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Wednesday Hero: Spc. Matthew T. Morris

Spc. Matthew T. Morris

Spc. Matthew T. Morris
23 years old from Cedar Park, Texas
2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment
April 06, 2008

U.S. Army

“He was a very creative kid, and when he wasn’t in a challenging environment, he tried to make life interesting,” Glenn Morris, father of Spc. Morris, said. “He excelled in a military school structure and in a team environment.”

Before enlisting in the Army in 2005, Morris attended the Fishburne Military School in Waynesboro, Virginia where he met a history teacher who inspired him to want to become an educator. “After his service, he wanted to go back to school and get a four-year degree to become a teacher,” said his mother, Lisa. “He wanted to make a difference and give back to the community.”

Spc. Morris was killed when his vehicle encountered an IED in Balad, Iraq. Also killed in the attack was Cpt. Ulises Burgos-Cruz.

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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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Taking the Night Off

I’ve got a rape/murder I’ve been reading about and looking into that I want to post but I think I am going to take the night off instead. My body is apparently telling me that it’s not quite over passing that kidney stone this weekend and I am exhausted after working all day. Maybe I’ll get it posted tomorrow morning prior to going to work.

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Under the Weather and Out of the Loop

It’s been a pretty long and tiring weekend here at the Miles casa. I ended up going to the emergency room late Friday night with a kidney stone which I finally passed earlier this afternoon. It’s amazing how much pain something so mall can bring you. Getting the damned thing out was almost anti-climactic after the weekend. Due to the pain pills that the doctor gave me I slept pretty much 20 hours yesterday, thus the lack of posting here or anywhere else for that matter. Yesterday was the first time I’ve had to call in sick to work in about six years.

I am still pretty groggy and plan on going to bed at a decent time tonight, but I do have a couple of quick posts planned to go up. While I have to be back at work in the morning I also have to pay a visit to my doctor and perhaps a urologist as well.
Just glad to be back on my feet. I though I was dying Friday night 🙂
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Happy Thanksgiving!

Hopefully all of you folks out there are having a great Thanksgiving, even those of you who don’t celebrate.
This year is sort of a first for me on Thanksgiving and it’s not a good thing. Those of you that know me from my old site know that I run several restaurants so Holidays are not something I get to spend with my family. We celebrate Christmas on whatever days I happen to be off closest to Christmas. Most years it’s the weekend prior to the holiday. Last year we celebrated a couple of days later. My kids are used to Santa coming at weird times.
Thanksgiving though isn’t a huge holiday in the restaurant business. You get a great breakfast and then it dies around 11am and picks back up from 7pm until about 10. No big deal. I’ve always managed to shoot out of work in time for the family to drive to my aunt’s house in Stone Mountain. This year however, due to my grandmothers health, they are eating at 2pm. I’ll be lucky to get out of work by 2:30 and that’s if my three store managers get all of their shit done on time. I don’t leave until they do. There’s no way for me to make the hour and a half drive to Stone Mountain so this year the wife and girls will be attending without me. Sort of depressing actually. I had to go in to work supper supervision tonight and the entire way to my Bremen store I was cursing under my breath and had decided that this would be my last fucking set of holidays working. It won’t happen of course but I certainly am not very happy about it.
I guess once I get out of there I’ll come home and put up some more Christmas decorations and then take a nap or something. Hopefully the wife will bring me a nice plate of turkey and dressing.

Wednesday Hero: Lance Corporal Samuel Joyce

L/Cpl. Samuel Joyce


U.S. Marine Corps.

Lance Cpl. Samuel Joyce, from Boston, accepts a bagfull of toys during the Toys For Tots 5k Run at Fleet Activities Yokosuka. Runners donated new toys to the local Marine’s Toys for Tots program.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Have Every Right To Dream Heroic Dreams. Those Who Say That We’re In A Time When There Are No Heroes, They Just Don’t Know Where To Look

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Out With The Tweets

So I’ve dumped all the action streams stuff and gone back to just displaying the posts. It was one thing having them at Shadowscope where I post several times a day but it’s an entirely different beast when I post here a couple of times a week and have 5,000,000 tweets showing up in between.

Have a Very Metal Holiday!

Came across this by way of Trench, the other dude with the awesome hair. Thanks dude.


Damn, Dio really sounds old.

Wednesday Hero: General Ann Dunwoody

I know I am a day late in getting this up but better late than never…


Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody

Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody
55 years old from Fort Belvoir, Virginia 

U.S. Army


Call it breaking the brass ceiling. Ann E. Dunwoody, after 33 years in the Army, ascended Friday to a peak never before reached by a woman in the U.S. military: four-star general.

 At an emotional promotion ceremony, Dunwoody looked back on her years in uniform, said it was a credit to the Army–and a great surprise to her–that she would make history in a male-dominated military. 

“Thirty-three years after I took the oath as a second lieutenant, I have to tell you this is not exactly how I envisioned my life unfolding,” she told a standing-room-only auditorium. “Even as a young kid, all I ever wanted to do was teach physical education and raise a family. 

“It was clear to me that my Army experience was just going to be a two-year detour en route to my fitness profession,” she added. “So when asked, Ann, did you ever think you were going to be a general officer, to say nothing about a four-star?' I say,Not in my wildest dreams.’ 

“There is no one more surprised than I–except, of course, my husband. You know what they say, `Behind every successful woman there is an astonished man.'” 

You can read the rest of Gen. Dunwoody’s story here.


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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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Some Days This is Exactly What I Feel Like….

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Wednesday Hero: Spc. Kenneth W. Haines

Spc. Kenneth W. Haines

Spc. Kenneth W. Haines
25 years old from Fulton, New York
2nd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division
December 3, 2006

U.S. Army

Spc. Kenneth Haines joined the United States Army in September 2000 as a fire support specialist and had been assigned to his unit for just over three years. He deployed to Iraq in October of 2006.

During his time in service, he received several military awards and decorations, including the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and National Defense Service Medal.

Spc. Haines was killed by an IED that was detonated near his vehicle while on patrol in Abu Hishma, Iraq.

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These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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