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| Excerpt From Soon To Be Published: Gun Totin' Chaplain
 The following is an excerpt of Gun Totin' Chaplain, a memoir to be published in November. Please keep in mind this is a excerpt taken from a draft version of the book. The text is very readable, but portions may be revised or may not be included in the final version of the book.
Excerpt from Gun Totin' Chaplain
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| Soon To Be Released Gun Totin' Chaplain
 The memoir Gun Totin' Chaplain will be released in early November. This is the moving story of one chaplain's experiences in Vietnam and his insightful commentaries on the current war. The memoir will be a "must" read for every military and history enthusiast.
Presently Airborne Press is attempting to decide among three potential covers, here is the first:
Gun Totin' Chaplain Book Cover I
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| WHAT IRAQI DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE
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(AP Photo/British Cpl. Anthony Boocock,HO)
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Iraqi legislators have a 3 day work week and are paid $5000 per month, plus $7000 in allowances for drivers, guards and other staffers. By comparison, the average monthly salary for a civil servant in Iraq is about $200. For the average citizen, what salary and perks? Many Iraqis are out of work.
Recently, only a third of the legislators returned from their month long vacations. No wonder the normal Iraqis, whoever they are, feel sold out. A Shiite accountant from Baghdad said something like "After risking my life to vote, my hope is dying. The parliament members only think about their salaries while the situation is critical in the country."
In four months, only 4 minor laws were passed. (Source: San Francisco Chronicle; Louise Roug, Los Angeles Times
Lawmakers Return To one Third Empty Chamber)
Have the Iraqi legislators taken a page out of the playbook for the American Congress? KT
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| Ruth Lukkari's Essay on Grief and "What If"
 Ruth Lukkari's brother, Tim, was killed in Vietnam on April 19, 1968. Ruth has chronicled her ongoing pilgrimage in dealing with her grief in a soon to be published book, Grief.
Ruth shares with us an essay pondering What If questions surrounding the idea what if Tim were still with us.
Ruth Lukkari's Essay, "What If"
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| September 11 2001 Remembered: The Day Everything Changed
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We must never forget.2,819 lost at the World Trade Center-127 died on the 2 planes that hit the world trade center; 184 died at the Pentagon; 59 died on the plane that hit the Pentagon; 40 died in Pennyslvania.
In Memory of those who died and those fighting on, we post this speech given well over 100 years before the 9/11 attacks ...
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln
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| Anniversary Coverage of September 11
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Over the past week and today, we have been and are going to be enundated with news coverage about the 5th anniversary of 9-11.
I've watched some of the coverage already. And, watched parts of the ABC TV movie last night where fact and fiction were in cahoots.
I also saw Flight 93 some time ago and was reminded of it this week when I saw Alice Hoglan, the mother of gay survivor, Mark Bingham, of the flight 93 on TV. The gay community has embraced her and she seems to relish it. Good for her.
The local paper had scores of stories of, "Where were you when 9-11 happened?" We all remember. My daughter, living in Tulsa then, called and said, "Dad, turn on the TV." For days like most Americans, I sat mesmerized in front of the TV. Very early on, I said to myself, "9-11 has changed our country forever, not only for Americans but everyone in America especially for those victims and families of the September 11th attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Another thought I have had often since 9-11(which I have not read much about) is how incredibly open our country was to foreign students before the attacks; people flocked to America to go to school. Now of course, many simply are not allowed and the Arab population are probably more hurt than anyone to be denied admission to our schools.
Are we safer? I think so in terms of our own country. Is the world safer? I don't think so. Iraq and Afghanistan has created an entire new generation of terrorists. Would it have happened anyway? Probably. Why? In a word, Israel. Israel is not going away and as long as the country exists in the Middle East, terrorists will exist.
Other reasons why terrorism will continue to happen: ignorance, brain washing, promises of a sexual fulfillment to a depressed youth with 73 virgins.Death seems a minor sacrifice compared to receiving such a great reward as sexual fulfillment. We must come to realize that their way of thinking cannot be surpassed.
Without the "war" where would we be? Maybe as well off. No one really knows. About the only thing we know is that terrorism is not a war that is going to end.
Unlike WW II or Korea or Vietnam, we will not wake up one morning and say, "The war is over." No way! It simply will go on forever. KT
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American Casualty Report in Iraq
Thanks to Keyvan Minoukadeh
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