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 *Video at the source link*    (KCEN) -- The wife of a Fort Hood soldier who helped search for Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl when he was taken prisoner by the Taliban is reacting to the circumstances of his recent release.   On Saturday, the White House traded Sergeant Bergdahl for five known terrorists formerly detained at Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp.   "When I met him, he seemed like a typical soldier," says Kimberly Harris.   She met Bergdahl at a party in Alaska, as he and her husband prepared for the deployment that would lead to Bergdahl's captivity.   Shortly after...

  BELTON — Any re-enactment of the “shot heard ’round the world,” which launched the Revolutionary War, will have to be done with slingshots at Belton’s Fourth of July celebration this year.   A clause in the insurance policy covering Belton’s annual Fourth of July festivities caused event organizers to ban all firearms, even replica muskets carried by Revolutionary War re-enactors if there are any in the parade, officials said.   Officials with the Belton Area Chamber of Commerce, the parade organizers, said Wednesday that the no-firearm clause was a surprise addendum included in the policy this year.   A...

        .......for $3.78 a jar at H.E.B. !                  

    "The father of a slain Central Texas Marine appears in a new TV spot that began airing Thursday, challenging anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan to a debate."    

  Just listened to live interview of Gary Qualls on CNN. He calmly aired out Cindy S. and her "friends".   Wish I could have recorded audio/video, but it caught me by surprise during channel surfing.      

    A licensed clinical psychologist who is involved in the ongoing care of our troops takes on Tom Cruise's rant about mental health issues (exercise and vitamins to counter Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? Puh-leeze....)     http://slate.msn.com/id/2123487/6772    

    Statement by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld on London Bombings             This morning, the civilized world watched with concern as the people of London saw the face of violence and brutality.  We offer our deepest sympathies to the families who have lost loved ones and to those who were wounded.              Too often the global struggle against violent extremists is discussed in a context that can distract from the harsh reality that its victims are innocent mothers and fathers, husbands and wives, and neighbors we see and work with every day.             Images from London have shown faces filled...