Due to increasing spam posts on the shoutbox I have removed it until I find a more secure and spam proof tag board. I just got tired of deleting 20+ posts a day to it telling me how interesting this site is and that they wish they had a site like this one. It’s obviously [...]

This past weekend the kids, Rob and I attended the funeral of another American Hero, Pfc Patrick Tinnell of Lake Havasu City. Patrick, who recently turned 25, was killed April 19 when a car bomb detonated near his unit while on combat patrol. Patrick was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade [...]