Wow, here is a story I completely missed, from the AP. I came across the story this afternoon while reading Blackfive’s blog. It had been a year or so since I had last visited the blog and had really forgotten how much I enjoy the site. A great site that supports our military! Anyway, enough of my praise, head on over to Blackfive for the rest of Uncle Jimbo’s post: Pat Tillman shot in the head:

Since the Army did an investigation and I assume knows the answers to these questions, they were satisfied that this was an accident. Absent that understanding, I’m having a tough time reaching that same conclusion. I do not believe that this means his death was not an accident, but it raises serious questions about where the shooter was in relation to Tillman.

In reading the AP story, the first thing I realized was how quickly I had forgotten the details surrounding Pat’s death. With the spin the military had already put on his death, this new information really casts a very dark cloud on the entire investigation. The truth will hopefully come out, if what we have been told up till now turns out to be false, so that we can get past the controversy of Pat’s death and remember him as the hero that he is and was; one who sacrificed himself for the greater good of our nation.

Funny story day continues today with this story over at Breitbart.com, Cops: Man, 93, Shoots Violent Robber:

EL DORADO, Ark. (AP) - An elderly man beaten unconscious by an assailant wielding a soda can awoke and shot the man during an attempted robbery, police said.

Willie Lee Hill, 93, told police he saw the robber while in his bedroom Wednesday night. Hill confronted the man and was struck at least 50 times, police said. He was knocked unconscious.

Covered in blood, Hill regained consciousness a short time later and pulled a .38-caliber handgun on his attacker. The suspect, Douglas B. Williams Jr., saw the gun and charged the man, who fired a bullet that struck Williams in the throat, police said.

“I got what I deserved,” Williams, 24, told police when they arrived, officers said. Investigators reported finding, among other items, a Craftsman drill bit set, three pocket knives and two hearing aids inside his pockets.

Would love to hear the anti gun lobby whine about a 93 year old man defending his home after being beaten! (seriously though, what kind of inept robber steals hearing aids and uses a soda can as a weapon?)

Here is a fun story I hadn’t seen before, ‘Nerd’ taunt drove Navy man to arson on MSNBC.com:

ELM MOTT, Texas - A Navy man who got mad when someone mocked him as a “nerd” over the Internet climbed into his car and drove 1,300 miles from Virginia to Texas to teach the other guy a lesson.

As he made his way toward Texas, Fire Controlman 2nd Class Petty Officer Russell Tavares posted photos online showing the welcome signs at several states’ borders, as if to prove to his Internet friends that he meant business.

When he finally arrived, Tavares burned the guy’s trailer down.

What fun! I really enjoyed the nice touch of uploading photo’s of every state he drove through, plus it didn’t hurt that the victim lived in a trailer, adding to the laughs. Moral of the story, never call someone a nerd, racial slurs and momma jokes still ok. Remember this next time your on Xbox live kids.

I was watching the Military channel last night about the carrier Abraham Lincoln being deployed to the gulf right before the Iraq war started. As I watched these men and women go about their daily jobs and prepare for war, I started to wonder why we always let the lowest common denominator dictate our decision making (which is another topic I will get to later in another post.) The show got me thinking about our current political situation regarding the Iraq war and what comes next in this nation. What is the end game for cats like Harry “defeatist” Reid? If America fails at stabilizing Iraq and thus the Middle East, how do the anti war politicians gain in the long run? Obviously in the near term they are hoping for defeat to cause a regime change here in this country but are the long term ramifications of losing another war worth political gain?

As a nation we are in dire straits; the very core of our Republic is being questioned, debated, and twisted well beyond what previous generations of Americans would have allowed. Now that we are well past 60 plus years since the greatest generation pushed their way through the shores of Normandy to end Hitler’s Nazi regime and define their generation, how do we define ours? Do we define ourselves as a nation divided with one half clinging to the principals of our forefathers and the other half trying to rewrite the very history we so dearly cherish? Or will we define ourselves as the first generation in the last 50 years to look past our differences, past the “what’s in it for me” mentality, and start electing leaders that believe that our most defining moments still lay before us. Short sightedness should not and can not be a viable strategy for the future of our Republic.