Handy Hubby is a veteran in common parlance, but I’m so glad he doesn’t go around announcing that to strangers like a child desperate for recognition and approval.
We get a discount at Lowe’s, so that’s pretty cool, because we spend loads of money there. It makes perfect sense that corporations reward veterans, because that’s who veterans serve.
Hubby joined the military because he wanted to expand his opportunities, same as many young people today.
Instead of celebrating Armistice Day, we celebrate Forever War.
Retired Lieutenant Colonel (USAF) Bill Astore writes:
“Sadly, as we raise more troops and fight more wars, we seem committed to the opposite. Our military just enjoyed its best recruiting class in years. This “success” is not entirely surprising. It’s no longer that difficult to fill our military’s expanding ranks because many of our young men and women simply have little choice but to enlist, whether for economic opportunity, money for college, or benefits like free health care.”
I served in the Peace Corps, but only one person has ever thanked me for my service, a stranger who didn’t know what the Peace Corps was, but everytime he heard the word “corps” was conditioned to reply with the proper canned reply, “Thank you for your service.”
Everyone knows the Peace Corps is for idealistic, lazy losers, unlike the military, which is for tough, courageous go-getters. Hollywood tells us so.
You want to joing the Peace Corps? What are you some sort of bleeding heart liberal hippy?!
“Since a very young age we are indoctrinated into the idea that wars are the story of “good” guys vs “bad” guys, that we are (of course) on the “good guys team” and the reason that the poor people from our country were (and continue to be) sent to other countries to kill other human beings with technology designed to end sentient life is so that we can “bring them democracy”, “protect our freedoms” and “ensure regional stability”. The truth is nothing even close to that comforting fairy tale.”
The Peace Corps volunteers don’t get included in Veterans Day, which used to be called Armistice Day, to remember the fighting that ENDED.
Once the wars became continuous they had to change the name.
I supported the Peace Corps for over two decades after I returned home, through financial donations, writing articles for their sites and singing their praises whenever I had occassion to do so. I stopped supporting them once I realized they’d turned pro-war.
Hollywood creations and fictional characters like the veteran Jack Reacher are worthy of the fandom of grown adults because that definitely has no resemblance to grown adults worshipping comic book figures like Superman or Robinhood as if they are real people.
“Collectively, we Americans tend to suppress whatever doubts we have about the wisdom of our wars with unequivocal statements of support for our troops. And on days like Veterans Day, we honor those who served, and especially those who paid the ultimate price on the battlefield.
Yet, wouldn’t the best support for our troops be the achievement of the dream of that grizzled vet who cut through a young man’s fog thirty years ago? Shouldn’t we be working to achieve a new age in which the rosters of our local VFWs and Legion posts are no longer renewed with the broken bodies and shattered minds of American combat veterans?”
“Working Towards Peace: Imagine if Veterans Day Became Obselete” Bill Astore, Bracing Views substack.
“There is no honor in tax-payer funded organized murder for profit: War is still a racket” Gavin Mounsey substack
“On November 11th, a day when we have been conditioned to glorify war as “necessary and honorable” let us take an honest look at the true nature of (and profiteers) of Modern Warfare”
i need to correct it. it is a video and article can’t spell either can i ? start at 3:58 minutes into it.
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the black sabbath music video of course isn’t the one by neverlosetruth. in case i confuse someone. it is just to show what the true nature of the military is…this is what they DO and those carrying out orders are just as robotic.
that rich men can pay to murder for the military does not surprise me. it surprises me that they got caught in italy. think it occurs only there?hardly. i would be they learned it from the us military that took pictures of their human trophies and wore necklaces with human fingers attached to show how many confirmed kills they make.
when you break the mind and soul and put a gun in the hand of those broken it should suprise no one at the level of evil they are trained to commit. it doesn’t surprise me in the slightest and shows what that war machine truly is. no wonder trumpet changed the name to department of WAR….
HELL IS EMPTY…ALL THE DEMONS ARE HERE! William Shakespeare.
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Thanks H, for thoughts and link!
I did hear that one from NeverLoseTruth and it was so disturbing I immediately turned it off. I didn’t try to vet it, because this would be one of the cases for me of “You can’t handle the truth!” I don’t have a lot of those, but we must know our own limitations!
It’s not that I doubt it, it’s that we know folks lie about such things on both sides. The military wants to look/sound as badass as they possibly can–the more crazy, violent, insane, willing to do anything they appear to be, the more of a deterant it is for impressing and scaring their rivals.
And, military or not, a lot of folks seem to be unable, or unwilling, to distinguish between fiction and reality. Fiction is more real today than reality for I think perhaps the majority of people. They spend more time on stories, other people’s stories, than they do involved in their own personal lives and this has been going on for generations. This blurring of the lines feeds psycosis and is most certainly an operation in and of itself.
You probably know the channel Healthy American? It’s all old news to me what she shares, been studying that masonic freakshow for many years now, she’s WAY behind the 8 ball imo. But, just demonstrates the ‘revelation of the method’ has been mainstreamed. Where will they take the show from here? They’ve got new tricks, or they wouldn’t be revealing the old ones, I’d say.
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Neverlosetruth has an articial about war tourists…ever heard the term before? me either! rich people who tour war zones to salivate at the death and destruction and they get to pay money to be a sniper for the military and kill civilians. they pay extra for children! the military gives them a list of prices!! and the gun to kill them with and turns them loose to help out in the war zone and the rich people get to slaughter whoever they want without punishment. how deep does the rabbit hole go and how dark does it get down there!
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