I`m kinda at a loss for words on this, knowing that some portions of the population of this great country have no knowledge concerning geography, But a candidate for President???

Here is the video of what Obama said in Oregon:

Obama Says He Has ‘Now Been In 57 States‘

The LA Times story:

LOS ANGELES TIMES: Barack Obama wants to be president of these 57 United States

In Brest Sunday, June 1 2008.

Demining a 225kg bomb dating from the second world war U.S manufacturing .

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=e...%3Den%26sa%3DGw

VEE

Gerome sent this on to me. Was given this info by a friend of his:

An English author, James Holland, of aviation books has just published his latest, 'Italy's Sorrow, A Year of War, 1944-5'.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031237396..._pr_product_top

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-...72703-20779759/

Original Illustration Art-World War Two-Rome Italy-Army Engineers Moving Tank Over Bridge

by Fiore, Amberto

Found this on Alibris this morning while researching books regarding army combat engineers! YIKES!

http://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?i...y*listing*title

I was reading this article on MOUT in the March-April Infantry magazine and thought about you guys from WWII. It gives a pretty lengthy synopsis of the fight for Aachen and it made me wonder if any of you had the misfortune of slogging through a large city. My understanding of Salerno and Anzio was that the towns were taken relatively quickly but the attempted break-outs were where there was tremendous difficulty.

MOUT is something that the military has spent a lot of time and money studying. The Marine Pub is the MCWP 3-35.3 (Marine Corps Warfighting Publication) and the Army's is the FM 90-10. The Army pub is from 1993 and the Marine's is only from five years later in 1998. No doubt new chapters are being written as we speak by the soldiers and Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan but unfortunately that pub probably won't be released for years later. As the article says toward the bottom, however, most of the MOUT knowledge from today came from WWII, Korea, and Viet Nam. Odd how slowly the military takes to learn lessons. Just as soldiers had to make up doctrine as they went in Aachen, the Marines were doing the same decades later in Hue. Another similarity is a dearth of information on the city they were attacking. Marines at Hue used gas station maps of the city! Today, at least, we have satellite images and UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) feeds.

Just wondering what your experiences had been.