Posted on 11/11/2020 10:40:22 AM PST by tayper
I'm beginning to wonder if I wasted a lot of my life serving in the military protecting the Constitution and the American People with what's going on now. Makes ya wonder and I don't think I'm alone!
Excellent post and thank you...
Maybe we should expand the military as a whole by a factor of 10, and establish a military police presence around the world. Spend trillions of dollars to get our raw numbers back up to WWII levels. Gotta do something with all those bodies, right?
Currently 27 trillion in debt and a weakened military. You are laughable.
Zips in the wire, brother. That’s the only way you can look at it currently. There is a story about Washington crossing the Delaware. Who knows if it was true. There was a little black boy that wanted to go along. He was told keeping the signal fire going would be his greatest contribution. The lad froze to death. All we can do is fight like those before us.
...if he had kept the signal fire burning he would have frozen to death...or is there more to the store?
Agree with your sentiment regardless.
Hold hard and stand fast.
I was on active duty Navy and active reserve in the mid 1960’s. It was not a lot fun when we had to deal with the scum who hated our military.
Since then, I have seen basically a 180 degree turn about from our civilians re how positive our active duty people and vets have been treated. I’m 82 now and would do it again for my family,friends and country.
Below is a example of texts and emails I got today:
“This year’s Veteran’s Day may seem low key to you. But, know that many of us are grateful for the time you gave serving our country. Now more than ever, your unselfish service in the interest of the entire country is an example all of us should emulate.”
Hang in there and don’t let the bastards run/ruin your life.
Best regards,
Dave
From my friend’s father who was a Korean War Veteran:
This United States Marine
It was his first night in Korea,
The stars were bright and clean;
The very first night of combat,
For this United States Marine.
The moon was high above the mountains
And glistened on the snow
That covered the rocky hillside
And the valley down below.
Then he heard their bugles loud and clear
That echoed through the night;
He saw the rocks turn into men
And he held his rifle tight.
The flares lit up the valley
And he saw the quilted men;
He raised and fired his rifle once,
And then fired it once again.
The human wave came up the hill,
Each step brought them higher;
They seemed to take no heed at all
To the land mines and barbed wire.
He fought them hand-to-hand
With knife and bayonet
Until the ground around his feet
Was dark and red and wet.
He drove them from the bunkers
Till up they came no more,
And twisted, quilted bodies lay
Upon the valley floor.
He stood there silently and looked
At sights he’d never seen;
He had held his ground against all odds,
This United States Marine
Mitch Stovall - USMC
Can’t tell you why i do, on this forum— but KNOW that you will see him again. Go to the light and on the other side, go fishing, and everytime catch no limit. Blessings.
Yes— I miss my closest fallen friend. Dad. A warrior, and my true mentor to life. S. Pacific theater, S. China Sea, Tokyo harbor February 1942 mapping for Jimmy Dolittle raid, Phillipines (one of his best Aussie friends, let off in half moonlight to his copra plantation to Coast Watch. Japs caught him in a week, and chopped his head off). Good friend shipmate- was captured/Jap POW camp/survived with trauma- everytime he smelled gardenias (the sweet smell all around the camp and starved dead men) he went completely out of his mind- Dad brought him back.
So much he kept inside, and focused on building, designing, making and preserving. His words “squared away”—the #1 guide in life, to be that whenever possible. Patriot.
I have 2 friends who were in the Frozen Chosin.
One was a new Navy Corp-man and one was a new buck private marine.
They were discussing war stories and surviving the Frozin Chosin. They did not make the connections until I asked the Marine if he had any wounds besides frost bite. He had a shoulder wound and a minor head wound.
Then, the former Navy Corp-man said he wanted to see the wounds. He saw the stitch scars and felt that the Marine’s shoulder wound had been treated by him or a buddy due to the stich scars.
Decades later they are still best friends.
We will always remember. I stand in good company. My uncle was the same way, never talked about it. Yet this corrupted POS running for president was a medal of freedom recipient. Along with a crap load of commie leftist, lol. Ellen Degeneres, Lip biter Bill Clinton, Oprah, Meryl crooked-nose Streep, Barbra Streisand, Bruce f’n Springsteen, and Robert jagof De Niro. If that doesn’t make you want to go out and buy some guns, lol.
Understand your predicament. Served 21 myself and if the Constitution isn’t followed, I will question as well.
We served, we did our duty. Now, it is time for the non-uniformed to due their duties!
Count every legal vote and then we will know our fate.
Why WWI?
To have such a mentor as well as a father makes you a fortunate man.
Dad was from Ohio. His dad fled Romania at 13 to come here. Dad rode with Patton, had some stars in his change drawer. Silver and Bronze maybe. Some of the best people I’ve known were from old Ohio. Realists. Daddy grew up next door to the Wright Bro sis and saw him many times. These are memories worth passing down. They inspire and reinforce in the next generation Pride in being American. What really counted with me was not only pride, but hearing the 4 different stories of grandparents escaping slaughter to get to this land of tolerance and equality and opportunity.
I love America. My legacy will be in teaching my progeny the things I just wrote in hopes they will love this land and jealously guard their minds from the ubiquitous messages to do otherwise!
One of my Marine friend’s dad dodged the Armenian genocide and came here. I had a Hungarian girlfriend for a little while in my later years, lol. Her father walked for my miles getting them away from the communist.
I have several stories about the Wright brothers bookmarked. One involved Wilbur getting his teeth knocked out as a child. He was never the same. That person that did it later became a dangerous criminal in life. The Wright bicycle shop is at the Henry Ford museum. I was nearly in tears from emotion while standing in there. There was a propeller on the workbench that Wilbur had hand planned. I was honored with getting to design a wind tunnel myself many years earlier. I worked near Huffman Prairie and never failed to look over where Wilbur made the first 360 degree horizontal flight over and over again.
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