Dear Nicholas: You gave your grandfather one of his proudest moments last week. Watching you run your last high school cross-country race in the state championships at Carrollton was special. You didn’t win the race and you didn’t finish in the top ten. You did something better. You gave it everything you had. You told me last summer that you were going to dedicate yourself … [Read more...] about Nov. 7, 2005: To My Grandson Nicholas: You Are a True Champion
Oct. 31, 2005: McKinney’s Fund-Raising Tactics Out of This World
Here is some political news guaranteed to sour your milk. Cynthia McKinney, our ambassador to Outer Space and congressperson from Georgia’s 4th Congressional District, has been fined $33,000 by the Federal Election Commission and must reimburse as much as $72,000 more to political donors after accepting excessive contributions in the 2002 election, which she lost to Denise … [Read more...] about Oct. 31, 2005: McKinney’s Fund-Raising Tactics Out of This World
Oct. 14, 2005: Iraq Column #7
MIXED EMOTIONS: LEAVING THE 48TH BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM I am coming home. As you read this, I should be on a C-5A headed for Dover, Del. and then to Home Sweet Home. I leave with mixed emotions. Taking the world’s longest shower and sleeping in a real bed with a real mattress will be a pleasure, but leaving behind the men and women of Georgia’s 48th Brigade Combat Team wasn’t … [Read more...] about Oct. 14, 2005: Iraq Column #7
Oct. 13, 2005: Iraq Column #6
COLUMNIST SEES THE WAR ‘UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL’ With Georgia’s 648th engineering battalion in the Triangle of Death. I saw the war in Iraq up close and personal today. In fact, it was up closer than I wanted. A couple of bad guys exploded an IED (an improvised explosive device) as we were crossing a bridge near Camp Striker. Had our vehicle been going slower, or had the bad … [Read more...] about Oct. 13, 2005: Iraq Column #6
Oct. 12, 2005: Iraq Column #5
GEORGIANS HELPING TO BUILD SCHOOLS AND TRUST With the 118th Field Artillery Battalion in Taji. Today we went by helicopter to Camp Taji, south of Baghdad and the headquarters of the First Battalion of the 118 Field Artillery Regiment. This regiment, composed mainly of Georgians, has a myriad of responsibilities including overseeing various construction projects in and around … [Read more...] about Oct. 12, 2005: Iraq Column #5