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Archive for February, 2008

Post from BlackFive

Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

This was brought to my attention and it's time out from story time to help out some of our guys...s/fTacoNot too long ago, Blackfive readers, joined by thousands of readers from other blogs, sent over 30,000 emails of support to ...

The Konkulators- Happy Halloween

Sunday, February 24th, 2008 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

Hey guys, sometimes I admit that I’m a bit of a jerk, and this next story isn’t so much that I’m a total jerk now, but that I was just a stupid, single guy jerk at the time. Having four ...

Iwo Jima 1995

Sunday, February 24th, 2008 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 2 Comments »

Back in 1995, I was involved in the “Okinawa Plus Fifty Committee” with my close friend Jim Adams. Basically we were the guys who were trying to help set up the return of the WWII veterans to Okinawa, and let ...

What is worth Fighting for? Joe Foss knew

Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

Why we fight…Over there; anywhere. These are questions that went through my mind as I read Joe Foss’s book, A Proud American, to get a feel for my new job as a speaker for the Joe Foss Institute. It’s a ...

New Post from Major Pain

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

Gang-Things have been going great here in Iraq. Internet is bad but tonight a huge sand storm has hit and BOOOOYA, internet is up and everyone is emailing away. A little action in our area but all has been great. ...