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We can do better.

The circle of life is contained in the image.

They’re not forgotten.

Anyhow, the weather is good right now. Biking is an option through the summer.

People come from across the country to view the field.

Apparently, 40 people massacred in Nigeria also isn’t news.

This is why I’ve got no respect for the blowhards who call shows like mine and repeat the calumnies against McCain’s war service because they somehow believe the ends justify the means.

They were babies when their father was killed-in-action and now they’ve lost a second dad.

The Idaho Field of Heroes Memorial is an emotional experience.

BOISE, Idaho (KLIX) A new memorial at Gowen Field now stands in Boise to honor soldiers killed in the line of duty during deployment to Iraq since 2004.

Idaho’s roll of the dead from the wars of the 21st Century is among the longest in the country compared to population.

There were people clutching tissues.  I saw many of them dabbing their eyes and noses during the ceremony.

This country is dotted with visible reminders of the cost-of-war.

Are all Muslim men rapists? Of course not. Are some Muslim men rapists? Yes, and it doesn’t make me a bigot when I tell others there are serious issues blending Islamic culture with our Western ways. Lefty starts shouting when you mention this because he believes if he can make more noise no one will ever consider the reality...

Might does sometimes make right.  When I was a boy a woman who worked at my school and attended my mother’s church used to tell me, “Might doesn’t make right!”  Her husband had been a pilot shot down during war over North Korea.  I understood she was instructing me to avoid the usual cafeteria and playground brawls, however...

There was a time when I swapped personal notes with “Beau” Biden.  Other than that we didn’t know each other face-to-face.  Five years ago he suffered what appeared to be a stroke and I wrote him and sent get-well wishes.  My brother died the same year at the age of forty-six after a second round fighting cancer...

“Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”  John 15:13     I’m more than perplexed and downright annoyed mainstream media is replaying arguments about the Iraq War.  Republican candidates for President are being asked if they would’ve gone ahead with the invasion had they been President instead of George W. Bush.  ...

Jill Skeem was a co-chair on the citizens committee to find a new city hall for Twin Falls.  Jill has some definite opinions on how the committee worked. Ella Donahue has the CSI Update. Dr. Jonathan Tripp says here really is more than just St ... Read More ...

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