Today, the Gathering of Eagles flocked to Boston where  a loose conglomeration of anti-military groups (and other nutjob freaks like the 9/11 truthers and the "free palestine" freaks) conducted an anti-military freak show in front of the Military Recruiting Station on Tremont Street, across the street from Boston Common. Among the freak groups that participated was the local freak chapter of the iraq "veterans" against the war! I was told the organizers of this freak show expected 2,000 people, but at best they had less than 100! Most, obviously, were young brainwashed college students who one of these days will wake up and say "what the hell was I thinking back in my college days?"!

Today's freak show was proof to me that the anti-military movement is losing steam and the leaders are getting desperate to keep the freak shows going!

It appears that the freaks behaved themselves (i.e., didn't break any laws, didn't become physically violent to any REAL Americans); to the best of my knowledge none of them got cuffed and stuffed by Boston's finest!

I'll have a complete After Action Report of the day's events on my Blog Talk Radio show tomorrow night (Sunday 8/3) at 8:00 PM EST, at www.blogtalkradio.com/icradio

See you tomorrow night!

Paul

This past Tuesday, July 29th, I officially retired from the Massachusetts Army National Guard.

I served for 27 years, 4 months, and 19 days, to include a 15 month active duty period in which almost a year of that was spent over in Iraq. I was a young stud senior in HS when I joined the Guard back in 1981. Back then, I fully expected I’d be fighting the evil soviet union on the plains of Germany someday! But as times changed, the soviet union went out of business, and the threat of ungodly, dicktatorial communism was replaced by the threat of gutless, ragheaded, brainwashed Islamic terrorism, a threat that became real to us on Sept 11^th, 2001. If you had told me back on ’81 that I’d be spending a year in the deserts of Iraq someday, I would have looked at you like you were nuts! At the time I joined the Army National Guard, Ronald Reagan had just become President, jimmy carter had instituted the selective service system the year before, and 52 Americans held hostage by gutless ragheaded terrorists had just been released upon Ronald Reagan’s inauguration as President. None of us at that time had viewed iraq under Sodom insane as our enemy. Ungodly, dicktatorial communism was still the primary threat of the free western world. In 27 years I saw the United States Army go through many changes; changes in training, tactics, equipment, and uniforms. In those 27 years I wore 4 different utility uniforms; the old green fatigues, the Battle Dress camouflage uniform, the desert camouflage uniform that I wore in Iraq, and finally today’s Army Combat uniform. In 2001 the black beret became the standard headgear for most Army uniforms in garrison.  With the Guard’s help I obtained a college education leading me to enroll in Officer Candidate school and receive my commission as a 2^nd Lt in 1991. As a Captain I commanded an Army National Guard maintenance company from 2001 to 2003 which for me was the best 1 ½ years of my career.  So now I no longer call myself a Soldier, but now a veteran. I’ll continue to use this blog to be a voice for the troops and their issues. I no longer have to plan my life around drill weekends and the 2-week annual training period every year, and after 27 years that’s going to feel strange.

I say I’m retiring but I am considering transferring to the Army Reserve, so I’ll keep you all informed about that. 

Paul

This Sunday night, 8:00 PM EST, Massachusetts Republican Candidate for US Senate Jeff Beatty joins me to discuss his campaign to replace John Kerry in the US Senate! We'll discuss the War On Terrorism, National Security, and other issues of importance to this campaign. His campaign web site is www.jeffbeatty.com.

www.blogtalkradio.com/icradio

Paul

On Friday, the Dept of Defense announced that remains recently discovered in Iraq are those of 2 of my missing Brothers, SGT Alex Jiminez of MA, and PFC Byron Fouty of MI. I'll be discussing this News of the Week on my Blog Talk Radio show tonight, www.blogtalkradio.com/icradio

Rest in Peace my Brothers, and Thank You for your Service!

Eternal Rest grant unto them, O Lord, and may Perpetual Light shine upon Them!

I was just going through the blogs I usually visit, and today Douglas Gibbs of Political Pistachio announced on his blog that this mak be his last post!

Even though Doug is a conservative, and there are issues we disagree on, he's still VERY tolerant of my Independent and open-minded Moderate views, and I hold him in high esteem for that.

Anyway, check out his latest at his blog http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/

Paul

From Military.com

http://www.military.com/news/article/fallen-soldier-gets-medal-of-honor.html?ESRC=eb.nl

Fallen Soldier Gets Medal of Honor

Rest in Peace, My brother Ross, and thank you for your service!

Tonight at 8:00 PM EST, Indepemdently Correct Radio celebrates it's first anniversary with a look back at the events I've discussed (some of which I was a part of), the issues I've raised, and the people I've interviewed!

Check it out, Tonight, Sunday June 1st, 8:00 PM EST, 5:00 PM PST

www.blogtalkradio.com/icradio

This story from Fox News this morning

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,361248,00.html

Having served in Iraq myself, I know firsthand the Aussie troops are committed allies in the war on terrorism. As sad as it is to see them leave for strictly political reasons, their service in Iraq is appreciated.

Thank you mates, for your service, and for helping to make Iraq a better place!

Wow, what a memorial Day weekend I had!

Saturday, I attended 2 Memorial Day events. At 8:00 AM there was a short ceremony at the local cemetery in my town. We had a prayer led by my town’s director of veteran’s services, then myself and a brother Iraq war vet from my town were invited to lay a wreath by a small veterans memorial. The local American legion post then did a rifle volley, Taps was played, and the ceremony was concluded. The brother Iraq war vet I laid the wreath with is Staff Sgt Heath Hobson. SSG Hobson was injured by an IED early in 2007. He spent several months at Walter Reed healing there, and he continues his recovery at home.

At 9:45 we had a flag raising and recited the Pledge of Allegiance at our town’s Civil War and 9/11 monuments, the gathering point for the town’s Memorial Day parade, and at 10:00 AM the parade stepped off. I marched with 2 other veterans, one from WWII, and a brother Iraq war vet who’s currently preparing to deploy to Afghanistan in a few months. The brother vets I marched with were Robert Green (I believe that’s his name), a WWII Vet who still walks the entire parade route every year, even though he’s in his 80’s. The other is CPT Scott Langolier, who serves with the Vermont National Guard. He’s from the nearby town of Wrentham, and his father-in-law is a current member of our town’s Board of Selectmen. CPT Langolier also was the Vet who raised the flag right before the parade started. Marching behind us with some of his buddies from his American Legion post was Glenn Mott, another brother Iraq war vet who also served in the Mass National Guard. Glenn is a Vet of both Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom. The parade concluded at our towns Veterans park where a ceremony and speeches were conducted. The ceremony was marred only by the presence of my anti-military congressman, jim mcgovern of Massachusetts. I don’t know what it is about my town; this is the 2^nd year in a row he’s come to our town’s memorial day parade, although this year he did stand after a speech by a brother Iraq war vet, which is more than what he did last year! Anyway, except for my anti-military congressman’s speech, the speeches were good and honest. The ceremony concluded with a rifle volley by the local American Legion post and the playing of Taps.

Sunday morning an American Legion post that Glenn Mott belongs to held a breakfast for all veterans, so I went there after church. Nothing fancy, but it was an opportunity to catch up with Glenn and swap a few war stories in the process!

Yesterday was Armed Foeces Day, and I was recently sent an invitation to a Veterans picnic held in Waltham, MA, yesterday. I had a wonderful time; links up with a few buddies, collected LOTS of literature from the VA and all the various public and private agencies that work with the VA in  providing services for veterans.

The only black spot on this day; a small group of TRAITORS from the local chapter of an anti-military group called the iraq "veterans" against the war, showed up as well, promoting their hate-filled, anti-military agenda by wearing black rags they call t-shirts with their logo on them. Fortunately, thses low-life's pretty mych kept to themselves because they know that REAL veterans want nothing to do with them!  This is the same gutless, hate-filled, anti-military extremist organization that put on "winter soldier 2" back in March of this year, in which the small membership of the ivaw basicly got together in a circle jerk and swapped fairy tales with each other, while REAL Americans were outside counter-protesting their circle jerk, which in the end was pretty much a dud!

If they had the balls to show up at a Veterans event where they know there would be REAL Veteans present, then WHERE are those same balls when they start crying about all the so-called "atrocities" they claim to have seen when they were in the war zone of Iraq? Why don't they have the balls to tell the Pentagon????? They'll tell the anti-military news media, but not the Pentagon; WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?????

Anyway, I'll have more to say on this tonight on my BTR show at 8:00 PM EST, www.blogtalkradio.com/icradio