Some great places to visit in your internet travels this weekend...

Michael Yon:
The Greedy Ones
It came from Poland, a message, via email—zzzppt. They were searching for her, a woman with whom I had recently made friends of the sort one finds while traveling abroad in wild nations. She had disappeared. The investigators had found my contact information in her hotel room...

The Car & Driver Boycott (via BlackFive)
(from Pam: The latest on Shock Magazine's shameful misuse of Michael Yon's photo. If you haven't heard about this yet - this is the one post you want to read this weekend. The campaign to put pressure on the publisher is working - but there is still a great deal to be done. If you have taken action to express your view to the publisher, or to retailers, please let me know!

Full details on how you can help, including sample letters you can use, are here.

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Soldiers' Angels Germany:
Soldiers Angels visit the Chaplains Office
During our visit in Landstuhl I used the opportunity to visit Chaplain Harp...

Many thanks!
As we arrived in Keber yesterday, at first we went to the libery to look for the coffee bar! Here we found only candies, cookies and popcorn. So Amanda went fast to our storage and looked around what goods we received in the last weeks!...

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Blackfive:
Good Thoughts Needed For Jim Baen
Posted By Laughing_Wolf
I found out this morning that Jim Baen, founder of Baen Books, has suffered a stroke and is in ICU. If you log into Baen's Bar through the previous link, there is a new "Waiting Room" forum that has been established for news and for sending thoughts to Jim, his family, and the greater family of authors, readers, and fans...

Marines Like Eric Freeman
Lance Corporal Eric S. Freeman was featured as a Defend America profile in early 2004. He kept a journal of his second tour in Iraq. Eric graduated from high-school at age 16 and completed almost two years of college before joining the Marines. This journal entry recounts the day he and his brother Marines were wounded...

The Warrior Caste Revisited
I have been thinking about the American Warrior Caste for a long time, now. The Warrior Caste is made up of families that serve in the military for generations...

And BlackFive has lots of other great posts, too - plan to stay for a while.

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ROFASix:
Painful to Watch - Torture to Hear!
NOTR has video of a brutal massacre of our National Anthem

The Story behind “Hadji Girl”
The Marine Corps Corporal who sang the song recorded in the video about killing members of an Iraqi family never expected it to get onto the Internet and become one of the most viewed videos....
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The Thunder Run:
500
VALOUR-IT just shipped its 500th laptop to assist a wounded trooper. Yes, you heard me right, 500 units shipped...

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One Marine's View:
Guilty until proven innocent
Why have I had enough? Because of crap like this joker keeps putting in the paper...

(Related post on IWT: Scraping the Moonbat Barrel)

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Echo9er:
Thursday “Why I Serve”
If it isn’t one thing, it’s another…and usually it’s another. Her enthusiasm is only exceeded by her drive to do a first rate job.

Spc. Nicole Bellows, Headquarters Company, Division Support Command, 1st Cavalry Division, is noted for her multiple roles as a supply specialist, an armorer, mail clerk and for always having a smile on her face...

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Iraq the Model
Always lots to read here.