Subject: U.S. Marine Corps

• Yup. I Was a Cheerleader. Damned Proud of It. (Well...)

  April 12, 2007

• Green Grass for a Local Filmmaker

  December 7, 2006

• To Meet a War Hero

  February 22, 2008

• A Postcard from Iraq: The Night Lieutenant Dan Met Major Mike

  July 14, 2008

• Burning Question: What's changed since you left Dallas?

  November 7, 2008

• Blah, blah

  December 15, 1994

• Street scenes

  June 15, 1995

• Countering the 'Get Clinton' movement

  June 22, 1995

• Trail of Tears

  August 1, 1996

• 10 Questions: Jason Weaver

  The French Room's executive chef is one of those 'results-oriented' types. Perhaps his habit of accomplishment stems from the four years he spent in the U.S. Marine Corps. Or maybe the 35 year-old Michigan native can just flat out cook.Although he came to Dallas from the Mandarin Oriental in New York, Weaver began his culinary career at the Ritz-Carlton in Dearborn, helping push the hotel's kitchen into the number one slot, company wide. In 1999, the restaurant earned a top 10 ranking from Conde

  January 21, 2009

• The Few, the Proud, the Battered

  December 25, 1997

• Letters

  March 1, 2001

• Feeding Frenzy

  July 26, 2001

• Mexico's Niños Héroes Were Brave by Any Standard

  October 16, 2008

• Soldier Suicides

  Two Texas brothers fall in the war on terror—one in combat, one by his own hand

  October 2, 2008

• Few Good Men

  Well-acted dramas explore scandals and racism in the military. Can you handle the truth?

  September 18, 2008

• The New Face of Evil

  Call of Duty 4 might hit a little too close to home

  November 22, 2007

• Flags of Our Fathers

  August 31, 2006

• "Babe, I leave this for you"

  Seven years after her police-officer husband died in the line of duty, Lydia Galvan clings to his memory -- any way she can

  March 23, 2000

• American Eagle

  March Madness ain't nothing compared to Ambush Alley

  March 15, 2007

• ¡Ask a Mexican!

  February 8, 2007

• ¡Ask a Mexican!

  September 7, 2006

• He Will Bury You

  Tommy Lee Jones keeps his promise to Melquiades Estrada

  February 2, 2006

• The War on Film

  Iraq Hits the Big Screen

  December 22, 2005

• French Feint

  Gallic is far from galling at The French Room

  November 24, 2005

• Killing Time

  In the profound Jarhead, a soldier can be his own worst enemy

  November 3, 2005

• G.I. Jerk

  Phil Haberman claims he fought with special forces in Iraq, but he's about as real as Rambo

  September 1, 2005

• Just Peachy

  July 7, 2005

• Forces at Work

  June 9, 2005

• Manhattanism

  The new season in New York's Chelsea galleries offers a mad mixture of artful objects, photo-optics and cinematic play

  October 28, 2004

• Both Sides Now

  In a new film, a local boy goes to war and realizes, yup, it sure is hell

  June 10, 2004

• A Little Less Conversation

  Plus: Cheer Up, Gal

  September 5, 2002

• Back From Babylon

  He's just one Marine, but this returning trooper saw no quagmire in Iraq

  October 9, 2003

• Counsel for the Defense

  At 76, flamboyant criminal lawyer Racehorse Haynes keeps doing what he does best--winning

  October 2, 2003

• Free Thinkers

  Moral lessons get electrified

  September 4, 2003

• Decked

  More square than Rounders, our columnist finds new friends who'll take his poker money

  July 24, 2003

• Well Versed

  Same state, different worlds for two Texas poet laureates

  June 26, 2003

• The Gulf Between

  When these soldiers became writers, the pen turned into a very mighty weapon

  April 17, 2003

• Beach Head

  At the Winter Music Conference, P. Diddy blows up while the U.S. blows up Iraq

  April 3, 2003

• War Torn

  Or, how CNN has made this column more irrelevant than usual

  April 3, 2003

• Pitching Woo

  There's a lot to love about Nicolas Cage in the WWII melodrama Windtalkers

  June 13, 2002

• Asphalt Jungle

  Understaffed and overworked, public works inspectors prowl the streets for potholes

  April 5, 2001

• Passing the Bar

  How do you get a bartender’s attention in a crowded bar?

  January 25, 2001

• Korn

  February 17, 2000

• Joe Bob Briggs

  Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

  December 12, 1996

• Joe Bob Briggs

  Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

  June 13, 1996

• Goodbye Solo: Taking a taxi to the dark side

  May 14, 2009

• Food For Thought 5.22.09

  "No more RICE!" (U.S. Marine corporal Harold Thomas as Army aircraft began dropping rations and other supplies to men held at the POW camp in Niigata, Japan, in late August, 1945. Captured in Peking--now Beijing--China on the day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Thomas had been a prisoner of the Japanese for 45 months and weighed about 115 pounds when rescued by the war's end. A quote for Memorial Day.)Niigata POW camp (5B), as seen from an American plane dropping supplies, August 1945.

  May 22, 2009

• Days Gone Bite: Space Food Sticks

  ​There was a 15 or so year blip in history when space--and massive government programs to explore space--was very cool. All a food company had to do was take, say, a powdered orange drink, slap a phrase such as "like the astronauts drink" on the label, and wait for the riches to roll in.Think about it: companies had been creating drink mixes under government contract for decades, including a lemonade version placed in World War Two rations (and which the Marines called "battery acid"), but onl

  October 28, 2009

• Days Gone Bite: C-Rations, K-Rations and SOS

  C Rations​To the men of the 504th regiment, 82nd Airborne--"the Devils in Baggy Pants"--who crossed the Waal in Holland and battled Panzers in the Ardennes. My uncle 'Highlee' fought with them. And to Marines of the American Legation Guard, Peking, colloquially known as "the North China Marines" who never had the luxury of K-Rations until released from Japanese prison camps in 1945. After 3 and a half years as a POW, my uncle Harold weighed 112 pounds.In his book Marine at War, Russell Davis r

  November 11, 2009