May 2009

Wednesday Hero: The USS George H. W. Bush

USS George H.W. Bush

USS George H.W. Bush

 U.S. Navy

Sailors assigned to the Air Department of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) are silhouetted against the setting sun at the conclusion of flight operations. George H.W. is underway in the Atlantic Ocean conducting flight deck certifications.



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We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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Wednesday Hero: Sgt Christian E Bueno-Galdos

Sgt. Christian E. Bueno-Galdos

Sgt. Christian E. Bueno-Galdos
25 years old from Paterson, New Jersey
3rd Battalion, 66th
 Armor Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade
May 11, 2009
 U.S. Army

On Mother’s Day, Eugenia Gardos made a tabletop shrine to her recently deceased mother — surrounding her photograph with silk roses, a small white rosary cross, two votive candles and a prayer card of Senor de los Milagros, the patron saint of Peru.

The next day, May 11, she added her son’s picture to the shrine for the dead.

Sgt. Gardos was killed along with five fellow servicemen; Army Spc. Jacob D. Barton, Army Maj. Matthew P. Houseal, Navy Cmdr. Charles K. Springle and Army Pfc. Michael E. Yates Jr. in the attack on Camp Liberty.

“The first time he left for Iraq, when they would read the lists of the dead on the news, we used to hold our breath, praying he wasn’t on it,” his mother said. “I don’t understand how he could have died this way. I just don’t understand it.”

Sgt. Galdos had emigrated with his family from Mollendo, Peru, as a child and had been a U.S. citizen since high school. His mother, two older brothers and older sister recalled how he used to hand out candy to children in Iraq the same way he always did in Paterson — never making a trip to the corner bodega without a group of neighborhood children tailing behind, knowing he would buy them candy or a soda.

“We were all here at home,” Carlos Bueno, Sgt. Galdos’s father, said. “I was getting ready to go to bed when I heard screaming downstairs. I ran downstairs and everyone had thrown themselves to the floor, thrashing around, screaming.”

Bueno said he does not feel bitterness toward the man accused in the shootings, whom he described as “mentally ill.”

“We want people to know we’re proud of our son’s Army, but if my son had died in war we would be able to handle that,” he said. “But not to die in this manner.”



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We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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Wednesday Hero: Specialist Robert Hamilton

I’ve been a bit busy this week, so this is a couple of days late.

Spc. Robert Hamilton

Spc. Robert Hamilton

U.S. Army

Spc. Robert Hamilton, from Corpus Christi, Texas, Company C, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, prepares to bandage the thumb of an Iraqi boy in Ula Market in Sadr City, April 19.

 The boy cut his thumb while preparing meat at a local butcher shop.


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We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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Shadowscope Available on the Kindle

Don’t know if it makes any difference to any folks, but Shadowscope is now available on the Amazon Kindle. The product page is here for the blog although I don’t think it will be available for 24-48 hours. Also if you weren’t aware, I also have had a mobile version of the site here. I set it up last year mainly so I could access it from my Blackberry or my wife’s iTouch. Eventually I will enable comments on the mobile site if there is enough demand.

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Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Movie

OMFG. If you are familiar with The Onion then you know exactly what to expect from the video. If not, then you need to go visit.


Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As ‘Fun, Watchable’