Good Saturday September 19, 2020.
Some history and other tidbits
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Today in Naval History
September 19
1777 During the American Revolution, the British cutter HMS Alert captures the brig Lexington.
1862 The side-wheel ram Queen of the West exchanges sharp fire with Confederate infantry and artillery above Bolivar, Miss., while escorting two troop transports.
1864 Confederates seize steamer Philo Parsons, in an attempt to bribe USS Michigan officers and crew for the release of Confederate prisoners. The plot is foiled and the mission aborted.
1942 USS Hughes (DD 410), while serving in Task Force Seventeen (TF 17), rescues the surviving crewmen of a USAAF (B 17) that makes a forced landing in the Coral Sea one week before.
1944 USS Shad (SS 235) torpedoes and sinks Japanese coast defense ship, Ioshima. (ex-Chinese cruiser, Ning Hai) 85 miles off Hachij, Jima.
1952 USS Alfred A. Cunningham (DD 752) takes fire from three guns, estimated 105 to 155 mm in the Wonsan area of Korea. Thirteen personnel casualties, none fatal, were suffered. She expended 75 rounds of 5 inch and 84 of 3 inch in return counter battery fire. After emergency repairs, USS Alfred A. Cunningham was able to continue her combat operations.
1957 Bathyscaphe Trieste, in a dive sponsored by the Office of Naval Research in the Mediterranean, reaches a record depth of two miles. Three years later, Trieste would set a new record of seven miles on Jan. 23, 1960.
1992 USNS Loyal (T-AGOS 22) is christened and launched at McDermott Shipyards, Morgan City, Louisiana. The Military Sealift Command ship conducts surveillance towed array sensory system operations.
Thanks to CHINFO
Executive Summary:
• Multiple outlets report that President Trump named Robert C. O'Brien as his new national security adviser.
• Coverage continued on the recent attack on Saudi oil facilities as the Trump administration seeks to build a coalition to exert pressure on Iran.
• USNI News reported the Navy is considering future Arleigh Burke-class destroyers to patrol the Arctic.
Today in History September 19
1356 | In a landmark battle of the Hundred Years' War, English Prince Edward defeats the French at Poitiers. That English Long Bow was the decisive weapon but this was going to be eclipsed at Agincourt, | |
1544 | Francis, the king of France, and Charles V of Austria sign a peace treaty in Crespy, France, ending a 20-year war. | |
1692 | Giles Corey is pressed to death for standing mute and refusing to answer charges of witchcraft brought against him. He is the only person in America to have suffered this punishment. | |
1777 | American forces under Gen. Horatio Gates meet British troops led by Gen. John Burgoyne at Saratoga Springs, NY. | |
1783 | The first hot-air balloon is sent aloft in Versailles, France with animal passengers including a sheep, rooster and a duck. | |
1788 | Charles de Barentin becomes lord chancellor of France. | |
1841 | The first railway to span a frontier is completed between Strasbourg and Basel, in Europe. | |
1863 | In Georgia, the two-day Battle of Chickamauga begins as Union troops under George Thomas clash with Confederates under Nathan Bedford Forrest. | |
1893 | New Zealand becomes the first nation to grant women the right to vote. | |
1900 | President Emile Loubet of France pardons Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus, twice court-martialed and wrongly convicted of spying for Germany. | |
1918 | American troops of the Allied North Russia Expeditionary Force receive their baptism of fire near the town of Seltso against Soviet forces. | |
1948 | Moscow announces it will withdrawal soldiers from Korea by the end of the year. | |
1955 | Argentina's President Juan Peron is overthrown by rebels. | |
1957 | First underground nuclear test takes place in Nevada. | |
1970 | First Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts (originally called the Pilton Festival) is held near Pliton, Somerset, England. | |
1973 | Carl XVI Gustaf invested as King of Sweden, following the death of his grandfather King Gustaf VI Adolf. | |
1982 | The first documented emoticons, :-) and :-(, posted on Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System by Scott Fahlman. | |
1985 | An earthquake kills thousands in Mexico City. | |
1985 | Parents Music Resource Center formed by Tipper Gore (wife of then-Senator Al Gore) and other political wives lobby for Parental Advisory stickers on music packaging. | |
1991 | German hikers near the Austria-Italy border discover the naturally preserved mummy of a man from about 3,300 BC; Europe's oldest natural human mummy, he is dubbed Otzi the Iceman because his lower half was encased in ice. | |
2006 | Military coup in Bangkok, revokes Thailand's constitution and establishes martial law. | |
19 Sep 2018, marks 50 years since Lt Tony Nargi , flying an F-8 Charlie, bagged a Mig –21 with an AIM-9 D. VF-111 Det 11, USS Intrepid. Thanks to Rattler
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Thanks to Bill
Great story. This used to be true in many cities and towns. However, everyone is so busy and moved around to different locations, my banking employees wouldn't recognize me if I went twice a month!
Have a nice day,
Sara
Subject: Fw: Something to think about
"I had spent an hour in the bank with my dad, as he had to transfer some money. I couldn't resist myself & asked...
''Dad, why don't we activate your internet banking?''
''Why would I do that?'' He asked...
''Well, then you won't have to spend an hour here for things like transfer.
You can even do your shopping online. Everything will be so easy!''
I was so excited about initiating him into the world of Net banking.
He asked ''If I do that, I won't have to step out of the house?
''Yes, yes''! I said. I told him how even grocery can be delivered at your door now and how Amazon delivers everything!
His answer left me tongue-tied.
He said ''Since I entered this bank today, I have met four of my friends, I have chatted a while with the staff who know me very well by now.
You know I am alone...this is the company that I need. I like to get ready and come to the bank. I have enough time, it is the physical touch that I crave.
Two years back I got sick. The store owner from whom I buy fruits came to see me and sat by my bedside and cried.
When your Mom fell down a few days back while on her morning walk. Our local grocer saw her and immediately got his car to rush her home as he knows where I live.
Would I have that 'human' touch if everything became online?
Why would I want everything delivered to me and force me to interact with just my computer?
I like to know the person that I'm dealing with and not just the 'seller'. It creates bonds of relationships.
Does Amazon deliver all this as well?'''
Technology isn't life...
Spend time with people ... Not with devices."
Writer: Unknown
The Bubba Breakfast.is the place to do this
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Thanks to Dr. Rich
Be yourself ...
From Ken .. a good friend !!
Qualifications to be a friend? Some are difficult.
"What is a friend? I will tell you. It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. Your soul can be naked with him. He seems to ask of you to put on nothing, only to be what you are. He does not want you to be better or worse. When your are with him, you feel as a prisoner feels who has been declared innocent. You do not have to be on your guard. You can say what you think, as long it is genuinely you. He understands those contradictions in your nature that lead others to misjudge you. With him you can breathe freely. You can avow your little vanities and envies and hate and vicious sparks, your meannesses and absurdities and, in opening them up to him, they are lost, dissolved on the white ocean of his loyalty. He under stands. You do not have to be careful. You can abuse him, neglect him, tolerate him. Best of all, you can be still with him. It makes no matter. He likes you - he is like the fire that purges to the bone. He understands. He understands. You can weep with him, sing with him, laugh with him, pray with him. Through it all - and underneath - he sees, knows and loves you. A friend? What is a friend? Just one, I repeat, with whom you dare to be yourself."
-- C.R. Beran --
Thanks Worm
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Thanks to Bill
Reminds me of the commercials in Brussels
: The Italian Auction - Going Once,.....
This is something to see. An Italian Auction - only 44 seconds! You don't have to understand Italian to follow the auctioneer.
A Chinese Ming Vase is up for auction.
The bidding opens at a half-million Euros. Bidding is brisk and each bidder is clearly identified as each raises the bid by 100,000 Euros. (The exchange rate at auction time was 1 Euro =$1.12.) Within seconds, the bid stalls at One million Euros, and the gasp from the crowd identifies the excitement that prevails in the room.
The successful bidder is the last one who bid - one million, and the auctioneer counts down the bid, "Going once, going twice, and sold to the gentleman sitting in front of me for one million Euros."
The pace is fast. This is how an auction should be.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/3e0yZCLjwfU?rel
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Thanks to Wigs
This is the Best Trailer I have seen yet for Top Gun 2
Here it is.
Some pretty great flying by Cruise in the backseat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpZgwHU1GcI
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This Day in U S Military History
1862 – Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price at Iuka in northern Mississippi. The Battle of Iuka was part of a Confederate attempt to prevent General Ulysses S. Grant from reinforcing General Don Carlos Buell in central Tennessee. In the fall of 1862, Confederate General Braxton Bragg had invaded Kentucky to prevent the Rebels from losing any more territory in the West. The Confederates hoped to keep Union forces in western Tennessee and northern Mississippi occupied to prevent any transfer of troops to Buell, who had moved north to stop the invasion of Kentucky. Sterling Price and Earl Van Dorn commanded the two small Confederate armies operating in northern Mississippi, while Ulysses S. Grant led the Union forces in the area. In addition to preventing Yankee reinforcements in Kentucky, the Confederates also hoped to invade western Tennessee. Grant effectively thwarted both of these objectives by sending troops under General William Rosecrans to move on Price's army at Iuka from the south. He also dispatched another force under General Edward Ord to approach Iuka from the west. But poor communication and delays prevented a combined attack, and Price launched a preemptive assault on Rosecrans on September 19. Despite the intense fighting, Rosecrans was able to hold Price's force at bay. Repeated Confederate attacks resulted in heavy losses for the Rebels: 1,500 of 14,000 troops engaged. Yankee losses amounted to 790 out of 17,000 present. With Ord's force nearby, Price realized he was in danger of being trapped, and so he abandoned Iuka that evening. Ord may have joined in the battle, but a strange quirk of nature known as an "acoustic shadow" prevented him from hearing the sounds of battle just a few miles away. Acoustic shadows form when sound is unable to reach certain locations due to atmospheric conditions or terrain features. Although he saw smoke, Ord assumed Rosecrans was burning captured supplies
1944 – Operation Market Garden continues. In the morning the British 30th Corps reaches troops of the US 82nd Airborne Division at Grave. The combined force advances toward Nijmegen. At Arnhem, the British 1st Airborne Division continues to hold. Meanwhile, in Brittany, the last German resistance in Brest comes to an end.
1944 – The Battle of Hürtgen Forest (German: Schlacht im Hürtgenwald) is the name given to the series of fierce battles fought between U.S. and German forces during World War II in the Hürtgen Forest, which became the longest battle on German ground during World War II, and the longest single battle the U.S. Army has ever fought. The battles went on to 16 December 1944, over barely 50 sq mi (130 km2), east of the Belgian–German border. The U.S. commanders' initial goal was to pin down German forces in the area to keep them from reinforcing the front lines further north in the Battle of Aachen, where the Allies were fighting a trench war between a network of fortified towns and villages connected with field fortifications, tank traps and minefields. A secondary objective may have been to outflank the front line. The Americans' initial objectives were to take Schmidt and clear Monschau. In a second phase the Allies wanted to advance to the Rur River as part of Operation Queen. Generalfeldmarshall Walter Model intended to bring the Allied thrust to a standstill. While he interfered less in the day-to-day movements of units than at Arnhem, he still kept himself fully informed on the situation, slowing the Allies' progress, inflicting heavy casualties and taking full advantage of the fortifications the Germans called the Westwall, better known to the Allies as the Siegfried Line. A few days later, the Battle of the Bulge began, leaving the battle of Hürtgen Forest largely forgotten. The Hürtgen Forest cost the U.S. First Army at least 33,000 killed and incapacitated, including both combat and noncombat losses; German casualties were 28,000. Aachen eventually fell on 22 October, again at high cost to the U.S. Ninth Army. The Ninth Army's push to the Rur fared no better, and did not manage to cross the river or wrest control of its dams from the Germans. The Rur triangle was later cleared during Operation Blackcock between 14 and 26 January 1945. Hürtgen was so costly that it has been called an Allied "defeat of the first magnitude", with specific credit being assigned to Model.
1944 – On Peleliu there is heavy fighting around Mount Umurbrogol. Japanese forces are continuing to hold against the US marine attacks. On Angaur, there is intensive fighting between American troops and the small Japanese garrison.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
*COLLIER, JOHN W.
Rank and organization: Corporal, U.S. Army, Company C, 27th Infantry Regiment. Place and date: Near Chindong-ni, Korea, 19 September 1950. Entered service at: Worthington, Ky. Born: 3 April 1929, Worthington, Ky. G.O. No.: 86, 2 August 1951. Citation: Cpl. Collier, Company C, distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action. While engaged in an assault on a strategic ridge strongly defended by a fanatical enemy, the leading elements of his company encountered intense automatic weapons and grenade fire. Cpl. Collier and 3 comrades volunteered and moved forward to neutralize an enemy machine gun position which was hampering the company's advance, but they were twice repulsed. On the third attempt, Cpl. Collier, despite heavy enemy fire and grenade barrages, moved to an exposed position ahead of his comrades, assaulted and destroyed the machine gun nest, killing at least 4 enemy soldiers. As he returned down the rocky, fire-swept hill and joined his squad, an enemy grenade landed in their midst. Shouting a warning to his comrades, he, selflessly and unhesitatingly, threw himself upon the grenade and smothered its explosion with his body. This intrepid action saved his comrades from death or injury. Cpl. Collier's supreme, personal bravery, consummate gallantry, and noble self-sacrifice reflect untold glory upon himself and uphold the honored traditions of the military service.
*JECELIN, WILLIAM R.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company C, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Saga, Korea, 19 September 1950. Entered service at: Baltimore, Md. Birth: Baltimore, Md. G.O. No.: 24, 25 April 1951. Citation: Sgt. Jecelin, Company C, distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry and Intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action against the enemy. His company was ordered to secure a prominent, sawtoothed ridge from a well-entrenched and heavily armed enemy. Unable to capture the objective in the first attempt, a frontal and flanking assault was launched. He led his platoon through heavy enemy fire and bursting shells, across ricefields and rocky terrain, in direct frontal attack on the ridge in order to draw fire away from the flanks. The unit advanced to the base of the cliff, where intense, accurate hostile fire stopped the attack. Realizing that an assault was the only solution, Sgt. Jecelin rose from his position firing his rifle and throwing grenades as he called on his men to follow him. Despite the intense enemy fire this attack carried to the crest of the ridge where the men were forced to take cover. Again he rallied his men and stormed the enemy strongpoint. With fixed bayonets they charged into the face of antitank fire and engaged the enemy in hand-to-hand combat. After clubbing and slashing this force into submission the platoon was forced to take cover from direct frontal fire of a self-propelled gun. Refusing to be stopped he leaped to his feet and through sheer personal courage and fierce determination led his men in a new attack. At this instant a well-camouflaged enemy soldier threw a grenade at the remaining members of the platoon. He immediately lunged and covered the grenade with his body, absorbing the full force of the explosion to save those around him. This incredible courage and willingness to sacrifice himself for his comrades so imbued them with fury that they completely eliminated the enemy force. Sgt. Jecelin's heroic leadership and outstanding gallantry reflect the highest credit upon himself and uphold the esteemed traditions of the military service.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for September 19, 2020 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
19 September
1918: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSSES. Lts Arthur F. Seaver and John Y. Stokes, Jr., in a formation with five other bombers, went out on a mission from the 20th Aero Squadron. The other bombers turned back, but Seaver and Stokes went on to the target. Anti-aircraft fire hit their plane, but they still continued. Then their engine quit, but they glided over the target and dropped their bombs before turning back toward allied lines. They were attacked by an enemy fighter, but managed to crash in a forest inside allied lines. Both men later received the DSC. (4)
1928: The first diesel engine to power heavier-than-air craft flight-tested at Utica, Mich. Captain Lionel M. Woolson designed this engine in cooperation with Packard Motor Car Company, the builder. (24)
1937: Roscoe Turner, flying a Laird-Turner racer, set a US speed record of 289.908 MPH for 100 kilometers at Detroit. (24)
1950: KOREAN WAR. FEAF Combat Cargo Command began an airlift to Kimpo Airfield with 32 C-54s carrying equipment and supplies for ground troops to there. Supported by Fifth Air Force close air support missions, the 24th Infantry Division began crossing the Naktong River near Waegwan, and the 1st Cavalry Division broke through communist lines. (28)
1952: KOREAN WAR. In the first daylight medium bomber raid in 11 months, 32 B-29s with F-86 escorts attacked an enemy barracks and two supply areas southwest of Hamhung. An RB-45 preceded the B-29 formation, and an RB-29 orbited the area to provide weather information. (28)
1958: The RAF received its first Thor missile at Feltwell, England. (6)
1960: For the second time in four months, the USAF flew an Atlas ICBM over a 9,000-mile course from Cape Canaveral to a predetermined landing area in the Indian Ocean. (24)
1961: NASA announced that the future Manned Spacecraft Center would be located near Houston, Tex. (16) (24) The USAF SAGE Center at Gunter AFS, Ala., controlled the flight of a BOMARC-B missile from its launch at Eglin AFB to its interception of a Regulus II supersonic drone seven miles up and 250 miles away off the Florida coast. In the flight, the BOMARC successfully made a U-turn. (16) (24)
1969: An F-4E flying near Edwards AFB successfully air launched the first Maverick air-to-ground missile. (3)
1972: A Minuteman III completed its first operational test launch from a regular launch facility at Vandenberg AFB. (6)
1974: The 165th Military Airlift Group (MAG) at Savannah, Georgia, flew last C–124 (tail number 30044) in MAC's Reserve Forces to storage at Davis-Monthan AFB. (18) 1975: Maj George W. Larson of the 4200th Test and Evaluation Squadron at Edwards AFB became the first SAC pilot to fly the B-1 bomber. Charles C. Bock and Richard Abrams from Rockwell also handled the controls during the flight. (1)
1984: Through 21 September, a C-141 flew to Kinshasa, Zaire, to support of an Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) research project conducted by the US National Institute of Health. It carried three passengers and nine tons of medical supplies and equipment. (18)
1989: HURRICANE HUGO. Through 15 November, 128 aircraft from MAC and SAC provided relief to Hugo's victims in the Lesser Antilles and South Carolina. The aircraft carried over 3,300 people and 8,200 tons of supplies. (16) (18) Operation HAWKEYE. After Hugo struck the Virgin Islands, MAC transported military police to the island to recover prisoners who had escaped during the storm. (18)
2001: The USAF awarded a low-rate production contract for 10 F-22s to Lockheed-Martin. (21)
2005: At Francis E. Warren AFB, Wyo., the 90th Space Wing held a deactivation ceremony to signal the phase out of the Peacekeeper weapon system from the Air Force inventory. (Aimpoints, 90th Space Wing, "Peacekeeper Missile Mission Ends During Ceremony, 21 Sep 05) HURRICANE RITA. Air National Guardsmen began flying disaster response air support missions to prepare for Hurricane Rita's expected landfall on the Texas coast. (32)
2006: A B-52H flew a sortie using a blend of synthetic kerosene and JP-8 fuel in two engines and the conventional JP-8 in the other six engines. The test fuel was a 50-50 mix of traditional crude-oil and synthetic kerosene derived from natural gas. Air Force Undersecretary Ronald Sega flew aboard the flight to highlight the importance of the new fuel, which promised to reduce costs and greatly enhance deployability throughout the USAF. The sortie ended early when the left wingtip landing gear failed to retract properly. (3) A combined AFFTC and Boeing test team flew the first flight of a MC-130 modified with a "glass cockpit" under the Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) at the Kelly Field Annex, Texas. An AFFTC C-12 Huron flew safety chase for the sortie. (3)
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Thanks to Mud
61 YEARS AGO..
This is in reverse chronological order.
Alexis de Tocqueville said it all first in the middle 19th Century. I doubt, however, that Nikita had ever heard of Tocqueville.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years." ¯ Alexis de Tocqueville
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." ¯ Alexis de Tocqueville
"Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." ¯ Alexis de Tocqueville
"Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." ¯ Alexis de Tocqueville
"Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom." ¯ Alexis de Tocqueville
S/F,
- Mud
In a message dated 9/12/2020 3:12:35 PM Central Standard Time, xxxx@hotmail.com writes:
Hard to believe it was that long ago.............and it looks from where we are now it is coming true.
Just think back on what we have personally witnessed since 1959. Old Niki told it like what all of us have witnessed.
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!
Khrushchev's Message 61 years ago :
THIS WAS HIS ENTIRE QUOTE: A sobering reminder. Almost exactly sixty years ago since Russia's Khrushchev delivered his message. Do you remember September 29, 1959? THIS WAS HIS ENTIRE QUOTE:
"Your children's children will live under communism, You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright; but we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you will finally wake up and find you already have Communism. We will not have to fight you; We will so weaken your economy, until you will fall like overripe fruit into our hands." "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
Do you remember what Russia's Khrushchev said in 1959?
Remember, socialism leads to Communism. So,how do you create a Socialistic State?
There are 8 levels of control; read the following recipe:
1) Healthcare - Control healthcare and you control the people.
2) Poverty - Increase the poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them.
3) Debt - Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
4) Gun Control - Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state.
5) Welfare - Take control of every aspect (food, housing, income) of their lives because that will make them fully dependent on the government.
6) Education - Take control of what people read and listen to and take control of what children learn in school.
7) Religion - Remove the belief in God from the Government and schools because the people need to believe in ONLY the government knowing what is best for the people.
8) Class Warfare - Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. Eliminate the middle class This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to tax the wealthy with the support of the poor
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From: "Richard Hathcock"
Dick
Subject: FW: THIS IS US in 2020
The typical U.S. household headed by a person age 65 or older has a net worth 47 times greater than a household headed by someone under 35, according to an analysis of census data released Monday. 47 times
They like to refer to us as senior citizens, old fogies, blue hairs, geezers, and in some cases, dinosaurs. Some of us are "Baby Boomers," getting ready to retire; others are from the Greatest Generation already retired.
We walk a little slower these days, and our eyes and hearing are not what they once were. We worked hard, raised our children, worshiped our God, and have grown old together.
In school, we studied English, history, math, and science, which enabled us to lead America into the technological age. We still use two spaces after a period when typing.
Most of us remember what outhouses were, many of us with firsthand experience. We remember the days of telephone party lines, twenty-five cent gasoline, and milk and ice being delivered to our homes.
We are probably considered old fashioned and outdated by many. But there are a few things you need to remember before completely writing us off.
We won World War II, fought in Korea and Viet Nam. We can quote "The Pledge of Allegiance" and know where to place our hand while doing so. We wore the uniform of our country with pride and lost many friends on the battlefield.
We didn't fight for the Socialist States of America; we fought for the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave." We wore different uniforms but carried the same flag.
We know the words to the "Star Spangled Banner," "America," and "America the Beautiful" by heart, and you may even see some tears running down our cheeks as we sing. We have lived what many of you should have read in history books, and we feel no obligation to apologize to anyone for America.
Yes, we are older and slower these days, but rest assured, we have at least one good fight left in us. We love this country, fought, and died for it, and now we are going to save it. It is our country, and nobody is going to take it away from us.
We took oaths to defend America against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that's an oath we plan to keep. Some want to destroy this land we love, but, like our founders, there is no way we are going to remain silent.
Well, don't worry youngsters, the Grey-Haired Brigade is here. We may drive a little slower than you would like, but we get where we're going, and in 2020 we're driving to the polls again by the millions.
So the next time you have the chance to say the Pledge of Allegiance, stand up, put your hand over your heart, honor your country, and thank God for the old geezers of the "Gray-Haired Brigade."
Footnote:
This is spot on. I am another Gray-Haired Geezer signing on. I will circulate this to other Gray-Haired Geezers all over this still great country. Can you feel the ground shaking? It's not an earthquake, it's a STAMPEDE. And, you and I are members
In God we STILL trust.
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