A great holiday! It’s the start of summer. Unfortunately, we didn’t have and Indy 500 yesterday due to the Kung Flu. Fuck you China! And fuck you New York for being the epicenter of the virus in this country. It was because of you that the country was shut down. You fucked up Easter and Memorial Day.
At least there are some good war movies on television. TCM had The Great Escape, The Dirty Dozen, and the Battle of the Bulge. I’m in the middle of watching it now so this ends this post.
World War II was the last war that Hollywood was on our side. Since then they’ve been a bunch of traitorous bastards.
Denny.., thank-you, once again you have summed up my feeling exactly to a T . Thanks so much.
Besides many of the great movies Denny just mentioned, there are also many great such books. I inherited my love to read from both of my now-late parents. They had a wonderful library of books, including the three Cornelius Ryan WWII blockbusters: “The Longest Day”, “The Last Battle”, and “A Bridge Too Far”. I consider myself fortunate to have had the opportunity to read all three of them.
You hit that nail dead on the head, been watching a bunch of old John Wayne movies, what a patriot. I’m an old GI, thank the guys who gave all, when the ballon goes up and we gotta once again defend the constitution, I hope we make you proud, hold the gate all warriors go to Valhalla.
I’m not so sure Hollywood was on our side then. They were on Stalin’s side, and he needs capitalist manufacturing to keep him stocked with weapons.
I’m struck by the line from Clint Eastwoods’s Heartbreak Ridge where he says we were 0-1-1, no wins, a tie, Korea, and a loss, Vietnam. Such disrespect for our veterans from Eastwood, it pains me. Our Soldiers Sailors, Marine and Airmen won in Vietnam even with their hands tied. It was cowardice on the part of politicians that allowed the North to eventually take over. As for Korea, Our leaders in Washout town prevented a win. We had the best troops, best pilots and could have shipped the Chinese. Ooh, but Russia had the bomb, so the hole hunting cowards tucked tail and made it a draw.
I’m proud to have served with the men I knew. My first supervisor in the guard was a WW2 vet, a Korea vet, and a Vietnam vet. Several of the men were vets from that era as well. Had one platoon sergeant from WW2 and another from Korea, still serving in 1979.
We once went to Carson for training. Our host unit NCO hated the guard. “Weekend Warriors” We were setting around one evening and the host OIC and our OIC were comparing service records. Both were Vietnam vets as enlisted. In the host platoon, roughly thirty men, only their LT had combat experience. That PSG entered after we’d left Vietnam. On our side, roughly two platoons, we had two of us without prior active duty experience, myself and one other newbie. Our detachment had more EIB’s and CIB’s then the entire battalion our host unit was drawn from, and as I recall, maybe ten of them were not Vietnam vets, and as I mentioned, we had guys who’d fought in WW2 and Korea as well.
We stood on the shoulders of giants, and today giants stand upon ours.
Tell ’em, Jeremy. Nasty Girls wear the uniform, too. Baggy green skin makes everybody look the same and there’re probably just many giants today as there ever were, we just ain’t gonna read about ’em or see ’em on TV ’cause our “betters” who control the media seem to be too embarrassed by patriotism.
Jeremy – It wasn’t Eastwood who said it, it was the POS Marine colonel. Alas, I had to agree. We tied in Korea and lost in Viet Nam both as a result of politicians. Truman put a leash on MacArthur because he was afraid of Red China and the Dimocrats and the media (fuck Walter Cronkite) caused us to lose in Viet Nam. Cronkote said Tet was a disaster. It was. It was a disaster for the North. We totally kicked ass. I was there. We really thought that when Johnson declined to run that we would take the gloves off and kick ass. Instead, we let a pissant little country defeat us. We won all of the battles but lost the war at home.
Patriotism is a no-no in today’s schools. Show a flag? It’s the teacher who’s sent to the principal’s office. Allow a recruiter onto a high school campus? What are you, a baby-killer? (asked the teachers driving students without parental permission to go get an abortion).
Memorial Day? Sure, it’s a day off. So WHAT about those dead guys that couldn’t dodge a bullet like Uncle Charlie with the fake broken leg? Don’t they know national defense is a chump’s game and we’d never-ever-never be attacked….like those Nazis did at Pearl Harbor or those Irish guys did in New York City on 9/11/2001? Nah. Can’t happen here. Fuhgeddaboudit.
Pass the face-mask. We’re not under attack. Not much.
Change-o-topic, kinda….
After all the usual war movies, I’ve been following almost nonstop documentaries on WWI and WWII on pluto-tv. It’s internet free TV (with some weird commercial breaks), but content of the wartime stuff is four-star. (This place has hundreds of other topics available, too. It’s big on cars, sports…and even conservative TV channels!)
https://pluto.tv/live-tv/pluto-tv-military
The “new culture” looks down not only on patriotism, but also looks down on having a sense of duty to work. In 1960, any able-bodied man that was not employed was universally considered to be a bum. Now, I read that the gummint may offer a bonus to return to work. Not only will I not reach across the aisle to Dimocrats or socialists, but I will also not reach across the aisle to anyone who sees no need to work if they can get a check. I am now 66 and recently retired, but I had full-time employment from July 1977, just out of college, until Jan. 2020.
Who needed Indy? We had real racin’ in Charlotte.
It should be a felony to specify a car’s engine displacement in anything other than good-ole’ cubic inches.
No matter how you measure the displacement, what makes car go is cubic dollars.