Salem-News.com Honor articles Page 22

Congressional Gold Medal for Montford Point Marines

"A nation that forgets its heroes is a nation destined to be forgotten." - President Calvin Coolidge

(QUANTICO, Va.) - Commandant of the Marine Corps, says the Montford Point Marines, and the ones who have passed, are as equally important to the history of the Marine Corps as the Tuskegee Airmen and the Buffalo Soldiers.

Bipartisan Senators Urge Passage of Montford Marines Congressional Gold Medal Bill

The 236th Anniversary of the U.S. Marine Corps approaches while Montford Marines Recognition lingers 50 years overdue.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Kay R. Hagan and other U.S. Senators are calling on their colleagues to cosponsor legislation awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to the Montford Point Marines, the first African Americans to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps.

The legislation passed in the House 25 Oct., but the Senate faces a 67-cosponsor minimum before it can be brought to the floor.

Dover AFB Takes a Big Chance With the Honor of our War Dead

The process depicted in the film Taking Chance with Kevin Bacon was not followed by the Air Force; the only people who were in trouble are those who blew the whistle on the practices.

(SALEM) - I'm following two stories closely that involve our nation's war dead, and it seems almost timely and logical that the news would be released today about the U.S. Air Force mishandling the remains of Americans killed in the battle theaters overseas.

Apparently they are making as little of it as possible, however the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs office did issue a press release.

Refugee in walk of thanks to British Military

Last year Johannes, who works for a church, raised over £7,000 for charity in his first Birmingham to London walk.

(LONDON Solihull News) - A POLITICAL refugee from war-torn Sri Lanka is walking from Birmingham to London in aid of Help for Heroes and an orphanage in his homeland.

Johannes Shanmugam, aged 48, will walk the equivalent of four marathons in six days and aims to raise over £10,000 for the armed forces charity and Serendip Children’s Home.

The Arpege Factor

Isaiah can set you free if you compare his Book with its omissions of what the New Testament Gospels, etc., has so grandly embellished. Then make up your mind.

(PASO ROBLES, Calif.) - You know, “promise them anything, but give them Arpege.” We are not talking perfume here, but political rhetoric; and TV Commercials fall into a similar category. In these and other instances the rule ought to be, Viewers/Buyers Beware.

ALEC-Model Legislation Undermining Constitutional Legislative Decision-Process

Continuing corporate dollar-power IS deciding questions of law, superseding Electees - Voters Defrauded by Set-Up semblances substituting for Democratic political process.

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - The ALEC-crisis continues, threatening every state-level law enacted since 1973 with possible, even probable, distortion and perversion from what might have been enacted, lacking corporate dollar-millions spent to provide carefully-constructed and controlled "model legislation" for passage.

Francis A. Boyle`s United Ireland, Human Rights and International Law

An extraordinary new book by Francis A. Boyle speaks truth about the struggle for independence in Northern Ireland.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - During the past three decades, international legal expert Francis A. Boyle has dealt with some of the most difficult problems created by Britain’s continued military occupation of six northeast counties in Ireland.

In so doing, he along with other Irish Americans engaged the formidable Irish American domestic lobby in support of the Irish resistance.

LA Vets Demand Housing at Giant VA Campus

It's one of the biggest insults to American Veterans in history.

(CLEVELAND) - Veterans, after the Civil War, were awarded land for parks, housing and medical facilities by private groups across America.

One such plot of land, now worth billions of dollars, is the Los Angeles Veterans Park, one of the most valuable pieces of real estate in the United States. Across the country, political insiders and developers misuse veteran facilities, not owned by the federal government, but held in trust for veterans

Saving Sergeant Shalit

The Israeli Human Rights Organisation B'Tselem reports that as of October 2002, 85% of Palestinian detainees [had] been tortured during interrogation.

(LONDON) - As a boy soldier returns home to assuage the 'righteous indignation' of a nation state, no longer 'sensitive [even] to its image of democracy', one can only agonise on the return of other soldiers and civilians of no blame but to be under the yoke of Israel, who on release from Israeli prisons, there incarcerated for resisting a 'brutal occupation' find themselves in another prison, Gaza, many released into exile and an uncertain future.

Does Israel really care for its returned son? Or was he used as a political pawn? Was 'partial intelligence' soon after his capture enough to effect a rescue operation?

28 Years Ago Today, 219 Marines Died in Beirut Barracks Bombing

In addition to the 299 deaths, sixty Americans were injured in the blast but survived.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Twenty eight years ago on this date, on 23 October 1983, a truck carrying a suicide bomb managed to get past Marine Corps guards and the driver detonated its charge at the Beirut International Airport in Lebanon.