish F/A-18 program (EXCERPT) by Bill Bartkus NAVAIR DEPOT NORTH ISLAND CORONADO, Calif. - The last two of 22 Spanish Air Force F/A-18s have left NAVAIR Depot North Island. Depot pilots recently landed safely in the Spanish-owned Canary Islands off the northwest...

Memorial Day Poem #16, Veteran Veteran Autumn invades the trees, the maples surge red, orange, sweetgums triumph yellow, sycamores surrender gold, heavy, the hickory falls brown-- leaves glittering like gilded fish

Memorial Day Poem #2, Untitled The flag lay in the dark damp corner It once was folded smartly, evenly Over a tear stained casket It was folded smartly, evenly Wife, mother shed tears on fresh dirt It was folded smartly, evenly The Flag was lovingly passed

Memorial Day Poem #37, "Bring Me Home" BRING ME HOME You got home a long time ago but please remember me. There is one outside the wire tonight; lost and in peril is he. This Digger never made it in,

Memorial Day Poem #17, This Little Flag of Ours This Little Flag of Ours I stood holding my fathers hand. I remember looking up as I was told to be still Everyone was standing and looking at the hill There was a pole and a cloth blew in the wind Old people were standing very still as I looked up...

Academy holds memorial dedication for Navy's Blue Angels http://www.dcmilitary.com/navy/trident/11_16/local_news/41612-1.html {EXCERPT} U.S. Naval Academy Trident, MD The Naval Academy paid tribute to Blue Angels who died during team flight operations in a ceremony held at the Navy-Marine Corps...

Memorial Day Poem #44, "The Long Road" They say it is a long road from youth to adulthood; I say it is but the blink of an eye. One day a child with a football or bat, The next day a man in combat. By JINGLES Jan 02

Scientists piece together a US Navy zeppelin's past http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1004/p16s01-stss.html {EXCERPT} Christian Science Monitor, MA... Last week, researchers completed the first exhaustive survey of the metal chunk's source - the Navy dirigible USS Macon and its small complement of...

Aboard the Enterprise, landing gently in the dark of night http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=40767 {EXCERPT} Fighter pilots bring birds home following combat missions over Afghanistan, by Jennifer H. Svan, Stars and Stripes Mideast edition, Sunday, October 15, 2006 Jennifer...

Memorial Day Poem #33 - Ghostspeak When we enlisted When we were drafted When we accepted our commissions, They told us You will die You will be shot

Unit Rosters: Collect them now or cry later Many veterans who served in prior wars deeply regret that they failed to collect the names and hometowns of the men and women they served with. These contacts are invaluable in later years to substantiate injuries, medal eligibility, historical...

Battleship Iowa vets meet for reunion (EXCERPT) By RONNIE RATLIFF JR., The Virginian-Pilot © August 16, 2003 Mark Gustafson finished his duty aboard the battleship Iowa in March 1989, three weeks before 47 of his shipmates were killed when a gun turret exploded during a firing exercise off Puerto...

30 Aug 2003 - Today’s Military, Veteran, War and National Security News You can also receive this resource listing that is published daily via email by The American War Library (www.amervets.com). Go here for more info: http://members.aol.com/militarypeople/e-wcor.htm German POW returns to...

22 Sep 2003 - Today’s Military, Veteran, War and National Security News You can also receive this resource listing that is published daily via email by The American War Library (www.amervets.com). Go here for more info: http://members.aol.com/militarypeople/e-wcor.htm Some See Troubling...

Report blames pilots in crash of two Navy jets (EXCERPT) By JACK DORSEY, The Virginian-Pilot © September 25, 2003 An accident investigation into the collision nearly a year ago of two new F/A-18F Super Hornets, resulting in four deaths, faults both Navy pilots for violating rules designed to keep...

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22 Apr 2006 - Today’s Military, Veteran, War and National Security News You can also receive this resource listing that is published daily via email by The American War Library. To subscribe go to the Library’s phone number dot com (13105320634.com). Select the ’Daily Military News’ hyperlink...

24 Apr 2006 - Today’s Military, Veteran, War and National Security News You can also receive this resource listing that is published daily via email by The American War Library. To subscribe go to the Library’s phone number dot com (13105320634.com). Select the ’Daily Military News’ hyperlink...

Navy chooses Gulf War veteran as Blue Angels' new commander http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060426/NEWS01/604260327 {EXCERPT} PensacolaNewsJournal.com, FL The US Navy on Tuesday announced a Gulf War combat veteran as the next commanding officer of the Blue Angels...

International Veterans Registry The World's oldest and largest online listing military and veteran database. Register at URL: http://www.amervets.com/registry.htm -- Otis Willie (Ret.) Military News and Information Editor (http://www.13105320634.com) The American War Library, Est. 1988...