Memorial Day

by on May 30, 2016 at 12:01 am
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On Memorial Day we remember the over one million servicemen who died while serving our country. We place flags and flowers on their graves to remind ourselves of the sacrifice they made. We travel great distances to see family both living and dead. We gather in churches and graveyards and remember the ultimate sacrifice that was made by our countrymen so that we might live on. We cook our hot dogs and steaks, we laugh and we cry, and we go on with our lives. The servicemen gave us that freedom, and those who died are the cost of that freedom. We should ever remember their sacrifice and attempt to live a life that is worthy of it.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on May 29, 2016 at 12:01 am
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The Lockheed-Martin C-1 Starlifter was the first First Generation Gravtech military transport we built after the Peloran helped us understand the basics of twisting gravity to our will. We soon built better and larger transports that replaced them, but the Starlifters made it easy to transport ground pounders from orbit to surface and back again. The Rangers still flew them when The War began. They primarily performed search and rescue missions in Texas and the nearby States, and worked them hard in the aftermath of Yosemite. They soon upgraded to Shooting Stars and joined us in the Hyades when it was time to begin invading those worlds. They became an integral part of our operations and I place much of the credit for the outcome of that campaign on their courage and determination to brave the Chinese defense grids.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on May 28, 2016 at 12:01 am
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We need trees. And not just for the oxygen they produce. We need to walk between them on cool moonlit nights and sit in their shade on hot sunny days. We need flowers and bushes and grass. We need plants and places to enjoy them to remind us that we are alive. Gardens. Parks. That’s why all of our space stations have them. And the mobile cities too. The city and station cores almost always have some form of park or garden that people can walk through and just get in touch with the nature that humanity grew up with. And countless public corridors have bushes or flowerbeds designed to liven things up as well. We need plants to live, and we have brought them with us everywhere we go.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on May 27, 2016 at 12:01 am
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The failure of the Jane 2.0 voice systems to operate in prolonged combat situations was a heated topic in America. Politicians decried them as unstable systems indicative of a service full of unstable individuals that needed a firm hand to keep in check. Soldiers blamed politicians for rules of war so restrictive that the Jane 2.0s had nervous breakdowns. The techs scoffed at that idea. No computer system could have a nervous breakdown after all. But something was causing the systems to shut down and they did everything in their power to patch the systems. The only thing that worked was a complete reversion to factory presets though, and that defeated the purposes of a learning system.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on May 26, 2016 at 12:01 am
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Devil Dog squadron flew Blackhawks when The War started. They were old but serviceable fighters, weathered by a century of service to America. The Devil Dogs were centuries older, descended from the original Marine fighter demonstration squadron. The first one. The one that fought in the World Wars, the Jihad, and went to space with us. There is much history in that squadron. And for a retired unit there was much fire as well. They acquired Hellcats in time to fight at the Battle of Fort Wichita and the expanded Devil Dogs continued to fly upgraded versions of them until War’s End and beyond.

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