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Ode to a Murdered Marine

Two former West Coast Marine veterans team-up to write a poem on the murder of a Marine Corps Colonel.

(SALEM, Ore.) - It’s hard for me to picture two hardnosed Marine veterans as poets. My limited contact with poetry was in college at Temple University in the 1970s. I managed to squeeze by an English poetry course with a gentlemen “C.”

With these credentials, I’m not exactly a poetry expert, but you have to be impressed with the efforts made by Tim King and Luke Easter, two Marine veterans, to honor the memory of Colonel James E. Sabow, USMC.

Marinestan

Conflict will remain the same as long as human nature does. The Marines have always understood that.

(PALO ALTO, Calif.) - Periodically, the Marines’ way of doing things so bothers our military planners that some higher-ups try to curb their independence.

The ten-part HBO series on the Pacific campaign of World War II just ended. That story of island-hopping was mostly about how the old breed of U.S. Marines fought die-hard Japanese infantrymen face to face in places like Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Guam, and Okinawa.

Marines Need Support to Push Name Change

You can assist this effort by contacting elected representatives.

(WASHINTON D.C.) - Legislation currently in Congress would change the name of the Department of the Navy, to Department of the Navy and Marine Corps.

Marines all over the nation are in favor of this. U.S. Marines maintain security at Naval bases and are the nation's first combat force in many cases, to respond to war.

Advisory Panel Poised To Back EPA`s Landmark Cancer Finding On TCE

Salem-News.com has been reporting the massive TCE contamination of MCAS El Toro and Camp Lejeune for three years.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - A panel of experts reviewing EPA's draft risk assessment of the solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) appears to be poised to back the agency's proposed listing of the ubiquitous groundwater contaminant as a human carcinogen.

`Manila John` Basilone, USMC

William Douglas Lansford’s account of Basilone’s life is written by another Iwo Jima Marine who served with Basilone and survived the war to write about it.

(LOS ANGELES) - ‘Manila John’ Basilone’s name resonates with Marines, but except for some who live in his hometown of Raritan, New Jersey, it’s probably not familiar to many other Americans.

For most younger Americans today, WWII is ancient history. Enter Steven Spielberg and the magic of film.

Ugly Truth About the American Cancer Society

American Cancer Society argues new findings, that dangers from environmental toxins are greatly underestimated.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The jig is up on the real danger of contracting cancer from environmental contamination; a panel convened by Pres. Carter says danger is far worse than the groups charged with fighting cancer reveal.

The dirty secret of the big cancer groups? They all receive funding from the polluters who are kind enough to wreck our environment and make it dangerous in the first place.

El Toro Marine Goes Toe-to-Toe with VA

Former El Toro Marine comments on his experience with the VA, passing important information to other vets.

(MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.) - John Uldrich, an El Toro Marine veteran, has a 100 percent plus disability rating. But for all intents and purposes, it is as bogus as they come!

Open Letter to the United States Supreme Court over Monsanto, Dow and Agent Orange

Letter is addressed in particular to Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Stevens and Justice Thomas.

(HANOI, Vietnam) - A year ago, March 2009, your court denied the appeal of behalf of over three million Vietnamese seriously affected from the effects of the herbicide Agent Orange, by so doing you found in favour of the thirty-seven American chemical companies headed by two of the major ones, namely MONSANTO and DOW CHEMICALS who had manufactured Agent Orange.

President`s Cancer Panel Report Finds True Burden of Environmentally Induced Cancer Greatly Underestimated

Panel Urges Action to Determine the Full Extent of Environmental Influences on Cancer.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - A report released today by the President’s Cancer Panel finds that the true burden of environmentally-induced cancer is greatly underestimated.

Liberty Radio Hour Features Interview with Salem-News.com`s Tim King

A program about one of America's darkest stories.

(COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho) - One of the most disturbing stories in contemporary military history is the 1967 Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty.

This is one of several subjects discussed by our Tim King, in the latest edition of the The Liberty Hour Radio Program.