The newspapers must be feeling guilt about all the lies they've told.
"Cemetery roll call reaches 8th day
RIVERSIDE - For eight days, a constant flow of volunteers has come to Riverside National Cemetery to stand behind two lecterns and read the names of all 148,000 military veterans and soldiers buried there. They have read at varied paces in high, low, steady, and wavering voices in shifts 24 hours a day. It is the first such unbroken roll call at any national veterans' cemetery in the country, said Michael Nacincik, a spokesman for the National Cemetery Administration in Washington, D.C. The roll call program began as an idea of Riverside cemetery staff members, said Gill Gallo, the cemetery's director. They started asking for volunteers in April. The last of the 500 volunteers are expected to finish reading the names tomorrow (New York Times)."
Happy Memorial Day, America.
"Making sure they are not forgotten; After decades of tending to veterans' graves, Sudbury's 'flag lady' passes the torch" by Scott Helman, Globe Staff | May 23, 2009
SUDBURY - The tradition of putting flags on veterans' graves at Memorial Day is one families and communities across the country observe each year. Behind every one of those flags is someone who cares enough to do it. In Sudbury, where some graves date back to the Revolutionary War...."
Not to equate the two, but the same stands for blogging. To come here day after day and report such slanderous lies and distorted propaganda means I CARE!!!
I BEAT the 9/11 and IRAQ LIES ALL the TIME -- as well as ALL the OTHER AGENDA-PUSHING GARBAGE!!!
And YOU obviously care, my dear, dear followers and readers!!!!!
"A touch of home; At Bangor's airport, the gateway back for many troops, greeters make sure they get the warmest of welcomes" by David Filipov, Globe Staff | May 24, 2009BANGOR - America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have receded into the background of a country troubled by domestic economic matters.
NOT with THIS AMERICAN or THIS BLOG, you piece of s*** Sunday turd!!!!
Oh, man, the s***-shoveling propaganda comes early today.
Yellow ribbons have largely disappeared from trees. Support-our-troops magnets have disappeared from most cars.
That's because WE ARE WISE TO and have TURNED AGAINST the LIES, masters!!!!
Hello? Ya' HEAR?!!!!!!!!!!
And men and women in uniform filter through many airports unnoticed....
When they are doing naked body-scans of all the women passing through security and fondling selected hotties (or old ladies if the fetish is within the fascista), well..... that's understandable.
The greeters do not consider their mission political and avoid discussing with the troops their opinions about the wars, religion, or any other potentially controversial subject....
You see, the pro-war Globe that told all the war lies (and continues to push lying war-propaganda, let's face it) wouldn't deign enter the realm of antiwar VETS or the movement in general.
No, they would rather dis folks like Cindy Sheehan or ignore them altogether -- even as this country i stired of the wars and lies that brought them (sold by same said media).
Sometimes, the greeters are there to console troops who receive miserable news. Lebowitz recalls the day when a returning soldier called his wife, only to find out that she had left with another man. "That was a killer," Lebowitz recalled.
I'm now firmly convinced the BG's source are exclusively Jews. It never stops.
And don't throw that word around so casually when we are in the midst of REAL LIVE DEATHS in FARAWAY PLACES, lady!! The breakup of marriages (Bushbama's fault) is tragic; however, they are STILL LIVING!!!!
More often, the mood is mixed....
--more--"Not here; we are FIRMLY ANTIWAR -- for ALL PEOPLE'S SAKE!
"The fallen; A time to remember New Englanders who have given their lives - and to recall the region's deep military tradition" by Drake Bennett, Globe Staff | May 24, 2009
New England, in the popular imagination, is not known for its soldiers. From George Washington through Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee to Dwight Eisenhower and George S. Patton, the nation's most famous warriors have come from elsewhere, and today it's the South that provides a disproportionate share of the military's manpower. New England's luminaries, on the other hand, have tended to be philosophers and politicians, poets, inventors, and industrialists.
If anything, New England's reputation is as a place suspicious of wars, and even of those who fight them. More than a century before the Vietnam War, New England elites were protesting the Mexican-American War - Henry David Thoreau even got himself tossed into jail for a night. In recent decades, New England politicians and voters have generally been more skeptical of military interventions than their Southern and Western counterparts. Some of the region's best-known universities have banned the Reserve Officers' Training Corps from their campuses.
But, in fact, New Englanders have always fought in the nation's wars, sometimes in great numbers, and they continue to fight - and die - in Iraq and Afghanistan. In so doing, they're not only serving their country, but also carrying on a distinct regional military tradition that stretches back through the world wars of the 20th century and the Civil War to the Revolutionary War, and, beyond that, to the earliest days of the colonies.
Translation: we are all pro-war, even if you are antiwar.
Sigh!
Massachusetts was founded as an outpost on the edge of the British Empire, and up into the 18th century the region remained a sort of frontier zone. For most of that time, without British troops to protect them, the colonists had to rely on militias for defense (and, just as often, for aggression) in intermittent but brutal warfare with Native Americans and the French.
Now we call them "right-wing extremists."
Sadly, I think you will be needing and turning to them again, America; that's why the government spent the better part of the '90s stoking the fears element about the "crazies" culminating in the framing of McVeigh and Clinton's crackdown and elimination of citizen militias (save for those that are government front operations for false flags and perpetuity of enemies -- foreign and domestic -- purposes.
So New England, a place with a deeply martial strain in its history, has much to commemorate on Memorial Day. "We were founded as something of a military beachhead in the 17th century," says William M. Fowler Jr., a history professor at Northeastern. "Our town commons are littered with war memorials."
Readers, it is WHERE I LIVE!!!!
I LIVE on the FRONTIER (or what once was the frontier).
Ever hear of the Deerfield Massacre?
And according to historians, what distinguishes our military tradition is the fact that it's here that the much heralded ideal of the citizen soldier has come closest to reality.
And yet the guy still pushes the duty to empire over lies bit:
To a striking extent, New England's military heroes have in fact been men who treated military service as a duty rather than a career. Even in an era of professional soldiering, that idea still has a hold.
Memorial Day was born in the wake of the Civil War. Various towns claim to have been the first to celebrate it, but the national holiday was created by an army general, and future US senator, named John Logan. In an 1868 general order, he set aside a day for "strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion." The date, May 30th, was chosen to ensure a plentiful supply of flowers, and the graves to be decorated, Logan made clear, were those of the Union dead. (Southern states celebrated their own, separate memorial days and didn't recognize the national holiday until after World War I.)
In the years after the Civil War, New England cities and towns took especially seriously the duty to commemorate the war dead - the resulting memorial building boom created not only the obelisks and statues ubiquitous in parks and village greens, but grander examples like Harvard's Memorial Hall. There were plenty of names to put on the monuments: Massachusetts alone lost nearly 14,000 men in the war. The state had been the first to respond to Lincoln's call for volunteers, and one of those, Corporal Sumner Needham of Lawrence, was the war's first casualty, killed by a mob of Confederate sympathizers in Baltimore as the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment transferred between trains on its way to Washington, D.C.
Gee, that's kind of a pop in the antiwar intellect and intelligence of us much superior New Englandahs.
And why is this guy turning the piece into a divisive, racially-charged (another lie, since the real truth is the war was economically based; a free and independent south -- as repugnant as slavery is and was -- threatened the cheap cotton supply the South provided to Northern textile mills) rememberance piece as if the Civil War was the only one we ever had?
AMERICAN SOLDIERS that DIED in LATER WARS came from EVERY STATE in THIS NATION, sir? WHY are you DIVIDING US when we SHOULD BE COMING TOGETHER on this day at least?!!!!!
Just the agenda-pushing MSM doing it's job again.
(Here's another nugget to chew on:
When I was in school the prof told us Abe the liberator had the black leaders at the time in to the "White" House and told 'em they had to get outta here -- Abe cared about union, not equality like the conventional myth demands -- 'cause of the tensions.
As the kids remained silent, I spoke up and asked "What did they say to him?" The prof told us that they said they or their ancestors were brought to this country in chains against their will -- my link, not his -- and that they had built this country as much as anyone else and that it was home now. They weren't leaving.
Just wanted to pop your Abe bubble, America -- as my bubble has been popped regarding the state-school inculca, I mean, indoctr, I mean, brainwas, 'er, ejerkashen, that's what I mean)
There was something else distinct about New England's Civil War heroes: unlike most of the officers who led the two contending armies, they were not professional soldiers. This was in large part a legacy of the Colonial era and of the Revolutionary War, a conflict that began in New England and was touched off in large part by militias politicized by pro-independence revolutionaries like Paul Revere.
Yeah, they were HEROES THEN!!
Some of the Americans' best known victories in that war - at Concord and Fort Ticonderoga, among others - were won by militia fighters like the Massachusetts Minutemen and Vermont's Green Mountain Boys.
But what had started out as a necessity rose to become a political ideal. Militias tied citizenship itself to self-defense, an idea dear to the hearts of the Founding Fathers, who were deeply suspicious of the British Army and the unaccountable power it represented.
And NOW, 230 years later we find that the U.S. GOVERNMENT has become the BRITISH EMPIRE and the U.S. CITIZEN has become the American revolutionaries.
You may not like it, but there is an EXAMPLE for you to FOLLOW, America!!!
Where are you?
Perhaps because it had been founded by religious dissidents, this suspicion had a particular staying power in New England.
Eat your heart out, smug s***s.
Think of that the next time you rip your conservative Christian brothers in your oh so superior, self-righteous way, New Englandah!
They have sold us such a divisive set of lies from our schools to media the public isn't even to blame; I was steeped in the stuff for years -- until 9/11 truth opened my eyes (courtesy of the Iraq lies).
So while in the South, there was already a well-established professional military tradition by the 19th century - with young sons of the planter aristocracy being sent to Virginia Military Institute and West Point - New England, which in other realms led the country's professionalization and mechanization and industrialization, still celebrated a more amateur military....
Haven't we had any other wars since?
I seem to remember a few more from school.
You know, U.S. saving the world by dropping nuclear bombs on the Asian man and rescuing the jew from the holoahoax™?
Vietnam ring a bell?
Iraq?
Afghanistan?
Nope, just this:
The military is today a very different institution.... Warfare is more complex, more specialized, more mechanized and more bureaucratic, and requires a level of professionalization unimaginable in their day.
Translation: We don't need the citizen-soldier-defender so give up your gun, right?
But the citizen-soldier ideal is still embodied, not only in the National Guard, but in the young men and women from Worcester, from Rutland, from Hampstead or South Portland who volunteer for active duty, hoping to serve and fight, then someday to take off their camouflage and come back. As has always been the case, not all of them will....
Yeah, what about them?They really get shorted around these paper parts!
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President Obama, please, END THESE WARS and BRING THEM HOME!!!!!!!!!
Uuuuuh, doesn't look like that's gonna happen:
"Obama offers goals, support for sailors
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - President Obama promised graduating midshipmen at the US Naval Academy yesterday that, as their commander in chief, he will only send them "into harm's way when it is absolutely necessary."
We've heard all this before; so where is the next aggression, sir?
In his first address to military graduates, Obama also pledged to invest in the men and women who defend America's liberty, not just in the weapons they would take with them into battle against 21st-century threats.
"I will only send you into harm's way . . . with the strategy, the well-defined goals, the equipment, and the support that you need to get the job done," the president told more than 1,000 graduates during a sun-splashed ceremony at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.
Obama said he has halted reductions in the Navy, is building up the Marine Corps, and investing in the hardware - combat ships, submarines, and fighter aircraft - the graduates will need to do their jobs.
Why would they be needing more of those.... unless?
He promised higher pay, enhanced child care, improved support, and other benefits.
This guy promises the world to everyone, doesn't he?
"In short, we will maintain America's military dominance and keep you the finest fighting force the world has ever seen," Obama said, as more than 30,000 watched from the stands.
The militaristic hubris is really troubling.
I expected this out of the last guy; I thought we were getting change.
The president also praised the role of Navy SEALS in freeing a US sea captain by killing his Somali pirate captors last month. "The extraordinary precision and professionalism displayed that day was made possible, in no small measure, by the training, the discipline, and the leadership skills that so many of those officers learned at the United States Naval Academy," Obama said....
Yeah, that "crisis" has sure disappeared from the agenda-pushing papers, 'eh?
Presidents typically deliver the commencement address at one of the service academies each year. Yesterday's speech was the third graduation address by Obama in the past nine days.
And after saying he's investing in the waeponry above, this brief follows:
"President signs bill to cut wasteful defense spending
WASHINGTON - President Obama granted the Pentagon new power to rein in wasteful defense spending yesterday, a change he said was long overdue.Yeah, sure -- when Frosty the Snowman is ruling Hell.
See: The Globe's Garbage Gates
Standing with leading congressional players on the South Lawn of the White House, Obama signed the weapons acquisition overhaul bill, which passed unanimously in both the House and Senate this week. The president said the bill will crack down on defense programs with huge cost overruns and increase competition for contracts.
Yeah, right. They just gave out bonuses for killing U.S. troops!!!!
"Every penny we waste on this effort because of no-bid contracts or cost overruns is not only an affront to American taxpayers, it's an affront to our military," Obama said.
Sir:
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, from those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower, President and five-star general (1890-1969), April 16, 1953
I couldn't have said it any better -- and would have probably said it more profanely!
The president said he would do whatever it takes to ensure the safety of the American people, but rejected the notion "that we need to waste billions of dollars to keep this nation secure."
God, I am SO SICK of that DAMNABLE LIE when the ENTIRE WORLD NOW KNOW that 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB by CIA and MOSSAD!!!!!!
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