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A Marine with a great family and a prosperous career. Decided to do this to express myself and give the prospective of the military that you do not see on a regular basis. Recently now back from deployment like many of my brothers and now stationed in Hawaii

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Politics, News & Issues > War & Peace Analyzing the war on Iraq: Justified or not: 4 of 90

Opinion from the USMC. As a Marine who has been in Iraq multiple times. I myself have mixed feelings about the war. I have been in a place that is destroyed but still has beauty underneath. In the desert there is nothing but death, and In Baghdad a large city beautiful craftsmanship and rivers and grass. Its weird to see a p...
Entertainment > TV Genres & Trends Best current television series: 26 of 49

Heroes, The Best Show On TV: Like all of us I have been an avid TV watcher since I was a little kid and throughout all of those years and "Thank God Its Friday" family shoes I've been waiting. Heroes is this show. A show to finally grab me where I have to watch the show every week and actually set time apart to see it. Heroe...
Entertainment > Movie News & Previews Rocky Balboa: Will Stallone hit or miss at the box office?: 3 of 4

Remember the days when you could hear "Hey Adrian" at any moment and no one would anything of if. Well those days for about twenty years have been gone. With the invention of Rocky V and Tommy Gunn; where a wanna be Don King blinged up the screen with bad acting and blatant product placement. But that era of useless movies s...
Celebrations & Holidays > St. Patrick's Day Celebrating St. Patrick's Day: 14 of 18

Spending St Patty's day in Iraq: Sitting here tonight contemplating how to make up the time I'm going to miss out on this year. The Drinking, The Dancing, And the jollyment that is included in the affairs. But to me thats not going to be possible. I'll be in Iraq with thousands of other fellow Marines taking care of what nee...
Health & Fitness > Diet & Weight Loss Best diet pills for weight loss and management: 8 of 10

The Marine Method: I have spent my whole life overweight. You may think that as a Marine if would be impossible to be overweight with all of the physical exercise and lack of time to do anything other than work. But for me it is a different story. I have been near my max weight in the Marine Corps for the past 4 yrs. But I h...
Entertainment > Hollywood & Movie Industry File-sharing programs and their effect on the movie industry: 8 of 8

A long, long time ago back in 1993 I began my experience with the Internet. Downloading pictures at the rate of one per minute. Wow I knew I was hooked. As I went to college I had at very fast connection and downloaded music for all my friends at a rate I had never experienced. This is all well and good, but now I have found...
Computers & Technology > Business & Office Software Should I upgrade to Microsoft Office 2007?: 8 of 8

Recent Upgrade: A Definite Yes I have recently upgraded my Office 2003 Professional to Office 2007. At first I was skeptic as many of the previous features which I have come to love were not readily available. But as a project I was working on in which I was transferring scanned documents into adobe and then to word came to ...
Travel > Rental Cars & Driving Recommended car rental companies: 6 of 6

From much experience in numerous traveling adventures, I have discovered the best rental car company. This company has worked with me in having to typically drop the vehicle off at a different location for a much cheaper price than the competitor. This company is Hertz Rental Car. Let me tell you a story about Hertz Rental C...