Today's Tids issue 6,188
The Trenches:
"Radio the old man an' let him know we're gonna be late on account of a thousand-mile detour." Willie and Joe.
Veteran's day celebrates the solders in the mud, finding foxholes a sacred home. Wondering why they can't get closer to the ground when pinned down by machine gun fire. Veterans day is about all the military, but I leke to think it is about the privates and sergeants and first looies out there in who knows where. Often scared, hoping there is an end somewhere; huddled together, all for one, one for all. Coming home. Yet, their minds never really do, never leave the battlefields. Never stop smelling the death. Today is not about those who give speeches but those in the trenches. And I feel for them. Hate war, But never forget all those who served us so well. And live with memories we will never have.
Do you ever have trepidations about doing something and the find when it is over you wonder why.
I just can't figure out why supermarkets bake so much stuff. They just can;t sell it all fresh. Where does it all go. I live with problems like that, That;s not much considerign soldiers.
The Question:
What are two movies about real war heroes.
The Headlines:
--NVidia Stock Recovers and Pulls Up Nasdaq with It.:
--House Blocks Bid to Impeach Hegseth.
--Iranian Threats Has US Treasury Secretary Bessent and Family Moving to Military Base; Bessent Considered Architect of Economic Warfare Progarm against Iran.
--Kennedy Family to Fight Building of Arch; Says it Casts Shadow on JFK and RFK Family Plots in Arlington.
--Dems Move ahead of Repubs In Control of State Legistures.
--Markle's Father Sent to Jail After Cutting Through Electronic Bracelet at Home
12 teams qualify for the NCAA Football Playoffs. After last weekend's slew of upsets her is the top twelve now: Georgia, Utah, Alabama, UCLA, Notre Dame, Texas, Miami, Tennessee, Indiana, BYU, Kentucky and Texas Tech. It will probably be totally different next week.
It seems to me that every Dem waiting for next year to begin has a bill proposal already to release in his or her hip pocket. They all say we only want to lep the people of the USA but they seem seriously focused on getting Trump.
General Patton didn't like Bill Mauldin's Willie and Joe. But the idea was to depict the daily distress of the fighting man and poke fun at the detachment between them and the hierarchy.
Interesting how the same news gets two headleins, 1. House Blocks Hegseth Impeachment, 2. House Shelves Hegseth Impeachment. #1 is from a nuetral media source and two from a more liberal medial source. And #2 may be more accurate considering that Dems aren't in power yet.
You all probably have these "Restaurant Weeks" like we do around here. It used to be an inexspensive wsy to try out a really expensive restaurant. Now, for me, it is paying more than I would norally pay to get more food than I would normally order... from a restricted menu.
Mars company is spending $1.4 Billion modernizing factories, They say they need to bceause people are buying less chocolate and candy because of new healthier eating habits. I don't get it. They're spending $1.4 Bil to produce more effciently products that people were now eating less of.
American soldiers didn't fight to protect petty political bickering. All sides should lay off today. It is an insult to those who died
An elderly American gentleman of 97 arrived in Paris by plane. At the French customs desk, the man took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry-on bag. "You have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer asked, sarcastically. He admitted he had been to France previously. "Then you should know enough to have your passport ready." The American said, "The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it." "Impossible. Americans always have to show your passports on arrival in France!" The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained. "Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find any Frenchmen to show it to."
I have never seen anything in my like what I have seen in the past two years. The latest is fromWH Attorney Will Sharf who in a letter to soon to be Chair of the Congressional Oversight Committee Garcia warns that he would bring up crimanal charges if oversight went too far.
In a similar vien, Justice Sotomyor is saying she will be pushing for overturning the SC decision giving former Presidents broad criminal immunity. We live in a new era of drawn battle lines.
Why would any honest President need any criminal immunity or assurances of no investigations into personal actviities?
Why do WWI Veterans dislike golf, They always end up in a bungler.
The Answer:
I was thinking of Sargent York played bt Gary Cooper and Audie Murphy playing himself in "To Hell and Back", But we also Have American Sniper (Chris Kyle), We Were Soldiers (Hal Moore), Rescue Dawn (Dieter Dengler),The Court Marshall of Billy Mitchell and Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (The Jimmy Doolittle raid by Pilot Ted Lawson). And then there are the many heroes who never hit the silver screen but just did their job every day.
I had a great friend. a Viet Nam vet, He'd seen it all. Been through the deepest crap. One thing that seem to always make j him happiest was reunions with his men, The bond was so strong, the memories so deep, the respect so sincere.
Think of a veteran you know, A thought is a start.
