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Opening Statements on the Benghazi Hearings


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Still The Only Man To Beat Obama, Was A Black Panther, Meet Bobby Rush

Aside from Bill Ayers any number of people have influenced the Presidents decision to preside over an America in decline, there was Bobby Rush, a former Black Panther who handed Obama his first and only ass-whoopin in Politics.  It may have been the radicals who educated him, but it was the Latte-Liberals who glommed onto his every word as if it was pure magic.  What they love most about him is his shared belief in an engineered decline and the tech savvy to do it..  I qoute an New Yorker article on the rise of Obama..

The rise of Barack Obama includes one glaring episode of political miscalculation. Even friends told Mr. Obama it was a bad idea when he decided in 1999 to challenge an incumbent congressman and former Black Panther, Bobby L. Rush, whose stronghold on the South Side of Chicago was overwhelmingly black, Democratic and working class.
Mr. Obama was a 38-year-old state senator and University of Chicagolecturer, unknown in much of Mr. Rush’s Congressional district. He lived in its most rarefied neighborhood, Hyde Park. He was taking on a local legend, a former alderman and four-term incumbent who had given voters no obvious reason to displace him.
Mr. Rush’s name recognition started off at 90 percent, Mr. Obama’s at 11. Then Mr. Rush’s son was murdered, leading Mr. Obama to put his campaign on hold. Later, while vacationing in Hawaii with his family, he missed a high-profile vote in the Legislature and was pilloried. (One Chicago Tribune editorial began, “What a bunch of gutless sheep.”) Then President Clinton endorsed Mr. Rush.
“Campaigns are always, ‘What’s the narrative of the race?’ ” said Eric Adelstein, a media consultant in Chicago who worked on the Rush campaign. “In a sense, it was ‘the Black Panther against the professor.’ That’s not a knock on Obama; but to run from Hyde Park, this little bastion of academia, this white community in the black South Side — it just seemed odd that he would make that choice as a kind of stepping out.”
The episode revealed a lot about Senator Obama — now running for president, against the odds again and with a relatively slim résumé. It showed his impatience with the frustrations of his state Senate job; his outsize confidence; his fund-raising powers; his broad appeal; and his willingness to be what Abner J. Mikva, a former congressman and supporter, calls “a very apt student of his own mistakes.”
It also shed light on the complicated ways that class has played out in Mr. Obama’s political career as a factor entangled with his race. Class emerged as a subtext in the Congressional campaign, along with generational differences that separate Mr. Obama from older black politicians.
He might have fared better if he had jumped into the race sooner, campaigned even harder and found a way to speak more effectively to working-class black voters, people involved with that campaign say. But most say they doubt he could have won. It is hard to take out an incumbent, and though Mr. Rush may have looked vulnerable after losing a lackluster campaign against Mayor Richard M. Daley in early 1999, he was not vulnerable enough.
“He was blinded by his ambition,” Mr. Rush said. “Obama has never suffered from a lack of believing that he can accomplish whatever it is he decides to try. Obama believes in Obama. And, frankly, that has its good side but it also has its negative side.”

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The Chew Toy Update

In all honesty, its been a hell of a ride.  My faith has been shaken but not completely gone, what was predicted by me and countless others has been marshaled into everyday life, Obamacare is still in the news.  The downturn economy is following the Japanese model and every crisis of the Presidents choosing turns into red herrings and cash for his political PACs.

Quite honestly, I haven't felt much like writing.  The new surveillance systems seem to exist solely for the purpose of intimidating free ideas and free expression and intimidation of the opposition.  Not one to shy away from confronting a bully, I have been vocal and assume under the watchful eye of some fusion center somewhere.  It has revived an old interest in Russian Intellectuals, their humor and hundreds of thousands of links later, we have fully one third of the population actually believing the world is run by a conspiracy.

As I write this I have been lucky enough to get back into school and view the college scene from a community level. More on this later I suppose but suffice it to say my Biology teacher explained Darwin by saying that most of the worlds people believed that the world was flat when the Theory of Evolution was propose (1859).  You literally can not make this stuff up.

In my search for how to approach life on its mythical perspective, some things needed to change.  Outrage did not seem to be working from any discernible level. Millions of people marching on Washington DC did not seem to be working on any discernible level.  By careful observation and contrast with previous Administrations some of the governing models seem to be still intact but not working in any meaningful level of efficiency.  Primarily, all that outrage seems to have done only one visible thing in the last five years; that of depriving the Federal power grab of a means of governing by consensus.  It forced them into the Conflict Model of governance.

Paradoxically, the model suggests that when people have stronger reasons to doubt their neighbors—for example, when an oppressive government censors speech—they seek out even more opinions, and information spreads even faster. That could explain how the harshest regimes often breed a united and well-organized resistance.

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 I made some astute observations and drew some conclusions that could help me understand what the 'New Model' was really about. Spengler concocted in his theorems on History; that civilization forced by the State is always an enemy of the culture.

The story of the High Cultures is that of societies that ultimately fail. Cultures eventually die, but produce fossils, canons of art and science and political forms. The period of fossilization, after the end of the culture proper, is what Spengler calls “Civilization”, which he said began for the West at the end of the 18th century. The work of modernity is the completion of the final forms. Spengler was the first philosopher of world history to write about the other great civilizations not as a mere prologue to Western history.

Spengler’s idealization of the history of High Cultures had obvious implications for the future of the West. If the analogies held, then, within a few hundred years the West should collapse into a universal empire, with a culture that would ultimately become as stiff and curatorial as Egypt’s during the New Kingdom. Meanwhile, money and democracy would increasingly hollow out the traditional forms of society, until both collapsed in the face of power politics. Wars would reach a climax of technical sophistication and speed, even as nations disintegrated internally.

Everything is in your face and full of hate now.  We just wanted to be left alone to live our lives. Who has got time for it? We have sunk fully into Spengler prediction of Power Politics and endless war.

Trying to find a means to perpetuate my mindset among the population has been difficult since the organs of control amount to a form of soft tyranny, a kind which you don't see everyday and the status quo changes minutely but consistently but along the the lines of communication, the information flows freely, some of it too quickly for proper information gathering.  One has to put a proper governor on what one is likely to believe, or is susceptible to believe.  If one is in conflict with the Conflict Governance Model, the opposition has placed you under a form of quarantine, not by bars and windows but of fear.  Almost anyone can see what this will lead to.  It foments a more powerful entrenchment of radicalism.  The radical elements become more vocal and expansively less subject to actual corroboration of the facts.  There can not be any level of agreement as to what constitutes a fact, yet people simply offer ideas which affirm or anguish over ways to dispute another's favored belief system.  One's fears tend to drive an inner tension which builds until it most likely breaks down at some point, making increasing levels of violent expression more likely.  The mediocrity of facts are obliterated by what brand of media we favor.  It is done for a purpose; namely to keep a containerized random level of disinformation, primarily to pry the status quo into acceptance of the soft tyranny of 'civilization influences.'

It sounds complicated, but the basic message of Amaral's model is that if you don't believe you have perfect information, and you don't think any single other person has perfect information, consensus will eventually be reached. That's because everyone's trying to figure out what the majority of people think. And by doing that, they actually help shape majority opinion.

Put simply, by the Amaral model of consensus building, the simulations are run from the model, the government directs where it needs to go and then the rumor mill starts hashing out bits of disinformation. This portion of the one third of the population may believe in Trutherism, or Birtherism, or the Prepper Nation but the melange has the effect of building a consensus by fragmenting several portions of the populous around internet communities.  Distance no longer seems to be a determining factor in consensus of opinion to the degree as it once was.  The 'shift in demographics' could be another belief system without enough sustainable information to build a consensus, we just don't know what to believe anymore.  But taken as a whole, when one third of the American population believes enthusiastically in secret cabals of aliens bent on evil destruction, clearly we do not have that high a bar to jump to reach complete bafflement and support for the completely incompetent "Sign the Bill in order to see what is in it.'  Pandora's box may be a Christmas present, we just don't know.

So, what must we do to preserve our liberty? One could be forgiven for having fallen into cynicism, or would have to pray for another cataclysmic event which virtually no one could explain to see the utter uselessness of trying to reach a consensus.  Who ever is the architect of this state of affairs has such great purpose as to deprive us all of our senses to come to any meaningful conclusion and has put our fate into the box until the full engineered decline or their entire system crumbles from corruption.

That may be quite a long time.  Now for a little me time...

I am learning how to hack computers, it may be the only thing worth doing when truth is subversion in a society of lies.  There comes a time when going along to get along makes you a part of the problem.  That the outrage at what you are doing to yourself and your posterity means contributing to a system that no longer is capable of feeding your need to fulfill your destiny.  One Confucious Master said to know a thing is wrong and to do nothing is the same thing as doing the deed yourself. Where are those people who said; never again? Never will the State solution for their entrenched opposition result in millions if not billions of lives destroyed, someone will have to stop it.  Who pledged never again and where are they now?

In those times; it is far more ethical to have to pick up your sacred monkey wrench, and have a go at knocking it down.  You have to look boldly into your neighbors eye and ask if they would be willing rat you out, or watch your house be vacated by men dressed in black storming it in the middle of the night.  At that point, it is the only ethical thing to do to cut your ties with them and move to a place where you might be a little safer.  Might a bright spark find a method to disprove that we aren't subject cogs in their wheel and build countless models of consistently equal value with which to bury them in their idiocracy.

Rip Off The Band Aid Slowly, Or All At Once?

It is time to offer the people a credible alternative to the SUCK. Everyday there is a new cross dimensional decimation. A culture that keeps getting 400 blows by morning cannot help but be shaped by the experience. Can the dross have not have burned away by now?
There has not by this generation been a stalwart, a hedge against the wave of this unjustly united hoard and no discernible weakness to the fused joints in its diversely assembled social components. Babylon had more trouble than this mongrel bunch, yet they hum along as if powered by much more powerful forces! Might there be something so much more behind this intelligence?
Who else has answered back with a howl against this simpering corruption, but Sarah Palin and those like her? Who shall lead our hope from off the shoals but who was also born of mongrel scorn? It is not time to field a dreamer, a hope and charmer but one who will call us to the battlement!
I for one am getting antsy with all this talk.

Hide A Tax

It is a form of tax, this ramping up of the deficit...

We the people get fat and happy while they line their coffers by inflating wealth, and property into nothing. Doesn't matter the deficit, doesn't matter the tax, they play the game their way regardless of loss because to them, it is a constant hum of crisis management. The bigger the crises, the more they are needed to provide the solution, the more larger the government grows.

We the people have not long before any credible outcome of our fate shall long since be gone. Obama and his radical court jesters know this, regardless of Bush and Cheney, Goldman Sachs or Harvard. They have planned long and hard.

We must make it clear that the hammer blows WILL fall around THIER ears as long and as fast as is needed to rid our world of these ideas. Their ideas which never worked in the real world shall never happen here.

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N/A U.S. Army Centerville WA OEF 5/3/10 Airman 1st Class Benson, Austin H. Gates 19 U.S. Air Force Hellertown PA OIF 5/3/10 Staff Sergeant Gonzales, Esau S.A. 30 U.S. Army White Deer TX OIF 5/4/10 Sergeant Mena, Ralph 27 U.S. Army Hutchinson KS OEF 5/5/10 1st Lieutenant Barrett, Brandon A. 27 U.S. Marine Marion IN OEF 5/6/10 Lance Corporal Penny, Richard R. 21 U.S. Marine Fayetteville AR OEF 5/6/10 Specialist Slack, Wade A. 21 U.S. Army Waterville ME OEF 5/6/10 Lance Corporal Rangel, Christopher 22 U.S. Marine San Antonio TX OEF 5/7/10 Lance Corporal Davis, Joshua M. 19 U.S. Marine Perry IA OEF 5/8/10 Captain Comfort, Kyle A. 27 U.S. Army Jacksonville AL OEF 5/10/10 Corporal Shea, Kurt S. 21 U.S. Marine Frederick MD OEF 5/10/10 Specialist Brown, Jeremy L. 20 U.S. Army McMinnville TN OEF 5/11/10 Corporal Johnson, Jeffery W. 21 U.S. Marine Tomball TX OEF 5/11/10 Sergeant May, Jr., Kenneth B. 26 U.S. Marine Kilgore TX OEF 5/12/10 Sergeant Desforges, Joshua D. 23 U.S. Marine Ludlow MA OEF 5/12/10 Sergeant Lamar II, Donald J. 23 U.S. Marine Fredericksburg VI OEF 5/14/10 Specialist Kisseloff, Denis D. 45 U.S. Army National Guard Saint Charles MO OEF 5/16/10 Petty Officer Wood, Zarian 29 N/A Houston TX OEF 5/17/10 Staff Sergeant Perkins, Adam L. 27 U.S. Marine Antelope CA OEF 5/17/10 Private 1st Class Anderson, Billy G. 20 U.S. Army Alexandria TN OEF 5/17/10 Corporal Paradarodriguez, Nicholas D. 29 U.S. Marine Stafford VI OEF 5/18/10 Lance Corporal Clark, Philip P. 19 U.S. Marine Gainesville FL OEF 5/18/10 Lance Corporal Xavier Jr.,Patrick 24 U.S. Marine Pembroke Pines FL OEF 5/18/10 Specialist Tomlinson, Joshua A. 24 U.S. Army Dubberly LA OEF 5/18/10 Colonel McHugh, John M. 46 U.S. Army West Caldwell NJ OEF 5/18/10 Lieutenant Colonel Belkofer, Thomas P. 44 U.S. Army Perrysburg OH OEF 5/18/10 Staff Sergeant Tieman, Richard J. 28 U.S. Army Waynesboro PA OEF 5/18/10 Lieutenant Colonel Bartz, Paul R. 43 U.S. Army Waterloo WI OEF 5/19/10 Staff Sergeant Barnard, Shane S. 38 U.S. Army Desmet SD OIF 5/20/10 Specialist Sokolowski, III, Stanley J. 26 U.S. Army Ocean NJ OIF 5/21/10 Staff Sergeant Gonzalez, Amilcar H. 26 U.S. Army Miami FL OEF 5/22/10 Private 1st Class Fingar, Jason D. 24 U.S. Army Columbia MO OIF 5/24/10 Major Culver Jr. Ronald W. 44 U.S. Army National Guard Shreveport LA OEF 5/24/10 Private 1st Class Barton, Christopher R. 22 U.S. Army Concord NC OEF 5/25/10 Sergeant Rivera, Edwin 28 U.S. Army Waterford CT OEF 5/28/10 Corporal Leicht, Jacob C. 24 U.S. Marine College Statio TX OEF 5/29/10 Private 1st Class Suter, Jake W. 18 U.S. Marine Los Angeles CA OEF 5/30/10 Lance Corporal Dilisio, Anthony A. 20 U.S. Marine Macomb MI OIF 5/30/10 Private 1st Class Sessarego, Alvaro R. Regalado 37 U.S. Army Virginia Beach VI OEF 6/1/10 Specialist Peney, Jonathan K. 22 U.S. Army Marietta GA OIF 6/2/10 Private 1st Class Guardado-Ramirez, Francisco J. 21 U.S. Army Sunland NM OEF 6/4/10 1st Lieutenant Theinert, Joseph J. 24 U.S. Army Sag Harbor NY OIF 6/4/10 Sergeant Theobald, Steve M. 53 U.S. Army Goose Creek SC OEF 6/6/10 2nd Lieutenant McGahan, Michael E. 23 U.S. Army Orlando FL OEF 6/6/10 Corporal Marler, Donald M. 22 U.S. Marine St. Louis MO OEF 6/6/10 Lance Corporal Hernandez, Derek 20 U.S. Marine Edinburg TX OEF 6/6/10 Sergeant Bury, Brandon C. 26 U.S. Marine Kingwood TX OEF 6/7/10 Specialist Neenan, Brendan P. 21 U.S. Army Enterprise AL OEF 6/7/10 Sergeant Lukeala, Joshua A. 23 U.S. Army Yigo GU OEF 6/7/10 Sergeant Rankel, John K. 23 U.S. Marine Speedway IN OEF 6/7/10 1st Sergeant Barton, Robert N. 35 U.S. Army Roxie MS OEF 6/7/10 Specialist Redding, Blaine E. 23 U.S. Army Plattsmouth NE OEF 6/7/10 Specialist Jirtle, Charles S. 29 U.S. Army Lawton OK OEF 6/7/10 Specialist Catlett, Matthew R. 23 U.S. Army Cypress TX OEF 6/8/10 Sergeant Walters, Zachary J. 24 U.S. Marine Palm Coast FL OEF 6/8/10 Sergeant Klusacek, Erick J. 22 U.S. Army Calcium NY OEF 6/8/10 Sergeant Shanfield, Derek L. 22 U.S. Marine Hastings PA OEF 6/9/10 Staff Sergeant Smith, David C. 26 U.S. Air Force Eight Mile AL OEF 6/9/10 1st Lieutenant Gentz, Joel C. 25 U.S. Air Force Grass Lake MI OEF 6/9/10 Lance Corporal Plank, Michael G. 25 U.S. Marine Cameron Mills NY OEF 6/9/10 Senior Airman White, Benjamin D. 24 U.S. Air Force Erwin TN OEF 6/9/10 Staff Sergeant Flores, Michael P. 31 U.S. Air Force San Antonio TX OEF 6/10/10 Lance Corporal Brummund, Gavin R. 22 U.S. Marine Arnold CA OIF 6/11/10 Specialist Yauch, William C. 23 U.S. Army Batesville AR OEF 6/11/10 Specialist Adams, Christian M. 26 U.S. Army Sierra Vista AZ OEF 6/11/10 Staff Sergeant Hoover, Bryan A. 29 U.S. Army National Guard Elizabeth PA OEF 6/11/10 Sergeant 1st Class Fike, Robert J. 38 U.S. Army National Guard Conneautville PA OIF 6/11/10 Sergeant Obryan, Israel P. 24 U.S. Army Newbern TN OEF 6/11/10 Sergeant Rodriguez, Mario 24 U.S. Army Smithville TX OEF 6/12/10 Specialist Anderson, Brian M. 24 U.S. Army Harrisonburg VI OIF 6/15/10 Specialist Opat, Christopher W. 29 U.S. Army Spencer IA OEF 6/15/10 Specialist Osborn, Benjamin D. 27 U.S. Army Queensbury NY OEF 6/16/10 Specialist Cox, Nathan W. 21 U.S. Army Fremont CA OEF 6/16/10 Private 1st Class Hotchkin, Gunnar R. 31 U.S. Army Naperville IL OEF 6/16/10 Specialist Johnson, Joseph D. 24 U.S. Army Flint MI OEF 6/16/10 Corporal Standfest, Jeffrey R. 23 U.S. Marine St. Clair MN OEF 6/16/10 Corporal Bailey, Michael C. 29 U.S. Marine St. Clair MO OIF 6/17/10 Captain Cassidy, Michael P. 41 U.S. Army Simpsonville SC OEF 6/18/10 Seaman Ortega, William 23 U.S. Navy Miami FL OEF 6/18/10 Staff Sergeant Hunter, James P. 25 U.S. Army South Amherst OH OEF 6/18/10 Private 1st Class Park, Benjamin J. 25 U.S. Army Fairfax Station VI OEF 6/21/10 Specialist Andrews, Scott A. 21 U.S. Army Fall River MA OEF 6/21/10 Staff Sergeant Silk, Brandon M. 25 U.S. Army Orono ME OEF 6/21/10 Private 1st Class Miller, David T. 19 U.S. Army Wilton NY OEF 6/21/10 Lance Corporal Serwinowski, Timothy G. 21 U.S. Marine North Tonawanda NY OIF 6/21/10 Specialist Dohrenwend, Jacob P. 20 U.S. Army Milford OH OEF 6/21/10 Specialist Looney, Andrew R. 22 U.S. Army Owasso OK OEF 6/22/10 Corporal Patino IV, Claudio 22 N/A Yorba Linda CA OEF 6/22/10 Corporal Cueto, Kevin A. 22 U.S. Marine San Jose CA OEF 6/22/10 1st Sergeant Turner, Eddie 41 U.S. Army Fort Belvoir VI OEF 6/23/10 Private 1st Class Madden, Russell E. 29 U.S. Army Dayton KY OEF 6/23/10 Private 1st Class Justesen, Anthony T. 22 U.S. Army Wilsonville OR OEF 6/23/10 Corporal Dumaw, Joshua R. 23 U.S. Marine Spokane Valley WA OEF 6/24/10 Private 1st Class Repkie, Robert K. L. 20 U.S. Army Knoxville TN OEF 6/24/10 Staff Sergeant Loredo, Edwardo 34 U.S. Army Houston TX OEF 6/25/10 Corporal DeBoer, Daane Adam 24 U.S. Marine Ludington MI OEF 6/25/10 Specialist Thompson, Blair D. 19 U.S. Army Rome NY OEF 6/25/10 Specialist Plunk, Jared C. 27 U.S. Army Stillwater OK OEF 6/26/10 Specialist Holmes, David A. 34 U.S. Army National Guard Tennille GA OEF 6/26/10 Lance Corporal Richards, William T. 20 U.S. Marine Trenton GA OIF 6/26/10 Private 1st Class Haynes, Bryant J. 21 U.S. Army National Guard Epps LA OEF 6/26/10 Sergeant Caskey, Joseph D. 24 U.S. Marine Pittsburgh PA OEF 6/27/10 Sergeant Rogers, John M. 26 U.S. Army Scottsdale AZ OEF 6/27/10 Specialist Thomas, David W. 40 U.S. Army St. Petersburg FL OEF 6/27/10 Not yet reported Chapleau, Kristopher D. 33 U.S. Army LaGrange KY OEF 6/27/10 Staff Sergeant Shaw, Eric B. 31 U.S. Army Exeter ME OEF 6/30/10 Specialist Hennigan, Matthew R. 20 U.S. Army Las Vegas NV OEF 7/1/10 Corporal Harris Jr., Larry D. 24 U.S. Marine Thornton CO OEF 7/1/10 Private 1st Class Grady, Ryan J. 25 U.S. Army National Guard Bristow OK OIF 7/2/10 Sergeant Lumpkin, Johnny W. 38 U.S. Army Columbus GA OEF 7/2/10 Captain Wisniewski, David A. 31 U.S. Air Force Moville IA OIF 7/2/10 Sergeant Tuttle, Jordan E. 22 U.S. Army National Guard West Monroe LA OEF 7/2/10 Private 1st Class Jefferson, David 23 U.S. Army Philadelphia PA OIF 7/2/10 Specialist McBeth, Morganne M. 19 U.S. Army Fredricksburg VI OEF 7/3/10 Specialist McGarrah, Clayton D. 20 U.S. Army Harrison AR OEF 7/3/10 Private 1st Class Dennis, Jacob A. 22 U.S. Army Powder Springs GA OEF 7/4/10 Sergeant Creighton, Andrew J. 23 U.S. Army Laurel DE OEF 7/5/10 Specialist Cooper, Keenan A. 19 U.S. Army Wahpeton ND OEF 7/5/10 Private 1st Class Wood, Edwin C. 18 U.S. Army Omaha NE OEF 7/5/10 Specialist Fastuca, Louis R. 24 U.S. Army West Chester PA OEF 7/5/10 Specialist Osborne, Jerod H. 20 U.S. Army Royse City TX OEF 7/5/10 Sergeant 1st Class Cabacoy, Christopher F. 30 U.S. Army Virginia Beach VI OEF 7/6/10 Specialist Lee, Roger 26 U.S. Army Monterey CA OEF 7/6/10 Staff Sergeant Arizmendez, Marc A. 30 U.S. Army Anaheim CA OEF 7/6/10 Private 1st Class Pridham, Michael S. 19 U.S. Army Louisville KY OEF 7/7/10 Private 1st Class Simmons, Anthony W. 25 U.S. Army Tallahassee FL OEF 7/9/10 Lance Corporal Raney, Daniel G. 21 U.S. Marine Pleasant View TN OEF 7/10/10 Lance Corporal Roads, Tyler A. 20 U.S. Marine Burney CA OEF 7/10/10 Specialist Negron, Carlos J. 40 U.S. Army Fort Meyers FL OEF 7/10/10 Specialist Dimock II, Joseph W. 21 U.S. Army Wildwood IL OEF 7/10/10 Specialist Crow, Robert W. 42 U.S. Army National Guard Kansas City MO OEF 7/10/10 Sergeant Edgerton, Donald R. 33 U.S. Army Murphy NC OEF 7/10/10 Staff Sergeant Ainsworth, Jesse W. 24 U.S. Army Dayton TX OEF 7/10/10 Sergeant Mittler, Shaun M. 32 U.S. Army Austin TX OEF 7/11/10 Staff Sergeant Antonik, Christopher J. 29 U.S. Marine Crystal Lake IL OEF 7/12/10 Private 1st Class Garvin, Nathaniel D. 20 U.S. Army Radcliff KY OEF 7/13/10 Specialist Moon, Christopher J. 20 U.S. Army Tucson AZ OEF 7/14/10 Specialist Stanley, Chase 21 U.S. Army Napa CA OEF 7/14/10 Private King, Brandon M. 23 U.S. Army Tallahassee FL OEF 7/14/10 Staff Sergeant Tate, Sheldon L. 27 U.S. Army Hinesville GA OEF 7/14/10 Staff Sergeant Stout, Christopher T. 34 U.S. Army Worthville KY OEF 7/14/10 Specialist Johnson, Matthew J. 21 U.S. Army Maplewood MN OEF 7/14/10 1st Lieutenant Goeke, Christopher S. 23 U.S. Army Apple Valley MN OEF 7/14/10 Sergeant Fisher, Zachary M. 24 U.S. Army Ballwin MO OEF 7/14/10 Specialist Reed, Jesse D. 26 U.S. Army Orefield PA OEF 7/15/10 Sergeant 1st Class Jarrell, John H. 32 U.S. Army Brunson SC OEF 7/15/10 Sergeant Winters, Leston M. 30 U.S. Army Sour Lake TX OEF 7/16/10 Sergeant Tilton, Jesse R. 23 U.S. Army Decatur IL OEF 7/16/10 Staff Sergeant Bartelt, Justus S. 27 U.S. Marine Polo IL OEF 7/16/10 Corporal Santos, Dave M. 21 U.S. Marine Rota MP OEF 7/17/10 Sergeant Weikert, Matthew W. 29 U.S. Army Jacksonville IL OEF 7/18/10 Gunnery Sergeant Eastman, Christopher L. 28 U.S. Marine Moose Pass AR OEF 7/18/10 Sergeant Santiago, Anibal 37 U.S. Army Belvidere IN OEF 7/18/10 Corporal Wrightsman, Joe L. 23 U.S. Marine Jonesboro LA OEF 7/18/10 Sergeant Allen, Justin B. 23 U.S. Army Coal Grove OH OEF 7/18/10 1st Lieutenant Bennedsen, Robert N. 25 U.S. Army Vashon WA OEF 7/19/10 Staff Sergeant Piercy, Brian F. 27 U.S. Army Clovis CA OEF 7/19/10 Corporal Miller, Paul J. 22 U.S. Marine Traverse City MI OEF 7/20/10 Corporal Vargas, Julio 23 U.S. Marine Sylmar CA OIF 7/21/10 1st Lieutenant Runyan, Michael L. 24 U.S. Army Newark OH OEF 7/22/10 Major Weis, James M. 37 U.S. Marine Toms River NJ OEF 7/22/10 Lieutenant Colonel Carazo, Mario D. 41 U.S. Marine Springfield OH OEF 7/23/10 Petty Officer 2nd Class McNeley, Justin 30 U.S. Navy Wheatridge CO OEF 7/23/10 Private 1st Class Oquin, James J. 20 U.S. Army El Paso TX OEF 7/23/10 Petty Officer 3rd Class Newlove, Jarod 25 U.S. Navy Renton WA OEF 7/24/10 Specialist Hand, Andrew 25 U.S. Army Enterprise AL OEF 7/24/10 Sergeant Lim, Daniel 23 U.S. Army Cypress CA OEF 7/24/10 Staff Sergeant Mora, Conrad A. 24 U.S. Army San Diego CA OEF 7/24/10 Lance Corporal Vazquez, Frederik E. 20 U.S. Marine Melrose Park IL OEF 7/24/10 Specialist Bauer, Joseph A. 27 U.S. Army Cincinnati OH OEF 7/27/10 Lance Corporal Howard, Abram L. N/A U.S. Marine Reserve Williamsport PA OEF 7/29/10 Staff Sergeant Warren, Kyle R. 28 U.S. Army Manchester NH OEF 7/29/10 Captain Holbrook, Jason E. 28 U.S. Army Burnet TX OEF 7/29/10 Lance Corporal Martin, Shane R. 23 U.S. Marine Spring TX OEF 7/30/10 Specialist Stansbery, Michael L. 21 U.S. Army Mount Juliet TN OEF 7/30/10 Sergeant Stout, Kyle B. 25 U.S. Army Texarkana TX OEF 8/4/10 Master Sergeant Van Aalst, Jared N. 34 U.S. Army Laconia NH OIF 8/7/10 Specialist Hinkley, Faith R. 23 U.S. Army Colorado Springs CO OEF 8/7/10 Corporal Donahue, Max W. 23 U.S. Marine Highlands Ranch CO OEF 8/7/10 Lance Corporal Cornelius, Kevin M. 20 U.S. Marine Ashtabula OH OEF 8/7/10 Private 1st Class Gammone III, Vincent E. 19 U.S. Marine Christiana TN OEF 8/7/10 Private 1st Class Andrade, John E. 19 U.S. Army San Antonio TX OEF 8/8/10 Private 1st Class Cuzzupe, Paul O. 23 U.S. Army Plant City FL OEF 8/8/10 Sergeant Nicol, Andrew C. 23 U.S. Army Eaton MI OEF 8/8/10 Private Rappuhn, Bradley D. 24 U.S. Army Grand Ledge MI OEF 8/8/10 Corporal Greer, Kristopher D. 25 U.S. Marine Reserve Ashland City TN OEF 8/9/10 Sergeant Saenz III, Jose L. 30 U.S. Marine Pleasanton TX OEF 8/11/10 Sergeant Karch, Christopher N. 23 U.S. Army Indianapolis IN OEF 8/13/10 Staff Sergeant Bock, Michael A. 26 U.S. Marine Leesburg FL OIF 8/15/10 Specialist Rhett, Jamal M. 24 U.S. Army Palmyra NJ OEF 8/17/10 Sergeant 1st Class Roberts, Edgar N. 39 U.S. Army Hinesville GA OEF 8/17/10 Private High, IV, Charles M. 21 U.S. Army Albuquerque NM OEF 8/17/10 Staff Sergeant Farley, Derek J. 24 U.S. Army Nassau NY OEF 8/17/10 Private 1st Class Chisholm, Benjamen G. 24 U.S. Army Fort Worth TX OEF 8/18/10 Lance Corporal Oratowski, Kevin E. 23 U.S. Marine Wheaton IL OEF 8/19/10 Sergeant Lugo, Martin A. 24 U.S. Army Tucson AZ OEF 8/19/10 Corporal Boyd, Christopher J. 22 U.S. Marine Palatine IL OEF 8/19/10 Specialist Wright, Christopher S. 23 U.S. Army Tollesboro KY OEF 8/19/10 Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) Thomas, Collin 33 U.S. Navy Morehead KY OEF 8/20/10 Lance Corporal Childers, Cody S. 19 U.S. Marine Chesapeake VI OEF 8/21/10 Lance Corporal Schultz, Nathaniel J. A. 19 U.S. Marine Safety Harbor FL OEF 8/21/10 Private 1st Class Maldonado, Alexis V. 20 U.S. Army Wichita Falls TX OEF 8/22/10 Sergeant Calo, Jason D. 23 U.S. Marine Lexington KY OIF 8/22/10 Sergeant Maggart, Brandon E. 24 U.S. Army Kirksville MO OEF 8/22/10 Specialist Meletiche, Pedro A. Millet 20 U.S. Army Elizabeth NJ OEF 8/23/10 Sergeant Deluzio, Steven J. 25 U.S. Army National Guard South Glastonbury CT OEF 8/23/10 Lance Corporal Newton, Robert J. 21 U.S. Marine Creve Coeur IL OEF 8/23/10 Sergeant Rodriguez, Ronald A. 26 U.S. Marine Falls Church VI OEF 8/23/10 Specialist Southworth, Tristan H. 21 U.S. Army National Guard West Danville VT OEF 8/24/10 Private 1st Class Shoecraft, Justin B. 28 U.S. Army Elkhart IN OEF 8/27/10 Petty Officer 3rd Class Swink, James Michael 20 U.S. Navy Yucca Valley CA OEF 8/27/10 Private 1st Class Coleman, Chad D. 20 U.S. Army Moreland GA OEF 8/27/10 Master Sergeant Fedder, Daniel L. 34 U.S. Marine Pine City MN OEF 8/27/10 Private Novak, Adam J. 20 U.S. Army Prairie du Sac WI OEF 8/28/10 Specialist Castro, Andrew J. 20 U.S. Army Westlake Village CA OEF 8/28/10 Specialist Robinson, James C. 27 U.S. Army Lebanon OH OEF 8/28/10 Sergeant Durham, Patrick K. 24 U.S. Army Chattanooga TN OEF 8/29/10 Private 1st Class Raver, Bryn T. 20 U.S. Army Harrison AR OEF 8/29/10 Gunnery Sergeant Holley, Floyd E. C. 36 U.S. Marine Casselberry FL OEF 8/29/10 Staff Sergeant Ide, James R. 32 U.S. Army Festus MO OEF 8/29/10 Captain Wallace, Ellery R. 33 U.S. Army Not yet reported UT OEF 8/30/10 Staff Sergeant Grochowiak, Casey J. 34 U.S. Army Lompoc CA OEF 8/30/10 Private 1st Class Clements, Chad D. 26 U.S. Army Huntington IN OEF 8/30/10 Second Lieutenant Noziska, Mark 24 U.S. Army Papillon NE OEF 8/30/10 Staff Sergeant Kessler, Kevin J. 32 U.S. Army Canton OH OEF 8/30/10 Captain Goetz, Dale A. 43 U.S. Army White SD OEF 8/30/10 Staff Sergeant Infante, Jesse 30 U.S. Army Cypress TX OEF 8/30/10 Staff Sergeant West, Matthew J. 36 U.S. Army Conover WI OEF 8/31/10 Sergeant Alcaraz, Raymond C. 20 U.S. Army Redlands CA OEF 8/31/10 Private 1st Class Page, James A. 23 U.S. Army Titusville FL OEF 8/31/10 Lance Corporal Roberts, Cody A. 22 U.S. Marine Boise ID OEF 8/31/10 Staff Sergeant Adkinson III, Vinson B. 26 U.S. Army Harper KS OEF 8/31/10 Sergeant Bovia, Joseph A. 24 U.S. Marine Kenner LA OEF 8/31/10 Private 1st Class George, Matthew Eric 22 U.S. Army Gransboro NC OEF 9/1/10 Lance Corporal Rodgers, Christopher B. 20 U.S. Marine Griffin GA OEF 9/2/10 Lance Corporal Twigg, Joshua T. 21 U.S. Marine Indiana PA OEF 9/2/10 Private 1st Class Montoya, Diego M. 20 U.S. Army San Antonio TX OEF 9/3/10 Lance Corporal Carver, Ross S. 21 U.S. Marine Rocky Point NC OEF 9/4/10 Sergeant Balthaser, Jesse M. 23 U.S. Marine Columbus OH OEF 9/6/10 Captain McMahon, Jason T. 35 U.S. Army Mulvane KS OIF 9/7/10 Sergeant Jenkins, Philip C. 26 U.S. Army Decatur IN OIF 9/7/10 Private 1st Class McClamrock, James F. 22 U.S. Army Huntersville NC OEF 9/7/10 Corporal Charte, Philip G. E. 22 U.S. Marine Goffstown NH OEF 9/8/10 Corporal Bishop, John C. 25 U.S. Marine Columbus IN OEF 9/9/10 1st Lieutenant Weaver, Todd W. 26 U.S. Army Hampton VI OIF 9/15/10 Senior Airman Hansen, James A. 25 U.S. Air Force Athens MI OIF 9/16/10 Sergeant Burner III, John F. 32 U.S. Army Baltimore MD OEF 9/16/10 Specialist Johnson, Timothy L. 24 U.S. Army Randolph NY OEF 9/16/10 Senior Airman Sanchez, Daniel R. 23 U.S. Air Force El Paso TX OEF 9/16/10 Sergeant Kramer, Aaron K. 22 U.S. Army Salt Lake City UT OEF 9/17/10 Lieutenant Fleming, Scott J. 24 U.S. Marine Marietta GA OEF 9/17/10 Specialist Snow, Deangelo B. 22 U.S. Army Saginaw MI OEF 9/17/10 Staff Sergeant Newman, Jaime C. 27 U.S. Army Richmond VI OEF 9/18/10 Private 1st Class Vieyra, Barbara 22 U.S. Army Mesa AZ OEF 9/18/10 Sergeant 1st Class Grider, Ronald A. 30 U.S. Army Brighton IL OEF 9/18/10 1st Lieutenant Yates, Eric 26 U.S. Army Rineyville KY OEF 9/18/10 Captain Carron, Paul D. 33 U.S. Army Not yet reported MO OEF 9/18/10 Specialist Harton, Joshua A. 23 U.S. Army Bethlehem PA OEF 9/20/10 Private 1st Class Ose, Joshua S. 19 U.S. Marine Hernando MS OEF 9/21/10 Senior Airman Buras, Michael J. 23 U.S. Air Force Fitzgerald GA OEF 9/21/10 Senior Chief Petty Officer McLendon, David B. 30 U.S. Navy Thomasville GA OEF 9/21/10 Major Baldwin, Robert F. 39 U.S. Army Muscatine IA OEF 9/21/10 Staff Sergeant Powell, Joshua D. 25 U.S. Army Pleasant Plains IL OEF 9/21/10 Sergeant Calhoun Jr., Marvin R. 23 U.S. Army Elkhart IN OEF 9/21/10 Lieutenant (SEAL) Looney, Brendan J. 29 U.S. Navy Owings MD OEF 9/21/10 Chief Warrant Officer McClellan, Jonah D. 26 U.S. Army St. Louis Park MN OEF 9/21/10 Petty Officer 2nd Class (SEAL) Smith, Adam O. 26 U.S. Navy Hurland MO OEF 9/21/10 Petty Officer 3rd Class (SEAL) Miranda, Denis C. 24 U.S. Navy Toms River NJ OEF 9/21/10 Chief Warrant Officer Wagstaff, Matthew G. 34 U.S. Army Orem UT OEF 9/23/10 Lance Corporal Rosa, Anthony J. 20 U.S. Marine Swanton VT OIF 9/24/10 Specialist Carrillo Jr., John 20 U.S. Army Stockton CA OIF 9/24/10 Private 1st Class Noonan, Gebrah P. 26 U.S. Army Watertown CT OEF 9/24/10 Private 1st Class Petree, Jaysine P. S. 19 U.S. Army Yigo GU OEF 9/24/10 Private 1st Class Springer II, Clinton E. 21 U.S. Army Sanford ME OEF 9/24/10 Private 1st Class Dawson, William Brandon 20 U.S. Army Tunica MS OEF 9/26/10 Sergeant Simpson, Mark A. 40 U.S. Army Peoria IL OEF 9/26/10 Specialist Morrison, Donald Scott 23 U.S. Army Cincinnati OH OIF 9/27/10 Specialist Whisenant, Marc C. 23 U.S. Army National Guard Holly Hill FL OEF 9/28/10 Lance Corporal Fabbri, Ralph J. 20 U.S. Marine Gallitzin PA OEF 9/29/10 Senior Airman Forester, Mark Andrew 29 U.S. Air Force Tuscaloosa AL OEF 9/29/10 Sergeant Officer, Justin A. 26 U.S. Army Wichita KS OEF 9/29/10 Sergeant 1st Class Harrison, Calvin B. 31 U.S. Army San Antonio TX OEF 9/30/10 Lance Corporal Jackson, Timothy M. 22 U.S. Marine Corbin KY OEF 10/1/10 Sergeant 1st Class Vogeler, Lance H. 29 U.S. Army Frederick MD OEF 10/1/10 Sergeant Matteoni, Anthony D. 22 U.S. Marine Union City MI OEF 10/1/10 Specialist Rabon Jr.,Luther W. 32 U.S. Army National Guard Lexington N/A OEF 10/1/10 Staff Sergeant Harley Jr., Willie J. 48 U.S. Army National Guard Aiken SC OEF 10/2/10 Sergeant Pedro, Brian J. 27 U.S. Army Rosamond CA OEF 10/4/10 Sergeant Campbell, Karl A. 34 U.S. Army Chiefland FL OEF 10/4/10 Specialist Prentler, Joseph T. 20 U.S. Army Fenwick MI OEF 10/4/10 Private 1st Class Clark, Ryane G. 22 U.S. Army New London MN OEF 10/4/10 Private 1st Class Board, Cody A. 19 U.S. Army McKinney TX OEF 10/5/10 Senior Airman Johnson, Daniel J. 23 U.S. Air Force Schiller Park IL OEF 10/6/10 Corporal Sockalosky, Stephen C. 21 U.S. Marine Cordele GA OEF 10/6/10 Lance Corporal Lynch, Scott A. 22 U.S. Marine Greenwood Lake NY OEF 10/8/10 Hospital Corpsman Gonzalez, Edwin 22 U.S. Navy North Miami Beach FL OEF 10/8/10 Lance Corporal Sparks, John T. 23 U.S. Marine Chicago IL OEF 10/10/10 Private 1st Class Hess, David A 25 U.S. Army Ruskin FL OEF 10/10/10 Staff Sergeant Weigle, Dave J. 29 U.S. Army Philadelphia PA OEF 10/11/10 Sergeant Zaehringer III, Frank R. 23 U.S. Marine Reno NV OEF 10/12/10 Specialist Powell, Matthew C. 20 U.S. Army Slidell LA OEF 10/13/10 Private 1st Class Dew, Victor A. 20 U.S. Marine Granite Bay CA OEF 10/13/10 Lance Corporal Johnson, Raymon L. A. 22 U.S. Marine Midland GA OEF 10/13/10 Lance Corporal Vinnedge, Phillip D. 19 U.S. Marine Saint Charles MO OEF 10/13/10 Lance Corporal Rodewald, Joseph E. 21 U.S. Marine Albany OR OEF 10/13/10 Not yet reported Byrd, Jordan 19 U.S. Army Grantsville UT OEF 10/13/10 Corporal Cain, Justin J. 22 U.S. Marine Manitowoc WI OEF 10/14/10 Lance Corporal Ceniceros, Irvin M. 21 U.S. Marine Clarksville AR OEF 10/14/10 Specialist Martinez Jr., Rafael 36 U.S. Army Spring Valley CA OEF 10/14/10 Lance Corporal Lopez, Joseph C. 26 U.S. Marine Rosamond CA OEF 10/14/10 Lance Corporal Catherwood, Alec E. 19 U.S. Marine Byron IL OEF 10/14/10 Sergeant Newman, Eric C. 30 U.S. Army Waynesboro MS OEF 10/14/10 Sergeant Benitez, Carlos A. 24 U.S. Army Carrollton TX OEF 10/14/10 Private 1st Class Billingsley, Tramaine J. 20 U.S. Army Portsmouth VI OEF 10/15/10 Lance Corporal Boelk, James D. 24 U.S. Marine Oceanside CA OIF 10/16/10 Private 1st Class Reid, Dylan T. 24 U.S. Army Springfield MO OEF 10/16/10 Sergeant Tawney, Ian M. 25 U.S. Marine Dallas OR OEF 10/17/10 Corporal Villarreal Jr., Jorge 22 U.S. Marine San Antonio TX OEF 10/19/10 Staff Sergeant Cullins, Joshua J. 28 U.S. Marine Simi Valley CA OEF 10/19/10 Lance Corporal Jackson, Francisco R. 24 U.S. Marine Elizabeth NJ OEF 10/20/10 Specialist Jenkins, Gerald R. 19 U.S. Army Circleville OH OEF 10/21/10 Staff Sergeant McAninch, Kenneth K. 28 U.S. Army Logansport IN OEF 10/22/10 Staff Sergeant O’Malley, Aracely Gonzalez 31 U.S. Army Brawley CA OEF 10/23/10 Specialist Pallares, Ronnie J. 19 U.S. Army Rancho Cucamonga CA OEF 10/24/10 Specialist Moffitt, Thomas A. 21 U.S. Army Wichita KS OEF 10/24/10 Specialist Dupont, Steven L. 20 U.S. Army Lafayette LA OEF 10/24/10 Sergeant 1st Class Sadell, Charles M. 34 U.S. Army Columbia MO OIF 10/24/10 Private 1st Class Jones Jr., David R. 21 U.S. Army Saint Johnsville NY OEF 10/26/10 Sergeant 1st Class Tanner, Phillip C. 43 U.S. Army Sheridan WY OEF 10/27/10 Lance Corporal Honeycutt Jr., Terry E. 19 U.S. Marine Waldorf MO OEF 10/27/10 Sergeant Kirspel Jr., Michael D. 23 U.S. Army Hopatcong NJ OEF 10/28/10 Staff Sergeant Dickmyer, Adam L. 26 U.S. Army Winston Salem NC OEF 10/29/10 Specialist Solorzanovaldovinos, Diego A. 24 U.S. Army Huntington Park CA OEF 10/29/10 Specialist Maldonado, Pedro A. 20 U.S. Army Houston TX OEF 10/30/10 Specialist Land, Brett W. 24 U.S. Army Wasco CA OEF 11/1/10 Private 1st Class Meari, Andrew N. 21 U.S. Army Plainfield IL OEF 11/1/10 Specialist Curtis, Jonathan M. 24 U.S. Army Belmont MA OEF 11/2/10 1st Lieutenant Zimmerman, James R. 25 U.S. Marine Aroostook ME OEF 11/3/10 Sergeant 1st Class Harris, Todd M. 37 U.S. Army Tucson AZ OEF 11/3/10 Specialist Young, James C. 25 U.S. Army Rochester IL OEF 11/4/10 Lance Corporal Broehm, Matthew J. 22 U.S. Marine Flagstaff AZ OEF 11/4/10 Lance Corporal Pearson, Brandon W. 21 U.S. Marine Arvada CO OEF 11/4/10 Sergeant McCluskey, Jason J. 26 U.S. Army McAlester OK OEF 11/5/10 Staff Sergeant Emrick, Jordan B. 26 U.S. Marine Hoyleton IL OEF 11/5/10 Specialist Whipple, Blake D. 21 U.S. Army Williamsville NY OEF 11/5/10 Sergeant Paranzino, Michael F. 22 U.S. Army Middletown RI OEF 11/6/10 Lance Corporal Braggs, Randy R. 21 U.S. Marine Sierra Vista AZ OEF 11/6/10 Private 1st Class Reifert, Shane M. 23 U.S. Army Cottrellville MI OEF 11/7/10 Sergeant Cruttenden, Aaron B. 25 U.S. Army Mesa AZ OEF 11/7/10 Specialist Kridlo, Dale J. 33 U.S. Army Hughestown PA OEF 11/8/10 Specialist Hutchins, Andrew 20 U.S. Army New Portland ME OEF 11/8/10 Specialist Vargas, Anthony 27 U.S. Army Reading PA OEF 11/9/10 2nd Lieutenant Kelly, Robert M. 29 U.S. Marine Tallahassee FL OEF 11/9/10 Lance Corporal Huse, Dakota R. 19 U.S. Marine Greenwood LA OEF 11/10/10 Lance Corporal Stack, James B. 20 U.S. Marine Arlington Heights IL OEF 11/10/10 Sergeant Bolen, Edward H. 25 U.S. Army Chittenango NY OEF 11/11/10 Specialist Lutes, David C. 28 U.S. Army Frostburg MD OEF 11/12/10 Specialist Chihuahua, Shannon 25 U.S. Army Thomasville GA OEF 11/12/10 Corporal Fannin, Shawn D. 32 U.S. Army Wheelersburg OH OEF 11/12/10 Senior Airman Bubacz, Andrew S. 23 U.S. Air Force Dalzell SC OEF 11/13/10 Staff Sergeant Rivadeneira, Juan L. 27 U.S. Army Davie FL OEF 11/13/10 Corporal Carver, Jacob R. 20 U.S. Army Freeman MO OEF 11/13/10 Specialist Carroll, Jacob C. 20 U.S. Army Clemmons NC OEF 11/14/10 Specialist Ahmed, Shane H. 31 U.S. Army Chesterfield MI OEF 11/14/10 Private 1st Class Warriner, Christian M. 19 U.S. Army Mills River NC OEF 11/14/10 Specialist Snow, Jesse Adam 25 U.S. Army Fairborn OH OEF 11/14/10 Specialist Lillard, Nathan E. 26 U.S. Army Knoxville TN OEF 11/14/10 Specialist Nagorski, Scott T. 27 U.S. Army Greenfield WI OEF 11/15/10 Staff Sergeant Senft, David P. 27 U.S. Army Grass Valley CA OEF 11/16/10 Lieutenant Colonel Locht, Gwendolyn A. 46 U.S. Air Force Fort Walton Beach FL OEF 11/16/10 Staff Sergeant Pape, Kevin M. 30 U.S. Army Fort Wayne IN OEF 11/16/10 Staff Sergeant Ortiz Rivera, Javier O. 26 U.S. Marine Rochester NY OEF 11/17/10 Specialist Culbreth, Justin E. 26 U.S. Army Colorado Springs CO OEF 11/17/10 Private 1st Class Holder, Kyle M. 18 U.S. Army Conroe TX OIF 11/19/10 Staff Sergeant Gandy, Loleni W. 36 U.S. Army Pago Pago AS OEF 11/19/10 Sergeant Smith, Jason T. 28 U.S. Marine Colorado Springs CO OEF 11/20/10 Specialist Robinson, David S. 25 U.S. Army Fort Smith AR OIF 11/21/10 Sergeant Luff Jr., David J. N/A U.S. Army Hamilton OH OEF 11/22/10 Staff Sergeant Flannery, Sean M. 29 U.S. Army Wyomissing PA OEF 11/22/10 Specialist Middleton, William K. 26 U.S. Army Norfolk VI OEF 11/24/10 Lance Corporal Buenagua, Ardenjoseph A. 19 U.S. Marine San Jose CA OEF 11/25/10 1st Lieutenant Donnelly IV, William J. 27 U.S. Marine Picayune MS OEF 11/27/10 Private Harris, Devon J. 24 U.S. Army Mesquite TX OEF 11/29/10 Specialist Ramsey, Matthew W. 20 U.S. Army Quartz Hill CA OEF 11/29/10 Private 1st Class Staggs, Austin G. 19 U.S. Army Senoia GA OEF 11/29/10 Sergeant 1st Class Jarvis, Barry E. 36 U.S. Army Tell City IN OEF 11/29/10 Private McLain, Buddy W. 24 ISAF Mexico ME OEF 11/29/10 Staff Sergeant Oakes, Curtis A. 29 U.S. Army Athens OH OEF 11/29/10 Private 1st Class Gassen, Jacob A. 21 U.S. Army Beaver Dam WI OEF 11/30/10 1st Lieutenant Milley, Scott F. 23 U.S. Army Sudbury MA OEF 12/1/10 Corporal Wade, Chad S. 22 U.S. Marine Bentonville AR OEF 12/2/10 Sergeant Abbate, Matthew 26 U.S. Marine Honolulu HI OEF 12/2/10 Sergeant 1st Class Thode, James E. 45 U.S. Army Kirtland NM OEF 12/3/10 Lance Corporal Scott, Lucas C. 20 U.S. Marine Peebles OH OEF 12/4/10 Staff Sergeant Ashlock, Vincent W. 45 U.S. Army National Guard Seaside CA OEF 12/5/10 Sergeant Aleman, Nicholas J. 24 U.S. Marine Brooklyn NY OEF 12/5/10 Staff Sergeant Reeves, Jason A. 32 U.S. Army Odessa TX OEF 12/6/10 Corporal Wyatt, Derek A. 25 U.S. Marine Akron OH OEF 12/6/10 Private 1st Class Rusk, Colton W. 20 U.S. Marine Orange Grove TX OEF 12/8/10 Specialist Mixon, Kelly J. 23 U.S. Army Yulee FL OEF 12/8/10 Sergeant Ayube II, James A. 25 U.S. Army Salem MA OEF 12/8/10 Lance Corporal Geary, Michael E. 20 U.S. Marine Derry NH OIF 12/8/10 Private 1st Class Finch, David D. 24 U.S. Army Bath Springs TN OEF 12/8/10 Sergeant Peto, Jason D. 31 U.S. Marine Vancouver WA OEF 12/10/10 Staff Sergeant Green, Stacy A. 34 U.S. Marine Alexander City AL OEF 12/10/10 Private 1st Class Goncalo, Ethan L. 21 U.S. Army National Guard Fall Rivers MA OEF 12/12/10 Specialist Necochea Jr., Kenneth E. 21 U.S. Army San Diego CA OEF 12/12/10 Specialist Simonetta, Derek T. 21 U.S. Army Redwood City CA OEF 12/12/10 Specialist Deans, Patrick D. 22 U.S. Army Orlando FL OEF 12/12/10 Specialist Villacis, Jorge E. 24 U.S. Army Sunrise FL OEF 12/12/10 Corporal Collins, Sean M. 25 U.S. Army Ewa Beach HI OEF 12/12/10 Corporal McLawhorn Jr., Willie A. 23 U.S. Army Conway NC OEF 12/14/10 Lance Corporal Hernandez, Jose A. 19 U.S. Marine West Palm Beach FL OEF 12/15/10 Staff Sergeant Schmalstieg, Justin E. 28 ISAF Pittsburgh PA OEF 12/15/10 Specialist Cutsforth, Sean R. 22 U.S. Army Radford VI OEF 12/16/10 Corporal Osterman, Sean A. 21 U.S. Marine Princeton MN OEF 12/17/10 Lance Corporal Maldonado, Jose L. 21 U.S. Marine Mathis TX OEF 12/18/10 Corporal Torbert Jr., Eric M. 25 U.S. Marine Lancaster PA OEF 12/19/10 Private 1st Class Javier Jr., Conrado D. 19 U.S. Army Marina CA OEF 12/21/10 Lance Corporal Crouse IV, William H. 22 U.S. Marine Woodruff SC OEF 12/24/10 Lance Corporal Corzine, Kenneth A. 23 U.S. Marine Bethalto IL OEF 12/27/10 Sergeant Misener, Garrett A. 25 U.S. Marine Cordova TN OEF 12/28/10 Corporal Nguyen, Tevan L. 21 U.S. Marine Hutto TX

On American Exceptionalism.

Yes, the truth shall set you free and to tell the bloody tale you have to start with Caan who slew Able. If there were not enough Ables around to call Caan the killer, that is just how the game was played for countless bloody generations.

If Indians succeeded in slaying enough Caanan killers, then history would be different indeed.

Look anywhere; Antarctica possibly would never have been different. Countless wastes of human potential to live in peace. Not until Rome, or an America did the rest of the world reach anything approaching fulfillment of humanist potential expressed through peaceful means happen.
It seems now we contemplate the apparent extinction of peace by systems and push-button technology as protector worthlessly pursuing the end of convenience while wasting even more human potential on incredibly useless things.
There are those who still hold that violence does not solve anything. But they never saw it as Tamerlane saw it.



Tamerlane held that violence solved everything. Histories best chance to prove him wrong has just slipped into irrelevancy. It is hard to defeat this fallacy if expressed with extreme prejudice for violence. The difference to us as a people is we hold to the myth of American Exceptionalism because of our position in relation to something even more worthy, that we somehow make the difference in this viscious world meaningful because of our principles and our values. We actually care for those who have lost their way by right of the essential goodness of finding ourselves blessed to be so blessed. Someone must have done the blessing no matter who you refer to in relation to having just clawed our way out of the abattoir of bloody nations. It seems impossible for us to be mean spirited because we would rather sigh and shrug our shoulders in a coy and petulant way about someone having a bitter feeling of life having been lived 'too hard.' Where can be our christian compassion while we plod our way to hell, it seems. Perhaps some fallacies can be left intact for a time before we slip silently further down the whirlpool of the greatest kleptocracy ever toward our own self obsessed destruction with tribalism and -shudder - horrid, (maybe turgid is a better word?) Nationalism.
My lifetime has seen the destruction of damn near everything else built on principles and responsibility. I want to see a return to honors for those who truly deserve it. Truth may soon after, or take a more glacial sweet time to one day take hold again.
One should fear the destruction of a myth, for they are ideas that take hold of mens souls. And genocidal campaigns against them to wipe them out.