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 07/23/2008 19:26:56  ♥ written by drew ()

Motion City Soundtrack - Fell In Love Without You Motion City Soundtrack Tour Dates 07/23/08 Ramkota Exhibit Hall Souix Falls, South Dakota 07/24/08 Grandmas Sports Garden Duluth, Minnesota 07/25/08 Riverside Ballroom Green Bay, Wisconsin 07/26/08 Streeters Traverse City, Michigan 07/29/08 Vans Warped Tour:  Pittsburgh, PA 07/30/08 Vans Warped Tour: Riverbend Music Center OH 07/31/08 Vans Warped Tour: Verizon Wireless Music, IN 08/01/08 Vans Warped Tour: Marcus Amphitheater WI 08/02/08 Vans Warped Tour: First Midwest Bank IL 08/03/08 Vans Warped Tour: Canterbury Park ,MN 08/05/08 Vans Warped Tour: Credit Union Centre SK 08/06/08 Vans Warped Tour: Race City Speedway AB 08/08/08 Vans Warped Tour: Idaho Center Amp, ID 08/09/08 Vans Warped Tour: Gorge Amphitheatre WA 08/10/08 Vans Warped Tour: Columbia Meadows  OR 08/13/08 Vans Warped Tour: Save Mart Center CA 08/14/08 Vans Warped Tour: Coors Amphitheater CA 08/15/08 Vans Warped Tour: Shoreline Ampitheatre CA 08/16/08 Vans Warped Tour: Sleep Train Ampitheatre  CA 08/17/08 Vans Warped Tour: The Home Depot Center CA 09/04/08 MSU Auditorium East Lansing, Michigan 09/06/08 Crocodile Rock Cafe Allentown, Pennsylvania 09/07/08 House of Blues Atlantic City, New Jersey 09/08/08 Recher Theatre Towson, Maryland 09/10/08 The Orange Peel Asheville, North Carolina 09/11/08 The Music Farm Charleston, South Carolina 09/12/08 40 Watt Club Athens, Georgia 09/13/08 Real Big Deal Festival Gainesville, Florida 09/15/08 House of Blues New Orleans, Louisiana 09/17/08 Canopy Club Urbana, Illinois 09/18/08 The Blue Note Columbia, Missouri 09/19/08 Liberty Hall Lawrence, Kansas 09/22/08 Club Oasis Louisville, Kentucky 09/23/08 Newport Music Hall Columbus, Ohio 09/25/08 Magic City Music Hall Johnson City, New York 09/26/08 Northern Lights Clifton Park, New York 09/27/08 Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel Providence, RI 09/28/08 Toad’s Place New Haven, Connecticut 09/30/08 The National Richmond, Virginia 10/01/08 Lincoln Theatre Raleigh, North Carolina 10/02/08 Rocketown Nashville, Tennessee

     I'm always excited about acoustic releases. I generally prefer them since they strip away the flashiness and give you the raw talent of the band. Motion City Soundtrack's Acoustic EP is no different. The EP features five tracks from their 2007 album "Even If It Kills Me". For those who don't know Motion City Soundtrack is an increasingly popular indie rock/alternative rock/pop group formed in Minneapolis. The band has released three albums under Epitaph Records.

     As with most acoustic releases, the songs all sound much more earnest and heartfelt. The versions of "Fell In Love Without You" and "It Had To Be You" should go down in love-song history for their incredible emotion-evoking sound. Unlike some acoustic albums, Motion City Soundtrack delivers complete studio quality throughout the entire EP. There are not only acoustic guitars, but chimes, drums, piano, bass-- the whole nine yards.

Motion City Soundtrack - Broken Heart

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     This wasn't just a sit-down in the basement; it was crafted with much precision. The vocals may not have been as smooth as in "Even If It Kills Me" but they are strong and hit all their marks (which is no small feat with all of Motion City Soundtrack's high octaves). Even if you've already purchased "Even If It Kills Me" I highly recommend you pick this EP up. The quality and effort put into the Acoustic EP is easy to recognize, and it's a whole new take on all of the songs.

Links: motioncitysoundtrack.com myspace.com/motioncitysoundtrack epitaph.com

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Thank you to Maryann Phillips Soldiers' Angel at Landstuhl for providing these accounts and being there for the wounded. You are truly a wonderful angel. Let's get the truth of this out there folks..repost!

"I just hope these guys' wives and their children understand how courageous their husbands and dads were. They fought like warriors."

- SGT Jacob Walker

"It was some of the bravest stuff I've ever seen in my life, and I will never see it again because those guys... well, normal humans wouldn't do that. You're not supposed to do that — getting up and firing back when everything around you is popping and whizzing and trees, branches coming down and sandbags exploding and RPGs coming in over your head... It was a fistfight then, and those guys held ' em off."

- SPC Tyler Stafford

"When you ask for volunteers to run across an open field to a reinforced OP that almost everybody is injured at, and everybody volunteers, it feels good. There were a lot of guys that made me proud, putting themselves and their lives on the line so their buddies could have a chance."

- SSG Jesse Queck

SPC Gunnar Zwilling

All Sky Soldiers of Chosen Company, 2/503 Infantry Regiment (Airborne), 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team.
 
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The real story is NOT that this was a "base" - it was a small outpost of 45 men surrounded by concertina wire, with a few vehicles and fortified fighting positions.
 
The real story is NOT that the outpost was "overrun" - the truth is that 45 Heroes successfully fought off an organized attack by hundreds of heavily-armed Taliban and al Queda.
 
The real story is NOT that the outpost was "abandoned" after the attack - it was a temporary patrol base.
 
I spent days talking to the wounded paratroopers who were at Wanat during their stay at Landstuhl hospital and can vouch for everything in the following articles:
 
Interviews with several wounded Soldiers of Chosen Company while at Landstuhl hospital describing the attack.
 
Multimedia version of above interviews.

Interview with an additional wounded Soldier of Chosen providing further information on the fight.
 
Interview with the commander of the 173rd ABCT.
 
An Alamo with a Different Ending:Overwhelmingly Outnumbered Coalition Forces Repel a Complex Attack in NE
Afghanistan
 
This writeup can be found at my blog here:

http://soldiersangelsgermany.blogspot.com/2008/07/heroes-of-wanat.html
 

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Mary Ann Phillips
Vice President, Warrior Medical Support Europe
www.soldiersangels.org

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Am I the only one who sees it??

Sand Sculpture at the OC Fair

Peter Hoekstra

I don’t know if you are aware of this. Certain government entities are imposing a terror lexicon to be used for writing reports or public statements. For example words such as "Jihad," "jihadist," "Islamist," "mujahadeen," "caliphate," and more are officially prohibited by government entities. Specifically the government entities that are using the terror lexicon are the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC), and the State Department.

This is mind blowing! The very entities that are involve radical Islamic enemies of America in the Global War on Terror (GWOT) are prohibited from using terms that describe our enemy but are used by our enemies.

Well thank God Almighty Representative Peter Hoekstra (A Republican I might add) is battling legislatively to reverse this Politically Correct evil within the U.S. government.

Read about Rep. Hoekstra’s battle to keep a dhimmi terror lexicon out of the U.S. government at Counterterrorism Blog.

JRH 7/23/08 (Hat tip Act for America)

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