Word: thanked
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...received more than 15,000 letters of support, some addressed simply to "The family of the soldier captured in Iraq, Batavia, Ohio." Other messages have been posted on the center's website (www. yellow ribbon support center. com). Dozens of U.S. troops have responded to the packages. They thank the center for making their stay in Iraq a little easier and pledge to do what they can to bring Maupin home. "Recovering missing Americans is something all service members hold sacred, partly because it motivates us to do our job without worrying whether or not our country will come...
...flattered by your recent invitation to celebrate the April wedding of His Royal Highness Charles, the Prince of Wales, and Mrs. Camilla Parker Bowles, the future Duchess of Cornwall and Princess Consort (or whatever combination of flowery titles the Royal stationer deems necessary to lend her calling cards and thank-you notes that traditional noble oomph) I must regretfully inform you that I will be unable to attend. Even more regretfully, I feel it is my duty to be candid about my reasons for non-attendance, which have nothing to do with ill-health or prior engagements, but result from...
...part, I have my new peers to thank for the change. I’ve never had to defend or even explain myself to any of them. Except for one scary incident when, after going to a movie together, my one-time date told me that he would never “ever” consider marrying someone who did not share his nationality, the issue has never come up. It’s not a taboo subject, but I just don’t find myself thinking about my blackness or, for example, the other person?...
George W. Bush (thank God) will never run for president again. And though 2008 will be a choice between two different men (or: a man and a woman!), Bush’s presidency will form the background onto which that contest is drawn. Howard Dean (if he keeps his word) will also never run for president again. But maybe what Democrats need right now is someone who can say what the Republicans said in 1993: This president isn’t nice, and he isn’t right. A Democratic “stubborn strategy” might...
...taken maybe one charge in my entire career, so it was complete luck. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time,” Stehle said afterwards. “[Will] Venable just came at me and...I just kind of flopped and thank God they gave me the call...