Boot camp graduation, November 1979. Note the combination cap instead of the Sailor's Dixie Cup. It was the end of the Zumwalt era when the crackerjack uniform was just coming back.

This is my photo when I served in the 23rd Engineer Bn. We were stationed in Friedberg Germany and just started to get shipped to Macedonia when I was rotated home.

The 7 December 1941 Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the great defining moments in history. A single carefully-planned and well-executed stroke removed the United States Navy's battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire's southward expansion. America, unprepared and now considerably weakened, was abruptly brought into the Second World War as a full combatant.

Tucked in at the end of the Obama's questionnaire and listed under “Miscellaneous,” it reads: “Do you or any members of your immediate family own a gun? If so, provide complete ownership and registration information. Has the registration ever lapsed? Please also describe how and by whom it is used and whether it has been the cause of any personal injuries or property damage.”

Hi Everyone, I've been looking for places to get in touch with veterans and soldiers in order to pay my respects and honour for Remembrance/Veterans Day. Last year I was fed up with all the easy-peace rhetoric here in Canada and wanted to write a song that gave full force and honour to soldier's and their sacrifice. The song is called "Labour of Love" and it's track 7 on my new album- Essays and Ear Candy. I'm also making the song available as a free download for one week. It would be my greatest delight if you would download the song and send it to your fellow veterans and soldiers. Here's the url: http://www.bishopandmulholland.com/drupal/mp3s/07Labour_Of_Love.mp3 Here's the lyrics: Paint his courage black Don’t paint it white; it ain’t that nice Paint his courage red For the dead that lie by his side He charges up the hill With a weapon and a will And as you march for peace He’s crawling on his knees Through the blood of a brother that fell Cuz someone’s got to pay a price So that you can sleep at night He’s got a picture of his kids taped to his lid It reminds him of why he fights It’s a labour of love To those of you here who've fought for the good of country and countrymen- thank you so much. And I"m sorry for all those (especially my peers) who do not honour you in the way we should. Paul Dirks Bishop & Mulholland www.bishopandmulholland.com

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Today, the United States honors our military veterans and those that made the ultimate sacrifice. To those of you that have served, my heartfelt thanks. And to those of you that have lost loved ones, my sincere condolences!

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage." - Alexander Tyler, on the Fall of the Athenian Republic.