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One here, remembering my family members who have gone before from an All Souls Day post, that includes some veterans on the list.
And here, where I unpacked more my favorite veteran - my late dad, as well as others.
Also here is a less pleasant one, a post dealing with Catholic BLM activist Gloria Purvis. In it she claimed a celebrated war hero from WWII was never honored - I'll let you guess why she implies he was never honored. Yet as readers of the comments section will note, and something I later verified myself, in a war that saw war heroes lifted up and celebrated for any reason possible, he was actually quite honored and celebrated in the day. Far more than many heroes of the time.
Whether partisan driven laziness or willful ignorance or whatever on Purvis's part, I don't know. I'll take a charitable assumption and guess she just wasn't driven to find out the facts ahead of time (which was discoverable on none other than Wikipedia). And those who reposted her post back then with tears and sorrows for our racist nation assumed that she had done the required research.
But given Veteran's Day as a day to remember those who served, and given that we saw such a repudiation of those like Purvis and their style of leftwing activism that seeks to tear down and besmirch what those veterans served for, it seems a fitting thing to link to on this day of remembrance.
And just in case we need a reminder for those striving for goodness and virtue against the Left's alternatives:
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ReplyDeleteThere were more like "Buddy" on the other side of Normandy.
Heh. Though they did have some serious constraints on what they could have done, in their defense.
DeleteMy father is a veteran but we never really acknowledged Veteran's Day growing up. Perhaps it was because he was drafted early on for Vietnam and ended up being in the first infantry Johnson sent over before the fighting got super involved, though he did see combat. I'm more aware of Veteran's Day now because of so many friends who have served, though I maintain that war is a terrible thing and should be engaged in sparingly.
ReplyDeleteWith the exception of my one uncle, most of the combat vets didn't discuss it. It's strange. The whole reputation was 'we're tired of them shoving it down our throats about how they saved the world', or at least I heard that a lot growing up - from the Boomers. And yet, in the last decades, as the WW2 generation has passed along, how many of their kids (the Boomers) will say upon the loss of the parent, 'He never talked about it.' I've often wondered about that. Which was it? Did their parents shove it down their throats like the old guy on the train in A Hard Day's Night? Or did they not speak of it?
DeleteThere is a response to a comment above showing on my blog desk, but not here. No clue why, but I haven't done anything with it. Just FYI
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