Model35mech
Model35mech's JournalAs a veteran, I'm really sort of sorry about how the media is going today.
I've never heard the pain of the dead. Only the survivors and their families.
I've stood many a Memorial Day and Veteran's Day in Wood National Cemetery in Milwaukee. And I've listened to the speeches of clergy and minor local and state politicians who can be bothered to show... in an election year... It always leaves me sad. Sad that the veteran's voices are replaced by some political or media meme.
And today is really no different. I had a good friend argue with me yesterday that veterans' day wasn't for him, because he survived. Yes, he survived, but he survived minus a led and an arm, minus the ear on the right side of his head, and with a terrible scar across the right side of his face!!
My GOD! THAT is a sacrifice worth noting and respecting or there aren't ANY!
I'm really very trouble by the notion that only the sacrifice of the dead is worth honoring.
I want to shout NO! NO! NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That really rather misses the point.
War is terrible, and it exacts horrific prices upon those who answer the call to serve. Nonetheless, some Americans step up and face the risks. Certainly many die. One can't look out at the acres of headstones at Wood National Cemetery and not think of the many that have.
But, down the hill, around the curve and a statue of an Iron Brigage soldier of the civil war is a lagoon and just beyond it is Zablocki Veterans' Hospital. I get my medical care there, thank-you tax payers, for covering the costs of Agent Orange. And I am grateful. But I'm always struck with being so undeserving because my visits there often leave me staggered by what I see.
And what I see are not the dead, the dead are in the cemetery back up the TOP of the hill (a cemetery that Dick Cheney wanted torn out because it's too valuable a piece of land for the corpses of veterans.)
What I see in the hallways and waiting rooms at Zablocki are men and women aged 20 something into their 90's. Still paying the price of wars 70 and even 80 years after, because they answered the call to serve.
Think about that for just a moment. As much of 80 years of disability and disfigurement. What a Price! But according to today's media personalities, today is about the dead.
I really have doubts that Memorial Day/Decoration Day have really every been just about the dead, because memory is a living thing. The dead don't remember pain as far as we can tell. But, memories hold the pain of the price that was paid by living survivors. Pain only lives in surviving families and surviving veterans. And for some of them that has gone on and on and on.
Do what you wish. But consider honoring that.
Based on my conversations with them, I think you can forget thanking them for their service. They are beyond that.
Instead, for a moment, privately, try to match in your heart the yawning vacancy of their losses.
Know the cost of what this nation asks.
The lying liars are lying, still, and more boldly, and without any shame.
The view of the American Conservative May 16, 2022|12:01 am :
"Sweden had zero excess deaths associated with Covid-19. The U.S. had the most excess deaths of all nations. New York had more than Florida. That’s the whole story right there in a handful of words." https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/covid-failure/
The view of the World Health Organization:
The current COVID-19 situation Sweden's data as reported to WHO in the last 24 hours. Latest update: 13 May 2022, 08:39 am GMT-5.
0 New cases... 2,504,894 Confirmed cases... 18,897 Confirmed deaths
https://www.who.int/countries/swe/
It's so damned easy to check the data, why do they think they can get away with lying?
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