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Lawrence Sprader’s death: superiors contributed

Posted on August 29, 2007 | Comments Off on Lawrence Sprader’s death: superiors contributed

The Army’s report on the June death of Sgt. Lawrence Sprader, Jr., in a Fort Hood training accident faults the trainers. So reports AP which apparently had to force the release via FOIA.

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The death of Sgt. Lawrence Sprader, Jr.

Posted on August 22, 2007 | Comments Off on The death of Sgt. Lawrence Sprader, Jr.

The MSM has not covered itself with glory in its reporting of the training-accident death of Fort Hood’s SGT Lawrence Sprader, Jr. on June 8. A report this morning in the daily read like a catch-up piece of some kind, so I went searching the Web for more. I discovered that, on Monday, the Associated Press in Fort Worth reported that judicial action was pending against one or more soldiers involved in the training exercise, a solo compass nav course across difficult, brush-covered terrain in mid-90 degree heat. Today, the Killeen Daily Herald, which has the further incentive of proximity to the fort to endeavor to get the details right, says that only administrative action is being taken, and the judicial action is only "possible." Reading between the lines, it looks like some of Sprader’s superiors were involved in a coverup of the reasons for his hyperthermia, dehydration death. But it’s hard to be sure, since the Army, so far, is not releasing the details of its investigation. The MSM, meanwhile, seems only to be being its usual sloppy self.

UPDATE:  It took some pushing, apparently, but the Army has released the investigation report. 

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Maj. Thomas G. Bostick, Jr., R.I.P.

Posted on August 2, 2007 | Comments Off on Maj. Thomas G. Bostick, Jr., R.I.P.

"Thomas Bostick was born in San Diego and moved to Llano after his father, Thomas G. Bostick Sr., ended his career in the Marines. Bostick joined the Army Reserve while at Llano High School, and after graduating in 1988, he made the Army his career."

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Our war dead

Posted on May 28, 2007 | Comments Off on Our war dead
These are the men of 60th Company, Infantry Officer’s Candidate School, at Fort Benning, Georgia, a class dubbed 504-68, who were killed in Vietnam, and whom we 110 graduates (all but one of whom also served in Vietnam) remember on Memorial Day: 
 
One graduate:   1LT Jacob Lee Kinser
 
Two tactical officers: CPT Reese Michael Patrick
                              1LT Daniel Lynn Neiswender
 
Two drop-outs: CPL Sherry Joe Hadley    
                      SP4 Reese Currenti Elia, Jr.
 
UPDATE:  Two more drop-outs, inadvertently left out, but since confirmed:
 
                       CPL Robert Chase
                       SP4 Jeffrey Sanders Tigner

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Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968

Posted on January 15, 2007 | Comments Off on Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968

When I was fourteen, in 1958, my father and I rode a train to Mississippi and stopped at a depot near the little county seat where he grew up. I can still hear him shouting at the elderly black porter as we got down: "Boy! Boy!" And I still see the old man shuffling towards us to carry our bags. Today, practically every public office in that town is held by a black person. Courtesy and a lot more besides also has changed since Dr. King said these words the day before he was assassinated:

"Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter with me now. Because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I’m happy, tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord."

Via Power Line 

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