Tempe Healing Field honors veterans, victims of 9/11
September 9, 2012 at 3:59 pm | Posted in 9/11 Event | Leave a commentTags: 9/11, flags, Healing Field, Taps, Tempe Beach Park, veterans
A banner on Mill Avenue announces the Healing Field at Tempe Beach Park.
Tempe Beach Park hosts the ninth annual 9/11 Memorial Healing Field from Sept. 9 through Sept. 11, 2012. Volunteers converged on the park to install the almost 3,000 American flags representing those that perished in the 9/11 attacks at the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Rebar marks additional spots for volunteers to place flags.
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Author’s memoir shares problems, remedies in her military marriage
August 23, 2012 at 2:34 pm | Posted in Book Review | Leave a commentTags: burlesque, marriage, military, military spouse, Operation Iraqi Freedom, PTSD, West Point
In an unexpected turn-of-events, author Lily Burana becomes a military wife and shares the joys and problems of military life in her book, “I Love a Man in Uniform.”
Lily Burana writes her memoir, “I Love a Man in Uniform.”
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Navy SEAL relates deeds of heroism, faith, survival
March 10, 2012 at 12:35 pm | Posted in Book Review | Leave a commentTags: Afghanistan, Hell Week, Lone Survivor, Marcus Luttrell, Operatin Redwing, U.S. Navy SEALS
Leading Petty Officer Marcus Luttrell fought to stay alive after a hellacious battle with the Taliban in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan. He vowed to tell the story of his brave U.S. Navy SEAL teammates, Lt. Michael Murphy, Petty Officer Matthew Axelson and Petty Officer Danny Dietz and to deliver the story and their dying words to their families.
The book, “Lone Survivor,” recounts Operation Redwing and recognizes its heroes.
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Former U.S. Navy SEAL sets facts straight on Osama bin Laden mission
December 29, 2011 at 9:38 pm | Posted in Book Review | 2 CommentsTags: Geronimo, Navy, Osama bin Laden, SEALs
Unlike the Obama administration, author and former assault element commander of SEAL Team Six, Chuck Pfarrer, gives details of the Osama bin Laden mission without putting the SEALs or their families in jeopardy or revealing military secrets. In “The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama bin Laden: SEAL Target Geronimo,” Pfarrer reveals the details of the mission as it unfolded on May 1, 2011.
- “SEAL Target Geronimo” tells the true story of the Osama bin Laden mission.
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Patriot Guard Riders honor, respect veterans, military families
December 17, 2011 at 5:57 pm | Posted in Military Event | 1 CommentTags: honor, honor our troops, motorcycle, Patriot Guard Riders, PGR, Proud to be an American, respect, veterans
During Veterans Day week 2011, the Paradise Valley Community College Veterans Association held a weeklong celebration. A couple of the members of the Arizona Patriot Guard Riders joined the celebration on Monday, Nov. 7, and shared the group’s mission statement and the events or missions they attend.
Veteran Mark Hill and Tip Combs represented the Patriot Guard Riders at the PVCC weeklong Veterans Day celebration.
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PVCC Veterans Association celebrates Veterans Day
December 4, 2011 at 11:26 am | Posted in Military Event | Leave a commentTags: Luke Air Force Base, military, Paradise Valley Community College, Patriot Guard Riders, PGR, U.S. Air Force, U.S.Army, Veterans Association, Veterans Day
In a weeklong celebration, the Paradise Valley Community College Veterans Association celebrated Veterans Day with a special event. The members brought representatives from the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force at Luke Air Force Base, the Disabled American Veterans and the Patriot Guard Riders to talk to students, faculty, staff and administrators.
The U.S. Army came to PVCC to celebrate the weeklong Veterans Day event.
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Arizona continues to honor, remember heroes
October 29, 2011 at 8:29 pm | Posted in Military Event | Leave a commentTags: Arizona, Enduring Freedom, flag, heroes, military, OEF, OIF, Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza
Oct. 29, 2011 marks the rededication of the "Enduring Freedom Memorial" at Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza.
On a gorgeous Arizona fall day, Gold Star Families, active duty military, veterans, bikers, dignitaries and military supporters gathered at Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza at 10 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011 to rededicate the “Enduring Freedom Memorial” and to honor Arizona’s heroes. Continue Reading Arizona continues to honor, remember heroes…
Book depicts 2009 CIA tragedy
October 19, 2011 at 12:47 pm | Posted in Book Review | Leave a commentTags: Afghanistan, agent, Al-Qaeda, bin Laden, CIA, mole, special forces, suicide bomber, terrorism
How could a suicide bomber infiltrate a secret, secure base in Afghanistan and kill seven CIA operatives? Pulitzer Prize winning author Joby Warrick lays out the details of how this alarming event unfolded in his new book, “The Triple Agent.”
- Pulitzer Prize winner Joby Warrick writes a true-life spy thriller, “The Triple Agent.”
Author gives readers firsthand combat experience
August 14, 2011 at 2:05 pm | Posted in Book Review | Leave a commentTags: Afghanistan, Korengal Valley, Restrepo, Sebastian Junger, War
What better way to experience combat than to become a part of it with an Army platoon in Afghanistan. That’s how author Sebastian Junger gathered material for his book, “War” and worked with Tim Hetherington on the documentary “Restrepo.”
- Sebastian Junger writes a detailed account of combat in his book “War.”
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SEAL Team Six member shares his life story
August 5, 2011 at 4:20 pm | Posted in Book Review | Leave a commentTags: battle of mogadishu, military, Navy, navy seal, SEAL, SEAL Team Six, Sniper, underwater demolition seal training, wasdin
Howard E. Wasdin shares his life story in SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper. He gives readers a glimpse at his life growing up and how he learned to deal with and overcome adversities to become a member of SEAL Team Six.
Howard E. Wasdin tells his unique story in SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper.
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