Pertinent Quote For Today

In the struggle against evil, there is no shame in defeat -- only in not fighting.

-Steven Hart

Iron Stones

Army Staff Sgt Kyle Keenan deflects a bullit with his head and keeps on keeping on. This Story from Blackanthem.com tells how he took a round to the helmet at point blank range and came out unscathed.

“We went toward where we last saw him, came around the corner of a house, and saw a reed line. We knew we were looking for him in the field there – but when I looked two or three feet away, downward, I saw his face and his eyes, and told
him ‘Get up! Americans!’ and right then, I heard a pop and my head snapped back.”

Seconds later he regained his vision, caught his bearings, leveled his shotgun and fired at the terrorist killing him. Read the whole story, it's quite impressive. This blogger is eternally grateful to those men and women who face these dangers on a daily basis so that we can enjoy our freedom in the "greatest nation on God's green Earth" (H.T.-Michael Medved)

Kyle Keenan hails from Newark, Ohio. He is a scout section leader with the 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) from Fort Drum, N.Y.

Thank You Kyle and may God continue to bless and keep you!

Tribute to Ada M. Davis - 1944 to 9/11/01

Today, 9/11/06 I am paying tribute to Ada M. Davis as part of the 2996 Project whose goal is to have 2,996 individual bloggers each post a memorial to one of the victims of 9/11. She was a civilian employee with the U.S. Army.
Ada was 57 years old when she was taken from us. She was from Camp Springs, MD. Her life was taken from her at The Pentagon 5 years ago today - 9/11/01.

These links will take you to sites that have memorial tributes to her from friends and family. Their words can certainly tell more about her than my humble tribute. Please take a moment to visit one of the links below and share in her memory.

Her memorial page at Legacy.com

Her memorial page at september11victims.com

Her CNN.com memorial page

9-11 Heroes memorial page

Leave a message for her at TerroristAttack.com

Ada's quilt square on UnitedInMemory.net

The Sonic Memorial Project