We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/when_are_you_co.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:44:55 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Like the one above, this post is musical, too... but in an enitrely different direction. So, in case you missed it when Hook posted it... Heather recorded the song, written by her mother, as a Christmas gift to her brother, Shaun Martin, a 22-year-old who is among 140,000 U.S. troops in Iraq this holiday season. The oldest of Cindy and Bob Martin's four sons joined the Army in 2004 after a year at Cameron University. When Heather, a precocious, blond first-grader, learned that her "biggest" brother wouldn't be home for Christmas, she gasped, then burst into tears, Mrs. Martin said.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/when_are_you_co.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/when_are_you_co.html Sun, 14 Jan 2007 07:04:00 -0600 Lovely, the little lady does a great job. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/when_are_you_co.html#comment-55075 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/when_are_you_co.html#comment-55075 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:55:32 -0600 *gulp* i can't hardly see to type, much less talk right now. the part that got me the most? when she said "maybe we can go get some ice cream, but it really doesn't matter what we do" yeah. she gets it. she's learned a valuable lesson- it doesn't matter what you're doing with the ones you love... what matters is that you're together. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/when_are_you_co.html#comment-55052 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/when_are_you_co.html#comment-55052 Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:53:32 -0600 I had to link to this on my blog, hope you don't mind. This is something the wingnuts and moonbats will never understand. Beautiful. Thanks, http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/when_are_you_co.html#comment-55051 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/when_are_you_co.html#comment-55051 Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:21:39 -0600 Dammit, John - good thing I can type, because I surely couldn't speak past the watermelon in my throat. Isn't it strange - a six-year old gets it, but the senator from California doesn't have a clue. Go figure. ML http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/when_are_you_co.html#comment-55039 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/when_are_you_co.html#comment-55039 Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:41:17 -0600 and by pure coincidence I must add... Their pungency caused my conjunctiva to dry-up so fast that my lachrymal glands began to exudate profusely - Great post.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/when_are_you_co.html#comment-55032 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/when_are_you_co.html#comment-55032 Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:59:02 -0600