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Hockey: Canada vs USA, USA vs Canada: Torment, Torment, Torment

If my readers haven’t figured it out, I am a French Canadian Canuck Frog. So there!

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - The Olympic Games Hockey Finals gave me an intense case of temporary schizophrenia. I wanted USA to win because I was born in the USA and consider myself to be a USA American.

Nazi Racists Unwelcome in Eastern Oregon`s John Day

A black President is a huge step in the fight for equality, but this group in John Day is a huge step backward.

(SALEM, Ore.) - A community in eastern Oregon is putting its foot down on the goose step, you could say.

Medical Marijuana Specialist Lectures in Florida

Dr. Leveque says he'll go anyplace.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Salem-News.com's Dr. Phil Leveque just returned from a speaking engagement that he was invited to attend at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

Holocaust Myths

In totality, the real holocaust was a collective slaughter of the human race, carried out by the collective actions of all of the world’s major governments.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Much ink is spilled in the press when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad refers to “the holocaust” as a myth.

Band of Brothers: Story of Darrel `Shifty` Powers

Email story of a WW II 101st Airborne trooper resonates with our need for heroes. The story is fictional but the story of those who jumped into Normandy and fought their way through France is definitely not.

(PHILADELPHIA) - The email story of “Shifty” Powers shows the power of the internet and our search for real heroes. A high school teacher I worked with several years ago emailed me the story today. I thought it worth retelling.

Don`t Ask, Don`t Tell: Discrimination in a Frontline Dogface`s Foxhole

Medically/scientifically I believe they were born that way and if God loves all his children he should love them also.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I was 21 years old and a college graduate when I volunteered to be drafted into the WWII Army. I really didn’t have to go.

I ended up in a seven private section with 18-year old boys. They were still exuberant boys and I had little in common with them except the Army BS.

Valuing Not Just Anne Frank`s Humanity, But All of Humanity Itself

Remembering Miep Giles at 100 years-old.

(LOS ANGELES) - Miep Gies, the last of the brave helpers who hid Anne Frank and her family during World War II, died at the ripe old age of 100, but if that wasn’t enough of an achievement, her actions during World War II rose her to the status of “Righteous Gentile” in her efforts to battle the Holocaust.

Miep lived in Amsterdam during the war, and had it not been for her, it’s doubtful the world would ever have known the name Anne Frank.

Medical Marijuana Expert Discusses PTSD and Depression (VIDEO)

The Doc says unlike depression, anguish is very close to what a PTSD sufferer experiences.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Dr. Phil Leveque and Bonnie King discuss a very important subject, that is the connection between PTSD and depression.

The VA says PTSD amounts to depression, but Dr. Leveque, who has suffered from PTSD since 1945, says the finding is geared toward saving the VA more money.

Soldier Warrior Grandfather
to Soldier Warrior Grandson

A WWII Army Combat Vet's words to his grandson serving in Iraq.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Being in the Infantry is like no other kind of experience. Basic Infantry training is almost nothing like anything else a young man will do. It is almost the measure of a man even if he is only eighteen.

The physical work putting muscles on a young man where none existed before is damned hard work. It is not surprising looking back that so few were “washed out”.

Salute to My WWII Dogface Buddies: a Hoorah 65 Years Late

It took me about 20 years before I could think about or talk about WWII. Many of my fellow Dogfaces still can’t.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - This time of the year around Veteran’s Day and the Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, we 'Dogface' Infantry Veterans of WWII in Europe pause in thankful reflection of the nearly unbearable sacrifices of our fellow soldiers in that battle.

20,000 young American boys, mostly under 20 years old, died and 80,000 more were wounded or captured.