My father-in-law was an intelligence officer in the 82nd Airborne, he met my mother-in-law at the officer’s club at Ft. Bragg. My
The house I live in was owned by one of my father’s classmates in high school. At Normandy he came in behind the lines in a glider, he parachuted into Holland and was Trucked into the Bulge.
My father served in Patch’s 7th Army and Patton’s 3rd Army. At 19 he was packing an M1 Garand pursuing Fascists across Belgium, Germany and CZ. He was an armorer, serviced quad 50’s and Bofors. He saw Dachau shortly after it was liberated. One of his high school classmates, Lt. Jack Westbrook was one of the officers who liberated that camp.
It is true that recent conflicts we have been in, were botched by the civilian leaders lack of commitment to win and end those conflicts (un-declared wars). It had nothing to do with our soldiers but about being in unending unnecessary wars. Now look at the faggots who are at the top. And it shows, they are having a hard time recruiting replacement soldiers.
I really don’t like disrespectful remarks about our military. Nor do I like what Obozo and O’Biden have done to it. Obozo and O’Biden administrations were/are committed to destroying our nation.
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Thanks for the rant
Knowing people who are barely hanging on from having served, I pray the souls of our heroes flood the dreams and foul the plans the O’Biden/Clinton sets have for the future. I curse their progeny daily and pray for their destruction.
While I don't have the heritage that you have with the military, I did serve my country by volunteering (USN) at the age of 17 (two months after high school) -- just as Vietnam was ramping up. I grew up in a very small town in the south, and my mother ran the draft board (so-called Selective Service) for our county. So, I knew all about serving. I went on to serve aboard a US Navy submarine. I was tested for what then was called UDT (now Seals) and accepted for training, but I didn't serve because I would have to extend my stay in the Navy for several years.
I was proud of my country and even more proud to be a part of a small group of men who took to the ocean in a huge tube that measured 18' X 180' and could duck under the surface of the ocean -- and better yet, come back up. That experience set the stage for what I became through life. It was exciting, formative and I was quite proud as someone who came from very humble beginnings (poor).
Anyway, that's my story.
I did not leave my love for my country and respect for those who help protect us.
Sadly, they left me! Slowly, at first, and now at hyper-speed and on steroids.
The men and women who serve our once great country are, for the most part, as dedicated as you and I were (or are). Sadly, they are led by crooks, fools, goons, and those who want to change our history and everything that made us great as a nation.
I shudder to think of those young people who are sent into the endless wars dreamed up by the fools running this country and then come home in body bags or leave their arms and legs and broken lives on the other side of the planet. What the hell is their young life and the lives of their family sacrificed for? Those lives are being extinguished/sacrificed by the likes of the self-serving buffoons that run our country for their own selfish/personal benefit. I could name names but will spare you.
In my mind, the decay and rot is far from over. Will it get better? Yes, probably -- but not before it gets much worse.
We've been through this before as a nation. Think of the periods leading up to the Depression/WWII, to 1861, or the period leading up to 1776. In those periods, there was never a clear view that we would come out the other end in the same way we went in. The same is simply just as true today -- almost 80 years from the last event (note the 80-year cycle between each).
Will we come through this intact? Who knows? There are clearly no guarantees, and that is quite clear from history that spans a few thousand years.
In the meantime, our so-called adversaries look at our bullying, threats, and direct and indirect (covert) interference, and they don't like it one bit. And they are gearing up to counter that threat. On top of that, they are not the same countries they were 50 years ago -- and it is perfectly clear we aren't either. We are descending, and they are ascending.
It's time for us to wake up and pull up our chairs at the big world table and have big men/women conversations. The time when we can effectively threaten and bully are gone. Its over. There are better ways to resolve our differences.
Will that happen? Who knows, but it don't look good at the moment.