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Cpl. Sanchez, 2nd LAR, (c) www.artharris.com

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

I arrived in a sandstorm, and left in a sandstorm, the raging desert winds etching stings and memories of war few can erase–friendship and gratitude I carry with me today on Veterans Day, and every day for the young Marines who looked out for me as an embedded journalist, and each other, rough, tough, ready to fight– and ever polite.

“Sir, could you please bend down so I could shoot out your window?” asked my driver, Cpl. Sanchez, as our 7-ton ammo truck came under fire one night in Nasirya. I scribbled notes, now illegible, as the men let me into their lives, some cut short, to write about their hopes, dreams and missions I’ll be sharing about these and other American heroes from time to time on The Bald Truth.

Not a day goes by I don’t think about the young guns of the 2nd Marines light armored reconn unit (LAR) out of Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, and how we raced across the Iraq border in March, 2003, my only weapons, laptop and cameras. As I salute them today, and all the men and women in uniform, I also wince about how we got off on the wrong foot–my fault–and my first brush with fear.

Then Marine Cpl Rey Narvais, (c) artharris.com

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By Art Harris, (c), www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

Moments before he took the stage in Denver to touch 84,000 people Thursday night, I stood just a few feet away, camera rolling, to capture Sen. Barack Obama, as he touched two dozen voters, picked at random to meet him, in a rare and personal way.

He’s an active listener, engaging, bantering, even comforting with one woman who was so overcome with emotion, she burst into tears.

“Why are you crying?” he asked, hugging her, telling her everything was going to be okay. Read the rest of this entry »

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

While pundits debate Sen. Barack Obama’s VEEP recruiting, vetting running mates down to the wire, filmmaker Michael Moore questions the wisdom of hedging bets with some conservative, smart-ass White Boy who backed the war, like Sen. Joe Biden, or Sen. Evan Bayh, who also has blue collar appeal, or governor of Virginia, Tim Kaine.

So what if they can deliver big blocks of electoral votes if they don’t jive with with what he Stands for, asks Moore in an open letter to Caroline Kennedy asking the Obama running mate adviser to toss her hat into the ring. It could also chill gripes about Sen. Hillary Clinton and conjure excitement over party roots. Read the rest of this entry »

Art Harris on Nancy Grace: Hulk Hogan Bought Beer Day of Crash

Bald Truth Staff, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

An excerpt from CNN’s The Nancy Grace Show, featuring Art Harris with little known details of Nick Bollea’s crash: Read the rest of this entry »