Dignity Memorial® Network to Provide Military Burial for Homeless Portland Veteran
Homeless Veterans Burial Program provides 1,000th military funeral service
By Dignity Memorial network
Published: Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012 - 9:50 am
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 24, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Lincoln Memorial Park, a member of the Dignity Memorial network, will provide a funeral with full military honors on Jan. 25 at the Willamette National Cemetery for a homeless Portland veteran, the 1,000th burial provided through the Dignity Memorial Homeless Veterans Burial Program.
Naval Petty Officer 2nd Class Stevenson L. Roy, a recently deceased homeless Vietnam veteran, will be buried at the Willamette National Cemetery in Portland, Ore., on Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 1:30 p.m.
"We are humbled to help provide the military honors that Mr. Roy deserves," said Jean-Christophe Aubry, market director for the Portland area Dignity Memorial providers. "It is a great privilege to show our community's deep gratitude for veterans like him who have given so much to our country."
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
US Spec-ops raid in Somalia frees American, Dane
Spec-ops raid in Somalia frees American, Dane
By Abdi Guled and Katharine Houreld - The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Jan 25, 2012 6:02:34 EST
MOGADISHU, Somalia — U.S. military forces flew into Somalia in a nighttime helicopter raid Wednesday, freed an American and a Danish hostage, and killed nine pirates in a mission President Obama appeared to reference before his State of the Union speech, officials and a pirate source said.
The Danish Refugee Council confirmed that the two aid workers, American Jessica Buchanan and Dane Poul Hagen Thisted, were freed "during an operation in Somalia." Buchanan, 32, and Thisted, 60, had been working with a de-mining unit of the Danish Refugee Council when they were kidnapped in October.
Obama seemed to refer to the mission before his State of the Union address in Washington on Tuesday night. As he entered the House chamber in the U.S. Capitol, he pointed at Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in the crowd and said, "Good job tonight."
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By Abdi Guled and Katharine Houreld - The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Jan 25, 2012 6:02:34 EST
MOGADISHU, Somalia — U.S. military forces flew into Somalia in a nighttime helicopter raid Wednesday, freed an American and a Danish hostage, and killed nine pirates in a mission President Obama appeared to reference before his State of the Union speech, officials and a pirate source said.
The Danish Refugee Council confirmed that the two aid workers, American Jessica Buchanan and Dane Poul Hagen Thisted, were freed "during an operation in Somalia." Buchanan, 32, and Thisted, 60, had been working with a de-mining unit of the Danish Refugee Council when they were kidnapped in October.
Obama seemed to refer to the mission before his State of the Union address in Washington on Tuesday night. As he entered the House chamber in the U.S. Capitol, he pointed at Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in the crowd and said, "Good job tonight."
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Last military shipment from Iraq
Beaumont receives last military shipment from Iraq
By Courtney Francisco - email
The end of the war in Iraq has brought the end of an era here in Beaumont, for the Port that is.
Military service personnel and port workers unloaded the last ship returning military equipment to the U.S. from Iraq Tuesday.
Lt. Col. Michael Arnold is Commander of the 842nd Transportation Battalion stations at the Port of Beaumont and says the ship more than just another job to unload.
Nearly 400 ships have traveled from Iraq to Beaumont since 2002 stocked full of supplies ranging from helicopters to military equipment.
However, now that troops have been withdrawn from Iraq the equipment is no longer needed there, and Lt. Col. Arnold says unloading it marks a milestone.
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By Courtney Francisco - email
The end of the war in Iraq has brought the end of an era here in Beaumont, for the Port that is.
Military service personnel and port workers unloaded the last ship returning military equipment to the U.S. from Iraq Tuesday.
Lt. Col. Michael Arnold is Commander of the 842nd Transportation Battalion stations at the Port of Beaumont and says the ship more than just another job to unload.
Nearly 400 ships have traveled from Iraq to Beaumont since 2002 stocked full of supplies ranging from helicopters to military equipment.
However, now that troops have been withdrawn from Iraq the equipment is no longer needed there, and Lt. Col. Arnold says unloading it marks a milestone.
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U.S. Marine spared from jail time in Iraq killings
If you read about any war, civilians died. It is an ugly part of what happens that "polite" civilians never want to think about. Most of the time it is because of the type of warfare being waged where enemy forces are part of the population, dressed like everyone else and attacking from the crowds of innocent people. That is what happened in Iraq as well as Afghanistan, just as it happened in Vietnam.
The men and women we send to fight these wars never know who is a simple bystander and who wants to kill them until it is too late for second guesses.
Did these Marines snap or was it more a case of everything else that happened in Iraq? None of of us really know because we weren't there. These memories will be with them for the rest of their lives.
The men and women we send to fight these wars never know who is a simple bystander and who wants to kill them until it is too late for second guesses.
Did these Marines snap or was it more a case of everything else that happened in Iraq? None of of us really know because we weren't there. These memories will be with them for the rest of their lives.
U.S. Marine spared from jail time in Iraq killings
By Mary Slosson
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif
Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:13am EST
(Reuters) - A U.S. Marine accused of leading a 2005 massacre of 24 civilians in the Iraqi city of Haditha was spared jail time when he was sentenced on Tuesday for his role in killings that brought international condemnation on U.S. troops.
The harshest penalty Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, 31, now faces for his guilty plea on Monday to a single count of dereliction of duty is a demotion to the rank of private, the lowest rank in the service, as recommended by a military judge.
As part of his guilty plea, Wuterich accepted responsibility for giving negligent verbal instructions to the Marines under his command when he told them to "shoot first and ask questions later," orders that resulted in the deaths of civilians.
In his court statement on Tuesday, Wuterich added that when he gave that order, "the intent wasn't that they should shoot civilians. It was that they would not hesitate in the face of the enemy."
He said that he and his fellow Marines behaved honorably under extreme circumstances, and that he "never fired my weapon at any women or children that day."
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
State of the Union
State of the Union
President Obama brought up how the men and women in the military don't do anything "political" but for the nation and for each other. "This nation is great because we work together as a team." Great way to end his address.
Dr. Bernice King was at Valencia College today and I was part of the film crew streaming her speech. She talked about how people working together can do so much more than when they watch out for themselves.
If you read this blog then you know how I feel about the divide this nation has been suffering from for far too long. It seems like everything is political and nothing is "us" anymore. It is always, "them" with one party against another, one class against another but few noticing the times when even the wealthy push aside their "own" for the sake of someone else in need. They don't notice the ex-homeless veteran doing everything he can to make sure other veterans don't suffer the way he did any more than they notice all the good stories out there.
There is a saying in the media that "if it bleeds, it leads" because someone thought that was all people wanted to read about or see in a news report. I can tell you that is simply not true. The number one story on this blog has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with a soldier and a tattoo along with combat medics in Afghanistan. For Those I Love I Will Sacrifice and the other is about a wounded Marine Lance Cpl. William Carpenter These two stories tell me that it matters more what people do with their lives than how they vote. It matters more how they can about strangers as much as they care about their friends and neighbors. I read about them all the time. That is what makes this nation great. Regular men and women thinking more about someone else than they do about themselves and becoming far from regular.
President Obama brought up how the men and women in the military don't do anything "political" but for the nation and for each other. "This nation is great because we work together as a team." Great way to end his address.
Dr. Bernice King was at Valencia College today and I was part of the film crew streaming her speech. She talked about how people working together can do so much more than when they watch out for themselves.
If you read this blog then you know how I feel about the divide this nation has been suffering from for far too long. It seems like everything is political and nothing is "us" anymore. It is always, "them" with one party against another, one class against another but few noticing the times when even the wealthy push aside their "own" for the sake of someone else in need. They don't notice the ex-homeless veteran doing everything he can to make sure other veterans don't suffer the way he did any more than they notice all the good stories out there.
There is a saying in the media that "if it bleeds, it leads" because someone thought that was all people wanted to read about or see in a news report. I can tell you that is simply not true. The number one story on this blog has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with a soldier and a tattoo along with combat medics in Afghanistan. For Those I Love I Will Sacrifice and the other is about a wounded Marine Lance Cpl. William Carpenter These two stories tell me that it matters more what people do with their lives than how they vote. It matters more how they can about strangers as much as they care about their friends and neighbors. I read about them all the time. That is what makes this nation great. Regular men and women thinking more about someone else than they do about themselves and becoming far from regular.
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