Say it to their faces:
Posted on 06/04/2024 9:44:43 AM PDT by Tell It Right
80 Years Ago Today
June 4, 1944: The U.S. Fifth Army Liberated Rome. Two days later,
June 6, 1944: The Normandy D-Day invasion by the Allies begins, including the United State. One week later,
June 13, 1944: The "Pacific D-Day", Battle of Saipan, begins. This is the naval bombardment, followed by invasion on June 15, involving 535 ships with 127,000 troops.
All 3 were major military engagements in which the U.S. was a major participant in (especially the Battle of Saipan). All were going on at practically the same time, and different parts of the world. All three were victories.
Musk noted in an interview that IF the US were a racist country we could have taken anything we wanted after WW2. There was no one who could stop us.
Not only more diverse, but they all know their correct pronouns!
Midway was 82 years ago.
Do you really think we could have fielded the armies we needed then without conscription? When the young people are forced into it…they become brave. LOL.
I can't ever remember my dad watching ANY war movies, and he rarely talked about it.
I did see it, though. And from a couple of history books came to see how and why it was such a cluster - short on man-power and assets, (stripped for D-Day preps) compounded by much-too passive leadership.
That “Soft Underbelly” Churchill talked about, became a “Tough Old Gut”.
Reality.
The commie sodomites just hate it they do.
Yes.
You seem to be totally ignorant of the fact that we were actively turning away people who wanted to join up.
Like most of the stupidity done by the Great Liberal Clown FDR the draft was totally unnecessary.
That pier was designed for reopening a damaged HARBOR ... not for delivering supplies over the beach from open sea. You will not learn that from Big Media, because Big Media wants you to be ignorant.
Don’t blame the Army or the Navy.
Using that pier in the wrong environment was a political decision made by Joe Biden’s Puppet Masters.
Say it to their faces:
#29 is for you as well.
Midway was 82 years ago.
You are absolutely right, my mistake and apology. I zeroed in on 4 June, not thinking of the year.
One of the best books I’ve ever read is, “A Dawn Like Thunder”, Torpedo 8 at Midway..Gallant men all.
I guess you missed the point of that post. Perhaps it wasn’t clear enough.
The image is NOT taking a poke the military, then or now. It most definitely is taking a poke at what much of modern America sees a good role model.
Role model then: the GI
Role model now: Pajama Boy
And make no mistake about it. Pajama Boy was meant to be a role model. The Obama administration hired him to push Obamacare: Be like Pajama Boy. Enjoy a cup of hot chocolate. Then go sign up for Obamacare.
It sounds like a bad Monty Python skit.
It was wise to spare and minimize American lives and let Hitler’s former ally Stalin do most of the dying.
But I understand your point completely.
I like to bring up Hitler and Stalin being allies and what they both did to Poland. Lefties don’t like to hear that.
How many Americans see “Pajama Boy” as a “role model” or a symbol of manhood?
How many Americans even know who or what “Pajama Boy” is?
I say the answers are “almost none” and “damn few” respectively.
I’ve been around a while. I’ve seen that graphic before. I’ve never liked it. I don’t agree with it. And I think posting it amounts to accepting the Obama/Biden view of the world.
YMMV.
Yes, the commies don’t like a lot of their mind-set exposed or realized.
For instance, Stalin never said “We must defend Communism”. He always said “We must fight for Mother Russia’.
And the Isolationists on the Left changed their tune when Hitler invaded the USSR.
> How many Americans see “Pajama Boy” as a “role model” or a symbol of manhood? <
Ha! You’re right. That stupid advertisement probably motivated nobody. It’s just another example of how dumb and wasteful the federal government is.
I do see the image as valuable for mocking purposes. And that’s why it’s lasted this long. No one takes it seriously. It’s only used to make fun of liberal viewpoints.
But as you noted, YMMV.
By 1944 they were hardly taking enlistments. They were even drafting into the Marines.
I laugh every time someone starts talking about how the Japanese were "so afraid of the Russians". The Russians who's butts they kicked up between their ears with minimal losses?
The Japanese held the Russians in total contempt and for good reason.
Oh yeah. Up to that point they LOVED the Nazis.
Killing off all those lesser people was just the BEST.
But when the holy republic of soviet cannibals was invaded they lost the one remaining brain cell they had.
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