”You bastards!”
Posted on 04/18/2021 10:40:04 AM PDT by knarf
thanx
I wasn’t an adult but I was old enough to remember it on TV night after night, and I was old enough to remember the divide this country after after it. They tried their communist tactics then as they are now.
There were only three comedy albums that were ever bought in my family (by my 2nd oldest sister), and they were:
"Johnathan Winters: Down to Earth"
"The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart"
Vaughn Meader "The First Family"
Old enough to remember Pearl Harbor. When it happened, everyone wanted to know where it was.
RE: I’m old enough to remember the Viet Nam era.
Bottom line and in hindsight, was it worth it for America to get involve?
You’re old enough to blather pointlessly too.
Seriously can’t tell if you were supporting the war or against it, for the hippes and RFK or not etc...
Ghoulardi reference?
Kennedy started our involvement in Vietnam. LBJ prosecuted the war poorly. Nixon won the war and set South Vietnam on the path of peace and prosperity similar to that of South Korea.
After Watergate, the new left-wing Democratic Congress abandoned Vietnam. They cut-off funds to South Vietnam. They passed laws against any U.S. military involvement in Vietnam.
The Soviets responded to US Congressional action by re-arming the North Vietnamese. North Vietnamese regulars came in with more tanks than Patton had in World War II. The South Vietnamese ran out of bullets.
Two years after Nixon’s orderly withdrawal of US forces, South Vietnam was conquered.
Actually Ike did.
”You bastards!”
That ‘Commie’ was Vice President Lyndon Johnson, the man who then reversed JFK’s orders to withdraw all US troops from Vietnam by the end of 1964 with the first 1000 troops to be home for Christmas 1963.
Some douches are destroyed, others are left alone.
There was an American Thinker article that asked why Norman Weinstein was taken down. After all, Norman was the same Norman everyone knew about for decades.
The author did not know the answer. However he did point out that Weinstein was going to make a movie about the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The Jews had an initial endowment of 3 guns. In the end they tied up the German army for three months. It was the kind of movie the NRA would have loved, and the New York Times would have despised. It was never made.
I stand corrected.
“I don’t think I even implied that President Trump might be “the new JFK””
I was responding to your picture “Freedom Fighters Then/Now”.
I think the comparison is load of crap. Those Democrat martyrs from the 60’s talked a lot about freedom.
But like all Leftists, their idea of freedom was using government authority to socially engineer their utopian vision - which is the opposite of true freedom.
The whole point of martyrdom is that it gives dreamers free license to make lofty claims about what that martyr WOULD have done, had they not been martyred.
It was Viet Nam when I was there.
Concrite just new that “the war is lost” after TET as his commie buddies went down in defeat.
John Hanoi Kerry called all Viet Nam Veterans baby killers and war criminals. Hey John how come you got busted form O-3 to E-1?
There was a global movement. In England the antiwar movement came out of the anti-nuke movement. The anti-nuke movement allegedly created the peace symbol (I am not referring to the peace hand sign).
But who knows these days. Even the smiley face button/logo has been claimed by numerous creators.
The CND symbol is one of the most widely known symbols in the world; in Britain it is recognised as standing for nuclear disarmament – and in particular as the logo of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). In the rest of the world it is known more broadly as the peace symbol.
It was designed in 1958 by Gerald Holtom, a professional designer and artist and a graduate of the Royal College of Arts. He had been invited to design artwork for use on what became the first Aldermaston March, organised by the Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War (DAC). He showed his preliminary sketches to a DAC meeting in February 1958 at the Peace News offices in North London.
Gerald Holtom, a conscientious objector who had worked on a farm in Norfolk during the Second World War, explained that the symbol incorporated the semaphore letters N(uclear) and D(isarmament).
He later wrote to Hugh Brock, editor of Peace News, explaining the genesis of his idea in greater, more personal depth:
‘I was in despair. Deep despair. I drew myself: the representative of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya's peasant before the firing squad. I formalised the drawing into a line and put a circle round it.’
Although specifically designed for the anti-nuclear movement it has quite deliberately never been copyrighted. No one has to pay or to seek permission before they use it. A symbol of freedom, it is free for all.
Whether the Kennedy brothers murdered Marilyn or simply drove her to suicide, they did steal her diary and who knows what else before the scene could be investigated.
It’s an important question ask “did they kill her” because she was one of the top stars in Hollywood when she died. If they could kill her and get away with it, they could kill anyone.
I remember the Ghoul.
Walter Cronkite was a lifelong affiliated globalist.
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