'Honoring Those Who Served'
Graphic from a Veterans
Day Poster 1995 - Courtesy Veterans Admin.
National: President
Commemorates Veterans Day, Discusses War on Terror - President
Bush said, "Today, our nation pays tribute to those veterans,
25 million veterans who have worn the uniform of the United States
of America. ... At this hour, a new generation of Americans is
defending our flag and our freedom in the first war of the 21st
century. The war came to our shores on September the 11th, 2001.
That morning, we saw the destruction that terrorists intend for
our nation. We know that they want to strike again. And our nation
has made a clear choice: We will confront this mortal danger
to all humanity; we will not tire or rest until the war on terror
is won," President Bush told an audience of veterans and
military personnel in Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania.
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President George W.
Bush gestures as he delivers remarks on the war on terror, Friday,
Nov. 11, 2005 at the Tobyhanna Army Depot in Tobyhanna, Pa.
White House photo by Eric Draper
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"On Veterans Day, we also
remember the troops who left America's shores but did not live
to be thanked as veterans. On this Veterans Day, we honor the
courage of those who were lost in the current struggle. We think
of the families who lost a loved one; we pray for their comfort.
And we remember the men and women in uniform whose fate is still
undetermined -- our prisoners of war and those missing in action.
America must never forget their courage. And we will not stop
searching until we have accounted for every soldier and sailor
and airman and Marines missing in the line of duty," said
President Bush.
Bush said, "All of America's
veterans have placed the nation's security before their own lives.
Their sacrifice creates a debt that America can never fully repay.
Yet, there are certain things that government can do; my administration
remains firmly committed to serving America's veterans."
In his speech, President Bush
also laid out his administration's strategy for winning the War
on Terror, the president asserted that "the defense of freedom
is worth our sacrifice, we do know the love of freedom is the
mightiest force of history, and we do know the cause of freedom
will once again prevail." - More...
Friday - November 11, 2005
Alaska: Governor
Proposes Community Dividend Plan - The state needs a long-term,
sustainable approach to assist local communities, said Governor
Frank H. Murkowski in a speech to the Alaska Municipal League
in Anchorage on Thursday. The governor outlined a proposal that
could use earnings from the Amerada Hess account to establish
a new Community Dividend Program.
"I have witnessed the
financial problems faced by our local municipal governments,
especially in rural Alaska," said Murkowski. "The state
can help, but that help should be permanent and not subject to
the yearly ups and downs of general fund revenue. It must be
long-term; it must be sustainable. This approach meets those
challenges." - More...
Friday - November 11, 2005
Alaska: Ready
to Read, Ready to Learn Task Force sets goals at initial meeting
- Alaska Governor Frank H. Murkowski will ask the Alaska Legislature
to provide $750,000 in fiscal year 2007 to improve childhood
literacy and learning, First Lady Nancy Murkowski announced Friday
at the Ready to Read, Ready to Learn Task Force in Anchorage.
The Department of Health &
Social Services) and the Department of Education & Early
Development will use the funds to carry out recommendations being
developed by the task force, which met today at the UAA/APU Consortium
Library in Anchorage. - More...
Friday - November 11, 2005
National: Government
urges public patience for flu shots By LEE BOWMAN - Somewhere
out there in America are 71 million doses of flu vaccine.
So says the director of the
federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Julie
Gerberding, who called a news conference Thursday to reassure
frustrated flu-phobics around the country that local vaccine
shortages will eventually work themselves out. - More...
Friday - November 11, 2005
International: Top
aide to Saddam reported dead in Iraq By LISA HOFFMAN - Izzat
Ibrahim al Douri, the longtime Saddam Hussein crony whose death
was reported Friday in a statement circulated in the name of
Iraq's former ruling Baath Party, was believed to have helped
organize the bloody insurgency bedeviling American troops in
Iraq.
There was some dispute within
the Bush administration about the extent of al Douri's role in
the guerrilla operation - some officials believed he was one
of the masterminds; others thought he was too ill with leukemia
- but the apparatchik was considered important enough that the
State Department slapped a $10 million bounty on his head in
2003. He was the highest-ranking official of the regime still
at large. - More...
Friday - November 11, 2005
National: Palmeiro
won't be charged with perjury By DAVID NIELSEN - Rafael Palmeiro
dodged a perjury rap Thursday when the House Government Reform
Committee declined to prosecute the baseball star for telling
the committee he had never taken steroids just seven weeks before
failing a drug test.
"It is not a finding of
innocence, but it's a finding that we could not substantiate
perjury," said Chairman Tom Davis, R-Va.
One of only four players in
major league history to hit 500 home runs and 3,000 hits, Palmeiro
was suspended for 10 days in August for using steroids. - More...
Friday - November 11, 2005
National: Animal
lovers push for new pet protections By ISAAC WOLF - Norma
J. Worley's tale of puppy-love might make Internet pet purchasers
bark in anger.
Worley, director of Maine's
Animal Welfare Program, said she sees many pet seekers browse
through pictures of pups or kittens on the Internet until they
fall in love with a picture of their ideal pet. - More...
Friday - November 11, 2005
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