Posted on 10/19/2017 12:25:47 PM PDT by LRoggy
The Commie media hates that fact that Donald Trump is BREATHING..yeah that is how much they hate him..and Ive never seen anything like this before..too young to remember the Reagan years the media was horrible then too but now so much worse
It was something that came out of the trap of Wolf Blitzer at the time, before the inauguration, he asked a panel what if Trump AND Pence were both assassinated, could Obama appoint Clinton to the White House..that was CNN’s logic, already asking hey if Trump dies how can Clinton still become President..imagine someone on Fox News asking right before Obama took office, hey if Obama and Biden both die can McCain and Sarah Palin become President/VP, imagine the reaction from the Commie Media
That woman, Ms. Wilson, is a steaming pile of excrement.
When a soldier dies in battle, there is no tragedy
T.R. Fahrenbach
San Antonio Express News August 28, 2005
In 1969, my grandmother and a cousin died.
I remember saying to someone that there was no tragedy in either death. My grandmother was 89, long past normal life expectancy, and her last years were not good. In fact, she was kept alive on medications, which in consultation with family and doctor, we stopped. Shortly after, she passed peacefully away. She had lived a long and splendid life.
My cousin was young, a recent graduate of the Air Force Academy. He was killed at a fire base in Vietnam. He was an only son, and this was a bitter blow to family.
Unfortunate, painful, but hardly tragic. He had taken the shilling, a regular officer, and he was doing what men do when he died. He did what he wanted, a short but also a splendid life.
I think we dwell too often, when soldiers die, upon the living rather than the dead.
And in doing this, we dishonor our honored dead.
Every soldier has a mother. I had one, of course. She was not happy when, at age 18, I went to war. However, then every mother’s son was going, in the great fatherland patriotic war, sometimes called World War II.
There were some 300,000 Gold Star mothers before it ended. A Gold Star in a window signified a child killed in action, and it was both proudly and sadly displayed.
But that kind of war was different. Everybody was involved; cosmic consequences were at stake. We have not fought that kind of war again.
Mothers react in different ways. My closest friend in school, again an only son, died in combat in the Ardennes. His mother never forgave me for living while her boy was killed. When I met with her after the war, she had nothing to say, and I did not call again.
Which made me wonder about my own mother, when I took the shilling and voluntarily went to a new war. She didn’t like it, nor did my grandparents. Which I understood. But it was my decision; I was of age, and men untie the apron strings. We do it when we marry and when we go to war.
Had I been killed, I would have expected my mother to grieve. She grieved when one of her cats died. In fact, if no one grieved at my passing, my life would not have been worthwhile.
But if my mother had condemned my service and my dying, I would have felt that she dishonored me. I was not a child, her little boy. I did what men do, though women may weep. The way it’s always been, and probably always will be, world with or without end.
When men or women make honest choices, families should respect those choices and honor them, whether the girl I married or the peril I accepted, as due course.
I was in a war with great popular support (we’re right behind you) and one with little of it. To the real soldier, it does not make all that much difference. When you take the shilling, pledge to serve your country right or wrong, your home becomes the service and war, any war, your profession.
If you argue this is wrong, I point out that we have never been free of armies since before the flood. We have soldiers because the human race has always had to have them. We are not a peaceful species, and some tribes always permit the others no peace. So Thucydides wrote, and nothing’s changed since his day.
Spartan mothers, it is said, told sons to return with their shields or upon them. In other words, death before dishonor.
Our culture does not allow us to say such things today. But the ethos still lives. Which is why we honor the valiant dead.
I cannot speak for others, but I would hope my mother would have done so had I not returned.
Juan Williams is a gold star asshole.
The racist bitch said a few minutes ago saying Kelly is lying and just trying to keep his job. This winch should be ran out of Washington on a rail. If not for blacks voting 100% for her she’d be mopping the floors at a Super 6 motel.
Wow! That was fantastic!
Thank you for the link.
My goodness! Thank you so much for this post. I have tears streaming down my eyes. It was fantastic!!
Kelly also slammed the Muslim Gold Star Family that spoke at the democrat conversation.
Born in 1951. EVERY one of my male teachers, at least through the 8th grade, were WW2 vets. And one of the female teachers.
Fantastic! Thanks for directing our attention to this.
Anyone who has NOT had the misfortune to experience it first hand, really should see the movie "Taking Chance". Very respectful and very well made, IMHO. Those of you who have experienced it ... My hat is off to you. May God grant you peace, where no one else can.
Their hatred for Trump pales in comparison to my white-hot hatred for CNN.
“That is the man I grew up with ...”
Those are the men I grew up with, too. My Dad, the mechanic; my Granddad, the carpenter; my uncle, a meat cutter, and I could go on. Grandpa was WW1, Dad was WW2, and I was Vietnam.
This was America in the 40s, 50s and half of the 60s. What the heck happened?
This Kind of War is a great discussion of the Korean War. If you read no other part of this book, read the chapter "Proud Legions". It is inspired and inspirational
As if we need anymore evidence Democraps are scum of the earth.
Amen, he should replace Pence next election.
I caught that ... did not know that the deceased Marine at the center of the movie had been under Gen. Kelly’s command. Small world.
It’s on Amazon Prime, FWIW.
Born in 1950. My father was a WW2 vet and all the uncles I knew from both sides of the family. My uncles included two who were part of the invasion of Normandy, both fighting at the Battle of the Bulge.
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