October 2009

Wednesday Hero: Specialist Justin Slagle

Spc. Justin Slagle  Spc. Justin Slagle returns to Forward Operating Base Lane in a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter after an air assault mission in the Zabul province of Afghanistan, Oct. 15, 2009. Even as leaders in Washington struggle with the next steps in Afghanistan, troops there are moving to better protect the Afghan people by…Read more

Wednesday Hero

Sailors& Marines Playing Volleyball With Local School Children   Sailors and Marines assigned to the amphibious dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46) play volleyball with students from Sangley Point National High School during a lunch break at a community service project. Tortuga, the amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49) and the…Read more

Federal Government Issues New Medical Marijuana Policy

Under new guidelines that are supposed to be issued today by the Obama Administration Federal drug agents will no longer pursue charges against pot-smoking patients as long as they are following state laws. Prosecutors are rightly being told that it’s not a good use of their time to arrest people who use or provide medical…Read more

Wednesday Hero: Cpl. Benjamin S. Kopp

This Week’s Post Was Suggested By Beth Cpl. Benjamin S. Kopp21 years old from Rosemont, Minnesota3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger RegimentJuly 18, 2009 Ben Kopp has been a fighter since the day he was born. When he was born his mother was given morphine to stop her labor so the doctors could deliver him via a…Read more

Wednesday Hero: Sgt. Michael Egan

Sgt. Michael Egan 36 years old from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 104th Cavalry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division, Pennsylvania Army National Guard September 19, 2005   News of Egan’s death came to Pennsauken shortly after 6 a.m. Tuesday, Krista Egan, Sgt. Egan’s sister-in-law, said. His mother, Irene, was on the telephone when an Army sergeant walked up to the…Read more