Just a thought in my older age no one talks about

I remember WWII. My father went ashore at Normandy. Young men from ships to boats.. Knowing they were walking/running into gunfire from Germans on the hill.. Waiting to kill Americans. Those young men, some 18 yrs old, ran ashore.. With instructions to run! Don’t stop to help a fallen soldier.. Run! Getting aa many men on land as possible. To win a war.

America was together.. Not divided.. Even if you were not in combat, there were things all did for the men “over there”.

Ration stamps for scarce items. Nylon hose hard to find.. Nylon used for parachutes and other.. Drills for schools in case of bombings. Women went to work, replacing men who were fighting in Europe.

Movie tone news at the theater.. To catch up on the war.

Today our youth know nothing about a nation in war.. We are too comfortable and take our liberties for granted. They are not free.. They were paid for with blood from Americans who served.. And gave..

Ya know.. It takes the experience of a war to know.. But being thankful is one thing we all can be.

“Margaret Thatcher once quipped you could track the decline of the British Empire with the invention and use of the telephone. I guess she was implying Heretofore, commanders and viceroys in the field ran their territories free of meddling by the home office. Pretty much the same in WWII except for the onsight meddling later in the game as they began deciding the political ending for the war in Europe. By the time of Korea, we had the first instance of missions being run out of the White House which was more than expanded under Johnson in Vietnam. The results were disastrous.”

My snarky thought:
Politicians and bureaucrats MUST meddle to justify their existence. Maybe we’d be better off cutting all communications into combat theatres until the “last man standing” walks out and calls home.

We lost this one in DC.

Margaret Thatcher once quipped you could track the decline of the British Empire with the invention and use of the telephone.

America's decline could be attributed to Elisha Otis's invention and use of the elevator, which enabled unnaturally high density big cities. However, more fundamentally, it's leftism that rots everything to the core. Concrete cliff dwellers vote for leftism due to their shared concrete living style.

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