We have few WW-II vets still living. One in my old church is passing as I write. Was on the USS Bismark that was sunk out side Iwo Jima by Kamikazees. He was fished out,"with all my fingers and toes attached, others were not so fortunate and that's why I have had a smile on my face the last 70 years, my wife too!" A year later in the war:
USS Bismark sinks, cheers to Herb
Oh that we had some semblance of fighters in that age. We do but the politics has become enmeshed in glad-handing and total ignorance. God bless you and those great vets in their latter days!
Once in a while, I come across a youngster who has the right stuff and would fit right in with a platoon, a crew, some shipmates.
I do meet young people - on occasion - who, despite the deplorable “public education” conceived by progressives (whatever are the ostensible gang colors of the progressives) ... are possessed of a mind that seeks to learn, and lights up upon getting information censored by the progressives.
A young lady who fancies herself a liberal, cannot get out of her mind the strong sense that she is missing out on something, when she considers how strong of heart and mind, some of my generation but especially my father’s and mother’s friends have been.
So, my young liberal friend finds herself crossing swords with her erstwhile political colleagues.
Thanks for the link to the USS Bismarck Sea.
I had a college professor who survived the sinking of the USS Lexington at the Battle of the Coral Sea. He lost a leg to a shark. He was a really great guy.
Another associate of his and professor of mine, had escaped “duty” to the NAZI’s before World War II. Quite by accident, I came across this professor’s daughter, and it was wonderful to learn more of his past.
It’s tempting to lay out a long list of friends, here, to get across a point to some other members of this forum, which would thoroughly shake its rafters. Yet, I can only say, that with only one or two exceptions, all the men and women I knew of my family’s older friends, would not permit the continuance of the fraud, greed, and piracy of so many rajahs-in-suits making up the executive offices in business, government, and law, extant in our country.
One of my old friends, was a former USN captain during WW-II. He became a captain of industry in the true sense of that expression. Forty years after the war, I came across him outside a university in the midwest. He pretty much said what I wrote in the preceding paragraph. The crude self-interest all dolled up in fancy “executive” clothing, did not impress him. My friend was a decisive fellow; but today’s generation of “leaders” from business to government (includes in the legal trades) are thoughtless in the face of danger to our nation and our people.
So, we have to keep our wits about us despite the apparent odds.
Thanks for your reply; I did watch the video (tx again).