The Dead Hand Journal

If you're having a hard time getting your kid to quit playing with high explosives, show him this video. Unless you're a terrorist, in which case we encourage you to join in the fun.

Meet Corporal Lonnie Young, a Marine in the fighting tradition of Dan Daly.

Don't know how I missed this one when the news broke in March, but thanks to my good friend Chris Smith for the tip. USS New York, clad with 24 tons of steel from World Trade Center 1, is preparing for battle.

A Marine Captain addresses the Code Pinkos who trashed his recruiting office in Berkeley.

When you ban the good guys' weapons, only the bad guys will have them.

Marine EOD takes a page from Hollywood and brings a little flash to an Iraq insurgent's stone house.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared the Iraq war effort a failure and the recent troop surge a bust during the Sunday edition of CNN's Late Edition. Meanwhile, captured Al-Qaeda documents suggest terrorist reluctance to accept Pelosi's analysis.

When words fail...

It isn't a wish, my friends... it's an observation.

Hordes of vacationers opt out of the traditional turkey dinner in favor of travel over Thanksgiving. Most, however, are not packing their bags for war-torn countries such as Afghanistan, where Israeli-born comedian Avi Liberman found himself over the holiday performing for American troops.

My old classmate Megan McClung, who died just over a year ago in Iraq, continues to touch and inspire her shipmates.

"What the hell was on 572's right wing?" The result of MacNamara's ordnance shortage in 'Nam... "We gave them everything we had... EVERYTHING!"

A true story from VA-25.

Four dead bad guys and one very lucky dog...

As a former Naval Officer, this headline struck me as so surreal that at first I thought USNA-At-Large's John Howland was circulating a joke. If only!

This article was written by Dr. Jack Wheeler on September 19, 2007. I receive it by email, contacted Wheeler for validation, and he confirmed his authorship. It's an eye-opener.