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On this Thanksgiving weekend, let us not forget how much we all have for which to be thankful. In My Seat Today’s feature is about the pilot who was supposed to be flying the airplane that hit the twin towers first.. FLIGHT 11—on 9/11/2001. Click here for the video! Loyal Subscribers!  We need some help. …

While standing watch in the Coast Guard station in Juneau, Alaska, I got a call from the Navy in the nearby city of Adak. They had lost contact with one of their planes, and they needed the Coast Guard to send an aircraft to go find it. I asked the man where the Navy aircraft…

Military Heroes – U. S. Army SSG Robert B. “Brian” Cowdrey There is a special place in this world and the next for the healers.  This is especially true for a very special breed of healer. Those that truly know what it means to be of the brotherhood, that know honor and courage in a…

Military Heroes – U. S. Army Joe Beimfohr Even though he’d been in the Army for ten years, Joe Beimfohr never knew war until he was sent to Iraq. A sergeant in a Calvary platoon, he led reconnaissance and security missions, always wary of the perils, such as improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. Then, a…

“I feel sorry for this soldier,” joked my husband as he handed me a flier he’d found in our mailbox. It read: Lost Cat Black and white Answers to Nate Belongs to a soldier Recently neutered –Sondra Gilbertson Provided Courtesy of Reader’s Digest. Click here for more “Military Jokes“.

I remember the day I found out I got into West Point. My mom actually showed up in the hallway of my high school and waited for me to get out of class. She was bawling her eyes out and apologizing that she had opened up my admission letter. She wasn’t crying because it had…

Military Heroes – U. S. Air Force SSgt Robert Gutierrez The President of the United States of America, authorized by Title 10, Section 8742, United States Code, takes pleasure in presenting the Air Force Cross to Staff Sergeant Robert Gutierrez, Jr., United States Air Force, for extraordinary heroism in military operations against an armed enemy…

Marines are known for storming the beaches, not for romance. I witnessed this firsthand at the base in Twentynine Palms, California. One of the enlisted men complimented the receptionist’s flowered jacket. “It’s very pretty,” he said shyly. “Thank you,” she replied coyly. “Yeah,” he went on. “It looks just like my mother’s sofa.” –Carla Martin…

Today’s feature is from a dedicated subscriber and historian.  Thanks, Bill.  Cpt.Otis World War II: After the War At the end of World War II, huge swaths of Europe and Asia had been reduced to ruins, borders were being redrawn, homecomings, expulsions, and burials were under way, and the massive efforts to rebuild had just…

Today’s feature was submitted by a subscriber who states, “I received the following from a friend in Australia; it is a beautiful tribute to Military Working Dogs no matter what country they work for.  Got to tell you, got a lump in my throat watching this as my Big Rocky was sitting by my side…
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