“They did not know if they would survive the hour.They did not know if they would grow old.”
Many of the young American soldiers, sailors and airmen never survived the first hours, or those spent on the beaches of Normandy.
Many of them would never become a “millennial” because they died before they ever reached that age, dying for the cause of freedom, which too many of our “snowflakes” today would never do.
As I remember, Pres. George W. Bush was one of the youngest pilots in the Navy and was shot down on what was essentially a suicide torpedo run mission against overwhelming Japanese naval air and firepower. He was the only survivor of this attack group, with all the planes being shot down, including his own. He was in his teens when this happened, not at some fucking Starbucks complaining about a lack of different Lotte’ flavors.
The US soldiers, including teenagers at the Chosin Reservoir battle in the Korean War, against overwhelming Red Chinese forces, died before becoming “milleninals” but they died with battlefield honor in the cause of freedom, not with “I’m fighting for diversity” on their lips.
The guys I met in So. Vietnam ranged from young to senior (General) ranked men, many of whom never became “millenials”, but died as American soldiers, airmen and sailors, from the tip of Ca Mau to the mountains of Chau Doc Province, Ia Drang, Ashua Valley, Khe Sanh, Hue, Saigon, and in every province in-between.
My son was 27 when he went into Iraq but there were a lot of younger soldiers in his company, the 299th Army Engineers (MRB) as well as some older veterans. They definitely were NOT “millennial”. They built bridges, fought against the Republican Guard and fedeyeen terrorists, helped the people when they could, and fortunately escaped with any combat injuries.
I met them, white, black, Asian, Moslems, one Jew - my son, Christians, men and women, but they were first and foremost Americans, American soldiers, but Americans first.
My son-in-law, who was older at the time of his service in Iraq (and earlier in Kosovo), is so American that his blood is red, white and blue. No millennial he. He was (always will be a Marine) and a worker (welder). My son became a federal police/K9 officer and still works in national security projects.
My daughter worked for Concerned Veterans of America and the VA Hospital in DC.
None of them had time to be a “millennial”. They spent their time being Americans in the service of their country and to servicemen/women and veterans.
Today, from figures I heard from our very strong Secy of Defense, we are protected via the military services, by about 1% of the population, and a large proportion of those who are not in the military could not qualify for a service because they were undereducated, physically unfit, mentally weak (or, in my opinion), not trustworthy to have in a foxhole or in the jungle, desert, or mountains during combat.
There are some very decent millenials out there, including members of Congress, but the drinking/partying crowds that walk around with an IPhone in their ear or hands or a Starbucks coffee, is not someone I would trust with my life or my country.
It takes a special kind of person to climb into a Higgins boat in bad weather, to cross 20 miles of the English channel, the last couple of miles under heavy enemy fire or to be dropped at night behind enemy lines as was actor William Windom (Commodore Decker in Star Trek’s “The Doomsday Machine andthe prosecutor in “To Kill A Mocking Bird”).
Do we have enough young men and women who would volunteer to do that today? I doubt it.
Thank God we did during WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Dom. Republic, Desert Storm, Kosovo, Operation Iraqi Freedom/Afghanistan (Global War on Terrorism), and today in shitholes like Mali/Africa, Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere to protect us from Al Qaeda, ISIS and its Islamic State affiliates, the drug cartels (esp. the US Coast Guard), and the growing threats from the criminal/KGB state of Russia and the Communist Red Chinese war machine that is on the march against the West.
The question that worries me the most is will we have “enough” of these young men and women to do the job of protecting us from multiple threats, or will the “Millenial Malaise” of self-centered egotism, cowardice, “I don’t want to get involved” or “America isn’t worth defending and fighting for” going to rot our will to resist from within.
If we fall, the Communists and Democrats and their assorted lunatics, “diversity” freaks, fake media, Marxist-oriented academia, and crooks will be responsible. They will never take the blame so I’m putting it on them now.
Screw the Democrats, Marxists psychos and cowardly Millenials.
We’ve had “The Greatest Generation” arise from the Spanish Civil War to the global fight on terrorism, and I’m praying that in the coming years, a new “Greatest Generation” of young American men and women will step up to defense our country.
Otherwise, we will collapse from within and to aggression from without, long before AOC’s 12 years left until climate change wipes us out.
We have a national psychological “cancer of cowardice and stupidity” that needs to be exercised like a brain tumor from the media to academia, politics to science, and it needs to be done NOW.
We salute those men of “D-Day”, Sicily/No. Africa, CBI, Philippines, Bataan-Corregidor, Wake Island, Midway, Saipan, Iwo Jima (My father-in-law), Okinawa, the Aleutians and China. They were their generation’s “Best, Brightest and Bravest”.
Now we pray for another “Greatest Generation of the 3Bs”. Either they arise to the call, or America will fall.
God Bless America!