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On Memorial Day, Remember the Mothers, Children, Wives and Lovers Too
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyThe famous photograph of Mary McHugh prostrated on the grave of her late fiance, James Regan, was taken by photo journalist John Moore three years ago. It could have been yesterday. Arlington Cemetery's Section 60 is where military service members who died in Iraq and Afghanistan lie. The place still makes the news -- the superintendent, John Metzler Jr., just resigned -- but for most Americans, Section 60 is not a place to talk of scandal or mismanagement. It's a place to remember, a place to mourn. On a Getty Images blog, John Moore wrote: You watch a mother kiss her son's tombstone. ...
Pvt. Mike Mansfield: Just One Marine in Arlington Cemetery
By James Grady - Politics DailyOf all the chiseled stones standing silent watch over us in these uncivil and dangerous political times, this Memorial Day consider one modest white-marble slab on a green hillside at Arlington National Cemetery: Michael Joseph Mansfield PVT U.S. Marine Corps Mar 16 1903 Oct 5 2001 Private Mansfield fell not in battle like so many Americans, nor did he endure combat's scars. He lived to know his grandchildren and died at 98 in Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In these MySpace and "American Idol" days, he ordered that his headstone in Arlington disclose no more personal glory than that honor ...
The Right Wing's Memorial Day Attack on Obama
By David Corn - Politics DailyThere's a hole in the bottom of the ocean. Unemployment is still near 10 percent. There are two wars underway. And what are conservative pundits fretting about? That this year President Obama won't be laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day. The liberal watchdog outfit, Media Matters, has been keeping track of this latest right-wing meme: - Glenn Beck says, "Obama is skipping out on a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington Cemetery because he'll be in Chicago on vacation. I'm sorry, I don't ever, ever question the president's vacation. I ...
Obama's Gaffeability
By Dave - Politics DailyIt seems to me that for a man with a reputation as a gifted public speaker, Obama's made a lot of gaffes lately. Last week, Michelle Malkin compiled a highlight reel: ...Earlier this month in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: "Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go." Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, S.D., audience, Obama exulted: "Thank you, Sioux City. ... I said it wrong. I've been in Iowa for too long. I'm sorry." Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in ...
Memorial Day Fireworks on Campaign Trail
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailySen. John McCain used his Memorial Day appearance to tussle with Sen. Barack Obama over the war in Iraq. Both candidates spent the day in New Mexico, a swing state that has been decided by razor thin margins in each of the last two presidential elections. McCain criticized Obama in unusually sharp language over the likely Democratic nominee's call for a complete withdrawal from Iraq. McCain implied that Obama's position is reached in part by a lack of specific knowledge about the conditions on the ground in Iraq.Look at what happened in the last two years since Senator Obama visited [Iraq] and ...
Medal of Honor for Fallen Hero
By Caleb Howe - Politics DailyIn a private White House ceremony on June 2, the 4th Medal of Honor of the Iraq War will be posthumously awarded to Spc. Ross A. McGinnis. McGinnis is the third of four heroes profiled by combat journalist Jeff Emanuel in his The Lost Heroes of the War on Terror to receive the nation's highest honor. On December 4th, 2006, McGinnis was on patrol with a convoy, manning the .50-caliber machine gun on his HMMWV. During a surprise attack on a narrow side street, a fragmentation grenade was thrown into the vehicle. According to the official report, McGinnis yelled "Grenade" over the intercom and ...
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