Just when you thought all covert agents had to be tough guys....

Meet the female agent who can knock them all on their ass.

Cassidy Dancer is back.

Her story goes live on Amazon, February 2, 2016

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Need a good book to read?

This is my absolute favorite of all times.

Adam Brown

Navy SEAL, Team 6

Ex meth and cocaine addict

Father

Patriot

Unlikely hero

Best damned story ever!

Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial

Wow. I did not expect to be so profoundly moved when I visited this wall.

It's been on my bucket list since I found out it existed,

But to be standing in front of the names of men and women who sacrificed all....

Well, I could not hold back my tears. I didn't want to.

Not when I reverently took etchings of names of heroes like Marc Lee (panel 5A, row 36)

and Adam Brown (panel 5C, Row 35).

Wow. I did not expect to feel so -- humble.

Marseilles is a statement all by itself.

A quaint country town alongside the Illinois River, it declares the spirit of true American.

The American flag waves proudly, as well as a few biker club flags.

Well, good on 'em. 

This wall's existence is due to patriots like the Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Club.

Did you know the city of Chicago was approached to host this heroic tribute?

They turned it down. Weren't interested. But I digress.

The point is that America is alive and well and it's in little out of the way towns like

Marseilles where the flag still means something.

Where Gold Star Families are still honored.

There are 13 panels filled with name after name, 2 more panels mostly blank.

It honors all military members who have died in combat since 1979,

like the Marines lost in Kobar Towers, 

the men lost aboard the USS Cole, and others....

Friends and family leave mementos...

I left my eternal appreciation that good men and women still exist,

that heroes are not the things of myth and fantasy,

that God has blessed America.

Check it out: www.ilfreedomrun.org

You'll be glad you did.

I love America

I have stood and looked up into the faces of these bronze giants.

The Iwo Jima Memorial is a reverent place.

It's a good place to stop and think.

To remember.

To pray to God we are smart enough to learn from lessons which we

as a nation of fathers, mothers, sisters, and brothers have paid so dearly for….

”For all who bear its scars, the battle for Iwo Jima, 58 years ago (February 19-March 26, 1945), still looms gargantuan, unbelievable, devouring; not measurable by Guadalcanal, Peleliu or Belleau Wood, but by its own arena, complexity, ferocity and the character of its combatants, whose American casualties were one third of all Marine Corps casualties in the war.

Of the 3,400 coming ashore with the 28th Regiment, 5th Marine Division, then -- Captain Haynes recalls only 600 were standing when the battle closed. Yet, it wasn't ferocity alone -- certainly Korea and Vietnam had that -- but a dedication on either side giving the Marines an enemy so resolved, inventive and so masterful as to make the ground itself a powerful ally.

For the 70,000 Americans, Iwo Jima was the step to the Japanese heartland and to the end of an awful war. For the 22,000 Japanese defenders, Iwo Jima was the defense of their very hearths and homes as it was part of the Tokyo Imperial Prefecture (county). It was assaulted by the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions of the Fifth Marine Amphibious Corps, which included supporting sea and air units.

Iwo Jima was the only Marine battle where the American casualties, 26,000, exceeded the Japanese -- most of the 22,000 defending the island. The 6,800 American servicemen killed doubled the deaths of the Twin-Towers of 9/11.”

(Excerpt taken from Iwo Jima: A Remembrance, By Cyril J. O'Brien)