A comment from France on Remembrance Day (Jour d'Armistice), I was in tears listening to that, as that is what patriots did throughout occupied Europe during WW2. I live near a small town that the Nazis wiped out, every man woman and child, which has been left exactly as the Nazi soldiers left it. It is a constant reminder to us what happened here and scattered in France are memorials to US soldiers who parachuted in to help save us. I even met some on a Memorial Day to their colleges who died for us. Trump now even has his bully boys embedded in the U.K. State television service, the BBC and wants to take it down. There are many of us who will do anything to help you, it is the least we can do.
Thank you for this reminder. If only our legislators would all stand up to our horrible leader, gang up on him, I believe he will have no choice, but to relent.
Thank you, Mary! I will share and talk about this to all within and hopefully outside my circle. It's our responsibility! What a beautiful remembrance in words and pictures of the meaning of Veteran's Day, our day, the People's Day! We must fight in every way to keep the true meaning of Veteran's Day alive.
Thank you for this. It made me cry on Veterans Day as I remember the boys and men who were sent to Vietnam, who died there or came home messed up. This is a good way to memorialize soldiers who took an oath, put on the uniform and went to war, as well as those who "din't sign up for this shit" but were drafted out of their small towns and away from their families. Most came back, but 57,000 names are on that black wall in D.C.. Either way, we were supposed to have learned that our government is fallible and must be watched, always. The main difference between then and now was the amount if information we had. Then: nightly news and daily newspapers. Now: a flood of information on a river of bullshit. We shall overcome.
Wonderful article, while was protesting here I had no idea our troops were also protesting. My father was a Col. in the Air Force and briefed Westmorland weekly! We were at odds w this war! Nice to know the soldiers were also!
My father was a colonel in the USAF as well. Back in the Vietnam era, when he was having a mess of kids with Mom, we know now how terrified she was that he would be stationed there (got close, stationed in Thailand in 1973). Mom had a reason to be worried: her sister's husband, my Uncle Bob, went down in his jet into the Gulf of Tonkin in 1966, leaving behind his five children, my cousins. What would have been a beautiful and successful family was fractured and struggled with mental health, etc. Too sad. When we think about the increase in mental health issues, addiction, gun and domestic violence in the last 50 years, we must look at these men's lives and what the war did to them and their families. The war does not end...
A comment from France on Remembrance Day (Jour d'Armistice), I was in tears listening to that, as that is what patriots did throughout occupied Europe during WW2. I live near a small town that the Nazis wiped out, every man woman and child, which has been left exactly as the Nazi soldiers left it. It is a constant reminder to us what happened here and scattered in France are memorials to US soldiers who parachuted in to help save us. I even met some on a Memorial Day to their colleges who died for us. Trump now even has his bully boys embedded in the U.K. State television service, the BBC and wants to take it down. There are many of us who will do anything to help you, it is the least we can do.
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What a great Veteran's Day message. Thank you!
Thank you for this reminder. If only our legislators would all stand up to our horrible leader, gang up on him, I believe he will have no choice, but to relent.
I am hoping and praying to see this happen in our armed forces again. Resist!! Thank you.
What a fitting Veterans Day Tribute. Thank you 🙏
Thank you, Mary! I will share and talk about this to all within and hopefully outside my circle. It's our responsibility! What a beautiful remembrance in words and pictures of the meaning of Veteran's Day, our day, the People's Day! We must fight in every way to keep the true meaning of Veteran's Day alive.
Thank you for this. It made me cry on Veterans Day as I remember the boys and men who were sent to Vietnam, who died there or came home messed up. This is a good way to memorialize soldiers who took an oath, put on the uniform and went to war, as well as those who "din't sign up for this shit" but were drafted out of their small towns and away from their families. Most came back, but 57,000 names are on that black wall in D.C.. Either way, we were supposed to have learned that our government is fallible and must be watched, always. The main difference between then and now was the amount if information we had. Then: nightly news and daily newspapers. Now: a flood of information on a river of bullshit. We shall overcome.
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Wonderful article, while was protesting here I had no idea our troops were also protesting. My father was a Col. in the Air Force and briefed Westmorland weekly! We were at odds w this war! Nice to know the soldiers were also!
My father was a colonel in the USAF as well. Back in the Vietnam era, when he was having a mess of kids with Mom, we know now how terrified she was that he would be stationed there (got close, stationed in Thailand in 1973). Mom had a reason to be worried: her sister's husband, my Uncle Bob, went down in his jet into the Gulf of Tonkin in 1966, leaving behind his five children, my cousins. What would have been a beautiful and successful family was fractured and struggled with mental health, etc. Too sad. When we think about the increase in mental health issues, addiction, gun and domestic violence in the last 50 years, we must look at these men's lives and what the war did to them and their families. The war does not end...