Posted on 04/27/2020 8:41:20 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
They were convinced by the media that the people denouncing the communist infiltration of the government, school systems and media were radical maniacs.
My dad once told me about the invasion of Luzon. He was in the US Army Air Corp under MacArthur. He did not give me a lot of the details. However, he said that the Australian Marines went in on day one and established a beachhead. They basically got wiped out. The next day the US Marines went in a completed taking control of the landing zone. When he went in on day three he said they had to walk on the bodies of the Marines because they coved the beach.
They brought in bulldozers to clean up the area before MacArthur walked across the water and said “I have returned”
This was all staged because MacArthur’s boat/landing craft could have just pulled up to a pier/dock and he could have stepped off dry. They thought wading in would look better.
Dad was subsequently shot through the helmet in the head. It did not pierce his skull though. He had all of his upper teeth knocked out by a Jap’s rifle butt. What put him in the hospital ship was being shot in the lower abdomen. It became infected in the jungle. He returned to the US on a hospital ship. Six weeks in the hospital. He always said: “ never trust a Jap, they are sneaky son’s a bitches”
No, we have NOT. A temporary quarantine is NOT a "surrender of liberty", which would involve a PERMANENT alteration to our governance. Ain't happened, and ain't GONNA happen.
I'd not heard those details before about Luzon. Very interesting.
It happened. Look around you. Elections were canceled. Businesses were destroyed. Religious observance were banned. Tyranny is not temporary. The die has been set for the next crisis, series of crisis, real or imagined, or conjured up by our Progressive leaders. It is called precedent. We yielded this time and we will yield again.
If you agree with being locked down by your government for a little Corona prophylaxis then to paraphrase Churchill, “we are discussing your price not your principles”.
Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day. Giles Milton
This vast canvas of human bravado reveals “the longest day” as never before – less as a masterpiece of strategic planning than a day on which thousands of scared young men found themselves staring death in the face. It is drawn in its entirety from the raw, unvarnished experiences of those who were there.
Great Movie
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1019454/
We givin’ back. That’s a good thing, right? We givin’ back everything our parents and grandparents sacrificed so much to achieve. But what the heck. They didn’t have anything before that anyway.
They went to war in 1942; they went shopping in 2001; all we have to do is sit around watching screens in our pajamas, calling uber eats and getting fat. Some comparison.
Good point. Except the greatest generation, who spawned the selfish-ist generation, hasn’t asked for it back. The boomers want their parents and their children’s wealth and freedom. Heck they will mortgage their grandchildren and their great grandchildren. (Most Freepers excepted from the sarcasm).
Yikes! And like Big Red Clay said above: This experience is not like that.
I read personal stories like that, and am thankful my generation has never had to go through anything close.
It makes you wonder. I suspect that, during WW2, the great majority of the the U.S. civilian population bitched about shortages, worked the black market to get gas and hamburger, and couldn’t wait for the whole damn thing to be over. We tend to ennoble our history.
Nope...disagree. It is far too early to draw the conclusions you are. This IS temporary, and is reversing course as we "speak" here. No "real" elections were cancelled...only a very few primaries. The elections that matter are still in the future, and WILL be held. Religious observance was not "banned" which again, would permanent. It wasn't and isn't.
The American colonists put up with George III's shenanigans until they became convinced that peaceful resolution was not possible. That took YEARS. This has been a very few MONTHS.
Over 50% of the country was not getting a check from George. It’s a little different now.
“If you agree with being locked down by your government for a little Corona prophylaxis then to paraphrase Churchill, “we are discussing your price not your principles”.
Maybe it goes back some but the next “save lives” crisis is imminent. We will see. If the Rs don’t cave on mail fraud there may be hope. But they cannot compete with the D’s on saving lives and helicopter money.
People are killed in a war. People die from a virus. There’s a difference.
Yes and didn’t tens of thousands die defeating the Japanese on Okinawa? Not to mention the horrific abuses against civilians like we have never seen by the Japanese and Germans - and sometimes by the Allies.
Cowering in your home from the flu doesn’t strike me as heroic.
City officials also used to come and nail a big QUARANTINE sign to the door if you were sick. But stop working? Only the Wobblies were trying to stop working but back then you’d get a hickory shampoo if you tried it.
Article I read today noted that if ‘she’ had won they would have refused to shut down travel from China for as long as possible, it would have been everywhere, and the 2 megadeaths they were talking about might have come to fruition. Strange fruit.
You nailed it.
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