Very well said, every person in the armed services should be fully informed by law of the real facts of every political situation and then be able to agree or disagree beforehand personally individually on whether they personally consider that it is right to fight or not based on truth alone, and no longer just be forced to fight automatically based on trumped up lies such as were used to bring about WWI, WWII, the wars in Vietnam and in Iraq and so on.
A mandatory death penalty as the sole applicable penalty should be introduced by law to be made to be applicable to any manipulative politicians or media owners who deliberately lie in order to maliciously inflame hatred and make service people murder innocents abroad or anywhere else.
Media moguls and cross party politicians acting within a secretive elite group funded by Natty Rothschild were principally responsible for criminally whipping up needless public hatred against the Germans in WWI, and ditto in WWII. If that sort of thing were stopped due to the severest of penalties being introduced, we would see very few wars involving 'organized mass murder' ever again.
I remember Harry Patch speaking on television as the last surviving soldier from WWI shortly before he passed over to the other side, talking of how one wave of men after another in the trenches with him was sent over the top by the officers in charge, and how one group then a second fell down flat just after they went over the top.
Harry Patch said the soldiers waiting below to go over next in the third wave just thought each of the two previous waves of soldiers had all just fallen flat to take up position, then his group went over the top and they too were all cut down by fire, and of course the officers knew exectly what was really happening and what their men were all really headed into beforehand and yet still carried on sending almost all of them to their deaths.
"It was organized mass murder" he said.
Organized mass murder indeed, and the 'Spanish Flu' was then introduced by lethal injection to pick off as many of the soldiers who had thus far managed to survive, surely all part of the actual Communist Jewish agenda to exterminate all 'Second Rome Christian white amalek' in reality, as the rabbinicial teaching is that all Christians in the world are to be killed, and all whites everywhere especially, and these Jewish-instigated wars, just like in Ukraine today, are all part of this Communist Judaic-instigated organized mass murder of whites.
I suppose If I were a group of sordid robber barons, dreaming and scheming about "how to sell the unconscionable", I would invest in the Freud's, Edward Barney's and other approved "experts" to promulgate "Reports from Iron Mountain" under any and every variation that "War is the primary social system". The undeclared and unrestricted warfare has been highly successful due to the fact that the ambushed never see it coming, and cannot immediately reconcile as to why they are being murdered and robbed in the name of whatever "cause" the perpetrators want to invent. Although many of today's vet's are cognitive of the fact that they were lied to, they, like the bonus army were so financially strapped, the the military was always a place to gain employment in an otherwise tightly ruled and regulated economy. Thank you Donald for offering those rare opinions that always liked peace and prosperity to support life, over those who offer war and deceptions to end life. As a friend of my once said; "The only ones who cannot tell the difference between the needy and the greedy, are the greedy".
Ah yes, remember that Pentagram audit to find that missing 2.4 trillion right before 911, when that mystery object just happened to strike the Pentagram right where the audit office was?
How convenient! Needless to say that 2.4 trillion is still missing and unaccounted for, and by now it is probably 24 trillion.
So sad, reading your article, my heart breaks for families that have lost family members in the military. I would love to see all the politicians and their sons be forced to serve!
Most of the military conflicts in this country have not been declared wars. New law: If our military goes into a military conflict, it must be a declared war and politicians must go!
I don’t fully agree with the thesis of this article, but I definitely think there is truth in what you’ve said here, Mr. Jeffries. You make some good and valid points in this Memorial Day piece to be sure. I salute every American soldier who has died in all our wars and have great respect for all the Gold Star families, widows and widowers who lost loved ones serving our country! 🇺🇸🫡 But the sad truth is some of our soldiers didn’t die in wars fought for noble reasons nor did all of the fallen die in wars that were managed correctly. This is a most important hidden piece of American history to remember.
The Banana Wars in South America (1898-1934), the Spanish-American War (1898) and the American Occupation of Haiti (1915-1934) were fought and/or done not in the name of liberty and justice for all but for America’s geopolitical and business interests. The Philippine-American War of 1899-1902 was a brutal slog in which 4,200 Americans and 20,000 Filipinos died and both sides committed horrific atrocities against each other. How about the Moro War in which the United States fought a Muslim insurgency from 1902 to 1913. At the infamous Battle of Bud Dago in 1906, American soldiers slaughtered 1,000 Moro men, women and children. How about the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1891 or the My Lai Massacre of 1968? Should we be proud of those?
Should we on this Memorial Day, celebrate America’s disastrous recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya? Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton turned Libya into a failed state with open slave markets. We helped destroy Iraq and killed 58,000 civilians as collateral damage in our war. How about Obama’s drone strikes into Pakistan that killed innocent civilians and turned a whole generation in that country against America? How about the infamous quagmire that was the Vietnam War? How about when America invaded the Dominican Republic in 1965 to topple its democratically elected President Juan Bosch, because we didn’t like things he did? Should we celebrate those interventions?
The Mexican-American War of 1846-47 was a straight-up a war about America expanding its territory and the incident that started it was a lie. American soldiers and the famed Texas Rangers too, committed war crimes against Mexican soldiers and civilians. How about the Mexicans and Native Americans we brought under our control after the war was over? Did they get equal rights? Nope. Pro-slavery zealots in the South supported the Mexican War hoping they could expand slavery westward.
War definitely CAN be a racket! Smedley Butler was right to a degree when he said that. He served in the military for 33 years and always was used as a muscle man of sorts for America’s national and financial interests. Businessmen and financiers made a fortune while he worked his butt off for nothing, while not making the world any freer and getting passed over for the promotion he so rightly deserved as Commandant of the Marine Corps.
The military-industrial complex has been with us for decades if not centuries. War profiteers have always existed and always will. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy warned us about these folks. Did you know during World War II as the Nazis we’re going around conquering other countries and committing mass murder against the Jews and others they deemed to be “untermenschen”, a number of big American corporations were quite openly trading with Nazi Germany up to 1941?
That’s right, Ford, GM, United Fruit Company, General Electric, United Harvester International, and IBM were perfectly happy to trade with Germany as they ruthlessly waged war on and subjugated France, the Low Counties, Greece, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Norway, and Denmark and hunted down Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, political dissenters, and others they deemed subhuman or a barrier to the twisted perfect world Hitler and his henchmen envisioned.
Did you know even during the Civil War, the North and South continued to trade with one another? Even as their countrymen were killing each other on battlefield. How’s that for patriotism? Big time financiers like J.P. Morgan, Jr. made millions off trading with both the Allied and Central Powers during WWI. Greedy American black market arms dealers sold to both South and North Vietnam. Need I say more?
None of this is to say America hasn’t fought some noble wars too. The American Revolution freed our country from the British Empire and won our independence. We protected our independence and prevented Britain from reconquering its old North American colonies in the War of 1812. The Union Army kept the Union together and ended the evil institution of slavery with its victory in the Civil War. World War I and World War II freed millions of oppressed people around the world and the latter ended the Holocaust.
The United States pushed North Korea out of South Korea in the early 1950s and Ba’athist Iraq out of Kuwait in the 1990s. America toppled Panama’s drug dealing dictator in 1989 and pushed Communist Cuba out of Grenada in the 1980s. NATO’s bombing of Kosovo in the 90s ended the genocide there and we captured and put on trial Serbian war criminals. To be sure, many of our brave men and women served and fell in wars worth fighting. But this wasn’t always the case.
But on this blessed Memorial Day we need to remember ALL our wars and ALL our history the good, the bad and the ugly. We should also listen to the voices of antiwar activists and politicians and folks like Cindy Sheenan who lost their children in poorly conceived, poorly managed wars that were disasters. War is sometimes necessary but there can be no doubt of how evil, brutal and destructive it is. Let us also never forget that the defense budget keeps being increased every year but that a lot of it doesn’t actually go to the troops or military readiness, it’s just pork fat. The Pentagon hasn’t passed an audit in a decade.
Good points, Noah. I covered some of our earlier, seldom reported foreign intervention in Haiti, Mexico, the Philippines, etc., in my book "American Memory Hole." Thanks.
Outstanding facts and analysis, Mr. Jeffries! And utterly heartbreaking to think of what America was supposed to be and to know how far it has fallen! I was so unaware until 2018 that virtually everything I had believed about my country for over 70 years was a BIG LIE! I still hear new heartbreaking revelations almost every day! It seems impossible that anyone or anything can save America from the evil forces within. Most Americans are still asleep and unaware they are considered useless eaters by the Satanists (and their puppet politicians) who are in control of the world and HELLBENT on depopulating the planet. Thank you for writing the truth.
I'm not sure how far along it is but it is simmering and it's deadly.
This 666 bbb build back better bill is expensive and it demonstrates that AI can be the law on anything they want. This is going to worse before it gets better. This ass hat has me believing him in his rallies until the fake assassin shit started happening. I started my dig deeper. Even this cover up of Palestine murdering. I tell people about the plans that Trump and Kushner have been working on for years now. Probably more than 10 years. The Beach front properties on the West Bank of Gaza. He has already sent bulldozers besides all the billions and bombs to massacre innocent people. So he can build Luxury Resorts Hotels and Casinos. This is sickening beyond words. To do this to people who have been there for centuries and centuries and herd them together and bomb tented camps of innocent babies children women and elderly people. Hamas was created by Israel decades ago. They are all IDF soldiers, these wear masks so you can't see their faces
I continue to challenge them. 20,000 so called Hamas terrorists and not one dead body revealed in these bombings. I could go on for an hour. In any case. I'll keep up with your posts. Thanks for responding! 👍🔥
Your information is very timely and much needed now more than ever. What do you think about new legislation that is near a vote for 20 years in prison and $1 million dollar fines for boycotting Israel. I have not read the Bill. HR 867 I believe. Let me know what you see.
I wish every child in the US was made to read Johnny Got His Gun or at least the ones who want to enlist. I read it when young and it still haunts me. I find those military cemeteries with row after row of white tombstones the most depressing site in the country.
Now if you are anti war you are a pawn of Putin. Oy vey.
"Amendment Twenty-six to the Constitution was ratified on July 1, 1971. It lowered the voting age for all Americans to eighteen years, having previously been twenty-one years for the longest time. The official text is written as such..."
As a teenager throughout the late 60s and 70s, the draft for Vietnam was definitely a major threat and focus in our lives. To make it even more perverted was the legal age to vote was 21! Drafted out of high school but not old enough to vote!
As if many parents detesting their own children for their radical determination to protest many ways of American life, their sons demanding debate about war and being forced to participate in war really put these parents (many vets of WWII and Korea) over the edge into trying to emasculate their own sons by questioning let alone protesting the Vietnam war.
My own father was a veteran of both Korea and Vietnam. He came back from his second tour as one of those extremely damaged veterans. He became very anti-war explaining that 'Vietnam was one of the most corrupted situations he had ever experienced". As just one representative of the "forgotten POWs" the children of military personnel our lives were unlike any civilian children's lives. I was always aware that I was a "Navy dependent". The rest of America were civilians. Had my own base ID. My father had a lot of guilt for his experiences in Vietnam and he had converted to the Seabees when he realized he would sooner than later go to Vietnam. He manned the fire hoses spewing Agent Orange upon the foliage of Vietnam. "It turned it into black goo upon contact". He came home and retired from the military soon afterwards.
Yesterday, I attended a Memorial Day event in a huge cemetery built upon, strangely to me, rolling hills. Last year's event had me chuckling to myself "it's probably so hilly due to the thousands of vets rolling in their graves"... with the public speakers and their talk.
But this year-the speech by the Chief of Police in this midsized midwestern town was different. He kept stressing 'and all the ones coming home without arms and legs" reminiscing on his own father's war experiences in WWII being a medic "tending to thousands of dying, dead and totally physically destroyed by war". hmmmm that was different from the standard "flag waving hero" talk usually presented at these Memorial Day services. He looped on this message several times. He also looped the word "sacrifice" in a way that made me think of "blood sacrifice". These wars are just literal blood sacrifices to ... something.
Even the clerical representative's prayer was about peace versus war. hmmm Most conditioned Americans do not like to hear of such talk as that seems to take away from the sacrificial status due the military vets. I didn't 'feel' the 'rolling over in their graves" feelings I had last year.
I propose that in this technological age that every single issue that this government is involved with or has hopes of involving in be voted on by the people who the reps are supposed to be representing using the devices held in our own hands. If it works without objections for silliness like "Dancing with the Stars" it should suffice for giving our own input to the gov reps who vote on behalf of their constituents in our Republic form of government. THEN the Rep, state and federal can honestly represent the constituents.
Exactly! Well said. Now truer than ever. Matt Kennard has written a book called "The Racket" that details many of the fields in which the Masters of this vast global criminal syndicate are conducting their business and exerting their power. Kennard begins this book with a quote by Smedley Butler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Kennard_(journalist) It will make your hair stand on end.
Very well said, every person in the armed services should be fully informed by law of the real facts of every political situation and then be able to agree or disagree beforehand personally individually on whether they personally consider that it is right to fight or not based on truth alone, and no longer just be forced to fight automatically based on trumped up lies such as were used to bring about WWI, WWII, the wars in Vietnam and in Iraq and so on.
A mandatory death penalty as the sole applicable penalty should be introduced by law to be made to be applicable to any manipulative politicians or media owners who deliberately lie in order to maliciously inflame hatred and make service people murder innocents abroad or anywhere else.
Media moguls and cross party politicians acting within a secretive elite group funded by Natty Rothschild were principally responsible for criminally whipping up needless public hatred against the Germans in WWI, and ditto in WWII. If that sort of thing were stopped due to the severest of penalties being introduced, we would see very few wars involving 'organized mass murder' ever again.
I remember Harry Patch speaking on television as the last surviving soldier from WWI shortly before he passed over to the other side, talking of how one wave of men after another in the trenches with him was sent over the top by the officers in charge, and how one group then a second fell down flat just after they went over the top.
Harry Patch said the soldiers waiting below to go over next in the third wave just thought each of the two previous waves of soldiers had all just fallen flat to take up position, then his group went over the top and they too were all cut down by fire, and of course the officers knew exectly what was really happening and what their men were all really headed into beforehand and yet still carried on sending almost all of them to their deaths.
"It was organized mass murder" he said.
Organized mass murder indeed, and the 'Spanish Flu' was then introduced by lethal injection to pick off as many of the soldiers who had thus far managed to survive, surely all part of the actual Communist Jewish agenda to exterminate all 'Second Rome Christian white amalek' in reality, as the rabbinicial teaching is that all Christians in the world are to be killed, and all whites everywhere especially, and these Jewish-instigated wars, just like in Ukraine today, are all part of this Communist Judaic-instigated organized mass murder of whites.
Thanks, Mothman!
I suppose If I were a group of sordid robber barons, dreaming and scheming about "how to sell the unconscionable", I would invest in the Freud's, Edward Barney's and other approved "experts" to promulgate "Reports from Iron Mountain" under any and every variation that "War is the primary social system". The undeclared and unrestricted warfare has been highly successful due to the fact that the ambushed never see it coming, and cannot immediately reconcile as to why they are being murdered and robbed in the name of whatever "cause" the perpetrators want to invent. Although many of today's vet's are cognitive of the fact that they were lied to, they, like the bonus army were so financially strapped, the the military was always a place to gain employment in an otherwise tightly ruled and regulated economy. Thank you Donald for offering those rare opinions that always liked peace and prosperity to support life, over those who offer war and deceptions to end life. As a friend of my once said; "The only ones who cannot tell the difference between the needy and the greedy, are the greedy".
They continue to fool the majority of people all over the world, Clyde. War has always been more popular than peace. Thanks!
FYI: the Pentagon has not received a department-wide clean audit since audits began in 2018.
But Elon promised us a full audit of the Pentagon, John. Two more weeks. Thanks.
My impression is that Musk has left the building, so to speak.
It does seem like it. Thanks.
Ah yes, remember that Pentagram audit to find that missing 2.4 trillion right before 911, when that mystery object just happened to strike the Pentagram right where the audit office was?
How convenient! Needless to say that 2.4 trillion is still missing and unaccounted for, and by now it is probably 24 trillion.
So sad, reading your article, my heart breaks for families that have lost family members in the military. I would love to see all the politicians and their sons be forced to serve!
Most of the military conflicts in this country have not been declared wars. New law: If our military goes into a military conflict, it must be a declared war and politicians must go!
Wishful thinking!
We'd all love that idea, Robin. Thanks.
I don’t fully agree with the thesis of this article, but I definitely think there is truth in what you’ve said here, Mr. Jeffries. You make some good and valid points in this Memorial Day piece to be sure. I salute every American soldier who has died in all our wars and have great respect for all the Gold Star families, widows and widowers who lost loved ones serving our country! 🇺🇸🫡 But the sad truth is some of our soldiers didn’t die in wars fought for noble reasons nor did all of the fallen die in wars that were managed correctly. This is a most important hidden piece of American history to remember.
The Banana Wars in South America (1898-1934), the Spanish-American War (1898) and the American Occupation of Haiti (1915-1934) were fought and/or done not in the name of liberty and justice for all but for America’s geopolitical and business interests. The Philippine-American War of 1899-1902 was a brutal slog in which 4,200 Americans and 20,000 Filipinos died and both sides committed horrific atrocities against each other. How about the Moro War in which the United States fought a Muslim insurgency from 1902 to 1913. At the infamous Battle of Bud Dago in 1906, American soldiers slaughtered 1,000 Moro men, women and children. How about the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1891 or the My Lai Massacre of 1968? Should we be proud of those?
Should we on this Memorial Day, celebrate America’s disastrous recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya? Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton turned Libya into a failed state with open slave markets. We helped destroy Iraq and killed 58,000 civilians as collateral damage in our war. How about Obama’s drone strikes into Pakistan that killed innocent civilians and turned a whole generation in that country against America? How about the infamous quagmire that was the Vietnam War? How about when America invaded the Dominican Republic in 1965 to topple its democratically elected President Juan Bosch, because we didn’t like things he did? Should we celebrate those interventions?
The Mexican-American War of 1846-47 was a straight-up a war about America expanding its territory and the incident that started it was a lie. American soldiers and the famed Texas Rangers too, committed war crimes against Mexican soldiers and civilians. How about the Mexicans and Native Americans we brought under our control after the war was over? Did they get equal rights? Nope. Pro-slavery zealots in the South supported the Mexican War hoping they could expand slavery westward.
War definitely CAN be a racket! Smedley Butler was right to a degree when he said that. He served in the military for 33 years and always was used as a muscle man of sorts for America’s national and financial interests. Businessmen and financiers made a fortune while he worked his butt off for nothing, while not making the world any freer and getting passed over for the promotion he so rightly deserved as Commandant of the Marine Corps.
The military-industrial complex has been with us for decades if not centuries. War profiteers have always existed and always will. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy warned us about these folks. Did you know during World War II as the Nazis we’re going around conquering other countries and committing mass murder against the Jews and others they deemed to be “untermenschen”, a number of big American corporations were quite openly trading with Nazi Germany up to 1941?
That’s right, Ford, GM, United Fruit Company, General Electric, United Harvester International, and IBM were perfectly happy to trade with Germany as they ruthlessly waged war on and subjugated France, the Low Counties, Greece, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Norway, and Denmark and hunted down Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, political dissenters, and others they deemed subhuman or a barrier to the twisted perfect world Hitler and his henchmen envisioned.
Did you know even during the Civil War, the North and South continued to trade with one another? Even as their countrymen were killing each other on battlefield. How’s that for patriotism? Big time financiers like J.P. Morgan, Jr. made millions off trading with both the Allied and Central Powers during WWI. Greedy American black market arms dealers sold to both South and North Vietnam. Need I say more?
None of this is to say America hasn’t fought some noble wars too. The American Revolution freed our country from the British Empire and won our independence. We protected our independence and prevented Britain from reconquering its old North American colonies in the War of 1812. The Union Army kept the Union together and ended the evil institution of slavery with its victory in the Civil War. World War I and World War II freed millions of oppressed people around the world and the latter ended the Holocaust.
The United States pushed North Korea out of South Korea in the early 1950s and Ba’athist Iraq out of Kuwait in the 1990s. America toppled Panama’s drug dealing dictator in 1989 and pushed Communist Cuba out of Grenada in the 1980s. NATO’s bombing of Kosovo in the 90s ended the genocide there and we captured and put on trial Serbian war criminals. To be sure, many of our brave men and women served and fell in wars worth fighting. But this wasn’t always the case.
But on this blessed Memorial Day we need to remember ALL our wars and ALL our history the good, the bad and the ugly. We should also listen to the voices of antiwar activists and politicians and folks like Cindy Sheenan who lost their children in poorly conceived, poorly managed wars that were disasters. War is sometimes necessary but there can be no doubt of how evil, brutal and destructive it is. Let us also never forget that the defense budget keeps being increased every year but that a lot of it doesn’t actually go to the troops or military readiness, it’s just pork fat. The Pentagon hasn’t passed an audit in a decade.
Good points, Noah. I covered some of our earlier, seldom reported foreign intervention in Haiti, Mexico, the Philippines, etc., in my book "American Memory Hole." Thanks.
Outstanding facts and analysis, Mr. Jeffries! And utterly heartbreaking to think of what America was supposed to be and to know how far it has fallen! I was so unaware until 2018 that virtually everything I had believed about my country for over 70 years was a BIG LIE! I still hear new heartbreaking revelations almost every day! It seems impossible that anyone or anything can save America from the evil forces within. Most Americans are still asleep and unaware they are considered useless eaters by the Satanists (and their puppet politicians) who are in control of the world and HELLBENT on depopulating the planet. Thank you for writing the truth.
Thanks, YellowRose!
I'm not sure how far along it is but it is simmering and it's deadly.
This 666 bbb build back better bill is expensive and it demonstrates that AI can be the law on anything they want. This is going to worse before it gets better. This ass hat has me believing him in his rallies until the fake assassin shit started happening. I started my dig deeper. Even this cover up of Palestine murdering. I tell people about the plans that Trump and Kushner have been working on for years now. Probably more than 10 years. The Beach front properties on the West Bank of Gaza. He has already sent bulldozers besides all the billions and bombs to massacre innocent people. So he can build Luxury Resorts Hotels and Casinos. This is sickening beyond words. To do this to people who have been there for centuries and centuries and herd them together and bomb tented camps of innocent babies children women and elderly people. Hamas was created by Israel decades ago. They are all IDF soldiers, these wear masks so you can't see their faces
I continue to challenge them. 20,000 so called Hamas terrorists and not one dead body revealed in these bombings. I could go on for an hour. In any case. I'll keep up with your posts. Thanks for responding! 👍🔥
Your information is very timely and much needed now more than ever. What do you think about new legislation that is near a vote for 20 years in prison and $1 million dollar fines for boycotting Israel. I have not read the Bill. HR 867 I believe. Let me know what you see.
That bill is about as bad as it gets, Matthew. Basically outlaws criticism of Israel. Thanks!
I wish every child in the US was made to read Johnny Got His Gun or at least the ones who want to enlist. I read it when young and it still haunts me. I find those military cemeteries with row after row of white tombstones the most depressing site in the country.
Now if you are anti war you are a pawn of Putin. Oy vey.
https://reagan.blogs.archives.gov/2022/10/25/constitutional-amendments-series-amendment-xxvi-voting-at-the-age-of-eighteen/
"Amendment Twenty-six to the Constitution was ratified on July 1, 1971. It lowered the voting age for all Americans to eighteen years, having previously been twenty-one years for the longest time. The official text is written as such..."
As a teenager throughout the late 60s and 70s, the draft for Vietnam was definitely a major threat and focus in our lives. To make it even more perverted was the legal age to vote was 21! Drafted out of high school but not old enough to vote!
As if many parents detesting their own children for their radical determination to protest many ways of American life, their sons demanding debate about war and being forced to participate in war really put these parents (many vets of WWII and Korea) over the edge into trying to emasculate their own sons by questioning let alone protesting the Vietnam war.
My own father was a veteran of both Korea and Vietnam. He came back from his second tour as one of those extremely damaged veterans. He became very anti-war explaining that 'Vietnam was one of the most corrupted situations he had ever experienced". As just one representative of the "forgotten POWs" the children of military personnel our lives were unlike any civilian children's lives. I was always aware that I was a "Navy dependent". The rest of America were civilians. Had my own base ID. My father had a lot of guilt for his experiences in Vietnam and he had converted to the Seabees when he realized he would sooner than later go to Vietnam. He manned the fire hoses spewing Agent Orange upon the foliage of Vietnam. "It turned it into black goo upon contact". He came home and retired from the military soon afterwards.
Yesterday, I attended a Memorial Day event in a huge cemetery built upon, strangely to me, rolling hills. Last year's event had me chuckling to myself "it's probably so hilly due to the thousands of vets rolling in their graves"... with the public speakers and their talk.
But this year-the speech by the Chief of Police in this midsized midwestern town was different. He kept stressing 'and all the ones coming home without arms and legs" reminiscing on his own father's war experiences in WWII being a medic "tending to thousands of dying, dead and totally physically destroyed by war". hmmmm that was different from the standard "flag waving hero" talk usually presented at these Memorial Day services. He looped on this message several times. He also looped the word "sacrifice" in a way that made me think of "blood sacrifice". These wars are just literal blood sacrifices to ... something.
Even the clerical representative's prayer was about peace versus war. hmmm Most conditioned Americans do not like to hear of such talk as that seems to take away from the sacrificial status due the military vets. I didn't 'feel' the 'rolling over in their graves" feelings I had last year.
I propose that in this technological age that every single issue that this government is involved with or has hopes of involving in be voted on by the people who the reps are supposed to be representing using the devices held in our own hands. If it works without objections for silliness like "Dancing with the Stars" it should suffice for giving our own input to the gov reps who vote on behalf of their constituents in our Republic form of government. THEN the Rep, state and federal can honestly represent the constituents.
I appreciate your very insightful comment, Librarian. Thanks for sharing your own experiences!
this is great Don.
Thanks, Kyra!
Exactly! Well said. Now truer than ever. Matt Kennard has written a book called "The Racket" that details many of the fields in which the Masters of this vast global criminal syndicate are conducting their business and exerting their power. Kennard begins this book with a quote by Smedley Butler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Kennard_(journalist) It will make your hair stand on end.
Thanks, Helen!