Saturday, August 28, 2010
Shelton’s Statue Unveiled At Museum
Associated Press - Daily Southerner
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"A statue of a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs was to be dedicated at a North Carolina museum.
The Army’s Special Operations Command was to unveil the statue of retired Gen. H. Hugh Shelton today at the Airborne Special Operations Museum in Fayetteville. The ceremony was not open to the public.
The statue was donated by H. Ross Perot and sculpted by Paul Moore of Norman, Okla. Moore’s work has appeared in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington.
Shelton is a graduate of North Carolina State University who served in the Special Forces in Vietnam.
The native of Speed later commanded the 82nd Airborne Division and the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg before becoming the 14th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1997.
Shelton retired in 2001."
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"A statue of a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs was to be dedicated at a North Carolina museum.
The Army’s Special Operations Command was to unveil the statue of retired Gen. H. Hugh Shelton today at the Airborne Special Operations Museum in Fayetteville. The ceremony was not open to the public.
The statue was donated by H. Ross Perot and sculpted by Paul Moore of Norman, Okla. Moore’s work has appeared in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington.
Shelton is a graduate of North Carolina State University who served in the Special Forces in Vietnam.
The native of Speed later commanded the 82nd Airborne Division and the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg before becoming the 14th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1997.
Shelton retired in 2001."
A Tea Party Foreign Policy
Casus Belli
"In 1861, the tripwire was the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter, South Carolina. Prior to that incident, Lincoln was faced with a huge political problem. A majority of the people of the North wanted to avoid a civil war. So Lincoln contrived to get the Confederates to cede the moral high ground........ Lincoln's gambit worked and the Confederacy took the bait to it's peoples' eternal sorrow. Imagine the Federal rout of the First Battle of Bull Run (SIC S/B Manassas. BT) WITHOUT the justification of Fort Sumter. The pressure on Lincoln to stop the war and negotiate would have become immense." Read more HERE.
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"The resisting-arrest conviction last week of Felicia Gibson has left a lot of people wondering. Can a person be charged with resisting arrest while observing a traffic stop from his or her own front porch?" Read about the Marxist HERE and let's make sure she doesn't get reelected.
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