Pennsylvania State Representatives Greg Vitali and Bryan Lentz's press conference addressed the military and national security importance of House Bill 80. Pennsylvania is picking up the challenge presented by energy and climate change. At the press conference, Operation Free members and supporters addressed the national security risks and why...

"The Committee is dismayed by the Department's assertion that the Committee concluded that the WRNMMC design plans were "...sufficiently close to the newly defined standard to recommend that the construction projects should continue" This statement is a misrepresentation of what was stated in our report."

So said Kenneth W. Kizer,...

DoD Photo Deputy Secretary of Defense Lynn

The Department of Defense informed Congress late last month that the new Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) will not be a world-class facility after all. This stunning admission came from Deputy Secretary...

" I appreciate your passion for wanting the best facility possible and can sense your frustration. ... I know this may not seem to make sense but it is how the construction process works."

Thus begins an e-mail from a Navy Captain in a senior leadership position to an irate...

Rochester Photo Images

The sky was a vivid blue; the Arabian Sea heavy with ships and the afternoon sun glared unforgivably. We traveled down a dusty road teeming with people walking, sitting or riding in/on cars, trucks and donkey carts. Large hotels...

The soles of my feet were blackened. The technician directed me to: "Carefully stand with your feet centered on the papers and don't move." After stepping off the papers, I asked why we had this exercise. The response was: "When a jet crashes, often the boots are all we can...

A sunny, early spring weekend in Germany, the small German village where we lived made us part of their life. Farmers slaughtered pigs and prepared equipment to work the fields during the coming week. Following a leisurely breakfast in bed, I was taking a relaxing bath; my wife was baking...

As the extremely unpopular Dick Cheney continues his torture apologist tour, the reactionary (they are now beyond conservative) opinion media tries to shift attention to Speaker Pelosi and to distract President Obama from the urgent business of repairing our nation.

In a nearly full Pennsylvania High School auditorium, Congressman Joe Sestak held his district's third veterans summit.

The elephant in that auditorium had nothing to do with veterans and everything to do with Congressman Sestak. The elephant was when Joe Sestak would officially announce that he is running against Senator...

Oldest Known Photo of WRGH

Two years ago on a lovely spring day, my world turned upside down. Routine physical, get to the part all guys find uncomfortable and the show stops! My general practitioner says something doesn't feel right. He had...

The F-4 Phantom, heavy with fuel, began her roll down the tarmac for take off. Going by the book, rotation speed past, hurtling faster down the runway, lift off speed attained, the doomed bird lifted gracefully off the tarmac, landing gear retracting,...

Service matters. Meet Jan Donatelli candidate for congress from the 5th Congressional District of Illinois. Jan Donatelli, pictured above, is a proven leader eager to serve. Jan Donatelli's diverse background includes Navy veteran, mother, civil and military aviator, business owner and union activist. I...

Citizens fearing loss of their homes are the single, largest segment of constituent calls to members of Congress. Thousands of jobs are being lost daily and the stock market is in the tank. I expected to see a bit of relief or, at least,...

Kellogg, Brown, Root (KBR), accused slayer of our military, received a new, many-millions DoD contract; Bethesda/Walter Reed rushes to failure while continuing its billion dollar plus cost overrun meanwhile record numbers of military commit suicide; last but hardly least, a tiny...

Our fallen warriors' families should NEVER need a United States senator to find out how their loved one died. Yet, one did. Thank you, Senator Bob Casey for stepping in when no one else would to help an anguished mother and her family learn how her son died. Another thank...

Never in my wildest, most imaginative dreams did I envision the Washington DC that I saw on Monday and Tuesday. I know Washington. From LBJ and the antiwar sixties through the Carter, Reagan and Bush One administrations, this city rose and fell. But never,...

A Report from the Field

Should this war continue any length of time, in the great summing up those whose , dear ones have been sacrificed by maladministration in this important branch of the army will be justified in their resentment, and the taxpayer doubly taxed to support our pension...

New York City, invigorating, powerful and proud. Through nearly half a century, this wonderful city on the Hudson beckons to me. Sleeping in a tractor and trailer at a pier, staying in hotels too nasty to rate an "avoid" in guide books, staying with friends on the Upper East Side...

In 1898, a military veteran wrote to the editor of the New York Times. The veteran was correct then and he is correct now.

"...it matters not how prominent a physician may be as a purely civil practitioner, unless he has been thrown in contact with troops in camp and...

The Democratic Party is ready to lead and here is why. Ten days or so ago it became clear that Congressman Jack Murtha had an election fight on his hands. Not only is his district the heartland of Republican and hopes to win Pennsylvania, but the Republicans have to win...