Good Sunday Morning August 22…
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Today in Naval and Marine Corps History
August. 22
1912 The Dental Corps is established by an Act of Congress.
1942 USS Blue (DD 387) is torpedoed by Japanese destroyer, Kawakaze, off Guadalcanal. She was scuttled by her crew the following day.
1944 Submarines Haddo (SS 255) and Harder (SS 257) encounter three Japanese escort vessels off the mouth of Manila Bay. Haddo sinks Sado 35 miles west of Manila; Harder sinks Matsuwa and Hiburi about 50 miles west-southwest of Manila.
1945 The Japanese of Mille Atoll, Marshall Islands, surrenders on board USS Levy (DE 162), the first Japanese surrender at the end of World War II.
1956 A P4M Mercator, while on night patrol out of Iwakuni, Japan, reported it is under attack by aircraft over international waters, 32 miles off the China coast, and is not heard from again. Carrier and land-based air and surface ships, searching for the plane, found wreckage, empty life rafts, and the bodies of two crew members.
1980 USS Passumpsic (AO 107), guided by (P 3) aircraft from Patrol Squadron 1 and 26 (VP 1 and VP 26), rescues 28 Vietnamese refugees off Saigon.
This day in History August 22
1350 | John II, also known as John the Good, succeeds Philip VI as king of France. | |
1485 | Henry Tudor defeats Richard III at Bosworth. This victory establishes the Tudor dynasty in England and ends the War of the Roses. | |
1642 | Civil war in England begins as Charles I declares war on Parliament at Nottingham. | |
1717 | The Austrian army forces the Turkish army out of Belgrade, ending the Turkish revival in the Balkans. | |
1777 | With the approach of General Benedict Arnold's army, British Colonel Barry St. Ledger abandons Fort Stanwix and returns to Canada. | |
1849 | The Portuguese governor of Macao, China, is assassinated because of his anti-Chinese policies. | |
1911 | The Mona Lisa, the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, is stolen from the Louvre in Paris, where it had hung for more than 100 years. It is recovered in 1913. | |
1922 | Michael Collins, Irish politician, is killed in an ambush. | |
1942 | Brazil declares war on the Axis powers. She is the only South American country to send combat troops into Europe. | |
1945 | Soviet troops land at Port Arthur and Dairen on the Kwantung Peninsula in China. | |
1945 | Conflict in Vietnam begins when a group of Free French parachute into southern Indochina, in response to a successful coup by communist guerilla Ho Chi Minh. | |
1952 | Devil's Island's penal colony is permanently closed. | |
1956 | Incumbent US President Dwight D. Eisenhower & Vice President Richard Nixon renominated by Republican convention in San Francisco. | |
1962 | OAS (Secret Army Organization) gunmen unsuccessfully attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle; the incident inspires Frederick Forsyth's novel, The Day of the Jackal. | |
1962 | The world's first nuclear-powered passenger-cargo ship, NS Savannah, completes its maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va., to Savannah, Ga. | |
1968 | First papal visit to Latin America; Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota. | |
1969 | Hurricane Camille hits US Gulf Coast, killing 256 and causing $1.421 billion in damages. | |
1971 | Bolivian military coup: Col. Hugo Banzer Suarez ousts leftist president, Gen. Juan Jose Torres and assumes power. | |
1971 | FBI arrests members of The Camden 28, an anti-war group, as the group is raiding a draft office in Camden, NJ. | |
1972 | International Olympic Committee votes 36–31 with 3 abstentions to ban Rhodesia from the games because of the country's racist policies. | |
1975 | US President Gerald Ford survives second assassination attempt in 17 days, this one by Sarah Jane Moore in San Francisco, Cal. | |
1983 | Benigno Aquino, the only real opposition on Ferdinand Marcos' reign as president of the Philippines, is gunned down at Manila Airport. | |
1989 | First complete ring around Neptune discovered. | |
1995 | During 11-day siege at Ruby Ridge, Id., FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi kills Vicki Weaver while shooting at another target. | |
2003 | Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended for refusing to comply with federal court order to remove the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Supreme Court building's lobby. | |
2005 | Art heist: a version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway. | |
2007 | Most runs scored by any team in modern MLB history as the Texas Rangers thump the Baltimore Orioles 30-3. |
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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED Thanks to the Bear
LOOKING BACK 55-YEARS to the Vietnam Air War— … For The List for Sunday, 22 August 2021… Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
From the archives at rollingthunderremembered.com post for 22 August 1966… Cardinal Spellman speaks in support of the war…
This following work accounts for every fixed wing loss of the Vietnam War and you can use it to read more about the losses in The Bear's Daily account. Even better it allows you to add your updated information to the work to update for history…skip
Vietnam Air Losses
Access Chris Hobson and Dave Lovelady's work at: https://www.VietnamAirLosses.com.
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This Day in U S Military History
1950 – During the fighting at the "Bowling Alley" near Tabudong, North Korean Lieutenant Colonel Chong Pong UK, commander of the artillery regiment supporting the North Korean 13th Division, surrendered to the ROK 1st Division. Chong, the highest-ranking communist prisoner to date, gave precise information on the location of his artillery. Eighth Army immediately launched air and artillery strikes on the enemy guns. Chong had defected in protest against what he felt was an unfair reprimand by the 13th Division commander.
1967 – Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General John P. McConnell, states before a Senate Subcommittee that adopting a graduated bombing policy in North Vietnam was a mistake. Three days later, Secretary of Defense McNamara admitted that the bombing of North Vietnam had not materially affected Hanoi's "warmaking capability."
1968 – For the first time in two months, Viet Cong forces launch a rocket attack on Saigon, killing 18 and wounding 59. Administration officials denounced the attack as a direct repudiation of President Johnson's speech of August 19, in which he appealed to the North Vietnamese to respond favorably to his limitation of the air campaign north of the DMZ.
1994 – The Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Sea and the CCCS Louis S. Ste Laurent became the first "North American surface ships" to reach the North Pole. An HH-65A from Aviation Training Center Mobile, detached to the Polar Sea, became the first U.S. (and also Coast Guard) helicopter to reach the pole as well.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
CLlFFORD, ROBERT T.
Rank and organization: Master-at-Arms, U.S. Navy. Born: 1835, Pennsylvania. Accredited to: Pennsylvania. G.O. No.: 45, 31 December 1864. Citation: Served on board the U.S.S. Shokokon at New Topsail Inlet off Wilmington, N.C., 22 August 1863. Participating in a strategic plan to destroy an enemy schooner, Clifford aided in the portage of a dinghy across the narrow neck of land separating the sea from the sound. Launching the boat in the sound, the crew approached the enemy from the rear and Clifford gallantly crept into the rebel camp and counted the men who outnumbered his party 3 to 1. Returning to his men, he ordered a charge in which the enemy was routed, leaving behind a schooner and a quantity of supplies.
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Thanks to CAP
Subject: A post on Tailhookers Facebook page
🇦🇫 It appears we do not understand the Gravity of the situation.
There are >10,000 US Americans 🇺🇸 surrounded on Kabul airport, behind barbarian enemy lines (who have unsophisticated Command-Control-Communication over their ☪︎Taliban goat-herder combatants).
The airport is now out of jet fuel and in total chaos.
In order for the C-17As to perform their assigned emergency war order (EWO) evac mission, they must flight plan to arrive w/ min-fuel to support a max Pax load, on-load 640, depart down a potentially obstructed runway, then immediately hit a tanker BINGO fuel over enemy held territory.
A nonfunctioning tanker AAR boom, boost pump, nozzle probe/latch … ~700 Americans become glider Pax to an unimproved field, forced landing (behind ☪︎Taliban lines, no long range CSAR available for hours, no mass-casualty CSAR capability, whatsoever).
No NAVAIDs, no PAR 📡⚡ ✈️ no Air Traffic Control tower, no Wx 🌧 shop (other than heroic USAF TAC-P) no Transient Alert, no aircraft mx, no ground support equipment (AGE) no spare parts, no crash recovery team/equipment/medical/emergency room, no Base Ops/airfield mgt, FOD mgt on Kabul airfield.
Blow-and-go.
Let's do the math:
>10,000 evacuees (more for true National civil servants/ANA military) ➗ 640 per emergency floor loading = 15.6 flawless out-&-back C-17A emergency evac sorties.
6,000 82d Airborne US combatants are holding the outer perimeter (the wire) and other US troops have close-in security. Not all Afghani Nationals inside the Cantonment area have been vetted and may not be eligible for evacuation, may not be close-in Friendlies.
One mistake, one negligent weapon discharge, one smuggled hand grenade💥 …and there could be a mass blood🩸bath on Kabul airfield.
Remember, ☪︎Taliban are pro-Suicide Jihadists as a weapon-of-war.
>10,000 United States of America 🇺🇸 citizens have been placed in harm's way.
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐨 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠? 🤔💭
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Thanks to Micro and Cowboy
"what if Trump"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyE2IbTf1EQ
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for August 22, 2020 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
22 August
1909: FIRST INTERNATIONAL FLYING MEET. Through 29 August, in the Le Grande Semain d'Aviation de Champagne Flying Meet at Rheims, France, Glenn H. Curtiss flew one of his planes to win two first prizes ($5,000 and $2,000) and a second prize ($600) for speed. The Gordon-Bennett Race for speed was the most prestigious event in the meet. The top speed in the meet was 45.7 MPH. (24)
1917: Air-to-ground radiotelephones went into production.
1923: Lt Harold R. Harris (pilot) and Lt Muir Fairchild (copilot) flew the XNBL-1 Barling Bomber, the Army's first long-range night bomber, in its first flight at Wright Field. (21)
1938: Civil Aeronautics Act became effective to coordinate all nonmilitary aviation under the CAA. (20) (24)
1950: KOREAN WAR. Chinese anti-aircraft gunners fired across the Yalu River at RB-29s flying border reconnaissance. This was the first hostile Chinese action against UN aircraft. (28)
1952: KOREAN WAR. On successive nights, three C-47s flew 60-minute voice broadcast sorties near the front lines, indicating a greater emphasis by UN Command on psychological war. (28)
1955: First run on the 120-foot Daisy track held to study human tolerance to short-duration G-forces.
1959: Through 20 September, Peter Gluckmann used a Meyers 200 Airplane to complete a solo, 22,800-mile round-the-world flight from San Francisco and back in 29 days. (9) (24)
1963: Above Edwards AFB, NASA test pilot Joseph A. Walker flew the X-15 to new records of 354,000 feet (67 miles) in altitude and 3,614 MPH. (3)
1988: Through 6 October, aircrews flew 1 C-5, 1 C-130, and 29 C-141s to carry 2,497 Army firefighters and 420 tons of equipment to Bozeman, Mont., and West Yellowstone, Wyo., to fight a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park that had engulfed over 582,000 acres. (18)
1990: President George Bush called-up 200,000 ANG and AFRES personnel for Operation DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM. (18)
1997: A C-5 aircrew from Dover AFB delivered a NASA satellite from Andrews AFB to Kagoshima, Japan, after a 16-hour flight. The $250 million satellite for the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission was the first joint space project between the US and Japan. (22)
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Thanks to DR
Great story!! There are forces that want you to believe we are all just ugly and hateful. But we aren't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaMkOES-y3Y
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Thanks to Dutch
Their Blood on bumblingbiden's and HidetheWilly's hands
American mom trapped by Taliban describes horrific violence, pleads for Biden to solve evacuation crisis
Her brother, a former military translator and contractor, said at least two of his colleagues had been killed by Taliban fighters in the past two days
By Michael Ruiz , Sara Ballou | Fox News
FIRST ON FOX: An American mom trapped in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan is worried she'll never see her kids again and in hiding with family members and Afghan allies – unable to reach Kabul's U.S.-held airport for a chance at an evacuation, she said Saturday.
"I really have given up hope, given up on the hope of going to the airport," the woman, whose identity is being withheld due to concerns for her safety, told Fox News. "It's just not possible to make it through all those people."
She said there are as many as 20 Taliban checkpoints between her and the airport – and she's one of an uncertain number of American citizens trapped behind enemy lines.
Every moment that a car passes by, I feel like they are going to pull in and execute us. I don't know if I'm going to see my children again.
She was whipped by Taliban fighters on one attempt to get through, she said. A man standing near her was shot in the head on another try, leaving his wife and baby in tears. Since then, she's been in hiding.
TALIBAN GOING 'HOUSE TO HOUSE' IN AFGHANISTAN 'HANGING' PEOPLE WHO WORKED WITH US: SOURCE
"We are devastated," she said. "We're scared for our lives. Every moment that a car passes by, I feel like they are going to pull in and execute us. I don't know if I'm going to see my children again."
She said the situation was dire – even hopeless. She would rather commit suicide than allow the Taliban to capture her. And despite Taliban assurances to the U.S. that Americans would be allowed to pass through the checkpoints surrounding the airport, she said she fears showing her U.S. passport to militants who could be members of other terror groups, including ISIS and al Qaeda.
Please, Mr. President, please evacuate us. We need help.
"They're labeled as Taliban, but who really knows?" she said. "They don't have a uniform on, a proper military uniform or law enforcement, where you can recognize them. They're all armed."
She had a message for the president, speaking through tears: "Please, Mr. President, please evacuate us. We need help."
The White House did not immediately provide a response to this woman's plea.
As of Saturday evening, she was in hiding with her aunt, a former Afghan parliament member, her uncle, as well as an undisclosed number of contractors and children.
Her brother, a former military translator and contractor who is now in the United Kingdom, said at least two of his colleagues had been killed by Taliban fighters in the past two days. And sources told Fox News earlier this week that three captured Afghan National Army commanders were hanged by the Taliban in Kabul as the militants were banging on doors, seeking out people who had worked with U.S. and coalition forces.
The traffic starts miles away from the airport. It's probably two, three miles, with thousands of people put together like little matchsticks with no space between them.
"They've been going to a lot of homes pulling out high-ranked Afghans, law enforcement, people who worked with the U.S. military or NATO," the woman said.
TALIBAN CLAIMS IT'LL BE MORE MODERATE, BUT KILLINGS CONITNUE IN AFGHANISTAN
In a 27-second audio recording sent to West Virginia Rep. Carol Miller's office, she can be heard struggling to speak through her tears.
"Hour by hour it's getting more difficult," she says, between sobs. "Even when the cars pass by I feel like they're gonna stop at the door out there and the Taliban out there are gonna come in and kill us."
"I'm really scared," she continued. "Please just, please help me."
In a separate message, she told Miller's office that she had "no hope" of seeing her children again.
The woman's husband, who is safely in Virginia with their children, told Fox News that the State Department has been of little assistance and that they are communicating primarily with Miller's office.
The congresswoman's office confirmed her status as an American citizen and helped connect Fox News with her to raise awareness of the severe threat to Americans and Afghan allies trapped behind Taliban lines.
The family also said they fear that the Taliban could impose an internet blackout – effectively shutting down all communications apps and hiding extremist activities from the rest of the world.
At that point, the woman's brother said the Taliban would "massacre of a lot of people."
"It's a devastating situation and deadly," the trapped woman told Fox News. "I'm terrified."
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on a conference call with U.S. senators Friday evening that the Pentagon was "exploring options" for how to evacuate American citizens, according to a source on the call. And the military sent three chinook helicopters outside the airport perimeter to retrieve 169 Americans at a rendezvous point Friday, authorities said, even after officials said they wouldn't be doing external rescue missions.
For non-Americans, however, "they'll have to figure out how to get to Kabul," Blinken said. There are tens of thousands of Afghan allies who worked with U.S. forces over the past two decades.
And if and when they reach Kabul – it's swarming with Taliban fighters dead-set on hunting down and killing them.
"The traffic starts miles away from the airport," the trapped American woman said. "It's probably two, three miles, with thousands of people put together like little matchsticks with no space between them."
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Thanks to Dan
Special Edition Newsletter:? The Ripple Effect of Afghanistan | 19 Aug 2021
Shalom from Florida! I am continuing my vacation with my family, and it has been a blessed time. Soon, though, they will return to Israel, while I remain here in America to prepare for the second leg of my US tour, which will take me to California, Texas, and Virginia. But before that, I will be blessed to speak this coming Wednesday night at Calvary Chapel Miami. I hope to see you all there!
This week?s newsletter departs from its normal format. You?ll read below why I?ve decided to do so. Next week, we will return to our usual layout. May God continue to bless you as you seek Him.
Every now and then, there are shifts in the world. These are moments that without hyperbole can be called game-changers. What we have been watching this last week in Afghanistan is most certainly one of these game-changing moments. Not since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union have we witnessed this big an alteration in the geopolitical landscape. These past seven days have seen the end of America as the world?s number one superpower and have left us in what now can be considered a Post-American Era.
I am not saying these words for shock power, nor am I in any way gloating. I am an Israeli with a deep love for the United States. There is no greater friend that my country has had in our 73 years of existence than the US, and there are many in America that I consider to be as close to me as family. That is why it is with great pain and sorrow that I write these words. But it needs to be said, and maybe it takes someone from the outside who can look at the situation objectively and who has access to news and media that isn?t driven by a party agenda.
What has taken place this last week in Afghanistan has shown the world that America under this present administration is, as one Chinese TV host put it, a ?paper tiger?. It may look big and scary on the outside, but when an Islamist terrorist army came marching to Kabul, rather than standing up against it, the US military continued its pull out, abandoning its friends and allies and breaking its promises. Please understand that this is not a knock on the United States military. If US forces were allowed to give full vent to their power and skill, the Taliban would be reduced to smoldering ash heaps in hours. It is the finest, strongest military in the world. But even a small child can throw rocks at a great bear if the great bear is penned up in a cage.
What led to this situation? Not surprisingly, many fingers in Washington and in the press are pointing at the previous US president. But that is based on either ignorance or a willful distortion of the facts. It is true that the previous president did plan to pull troops out of Afghanistan, but it was going to be a measured withdrawal based on a deal that he had established between President Ashraf Ghani and the Taliban. Under the deal, Ghani would release 5000 prisoners to the Taliban. In return, the Taliban would not attack the Afghani forces or the US military. The American president threatened the Taliban mullah he was dealing with saying that if they broke the deal, he would hit them like they?d never been hit before. He even mentioned by name the village that the Mullah came from. Ghani, for his part, never liked the agreement that the 45th president brokered. He worked hard with his friends in the American Democrat Party to sabotage the deal. But, the pact was signed in Qatar in 2020, and for the next one-and-a-half years, no American soldier was lost due to the Taliban.
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Thanks to Kathy and Dink
The Truth About What Happened in DC. I know because I was there!
What you are seeing on the media are lies. They are trying to make this all about President Trump and the millions of people who love freedom and simply want honest elections we can have confidence in. I am here in DC. I was at all these events. So let me share the truth and facts and just maybe Facebook will let you see it.
MONDAY JANUARY 4TH
I arrived in DC on Monday, January 4th. Our Moms for America team arrived throughout the day. The city looked like a ghetto with businesses boarded up and many marked "temporarily closed." We were told Restaurants would be completely closed so we ordered food from a local grocery store and had it delivered to our hotel. The mayor of DC did everything she could to make our stay in the district uncomfortable but we did the best we could to prepare to enter a city with very limited food water and bathrooms. When we went to bed Monday night we still hadn't received our permit from Park Police to hold our event the next day.
TUESDAY JANUARY 5TH
At 8am, after many prayers, we received our permit and were able to set up for our Moms for America Save the Republic Rally at the Capitol. The rally was 1 to 3pm with mostly moms speaking, including 2 moms from Congress. Mike Lindell also spoke. It was an Amazing and inspiring event. After our Rally we walked to Freedom Plaza where I spoke about the power of moms uniting to protect our vote and secure the Republic.
When we returned to our hotel that night I had several requests from reporters wanting to interview me about our rally and Congresswoman Mary Miller's comments. In her speech Congresswoman Miller said "Hitler was right about one thing, he said he who owns the youth owns the future" she then said that is why we need to teach our children the difference between good and evil so they will recognize and differentiate the evil from the good. The media went on a frenzied attack against the Congresswoman stating she should apologize because she said Hitler was right. We released a statement saying the media should apologize to her for their irresponsible reporting and ignorance.
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 6TH
We woke up bright and early to join with all those who traveled from every state in the US to come to DC to support the president and call for congress, courts and state legislatures to investigate the legitimacy of this election and not certify the electors until the truth is revealed.
Our MOMS Team sat six rows from the president and heard him speak. There were hundreds of thousands there, from the stage at the ellipse far past the Washington Monument and filling streets on both sides.
Neither the president nor anyone else incited violence on that stage. The president simply systematically laid out the case for the fraud and corruption the media are completely ignoring, consistently claiming there is no evidence of voter fraud when there are mountains of it.
I have been to several Trump rallies the past 2 years. Those who attend are peaceful, God-fearing, law-abiding people. The rallies are full of energy and hope. People wait in line for hours to attend and leave happy and excited. Wednesday was no different.
The president finished speaking around 1PM and we all started walking to the Capitol where a Stop the Steal rally was planned--a rally that never happened.
FACT 1
We had been warned when preparing for the December rally by Capitol Police and our security team that ANTIFA and BLM were communicating through their networks--via email and social media--that they were going to dress like Trump supporters, infiltrate our events and cause trouble. The optics of a black mother and her three children being attacked by a white woman wearing a Black Lives Matter T-shirt didn't bode well. So they came up with a more devious plan to cause chaos.
FACT 2
Trump supporters don't break windows and attack police. That is what ANIFA and BLM mobs do.
FACT 3
By the time most of the crowd arrived at the Capitol the bike fences had already been turned over and/or moved aside in a few sections so the people just walked through because it was open. They didn't "storm the Capitol" they mostly just walked up the stairs and sat on the steps or stood on the porches. Most of the people at the Capitol were just praying, talking and singing God Bless America and the National Anthem. We had no idea what was going on inside the Capitol. There was a whole platform of media outside the Capitol looking bored because nothing was happening but people sitting, standing, talking singing and praying. That was when I did my first livestream on our Moms for America page.
When I finished the livestream I had several texts from my husband asking if I was safe. I called him and asked why he kept asking that. He told me the Capitol had been breeched. I told him it was just people sitting on the steps and porches. He then informed me there were people inside the Capitol and that was the first I knew anything about it. It was obvious looking around the people outside the Capitol, they didn't know either. My daughter pulled up news feed on her phone to find out what was going on. She said, "Mom, a woman has been shot, we need to go."
I looked around the Capitol as a chorus of the National Anthem rang out from the Capitol steps coupled with the mothers praying on the wall behind me. Tears filled my eyes as we left the Capitol wondering where we go from here and if truth will ever win. That was when I did my second livestream on our Moms for America page.
FACT 4
2020 was a year long powder keg just waiting for a spark. January 6th was that spark. We didn't "lay siege" to the Capitol but a lot of Trump supporters followed once the walls were down. There is no doubt in my mind ANTIFA was there. I saw very suspicious individuals in the crowd. Were there some folks that acted unruly, yes. And while I do not condone the actions, I certainly understand the frustration behind them.
FACT 5
The media is lying and this being sensationalized in excess. There was a 30 minute disturbance by a few radicals in amongst thousands of people who were just peaceably assembling. Former VP Joe Biden introduced the "under siege" phrase that became the standard talking point for media. The same media that repeated Joe Biden's "peaceful protestors" claim as ANTIFA and BLM burned cities and attacked citizens as justifiable acts.
FACT 6
The media is claiming the Capitol has never been under "siege" like this before. Really??? What about 2018 when a massive mob of feminists laid siege to the Hart Senate Office building screaming and chanting because they didn't want Judge Kavanagh on the Supreme Court. The media heralded it a great day when they stormed the Supreme Court building, pulling down the barricades and flooding the steps.
The media followed like lap dogs as feminists and ANTIFA gangs road up and down elevators and combing halls stalking and accosting Republican Senators. But "siege" and "storm" weren't the words media used. They heralded the chaos as peaceful protests and a triumph for women's rights.
FACT 7
The majority of the people at the Capitol were there peacefully assembled. I saw a row of older gentleman standing below the steps of the capitol to protect the police officers above the steps - it was moving.
Whether it was rogue ANTIFA or rogue Trumpers, the people who made their way into the capital and sat in the senate chairs were no patriots! Still, those who entered, while they shouldn't have done so, didn't deface property or tear down statues. They didn't loot, burn or steal anything.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Everyone is frustrated, disheartened and some even despairing that the elections are being stolen from them but no one is rioting or looting or burning the Capitol. They just wanted to put Congress on notice. They just wanted to be heard. They just want the truth.
What you see on the news is over exaggerated. We were with the crowd that walked to the Capitol- It was a picture of America! All colors, ages, united in one human race, carrying flags, singing, showing their love for America, kindnesses and respect for each other.
We have to know by now that the media spins things according to their narrative. For those of us who were there - I think we'd dispute what we're seeing in the news and how it is being portrayed right now. ANTIFA knows exactly what they are doing and the media is going right along with them.
Did we really think it would be pretty, or easy, when the constitution was hanging by a thread?
Freedom is worth fighting for. When my children and grandchildren ask me where I was when the Constitution hung in the balance and the Republic was on the verge of collapse I will say I was there, on the frontlines, fighting to my last breath to save it!
I am so grateful to those that are willing to stand up and speak out and fight to save this republic!
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