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Gwyneth3811's avatar

“He was the future he was a perfect picture of the future and they were afraid to let anyone see what the future was like. Already they were looking ahead they were figuring the future and somewhere in the future they saw war. To fight that war they would need men and if men saw the future they wouldn’t fight. So they were masking the future they were keeping the future a soft quiet deadly secret. They knew that if all the little people all the little guys saw the future they would begin to ask questions. They would ask questions and they would find answers and they would say to the guys who wanted them to fight they would say you lying thieving sons-of-bitches we won’t fight we won’t be dead we will live we are the world we are the future and we will not let you butcher us no matter what you say no matter what speeches you make no matter what slogans you write.”

Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun

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Sara's avatar

Thank you for your article. The more I learn about prior wars, the more I agree with your premise. I also believe the best way to honor said brave men and women is to not play the elites’ game. Learning how to be independent food wise, health wise, and educating myself independently, trying to tease the truth out of what is available, is a great way to honor those Americans who deserve honor and respect.

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Lynn's avatar

My paternal grandfather was one of 13 survivors of the Battle of Bois de Ormont on 10/12/1918. He spent the rest of his life searching for answers as to what happened to the men in his command. He knew the orders given to him to take him men into battle that day was ridiculous but could not refuse it. His memoir of the war is the only known memoir written by an officer who served in the trenches in WW1. Gassed, hit by artillery, he came home and scoffed at the military parades and pomp and circumstance. He was disgusted. Three of his four sons went on to serve in WW2. He died of a fatal heart attack just after the invasion of Normandy....it was his same Division (different war) that was in the headlines suffering massive casualties from the first day of landing. His heart couldn't take it any more. May he rest in peace.

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pyrrhus's avatar

All you need to know about these evil clowns is what Smedley Butler said "war is a racket", and that he never fought in a war that wasn't for American business...

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DefCon-Dan's avatar

Yes, and "All Wars Are Banker's Wars" goes very well with "War Is A Racket".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqckMwXXg_k

Both are very appropriate on this ignoble holiday illusion.

I'm still amazed at how easy it is to fool people into risking their lives for a few fake fiat and a delusion. I'm also wondering how few people know that this holiday originated from the "War Between The States", and not some foreign entanglement war.

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2nd Smartest Guy in the World's avatar

They want another Civil War no doubt.

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DefCon-Dan's avatar

Another "War Of Northern Aggression"? That's the ticket.

'Memorial Day' should be changed to 'Understanding History Day', and this is a good place to start on this day circa 1865. More truth about "Honest Abe".

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/05/no_author/dont-miss-the-political-truths-that-nobody-wants-to-know/

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Loretta's avatar

I am blessed, even beyond what I recognize but each passing year, I realize. Many things of what people are just now recognizing or uncovering, I have known within my gut. Even as a very young person. It has never dawned on me to 'follow' anything or anyone. I only do my thing & never give any of it a second thought. "Leave me alone and I will leave you alone" was/is my montra. Yes, help anybody needing assistance but never fall into the drama of social chaos.

I have alway been "Never War" and what you are saying about the non-compliance has made sense all of my life. Even caused me to divorce my young soul mate when he joined the vietnam war.

Never War & Never Comply. ( i would like to say after 40 yrs our souls found each other & remarried)

Any & all school records of mine have been, 'bad attitude'. That's fine to me & I have always worn it as a badge of honor.

Yep, I am blessed. I believe the world will have to indure wars & rumors of wars for quite a long time before this mess it done. Wake up world! Find your maker & follow him, and quit listening to the rest of this disfunctional garbage.

Peace out.

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Regina Arriaga's avatar

Thank you for the petmectin referral

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alexei's avatar

You quoted an extract from Céline's most famous novel, but possibly few Americans know of his infamy in France during WW2 - "he wrote a series of antisemitic polemical works in which he advocated a military alliance with Nazi Germany. He continued to publicly espouse antisemitic views during the German occupation of France, and after the Allied landing in Normandy in 1944, he fled to Germany and then Denmark where he lived in exile." source: Wiki.

Hardly someone to commemorate today......

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2nd Smartest Guy in the World's avatar

No one commemorated him. I am well aware of his misanthropic history, but that does not take away from the quality of his writing.

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pyrrhus's avatar

Fortunately, for now, the Russians won't see any such NATO incursion; but NATO is already running all the missile launches from Ukraine, so it's a pretend game..But if NATO keeps attacking Russia's early warning radar, Russia will be forced to act...Because no country can allow a first strike...

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