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CJ Grisham, the fight for his freedom and ours

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 18 Comments »

CJ Grisham, the fight for his freedom (shot of CJ at my house during his trip to Fort Hood in conjunction with his vacation to his new duty station. Yes this is a "I love me" gun shot, we like our ...

Goodbye to General James Mattis

Thursday, March 21st, 2013 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 2 Comments »

Goodbye to General James Mattis There are some leaders who are particularly notable and General Mattis is one of them.  He is a living legend among all Marines and the closest thing to Chesty Puller that we have produced in many ...

USMC Summer Leadership and Character Development Academy at Quantico VA (SLCDA) July 21-27th of 2013.

Wednesday, January 9th, 2013 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

  USMC Summer Leadership and Character Development Academy at Quantico VA (SLCDA) July 21-27th of 2013. There are kids out there who are starved and I don’t mean in the pit of their stomachs (there are many of those sadly) but kids ...

Gun Control, how do I work against this?

Sunday, January 6th, 2013 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...n_control.htmlJanuary 6, 2013 A recipe for activism against efforts at gun control Lee DeCovnick "Obama Plans Broad Gun Control" screamed the Drudge Report headline. So what actions can a responsible gun owner take to stop this legislative insanity? There are, of course, the ...

Post 9-11 Education Benefits and transfer commitment

Friday, December 28th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 3 Comments »

Welcome to the New Year… After almost 27 years in the Marine Corps (joined in 1986) with a six year break in the IRR, I thought that maybe I should retire or at least think about it since I was going ...

Merry Christmas

Monday, December 24th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 1 Comment »

Merry Christmas to all our troops overseas today.  Away from your family 8 thousand miles around the world.  You are with your other family and some of my fondest memories are from the times on the road with my brothers ...

Take away all the guns NOW!!

Monday, December 17th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 13 Comments »

While we reflect today over the events Friday, I allowed myself to get agitated at one of my Cousins. It was more her friend, but I allowed that to push me into attack mode and for that, I'm sorry. So ...

God Bless you Blake Page and Merry Christmas

Friday, December 7th, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 2 Comments »

West Point Senior Blake Page, drops out this week citing Religion (or his lack of) as the reason why he had to leave.  Blake Page quit West Point and suffers from clinical depression which is probably the reason they didn’t ...

Lindsey Stone-Fired and maybe laughing all the way to the bank

Thursday, November 22nd, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 1 Comment »

The sad part is now that they have fired her and her idiot friend, the company will have to pay unemployment if it's not in their company handbook. My wife who runs a Plumbing business says that unless they go ...

Happy Thanksgiving

Thursday, November 22nd, 2012 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

George Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation   Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas ...