First. thank you to all that served ( including my father).the speech given by the 98 year old was epic...”we gave up our yesterdays for your tomorrows”.......second why does it matter if the father of a 48 year old who is getting married for the second time attends the quiet ceremony. It is not like he will walk his son down the aisle or be a “best man” better that he stays at work which is what he is doing.. 250 years and counting
Judging by the beaches, malls and roadways across America, 40 million plus Americans don’t seem nearly as concerned about the price of gas as the media. Happy Memorial Day!
The price of oil...and then all the products it helps produce [such as...well....everything!], has always affected people and their pocket books, and by extension - the economy.
That alone does not make any one thing good or bad.....it is just a fact.
I do not know what comes w respect to Iran. But I do know that FUKUYAMA was very widespread of the mark back in 1989. Clinton opened the door to china and bin Laden and the rest is... HISTORY. Just as Fauci was a POLITICAL scientist and Yellen a POLITICAL economist Francis has proven to be a POLITICAL historian.
The arc of progressivism has given a dangerous multipolar world, the one I would argue Obama envisioned. China on the cusp of dominating Asia, Iran being left as a ME menace, Russia again creating havoc and Europe becoming more Islamic every month. Hopefully the US at least stays on top of south America but that can be reversed in 28 quite easily with leftists again being favored by a khanna , Harris or AOC.
GOD bless the souls who gave their lives for this country. Let's hope the freedoms they died for are always preserved and protected.
As my dad was at Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and an uncle was incinerated on Tinian Isle in an overloaded plane, I wonder what their patriotic mindset was compared to our youth today. They came out of the Depression with diminished hopes, and loved their families and their country.
On the same holiday, we have our disenfranchised youth so wedded to liberal diatribes, that they attack the White House, places of worship and anything we’ve held dear as Americans. What gives?
It angers and frustrates me all the time. I thank God every single night that i was lucky to be born in America and I pray for its protection and ability to somehow get through this point in time. We are all so blessed and yet what seems like half the country and increasingly those under 40 not only have little if any gratitude for their good fortune but even have disdain. And I especially detest those with disdain who lament their "privilege"( the true privilege is being an American) but rarely if ever sacrifice anything that would diminish their lifestyles.
FYI earlier today trump intimated Qatar Saudis and several others need to join thd Abraham accords. Man is this confusing . As a student of history I am agog at all going on. If there are honest historians in the future ( not many left today in my opinion but I love VDH and a few others) it would be more than interesting to see how all of this is explained and described. Of course first we need to know how this ends. I imagine VDH will be writing about the uniqueness of the past few months ( and years) very soon . Every day is a revelation of sorts. It makes one's head spin.
I didn't know there was a marathon, but I have it on Blue Ray and I've watched it more times than I can count. I simply cannot get enough of it.
As a Marine, I thought I would like The Pacific even more, but even though I think it was an even better showcase of the brutality of war, it fails to make me as invested in the characters as Band of Brothers.
“Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport will be an additional point of entry, along with Washington’s Dulles Airport, for passengers returning from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, or South Sudan.”
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The easy fix for this is to make it illegal to go to those places.
My guess is that if we just renamed it the Republican Republic of the Congo or South Trump Sudan we could get a lot of folks to advocate for summary execution.
First. thank you to all that served ( including my father).the speech given by the 98 year old was epic...”we gave up our yesterdays for your tomorrows”.......second why does it matter if the father of a 48 year old who is getting married for the second time attends the quiet ceremony. It is not like he will walk his son down the aisle or be a “best man” better that he stays at work which is what he is doing.. 250 years and counting
Judging by the beaches, malls and roadways across America, 40 million plus Americans don’t seem nearly as concerned about the price of gas as the media. Happy Memorial Day!
The price of oil...and then all the products it helps produce [such as...well....everything!], has always affected people and their pocket books, and by extension - the economy.
That alone does not make any one thing good or bad.....it is just a fact.
Our National Parks often have wait times of hours just to get in the park.
There are clearly a bunch of folks who are not letting gas prices stop them.
I do not know what comes w respect to Iran. But I do know that FUKUYAMA was very widespread of the mark back in 1989. Clinton opened the door to china and bin Laden and the rest is... HISTORY. Just as Fauci was a POLITICAL scientist and Yellen a POLITICAL economist Francis has proven to be a POLITICAL historian.
The arc of progressivism has given a dangerous multipolar world, the one I would argue Obama envisioned. China on the cusp of dominating Asia, Iran being left as a ME menace, Russia again creating havoc and Europe becoming more Islamic every month. Hopefully the US at least stays on top of south America but that can be reversed in 28 quite easily with leftists again being favored by a khanna , Harris or AOC.
GOD bless the souls who gave their lives for this country. Let's hope the freedoms they died for are always preserved and protected.
As my dad was at Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and an uncle was incinerated on Tinian Isle in an overloaded plane, I wonder what their patriotic mindset was compared to our youth today. They came out of the Depression with diminished hopes, and loved their families and their country.
On the same holiday, we have our disenfranchised youth so wedded to liberal diatribes, that they attack the White House, places of worship and anything we’ve held dear as Americans. What gives?
It angers and frustrates me all the time. I thank God every single night that i was lucky to be born in America and I pray for its protection and ability to somehow get through this point in time. We are all so blessed and yet what seems like half the country and increasingly those under 40 not only have little if any gratitude for their good fortune but even have disdain. And I especially detest those with disdain who lament their "privilege"( the true privilege is being an American) but rarely if ever sacrifice anything that would diminish their lifestyles.
and the US is becoming more Islamic as well. danger danger danger
Well said!
FYI earlier today trump intimated Qatar Saudis and several others need to join thd Abraham accords. Man is this confusing . As a student of history I am agog at all going on. If there are honest historians in the future ( not many left today in my opinion but I love VDH and a few others) it would be more than interesting to see how all of this is explained and described. Of course first we need to know how this ends. I imagine VDH will be writing about the uniqueness of the past few months ( and years) very soon . Every day is a revelation of sorts. It makes one's head spin.
My head is spinning but everything other than no nukes for Iran is just background noise.
And there is a lot of noise. Never Quiet on the Trump Front?
My favorite Memorial Day poem...
The Soldier by Rupert Brooke
"If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven."
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember’d;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
---Henry V, Act IV, Scene III
Still love to watch the Band of Brothers marathon when I can each Memorial Day.
I watch It every few years
I just borrowed my son's DVD set from him, as it's no longer streaming on the services I get.
Ted Turner's "Gettysburg" gets the July 1-3 annual tradition for me.
Another super choice!
I didn't know there was a marathon, but I have it on Blue Ray and I've watched it more times than I can count. I simply cannot get enough of it.
As a Marine, I thought I would like The Pacific even more, but even though I think it was an even better showcase of the brutality of war, it fails to make me as invested in the characters as Band of Brothers.
That was exctly my take on both productions.
I enjoyed The Pacific, but it did not grab you by the heart as Band of Brothers did.
Twenty odd years later, I still cannot watch without shedding tears.
Same here!
Without question the Cadillac of such writing.
It’s beautiful, I agree, though I prefer the poem by Lawrence Binyon, rather lengthy, but here it is. I think most will recognise one of the stanzas.
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.
But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;
As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.
A worthy alternative.
“Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport will be an additional point of entry, along with Washington’s Dulles Airport, for passengers returning from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, or South Sudan.”
—————————————
The easy fix for this is to make it illegal to go to those places.
My guess is that if we just renamed it the Republican Republic of the Congo or South Trump Sudan we could get a lot of folks to advocate for summary execution.
Or to make it a one way trip.
Back in March this year, I wrote how the US was losing the conflict with Iran. But nooo — things were under control lol. Now we’re asking for a deal lol. Sounds like they won here: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-us-is-losing-the-iran-conflict
Sorry Franklin but that makes absolutely no sense.
You've been tuned in to Megyn, Candace, and Tucker a wee too much, partner.
Franklin is a good guy but good grief this makes no sense regardless of what one thinks of the war.