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Name: Matt
Gender: Male
Interests: Catholicism, USMC
Expertise: general computers
Occupation: "Student", United States Army
Industry: Education, Military
Message: message me
Member Since:
10/20/2006
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| Wow, I just noticed that it's been almost a year since I've signed up with Xanga, and I haven't posted anything yet this year... I think I'm gonna need to do some of that soon, I've also got a Blogger account that I'm going to try to keep updated too, I'll be doing that soon, I'll be trying to post political stuff mostly, with some Catholicism in there too.
- Matt
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| Merry Christmas to everyone!
Check out some of my favorite blogs for Christmas cheer!
Michelle Malkin has some great Christmas links, including the Midnight Mass homily from Pope Benedict XVI
The Jawa Report has some great Christmas reading - from The Bible
Go to Op-For for some Christmas reflections from several different people
Here is Hot Air's Christmas message - just watch the video
Merry Christmas to all and GOD Bless us everyone!
- Matt
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| Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
I came across some very well done Thanksiving posts over the last day (on milblogs), so I'm gonna point everyone to OpFor where Richard S. Lowry, the author of Marines in the Garden of Eden and The Gulf War Chronicles has written an excellent piece about Thanksgiving.
A Thanksgiving from a Grateful Nation
Today, Americans enjoy a freedom unequaled in the history of
civilization. Our good fortune goes unnoticed by most everyone in their
day-to-day lives. We are free to express ourselves. We are free of
oppression. We are free of fear.
We move about in our daily lives taking our children to school,
little league games, and the movies. We are safe and comfortable in our
homes at night and the vast majority of us do not want for the
necessities of life – food, clean water, and shelter...(rest here) - Matt
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| Quantico, VA (Nov. 10, 2006) -- A corporal who died shielding men in his care from a bursting grenade deserves America’s highest military decoration, President Bush has confirmed...
rest of the story here
Also his story was chronicled in the book "The Gift of Valor" by Wall Street Journal reporter Michael M. Phelps (hardcover)
"The Gift of Valor" by Wall Street Journal reporter Michael M. Phelps (paperback)
- Matt
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| I haven't seen "Flags of Our Fathers" yet, as I implored everyone to do so in my first post, but I'll get around to it. I'm thinking of seeing it this week sometime, and again after that. Anyways, soon I'll be posting with a little information about me, until then...
- Matt
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