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• Father and son at shuttle's start and end

  Fri Jul 15, 2011
  • I was laying in my hooch in Chu Lai, Vietnam watching it on AFVN.  I remember going out right after his walk and looking at a very bright moon in wonderment of Americans on that bright patch of sky.  I have followed the space program closely ever since.  Even witnessed sever …

• Watch track of devastating storms

  Thu Apr 28, 2011
  • The overlay of the events seems to be way off on the map?  What's up. 

• DNA test casts doubt on executed man's guilt

  Thu Nov 11, 2010
  • (re:Ricksta):  eyewitness testimony is never a conclusive or even reliable piece of evidence as many studies have proved.  Put two eyewitness in a room and the give two different descriptions, three and you have three different descriptions. 

• Is Y.E. Yang's victory over Tiger Woods the greatest sports upset of all time?

  Sun Aug 16, 2009
  • Even in Golf it's not the biggest.  Zach Johnson wins the Masters? Or, in other sports- Namath calls upset, or 1960 hockey defeat of Russia will last in history.  This is just a blip in Tiger's incredible career.

• U.S. looks to Vietnam for Afghan tips

  Thu Aug 6, 2009
  • It's about time someone tried to learn something from Vietnam. and I do take exception to the comment that we lost because of the draftees. Being a VietVet and draftee his comment is truely a cheapshot to the many of us who fought bravely and died in that country.

• U.S. looks to Vietnam for Afghan tips

  Thu Aug 6, 2009
  • It's about time someone decided to take a look at Vietnam and learn something from it.  I'm a VietVet draftee and resent some of the earlier comments that draftees didn't do their jobs or didn't do them well.

• Should the military ban smoking by service members?

  Tue Jul 14, 2009
  • Eugene it is not the smoking Vets at VA hospitals that you smell, it must be those damn homelss Vet you pass each day as you pretend not to notice. Smoking has been banned in all VA hospital for at least 14 years with a federal fine if you are caught.

• Should the military ban smoking by service members?

  Tue Jul 14, 2009
  • Eugene, I've spent a lot of time at VA hospitals and the stench of cigarette smoke that you smell are not the Vets smoking it must be the smell of the many homeless Vets that you pass by each day and lift you nose at.  Smoking has been banned for at least 14 years at VA hospitals and a federal …

• Obama's picks provide few hints of policy plans

  Sat Dec 20, 2008
  • Competence!  That is a reform in of itself.  Obama has shown with these picks he is looking for people who know what they are doing.  The fact that they have not shown their reformist tendencies is not without reason.  The past 8 years have not been kind to those who know the …

• An Iraq Tale Vol 18: ( The Last Mission )

  Thu Apr 24, 2008
  • I just started reading your newsvine in the last few weeks. I'm a Nam Vet and both my Sons have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. My eldest (RA) is scheduled to go back to Iraq in a little bit.