THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Mr. Hunter, 68, a retired Army careerist, Vietnam veteran and IRS manager, is presumed to have been killed in the suicide terrorism incident in Northwest Austin Thursday.
UPDATE:  More from Hunter’s family, both related and friends. And this.

NYPD aerial from a collection of 9/11 aerials obtained by ABC News via a Freedom of Information request. Funny how they wanted these but continue to hide their own videos from public view.
More than eight years later, the emotion is still almost fresh. None of those people above the strike line (fire on right) [...]

Miep Gies, the Dutch woman who hid Anne Frank’s family from the Nazis and after they were betrayed and seized preserved her diary for the world, has died. She was 100.
“Millions of copies of the diary, a gift for Anne’s 13th birthday, have been published in multiple languages, and it has been converted into a [...]

Freelance war correspondent Michael Yon doesn’t explain the use of this teepee in Afghanistan except to say that it’s a memorial to an American unit’s war dead. MY’s apparently in need of money to continue. He’s still worth it. I’m still sending him some. You should too. (Uh, actually he does explain the teepee. The [...]

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The old media is saying Army Maj. Malik Nidal Hasan killed twelve and wounded thirty-one at Fort Hood, northwest of Austin, today because he was being deployed to Iraq the war and "was upset about it." Sure. I’ll bet.
The FBI, always quick to put its foot in its mouth, already is saying it was [...]

Sometimes the memories of the first daily you worked at are the best. Certainly the most fun. But even as today’s newspapers fade away, mainly from business pressures, but also some political ones, there’s always hope in an old editor’s eye.

Caption says the "reporters" are studying the inscriptions on the shovels for the ceremonial dirt-turning for a memorial tree for fallen American troops. You know, while Barry dithers about whether they need reinforcements or not. This is what the legacy media does these days instead of asking hard questions. Bush quietly met with the survivors [...]

This seems to be it, as far as the American military is concerned, for the UH-1 Huey, the workhorse troop- and casualty-mover of the Vietnam war. Course the feeling of the nose-down takeoff, the wind roaring through the open side doors, and the distinctive sound of the rotor blades from the ground as one passes [...]

This seems to be it, as far as the American military is concerned, for the UH-1 Huey, the workhorse troop- and casualty-mover of the Vietnam war. Course the feeling of the nose-down takeoff, the wind roaring through the open side doors, and the distinctive sound of the rotor blades from the ground as one passes [...]