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(edit)Kelly, 61, who is also a retired Marine sergeant, was immediately tested to see if he was a match, and as luck would have it, he was.“It was really admirable to see these two men who had defied fear in battle and situations of severe adversity to come together,” Molmenti told FOXNews.com. “Now they’re fighting the biggest fight of their whole lives and they're helping each other with this precious gift.” (edit)

Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party, World Can't Wait (WCW) is a direct action movement seeking to organize "people living in the United States to take responsibility to stop the whole disastrous course led by the Bush administration." The organization asserts that removing President Bush from office "will be like removing a forty-pound tumor from your gut." WCW vows "to send Bush, Cheney and the rest of those fascists packing. ... After that, there are people in 'World Can't Wait' who are working for everything from reforming the Democratic party,...

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“Miracle Marine” Comes Home By Amy Wood | Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 They’ve called him the miracle marine, from the moment he made it across the ocean and back to the U.S. where he’s gone through hundreds of surgeries, never ending rehab, and the challenges few of us can imagine when you’ve lost both legs. Andrew Kinard is tough because he’s a Marine. But he’s even tougher because he’s one of God’s soldiers. His mission all these months has been to feel the prayers of tens of thousands, and trust that he could make it with God’s help. If...

What defines a hero? A long line of dignitaries stood on stage Saturday in the back parking lot of First Baptist Church and praised the heroic efforts and example of Marine 1st Lt. Andrew Kinard, a Spartanburg native who lost both of his legs and suffered a laundry list of other severe injuries on Oct. 29, 2006, in Iraq.They talked about the six others from this county who have gone to war in recent years and not come home - and other servicemen and women who have been injured. They called Andrew "Spartanburg's hero" and "America's best." They called him...

First the Marine Corps made Chuck Norris an honorary Marine. Now the Corps wants all Marines to follow in his footsteps. All Marines must now qualify for their tan belt in the Corps' version of martial arts by the end of 2007, Corps Commandant Gen. James Conway said in a recent Corps-wide message. The move mostly affects those who joined before 2001, when the service made the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program part of basic training and the Basic School, said 1st Lt. Brian P. Donnelly, a spokesman for Manpower and Reserve Affairs. The Corps originally hoped to have all...

The top U.S. military officer, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, doesn't plan to apologize for telling a newspaper that homosexuality is immoral. Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Chicago Tribune on Monday that he supports the "don't ask, don't tell" policy banning openly gay people from serving in the U.S. armed forces. The general also compared homosexuality to adultery -- behavior that is prosecuted in the military, he said. "My upbringing is such that I believe that there are certain things, certain types of conduct that are immoral," Pace told the Tribune. "I believe that military members...

WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday he considers homosexuality to be immoral and the military should not condone it by allowing gay personnel to serve openly, the Chicago Tribune reported. Marine Gen. Peter Pace likened homosexuality to adultery, which he said was also immoral, the newspaper reported on its Web site. "I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way," Pace told the newspaper in a wide-ranging interview. Pace, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and a 1967 graduate of...

Al Moreno is a Newport Beach private eye and a former Los Angeles police officer. He is divorced and lives alone. Since the day in his teens he learned of it, he has been tormented by his father?s desertion from the Navy on Feb. 14, 1944. For almost two decades, Moreno has been trying to close the gap between the bodies in that snapshot. He?s written to presidents, to congressmen, to the Justice Department, to anyone who might listen. What he wants is simple: a posthumous pardon for his father, who died destitute in 1977, nearly three decades after the...

I am shaking with fury right now. I just listened on the radio to the father of one of the Marines and the wife of the Navy corpsman incarcerated in Camp Pendleton - UNCHARGED -after Haditha. Let me tell you what's going on with OUR Marines right at this moment: While "detainees" (not "terrorists", not "prisoners", not "criminals", mind you) at Gitmo are accorded every privilege - including playing soccer in the sun, praying whenever they want, white-glove Koran service, and halal meals...our Marines, who have NOT been charged with any crime whatsoever are in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT and wearing leg...

 As ugly as the Haditha incident appears to be, there are people who cannot resist the temptation to make it even uglier. First reported in Time Magazine, the November 19, 2005 incident, in which up to two dozen civilians are alleged to have been killed by U.S. Marines, did not impact public opinion until Rep. John Murtha (D, PA) appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews, where the soldier’s pal revealed that the attack had been carried out “in cold blood” and was “even worse” than outlined in the magazine report. Murtha also acquiesced to Matthews’ eager suggestions that the attack was...

PHILADELPHIA - Frederick Clinton Branch, the first black commissioned officer in the Marine Corps, died Sunday at a Philadelphia hospital. Branch, whose wartime service on a merchant ship in the Pacific helped earn him a spot in Officer Candidate School, was 82. He was made a lieutenant of the U.S. Marine Corps on Nov. 10, 1945, the 170th anniversary of the founding of the Marines. Branch had previously been rejected for a spot in Officer Training School, and was instead drafted in 1942 while he was a student at Temple University. He had been striving for a Marine commission after...

Fox News Channel has a feisty new employee: retiring Sen. Zell Miller, D-Ga. "We will plug him in wherever we can use him," Kevin Magee, vice president of programming, told the Washington Post. "I am excited to be joining Fox News Channel," stated Miller, 72, author of "A National Party No More" and rip-roaring keynote speaker at the GOP presidential convention. The Post noted today: "Zell Miller's Really Big Night at the Republican convention was a watershed moment for Fox News Channel as well. "FNC surprised many by beating ABC, CBS and NBC in head-to-head ratings competition on both nights...

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world. A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in...

Marine Lance Cpl. Joseph McCarthy, 21, of Apache, Ariz., hands candy out to Iraqi children who approached him at a military checkpoint west of Fallujah, Iraq, April 22, 2004. McCarthy died Sept. 6, 2004 from injuries received due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. His personal awards include the Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, and the National Defense Service Medal.

The proud warriors of Baker Company wanted to do something to pay tribute To our fallen comrades. So since we are part of the only Marine Infantry Battalion left in Iraq the one way that we could think of doing that is By taking a picture of Baker Company saying the way we feel. WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN and are proud to serve our country. Semper Fi 1st Sgt Dave Jobe

Things have been busy here. You know I can't say much about it. However, I do know two things. One, POTUS has given us the green light to do whatever we needed to do to win this thing so we have that going for us. Two, and my opinion only, this battle is going to have far reaching effects on not only the war here in Iraq but in the overall war on terrorism. We have to be very precise in our application of combat power. We cannot kill a lot of innocent folks (though they are few and far...

Cornell A. Wilson Jr., a 6-foot-2-inch, 215-pound, former high school baseball and football player, chose academics over sports in college. And even though he was in the Navy ROTC program, he chose a commission in the Marine Corps over one in the Navy. College was where young Wilson became fascinated by the gung-ho reputation, fellowship of valor and esprit de corps of America's warrior elite – the Marine Corps. The future Marine general loved sports, but during his college years, he opted for the oratorio choir, African-American Society and Semper Fidelis (Latin for "Always Faithful") Society, a student organization dedicated...

Check out R. Lee Ermey's website! For those of you who haven't discovered it yet, R. Lee Ermey's website is chock full of products, sound clips and other "motivational" material. Warning: You really need high-speed internet access and a good sound system to enjoy it fully. P.S. Don't skip the intro!

<p>Stacy Menusa and her husband, Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Joe Menusa in an undated photo. Joe Menusa was killed in action while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom.</p> <p>A 33-year-old Marine who graduated from a San Jose high school and was a Bay Area recruiter has been killed in the war in Iraq.</p>

<p>NEAR NASIRIYA, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. Marines Friday recovered the bodies of seven fallen comrades who died in intense fighting around Nasiriya in southern Iraqi Sunday, officials said.</p> <p>The city has been the scene of the fiercest fighting the Marine Corps has been involved in since Vietnam, senior Marines told CNN, and still is not under coalition control five days after coalition forces first engaged Iraqi paramilitaries.</p>