Bob McCarty Writes

Mark your calendar!  On Saturday, Feb. 18, from 1 to 3 p.m., I will be signing copies of my new book, Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight For Military Justice, at MAIN STREET BOOKS, located at 307 S. Main Street in historic St. Charles, Mo. Based on extensive interviews and [...]

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More than 200 people, many of whom were veterans, descended upon downtown St. Charles, Mo., at noon Thursday to counter a 30-minute protest by three sign-carrying members of the controversial Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church, a group most well-known for protesting at military funerals. The Westboro protest came less than three weeks after the St. [...]

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Apparently in response to actions taken by the St. Charles County Council last month and expected to be taken Tuesday by the St. Charles City Council, members of the Westboro Baptist Church — known for their controversial protests at military funerals — will protest in St. Charles, Mo., Thursday afternoon. The St. Charles County Council [...]

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On April 15, 2010, I attended a “Tax Day Tea Party” on the grounds of the old court house in St. Charles, Mo.  While there, I interviewed Kurt Bahr, a candidate for Missouri House of Representatives in District 19.  The video below captures the entirety of that interview: In the interest of fairness, and because [...]

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When I interviewed Missouri State Sen. Jane Cunningham (R-Chesterfield) eight months ago, the Missouri Health Care Freedom Act was just an idea about to be introduced in the Missouri Senate.  Today, the measure (a.k.a., “Proposition C”) is only days away — Aug. 3 — from going before voters in a first-in-the-nation citizens’ referendum on ObamaCare.  [...]

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In a post May 21, I shared news of the death of Missouri Army National Guard Sgt. Denis Kisseloff, 45, and the events that took place on the day his body was returned to St. Charles County, Mo., one week after he was died from wounds suffered during a rocket-propelled grenade attack on his unit [...]

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The body of Missouri Army National Guard Sgt. Denis D. Kisseloff, 45, was returned to St. Charles County, Mo., Friday afternoon, one week to the day after he was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade in Afghanistan.  In the video above, I capture the arrival of the funeral procession at Buchholz Math Hermann funeral home in [...]

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