May 15, 2015 As Publisher of Athens Now, and someone who has a deep first hand appreciation for Chaplains and all they do...
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All Things Soldier Archives
All Things Soldier: The National Guard Deserves To Nosh
It is the 29th of April as I write this, and Baltimore, the place where our national anthem was written,...
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All Things Soldier: “The Luxury Of Obliviousness”
Martin Luther King, it is time to roll over yet again in your grave. The nefarious NCOs who are part...
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All Things Soldier: Ride The Thunder
It has been a banner year for movies about our military heroes. An American Sniper has grossed more than 300...
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All Things Soldier: Modder As Fodder
When I was in Iraq, I watched as chaplains would emerge from seminars that were geared toward making sure that...
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All Things Soldier: Can SECDEF Carter Cut It?
Given yet another well-deserved drubbing on Iranian nuclear proliferation delivered on March 3rd by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, all...
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All Things Soldier: An American Sniper
I recently saw An American Sniper, the movie about Chris Kyle, the legendary SEAL sniper who was murdered after he...
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All Things Soldier: The Ventura Vendetta
Every once in awhile, thankfully not all that often, a former member of the military turns on his brethren and...
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All Things Soldier: PTSD And EFT
This is the third article that Athens Now has devoted to the subject of PTSD, (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), with...
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All Things Soldier: Why We Fight, 70 Years Later
My mom tells me of how, when she was a teenager in 1937, she observed first hand, (while visiting in...
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All Things Soldier: Teddy And The Testaments
It has been a tough year for our soldiers on a number of fronts: physical, literal, spiritual, domestic, psychological and...
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All Things Soldier: The Legend That Was Louie Zamperini
Louie Zamperini literally faced down many enemies in his near century of life, including Adolph Hitler, Josef Goebbels, Japanese prison...
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All Things Soldier – Insights On The IDF
It is my last day in Jerusalem, and my heart longs to return here, in spite of the attack yesterday...
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All Things Soldier: Andrew Tahmoressi Is Home At Last
After 214 days in a Mexican prison, Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmoressi is home at last, re-united with his family, and...
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All Things Soldier: Montel Williams Pleads For Andrew Tahmooressi
It has been six months since Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi has been held in a Mexican jail for accidentally crossing...
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All Things Soldier: ISIS Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg
Athens Now has a subtitle to its moniker: Information and Inspiration, and as I write this, the best I can...
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All Things Soldier: Is The Navy Nixing The Gideons?
It seems that there is no more skillful use of evasive language than when the military is under pressure from...
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All Things Soldier: The FIFA Facebook Funeral
Sean Carmeli was born in Texas, the son of a couple who had come to the US from Israel and...
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All Things Soldier: Bergdahl Is Back To Business?
The strange case of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was allegedly held captive for 5 years by the Taliban in...
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All Things Soldier: The VA In Disarray
At the end of his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln concluded his speech with the following statement: “With malice toward...
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