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American Profiles of Valor / Mark Alexander / December 5, 2025

Profiles of Valor: SSgt William Pitsenbarger (USAF)

“There was only one man on the ground that day that would have turned down a ride out of that hellhole — and that man was Pitsenbarger.”

The Frog That Roared — April 18, 2003
Tightening the Noose — April 4, 2003
Where’s Waldo? — March 28, 2003
UN Blues — March 21, 2003
As the UN fiddles — March 14, 2003
Thunder on the Horizon — March 7, 2003
Closing ranks on the Jihadistan front with Iraq — February 28, 2003
17 UN resolutions later — February 21, 2003
We have been at war since Khobar Towers! — February 14, 2003
Old Europe — and getting older by the minute — February 7, 2003
2003 SOTU — January 31, 2003
Another UN Deadline — January 23, 2003
Buying Time for a Coalition — January 17, 2003
Last Year — for the Axis of Evil? — January 3, 2003
Christmas 2002: The One True Gift — December 23, 2002
Iraq’s weapons programs declaration — December 20, 2002
The ‘Axis of Evil’ Never Rests — December 13, 2002
Diplomacy on the Warfront — December 6, 2002
Thanksgiving 2002: The Shining City on a Hill — November 27, 2002
Stuck between Iraq and a hard place? — November 15, 2002
‘Axis of Evil’ Triad — October 18, 2002
Iraq — Bush Gets the Bullet — October 11, 2002
Post 9-11 — Year One — September 13, 2002
Regime change — September 6, 2002
Saddam — not Iraq — August 30, 2002
Concrete evidence — August 23, 2002
Iraq and al-Qa’ida — August 16, 2002
Removing Saddam — August 9, 2002
Ethics and fireworks — July 12, 2002
Independence Day 2002 - Common Sense — July 4, 2002
Freedom from Religion? — June 28, 2002
The Department of Homeland Security — June 7, 2002
From Russia with a Treaty — May 24, 2002
Found: WMD — May 17, 2002
Peace with the Palestinians? — May 10, 2002
Prayer for Our Nation… — May 3, 2002
How important IS Earth Day? — April 26, 2002
Standoff in the Holy Land — April 19, 2002
What is our enemy capable of? — April 12, 2002
The uphill struggle — April 5, 2002
Resurrection Day 2002: Not Peace But a Sword — March 28, 2002
Justice for Jihadis — March 22, 2002
Six-month report — March 15, 2002
Anaconda Sized Body Slam — March 8, 2002
The global reach of terror — March 1, 2002
Three black holes — February 22, 2002
Free Speech and Campaign Finance — February 15, 2002
2002 SOTU — February 1, 2002
Homeland Security watch — January 25, 2002
Caves, Camps and Clinton Scandals — January 18, 2002

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