Category: In Memorium

Memorial Day 2022

Each year as Memorial Day and its associated weekend comes around, I take time to pause and reflect upon my service; the service of others that I know; the service of those before me; and most importantly the ultimate sacrifice paid by many of those who served. I will, however, be the first to admit that as a child and young person I looked forward to Memorial Day as a three day weekend in which I hoped that the weather would decide to be summer instead of winter as can happen where I lived and grew up. After all, Spring is nothing more than an increasing number of summer days interspersed with a lessening number of winter days in the inter mountain west of the United States of America. I do not remember my parents or family acknowledging Memorial Day much besides flying of the US flag except for one time. This one time my parents went to one of the local cemeteries and visited the graves of my father’s grandparents and put flowers on their graves.

The Memorial Day prior to the COVID scam being unleashed on the world I went to my first Memorial Day ceremony at the Veteran’s Cemetery closest to me and found it to be a terrifying, moving and somewhat healing experience. Walking into the cemetery I found myself instinctively pacing and separating myself from my wife as if I was on patrol despite myself never actually participating in a combat patrol. I was deep in thought remembering the time I spent in Afghanistan, those who I knew and those who I did not know that perished in Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. I also thought about those who I had worked with who served in WWII, Korea and Vietnam and my late Grandfather, a WWII vet, who is buried in the same cemetery that I was entering. It must have shown on my face and or countenance because my wife forced me to hold her hand and I soon realized that I was holding her hand tightly when one of the workers at the ceremony, a Vietnam veteran, looked at me and said, “welcome home”. It was like having water thrown on me as I suddenly came into the presence of that moment, and I thanked him in turn. Interesting enough I am wiping away a tear or two as I type this paragraph.

This year will mark the first year that I plan to attend the annual Memorial Day ceremony at the Veteran’s Cemetery as COVID marred the previous two years; the fist being canceled; the second year by my refusal to wear a face diaper outside in fresh air and the natural anti-microbial light of the sun. This year, as I reflect on the death of my child I also reflect upon the needless loss, in my opinion, of the twelve marines, one sailor and numerous civilians at the Abbey Gate of the Hamid Karzai International Airport last August. Twelve families, like me, who mourn the loss of their young, loved ones. Young lives needlessly cut short by the ineptitude of senior political and military leaders who placed their careers over proper planning and execution of an organized and planned withdrawal from a combat zone and or their out and out disregard for the lives of those who served under them.

The first place that I place responsibility is with the senior political leadership of the United States of America starting with the President and Secretary of Defense. I know that they were not responsible for the actual planning and execution of the withdrawal, however, it is my belief that they set the tone for the withdrawal that made what was a difficult situation a worse situation. I believe they most likely understood this because of the warnings prior to the attack and the lack of action in holding anyone including themselves accountable for the botched withdrawal. I say this considering the Commander of the US Central Command at that time, General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., was allowed to serve his tour out and the Commander on the ground at that time, Maj, Gen. Chris Donahue, has since picked up another star and is now the Commander of the XVIII Airborne Corps. It amazes me how a young officer or junior sailor, airman, or soldier can have a career ruined by one alcohol related offense and or failing to adhere to the politically correct agenda being foisted upon them by senior civilian and military leadership. Yet, commanding generals who lose lives in a combat zone are promoted and allowed to serve their combat tours out.

This leads me to the failure of these senior military leaders and what to me constitutes a failure to take responsibility for their failures as was done in bygone eras in which senior leaders, being honor bound to “falling on their swords”, would take responsibility for their wartime failings. Yes, I do not know what sort of, if any direction, these senior military leaders received from their senior civilian leadership, but it is my opinion that these military leaders failed not only their civilian leadership (or maybe they didn’t and were following orders) but they certainly failed those who served underneath them. I say this because I believe that most who have spent any time in Afghanistan knew or should have known how corrupt and fragile the government was and how deep the Taliban had penetrated the government and country at large. I cannot believe knowing the US was pulling out of Afghanistan that the military leadership allowed the base at Bagram to be evacuated prior to the remaining troops and diplomatic personnel being evacuated from the country. True, they may have been ordered to evacuate by senior civilian leadership, but they could have easily resigned their post rather than execute a bad order! Again, I will say these Generals would not have lost their pensions had they resigned and so really had nothing to lose financially with their prides being the only item to lose. Instead, lives were lost so that they could maintain their pride, egos, and military careers which is a complete tragedy and failure of honor at the highest level. I would expect more from those who wear the uniform regardless of service branch.

In summarizing my thoughts for this Memorial Day, it is hard for me to be angry anymore as I feel a sense of defeat. Yes, our senior civilian and military leadership are nothing but a bunch of self-serving, sociopaths who have no honor. Quite honestly, in my opinion, it is just a reflection of society and where we are as a country, and it makes me sad that we as a people have allowed and given people of this ilk positions of power and influence in our country. I will salute those this year who have paid the ultimate sacrifice and as usual I will salute those who have served and those who do serve. For the civilians who died in the bomb blast “ta didar bad”, for the Marines and Sailor who perished “Semper Fi and Fair Winds and Following Seas”, and for the United States “God Bless”.

Grief

According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary the first definition of grief is a deep and poignant distress caused by or as if by bereavement or a cause of such suffering. I have been in the midst of a great and deep grief these past many months and I have been unable to post anything to this blog for fear of opening the wound caused by my grief too much. I have needed some time to process, deal with, and come to some sort of a semblance of terms with my grief.

This past October a child of mine died and, for now, I will not go into detail how or why my child died. I continue to seek help and move deeper into the anguish, sorrow and other emotions that this event has caused in mine and my family’s life. So much so that I am now in the midst of dealing with PTSD from this event and other events in my life that my child’s death has triggered. I will say that I am committed to turning and facing this grief head on, however, which is why I need time.

Needless to say, this blog has not been resting quietly in my mind at least and I have even begun to reaffirm my commitment to this blog. Not the least of which is it appears that the political leadership in the United States and much of Europe appears to be evil and hell bent on escalating conflict with a nuclear power instead of defusing conflict. It is funny how the specter of nuclear conflict can at least temporarily clear the dense grief induced fog from one’s being.

Soon, more to come with some changes in format, naming, and a commitment to post more consistently.

Memorial Day 2021

I sit at my desk as the 11:00 hour approaches on Memorial Day knowing that at that time memorial services will begin at my local Veteran’s Cemetery. This is an event that I first attended two years ago and found it something that I want to attend every year. However, it seems that my desires are being thwarted first by the shutdowns last year inspired by the SARS-CoV-2 introduction to the world and this year because I refuse to wear a useless mask outside in ninety plus degree weather as is being required at the cemetery. A mask that provides as much protection as replacing the screens in my windows with chain link fence and expecting it to keep out flies and mosquitos.

As news breaks in the mainstream media that the SARS-CoV-2 appears to have been leaked for whatever reason out of the lab in Wuhan, China I must ask myself, “Why now?” Hasn’t it been readily apparent from day one that something strange was going on? I must ask myself why is the mainstream media just now reporting on this occurrence? What really is going on that the smokescreen of the leak is being laid to distract and or hide?

Moving on, it was at this time last year that I was beginning to doubt the response to the virus and the shutdowns that were being imposed on the American people and the entire world. Fortunately for me I live in a rural place and so last year I had plenty of space outside to do activities and other than not being able to attend social and memorial functions I was not too inconvenienced. However, I was starting to question the wisdom of increased shutdowns, the apparent subjective application of the term “essential business”, the potential damage to the economy, and the riots that were beginning in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. Little did I know at the time that a massive upset in my nation and the world was just beginning?

Now, a year later, as I pause to remember those who have given their lives in defense of my country and of which I personally have known a couple, I must ask myself what have I learned in the past year? I will not discuss what my actions will be based on what I have learned because to be quite honest, for reasons that I will disclose, a state of war exists in my country. Though it is not an overtly hot war at this point it is at best a cold war whether we want to admit it or not and sides will need to be taken if not already having been chosen.cd

In the last year it has become obvious to me that the leadership of the Centers for Disease and Control, the National Institutes for Health, and the Food and Drug Administration do not have my best interest at heart. These people are public officials with quite frankly vast amounts of bureaucratic power and except for Senator Paul there seems to be little appetite to hold them accountable or audit their business. Their public business which as supposed stewards of public trust they absolutely should be open to. It is apparent to me that these leaders are beholden to lobbyists, special interests (i.e., Big Pharma), and their own lust and greed for power. I am shocked that Senator Paul has received death threats in the aftermath of his question of Anthony Fauci!

I was struck this morning as I finally read The Nuremberg Code of 1947 and quite honestly, I felt my blood begin to boil and my thoughts coalesce into a somewhat rational train of thought. A rational train of thought that I have found difficult to form since the events of January 6, 2021. For those who may read this and are unaware of the Nuremberg Code of 1947 as I was until recently it is essentially a code developed out of the post-World War II trials of medical professionals who experimented on human subjects in the concentration camps. Specifically, article 3 of the code states, “The experiment should be so designed and based on the results of animal experimentation and a knowledge of the natural history of the disease or other problem under study that the anticipated results justify the performance of the experiment”. To me the use of mRNA technology on humans is an experiment as this technology has never, to my knowledge, made it out of animal trials. Then suddenly, because of a declared “pandemic” to a virus with a 99.9% survivability rate and with treatments available (despite being debunked by a paper fabricated on lies and false science published in The Lancet) animal trials are foregone in the name of an “emergency” declaration by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). To me this makes the leaders of the FDA and their corporate sponsors who lobbied for and approved this declaration accusable as war criminals according to the Nuremberg Code. What you have done is more than just committed political crimes to me you have committed crimes against humanity.

Which leads me to another item which has become obvious to me. The International Socialist-Progressive-ANTIFA-Marxist-Communist (I-SPAMC) movement will stop at nothing to keep and obtain power. It is obvious to me that Big Tech is working with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the CCP has corrupted many of our politicians on both sides of the aisle (i.e., Rep Pelosi, Sen McConnell and etc.). I also feel that the United States Supreme Court has been corrupted as evidenced by their refusal to even hear arguments in any of the election fraud cases.

Which leads me to another item, and this is the 2020 election, its execution, and the subsequent acceptance of it by Congress and the supposed “insurrection” on January 6, 2021. First, the “insurrection” to me was such an obvious false flag event that there is nothing anyone can say to me anymore that will dissuade or change my thoughts on this. Rioting in major cities agitated by left wing Marxists (SPAMC) was allowed all summer under the guise of “racial equality” in which businesses were looted and destroyed. This after businesses were forced to shutter for longer than the initial ninety days for a virus that had a greater than 99.9% survivability rate for the majority of the population and this was not called an insurrection? Further, this shuttering continued all winter in states controlled SPAMC controlled governors! Bullshit! You who would try to convince me that a peaceful march on the capitol was an insurrection while the destruction in our cities fomented by left wing Marxist (SPAMC) groups was not an insurrection are a domestic enemy. Let us not forget the only real death during the day as a direct result of the Capitol breach was that of a young veteran who was shot by a member of the Capitol Police who was wearing a BLM bracelet and who, to my knowledge, has never had an investigation performed regarding their actions and has remained anonymous. You domestic enemies of the United States are using the weapon of narrative to try and confuse the issue but for me it is not working!

I shake my head in disbelief at the members in Congress who “feared for their lives” during the supposed “insurrection”. An “insurrection” in which from what I understand truly little was damaged or stolen except for, perhaps, Representative Pelosi’s laptops. To me it looks like a covert operation again Grandma Nancy and our nation. What about the fear, sadness, and anger of the business owners who lost their businesses in the last year due to the SARS-CoV-2 inspired shutdowns and SPAMC agitated violent riots? Where is the outrage to this in the media? Well let me tell you what I think. Big Media and Big Tech your total disregard for these business owners and their plight makes you a domestic enemy. Your silence is consent to the SPAMC movement and your outright censorship are the actions of a domestic enemy.

To the “woke” corporations, politicians, bureaucrats, community members, and military leadership you are now my enemy. You are proponents of mail in ballots in which no form of identification needs to be provided by anyone to cast a vote. A system so open to fraud and abuse and yet I cannot open a bank account or fly on an airplane without providing identification. In fact, I cannot fly on an airplane without first obtaining a form of identification that requires me to prove my citizenship yet I can vote by just being home when the mail arrives? Umm, something is wrong with this picture. You who support this sham are guilty of disenfranchising my vote and I now consider you to be my political enemies. Further you run a race baiting scam in the guise of Critical Race Theory in which you seek to change history so that you can rewrite and change it at your whim. This right out of an Orwellian/Dystopian/Soviet playbook. You are running a sham in accordance with the I-SPAMC playbook to increase and or maintain your power at my countries expense and so, therefore, you are a domestic enemy.

Lastly, Big Media, I drove through Portland, Oregon in the last few months and was struck by the size of the city and the relatively small area that the insurrection has been occurring in that city. The conclusion that I came to is that if the leadership of that city really wanted to quell the insurrection, they could do it in mere hours. I have concluded that the leaders of Portland and perhaps by extension the state of Oregon just do not want to quell the insurrection. They either lack the political will, intestinal fortitude and or are complicit in the insurrection. This also goes for the leaders in the other cities of our nation who allowed the riots to go on ad infinitum last summer. There is no will to stop them and now I consider these leaders and the powers behind them to be domestic enemies. Big Media I consider you to be complicit in this as well because you are making money selling advertisements because of the strife in these cities caused by the SPAMC movement. You do not allow the opposing (my view) airtime and engage in censorship of any view not in line with your corporate and intellectual I-SPAMC masters and so I now also consider you to be domestic enemies from this point forward. It is now 12:00 PM and I have risen my flag back to full staff from its half-mast position. The half-masted flag flown in honor of the fallen.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

As expected, the year 2020 keeps on rolling unabated with yet another not altogether unexpected surprise but a shock nevertheless. I walked into my living room yesterday evening and my wife informed of the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG). Needless to say, the first words out of my mouth were, “Whoa! This is big”.

First though I would offer my condolences to her family. I am sure they, a person who never met her personally, have been watching her decline and speaking from firsthand experience of similar experiences have begun their mourning and will be doing so for some time to come.

To be quite honest I personally have paid little attention to the life of Justice Ginsburg other than that I pretty much disagreed with her positions on the bench in just about every imaginable way possible up to and included her use of her position for judicial activism. Just look at the name of my blog and this should come as no surprise. However, after watching some of the hastily assembled tributes and recounts of her life last night it is hard not to respect all that she accomplished in her life. A lifetime that began in 1933 and spanned across a period of time in which included so many changes in the world and our country. A period of time that encompassed wars, great social changes, a man land on the moon, the advent of the computer, and many other things to say the least. I must respect that she was able to have a family, go to law school, practice law and ultimately rise to one of the highest judicial positions in our country. To Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “I say Shalom and though I am not Jewish it certainly is not lost on me that you have passed on the Shabbat at the beginning of Rosh Hoshana. May you rest in peace Justice Ginsburg”.