VETERANS: Social media rallies to help old vet

Saturday, December 13, 2025

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/veteran-working-full-time-at-grocery-store-goes-viral-as-social-media-rallies-to-help-him/3858273/?utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4b9c55d78644b3a882a4d

Michigan
Veteran working full-time at grocery store goes viral as social media rallies to help him

  • In a now-viral post, 88-year-old Ed Bambas explained that he retired from General Motors in 1999 but later lost his pension and now works at a Michigan grocery store “to re-establish myself.”

By Alex Dvorak

 • Published December 3, 2025 • Updated on December 4, 2025 at 1:46 pm

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Ed Bambas doesn’t know he’s become an internet sensation, but he’s about to find out just how much his story has resonated on social media.

The 88-year-old veteran working a full-time job at a Michigan grocery store is now at the center of a social media movement aiming to help him retire, with more than $1.2 million raised as of Wednesday.

In a post from Australian influencer Samuel Weidenhofer, Bambas explained that he retired as a salaried employee from General Motors in 1999, but lost his pension due to the company’s bankruptcy measures in 2012.

That year, the Old General Motors offered lump-sum payments to about 42,000 retirees and their surviving beneficiaries as they aimed to cut 24 percent from their U.S. pension obligation, NBC News reported at the time. NBC Chicago has not been able to confirm if Bambas was a part of those offerings.

Still, Bambas said his retirement quickly changed when his wife fell ill and he became her caregiver, leading to mounting medical bills.

“I sold my house, sold the property I had, and we made it through,” Bambas said through tears in the now-viral video. “My wife died seven years ago. Since then I’ve been trying to re-establish myself.”

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I remember the GM bankruptcy.

https://reinkefaceslife.com/2009/07/06/goverotrageous-no-justice-in-the-governments-courts/

https://reinkefaceslife.com/2009/03/30/rant-a-failure-of-leadership-o-on-gm/

<<can’t find the blog post where the  lost her 5k$ in GM bonds thanks to BHO44>>

Getting old sucks and going broke when you’re old is even worse.

Kudos to the Australian influencer Samuel Weidenhofer for picking up the story and all the folks who contributed to the GoFundMe.

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VETERANS: Does anyone remember Pearl Harbor?

Sunday, December 7, 2025

I do. Have have every year.

Pearl Harbor Attack Map Timeline

Here’s some:

https://reinkefaceslife.com/2009/12/07/rant-do-we-remember-pearl-harbor/

https://reinkefaceslife.com/2024/12/28/veterans-pearl-harbor-survivor-passes-only-a-few-left-never-forget/

https://reinkefaceslife.com/2016/12/07/veterans-remember-pearl-harbor/

https://reinkefaceslife.com/2015/04/07/tinfoilhat-the-pearl-harbor-myth-and-fdrs-role/

https://reinkefaceslife.com/2021/02/01/veterans-doris-dorie-miller-u-s-navy-mess-attendant-2nd-class/

There is no doubt in my mind that FDR contrived this to end the Great Depression.

“I fear all we have done is awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.” — apocryphal quote attributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto played by Soh Yamamura in the movie ‘Tora Tora Tora’

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VETERANS: WWII veteran’s bracelet comes home … … 

Friday, November 21, 2025

https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/wwii-veterans-bracelet-1946-found-france-returned-daughter-127423766?utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4b9c55d78644b3a882a4d

WWII veteran’s bracelet from 1946 found in France and returned to his daughter
It was an incredible research mystery. Now, Joan Sheehan will receive her dad’s WWII bracelet 80 years later.
November 11, 2025

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Better than never.

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VETERANS: They shall grow not old … … 

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

Laurence Binyon
poem “For the Fallen” (1914)

[JR: Remember the generations of young men —  English, French, German, and American —  wiped out by aristocratic generals who didn’t care that the machine gun, artillery, tanks, and flame throwers had revolutionized “warfare”. Argh! So sad and so wasteful. Dona Nobis Pacem]

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VETERANS: Armistice Day should be remembered for the carnage of a generation of young men wasted by Gooferment supidity

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

I prefer that we revert to the old meaning of 11 November — Armistice Day.

On November 11, 1918, the armistice between the Allied nations and Germany took effect, marking the end of major hostilities. The following year, the date was remembered as Armistice Day, dedicated to honoring those who served in the “war to end all wars.”

And go back to the “end all wars” feeling that WWI generated.

“Only way to win is not to play at all” — from the movie ‘War Games’

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This 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. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.” — Sun Tzu’s The Art of War

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VETERANS: This needs to be replicated without becoming a Gooferment “program”

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/sixth-tiny-home-village-is-ending-homelessness-for-veteran-across-the-us/?utm_source=newsletter.goodnewsnetwork.org&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=sea-turtles-rebounding-worldwide&_bhlid=ea0d7b3241322bcce7d2f328cc999646126b8478

Sixth Tiny Home Village is Ending Homelessness for Veterans Across the US: ‘This place saved me’
By Good News Network – Oct 19, 2025

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This week, the nonprofit Veterans Community Project (VCP) broke ground on its sixth tiny home village, this time in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to offer more military veterans a fresh start with housing and individualized care.

Each 240-square-foot home is part of a larger community designed to help residents regain stability and independence.

Since its founding in 2018 when they welcomed their first residents in Kansas City, VCP has helped hundreds of vets transition out of homelessness.

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Tiny houses all around the nation?  Small enough to be a “personal neighborhood” and large enough to have a support staff.  This is an “experiment” that seems to be working. 

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VETERANS: 81 Years Ago Today

Friday, June 6, 2025

https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/06/d-day-81-years-ago-today-the-greatest-generation-pulled-off-a-miracle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=d-day-81-years-ago-today-the-greatest-generation-pulled-off-a-miracle

D-Day: 81 Years Ago Today the Greatest Generation Pulled Off a Miracle

Posted by Mary Chastain  —  Friday, June 6, 2025 at 11:00am 

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The Greatest Generation accomplished one of the most unbelievable military victories in history.

The odds were stacked against them, facing certain death. The Allies had 160,000 troops, 5,000 ships, and 13,000 aircraft.

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How soon we forget.  While “We, The Sheeple” fritter away the advantages they secured for us.  

Homeless vets, a VA hospital system that tries to kill its patients, and perfidious politicians that use “patriotism” to embroil us in the endless creation on new vets are all examples of what’s wrong.

GBA 

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VETERANS: Never forget what this day is supposed to be about

Monday, May 26, 2025

Words can’t describe the sacrifices made.

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VETERANS: Wish we could identify and recover all our POWs

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/new-book-reveals-untold-story-gen-wainwright-highest-ranking-american-pow-world-war-ii

World War Two

National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day is observed on anniversary of largest US surrender in history

  • New book reveals untold story of Gen. Wainwright, highest-ranking American POW of World War II

By Dana Perino Fox News

Published April 9, 2025 6:00am EDT 

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Wish we could identify and recover all our POWs.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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VETERANS: John Chapman Snubbed by National Medal of Honor Museum; why?

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/medal-honor-legend-john-chapman-snubbed-national-medal/

Medal of Honor Legend John Chapman Snubbed by National Medal of Honor Museum

by Margaret Flavin Jan. 27, 2025 11:00 am

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The National Medal of Honor Museum has refused a stand-alone exhibit of Medal of Honor legend John Chapman when it opens in March, and the decision is being criticized harshly.

The Museum will have 200 exhibits detailing the personal stories of MoH recipients, but Chapman will not be one of them. 

David Hookstead from Outkick reports that Chapman, an Air Force combat controller with the 24th STS, was killed in March 2002 during Operation Anaconda in the Battle of Takur Ghar.

He died alone on a mountain, fighting to protect his fellow warriors.

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Why is the national medal of honor museum leaving John Chapman, an air force CCT, out of their exhibit? He was the only medal of honor recipient to ever have his battle filmed via ISR feed. 

Is there ANY logic to this?

Who are the honchos in this museum and who are its donors?

Argh!

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VETERANS: Defend the Guard is a priority for EVERY State legislature

Monday, January 27, 2025

https://youtu.be/xp8HrCBedCA?si=SIsLuzNfLpCVtX9m

Defend the Guard is state-based legislation which would prohibit the deployment of National Guard units into active combat without a declaration of war by Congress as required by Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. It has been introduced as a bill in dozens of states.

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The Dead Old White Guys NEVER wanted a standing Federal Army.  They allowed for a navy but not a standing army.  Ever wonder why?  Yup, a navy is a capital investment and unlikely to be usable against “We, The Sheeple”.  

Defend the Guard is an attempt to reign in the Federal Gooferment from undeclared wars.

The States, the building blocks of our Federal Republic, have the power to end the welfare / warfare state and return to Constitutional principles.

#defendtheguard

Ask any vet about it.  Remember the ones who didn’t come home.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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VETERANS: Pearl Harbor survivor passes only a few left — Never forget!

Saturday, December 28, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/12/28/us-news/warren-upton-the-oldest-living-survivor-of-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor-dies-at-105/ 

Warren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor, dies at 105

By Associated Press 

Published Dec. 28, 2024, 1:54 a.m. ET

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After Upton’s death, there are only 15 still alive.

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Sad day in history with only a few left.

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VETERANS: Maybe only Vets should vote?

Saturday, December 28, 2024

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26352/did-heinlein-advocate-the-apparently-militaristic-if-not-fascist-society-of-sta

Did Heinlein advocate the apparently militaristic, if not fascist society of Starship Troopers?

Asked 12 years, 1 month ago
Modified 3 years, 8 months ago

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In the classic 1959 Sci-Fi novel Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein lays out a view of the future where only the military is allowed full citizenship and suffrage. He presents democracy as intrinsically flawed and physical punishment as an essential part of child-rearing. The novel is often seen as advocating militarism if not fascism.

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“Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.” ~ Albert Einstein

Perhaps we’d have peace if we sent all the politicians and bureaucrats who want a war, to go fight in the first wave.

Probably be a lot more peaceful and circumspect about the whole topic.

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Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women’s rights advocate who became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916 for one term, then was elected again in 1940. Rankin remains the only woman ever elected to Congress from Montana.

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Give her credit, it took real courage to vote your conscience.  And, in retrospect, she was correct about the reasons for both wars.

Wonder how vets would vote?

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VETERANS: National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

Saturday, December 7, 2024

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

December 7, 2024

Flag at Half-Staff

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As if anyone remembers … … 

Pearl Harbor Memorial Aerial.

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Ribbons to Honor the Fallen

If you are unable to fly your flag at half-staff, the accepted solution is to tie a long black ribbon to the top of the flagpole allowing it to drape over the American flag.

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VETERANS: Need a better way to “find” dementia sufferers

Friday, December 6, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/12/04/us-news/missing-korean-war-vet-with-dementia-found-more-than-200-miles-from-home/?lctg=6080ba40747925275a09dcd3

Missing Korean War vet with dementia found more than 200 miles from home after wife spots 91-year-old on TV
By David Propper 
Published Dec. 4, 2024, 11:53 p.m. ET

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A missing 91-year-old Korean War vet with dementia was found more than 200 miles away from his Wyoming home — when his worried wife spotted him on an evening newscast two days after he wandered off.

Avril Black’s concern was mounting after her spouse Michael Black vanished after he left their Afton home on Nov. 25, leading her to report him missing the next morning, according to a local report.

While authorities reportedly gathered he had hitchhiked his way to Ovid, Idaho, and then traveled down to Garden City, Utah, he was in the wind from there.

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I’m glad this hero was not found dead somewhere.  As a society, we need better systems to find individuals who “wander away”.  

Air Tags?  Angel Sense devices?  Medical Alert bracelets? Even Tattoos?  

I would believe that local police should be the first point of contact.  Amber alerts for the local area could be issued.  Shelters, churches, and vet organizations could be involved.

(When I get a NIXIE alert, I pay attention to it.  Never “found” anyone, but I look when out and about.)

Hopefully, we’ll get better at caring for members of the human race, who through no fault of their own, need help.

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VETERANS: Sailors were used as lab animals

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/25/san-francisco-navy-lab-human-radiation?mc_cid=7283492361&mc_eid=0da2484634

Frisco Navy Lab’smHuman Radiation Experiments 

San Francisco Public Press & The Guardian

  • Revealed: how a San Francisco navy lab became a hub for human radiation experiments
  • Operations at a cold war lab exposed at least 1,073 people to radiation. Risks to the nearby communities persist

Chris Roberts, San Francisco Public Press
Mon 25 Nov 2024 14.00 EST

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Between 1946 and 1963, this article reports, lab scientists knowingly exposed at least 1,073 servicemen, dockworkers, lab employees and others to potentially harmful radiation through war games, decontamination tests and medical studies at the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory at San Francisco’s Hunters Point naval shipyard. A review by the San Francisco Public Press of thousands of pages of government and academic records as well as interviews with affected servicemen reveal:

    … [T]he lab conducted at least 24 experiments that exposed humans to radiation, far more than past official reviews acknowledged. Safety reports also note dozens of accidents in which staff received doses in excess of federal health limits in effect at the time. Researchers at the lab tracked the exposure of workers trying to clean ships irradiated by an atomic bomb test. Soldiers were ordered to crawl through fields of radioactive sand and soil. In clinical studies, radioactive substances were applied to forearms and hands, injected or administered by mouth. Top US civilian and military officials pre-approved all of this in writing, documents show. The records indicate that researchers gained limited knowledge from this program, and that not everyone involved had their exposure monitored. There is also no sign the lab studied the long-term health effects on people used in the experiments or in surrounding communities, either during the lab’s heyday or after it closed in 1969.

This article reports that the Navy’s San Francisco lab was “a major cold war research facility with a unique focus on ‘radiological defense,’ techniques developed to help the public survive and armed forces fight back in case of an atomic attack. It was one node in a nationwide network that encompassed universities, hospitals and national labs that had permission to handle dangerous radioactive material.” 

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No study of the “long-term health effects on people used in the experiments or in surrounding communities, either during the lab’s heyday or after it closed in 1969.”

Well, let’s go back and studied it NOW!

This is “Yet Another Example” of how the Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats treat Veterans and the general population.  Like lab rats.  Not even given any human dignity.  Let alone “informed consent”.

It’s not too late to rectify this grave error.  

Maybe if the guilty get punishment, the it could deter future bad behavior?

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VETERANS: 11 souls finally found — the terrible price of war

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

FROM 1440

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World War II Veteran Recovered

The remains of a missing World War II veteran have been recovered and identified at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The expedition—213 feet below the surface—is the US government’s deepest underwater recovery operation to date.

On March 11, 1944, a B-24 bomber known as “Heaven Can Wait” was shot down over Papua New Guinea. The aircraft—carrying 11 US service members—was en route to bomb Japanese anti-aircraft weapons on the island’s northeast coast. Early last year, Navy divers recovered the dog tags and remains of 2nd Lt. Thomas V. Kelly Jr.—a 21-year-old aviator from California. The remains of two other veterans—radio operator Eugene J. Darrigan, 26, and navigator 2nd Lt. Donald W. Sheppick, 26—were identified earlier this year.

The mission came about after Kelly’s family members conducted an extensive research project from 2013 to 2017, gathering historical documents and eyewitness accounts to narrow the wreckage search. 

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/wwii-airman-remains-positively-identified-153302737.html

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It’s important that every effort be made to find and bring out vets home.

One thing that is drilled into our military is “Never leave a comrade behind”.  I learned it when I was in training and I hope it’s still taught.

I watch for these stories as a fulfillment of that ethic.  Unfortunately, the politicians and bureaucrats, some who are “perfumed princes” in the Pentagon, fail in this duty.

In the movies, it was best expressed by “We Were Soldiers” Hero, Hal Moore.

“I can’t promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So help me, God.”  — Mel Gibson playing Lt. Col. Hal Moore in “We Were Soldiers”.

I know the Conspiracy Theories that we left living POWs in WWII, Korea, and Viet Nam.  I hope that they are not true.  And, I hope we are busting heads to confirm or deny.

The way we, the USA, treat our veterans is a national disgrace.

Shame on us.

 “Some had families waiting. For others, their only family would be the men they bled beside. There were no bands, no flags, no Honor Guards to welcome them home. They went to war because their country ordered them to. But in the end, they fought not for their country or their flag, they fought for each other.”  — Barry Pepper as Joe Galloway in “We Were Soldiers”

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VETERANS: My loyalty is tarnished by “free meals” from hypocrits

Monday, November 11, 2024

https://patch.com/new-jersey/southbrunswick/s/j0qb1/veterans-day-2024-discounts-freebies-and-deals-in-nj

Veterans Day 2024: Discounts, Freebies And Deals In NJ

  • Businesses are thanking NJ’s veterans and active-duty military personnel for their service with special special Veterans Day deals.

Russ Crespolini, Patch Staff

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NEW JERSEY — Restaurants, coffee shops and other businesses are thanking NJ’s veterans and active-duty military personnel for their service with special Veterans Day discounts, freebies and deals. Veterans Day, which is always observed on Nov. 11, falls on Monday this year.

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I think this cheapens being a veteran when our brothers-in-arms are second class to illegal immigrants, being denied the mental and physical health care promised, and used a political pawns on the global stage.

Tell me about your offers for them!

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VETERANS: Remember determined U.S. naval air attacks, limited Japanese situational awareness, and pure dumb luck of the Americans

Monday, November 11, 2024

https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-ii/1944/samar.html?ICID=ref_fark

 history.navy.mil

The Battle off Samar: The Sacrifice of “Taffy 3”
<<Author Unknown>>
Published: Thu Oct 31 13:34:56 EDT 2019
<<Year Unknown>>

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The initiative, aggressiveness, and outright heroism demonstrated by Taffy 3, combined with determined U.S. naval air attacks, limited Japanese situational awareness, and pure dumb luck of the Americans had stymied Vice Admiral Kurita’s intent to destroy U.S. landing forces in the Leyte Gulf. Along with the defeats in the Sibuyan Sea, the Surigao Strait, and off Cape Engaño, the Samar engagement blunted or destroyed much of the Japanese navy’s remaining offensive capabilities and turned its surviving surface forces into a “fleet in being”—a concern for Allied commanders, but never again the threat it had still posed into early 1944.

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Hard to imagine living and dying in these situations.

Hand Salute!

To these valiant warriors.

On both sides, men stepped up to do their duty as they saw it.

Hope we never run out of such men, and now women, or “waste” their efforts.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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VETERANS: Remembering the heroines behnd the scenes

Thursday, June 6, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13485097/The-women-D-Day-possible.html

The women who made D-Day possible: How crucial work under-the-radar helped the Allies stage daring Normandy invasion to liberate Western Europe from Nazi tyranny 
By Cameron Roy
Published: 10:56 EDT, 2 June 2024 | Updated: 11:42 EDT, 2 June 2024

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Eighty years ago this week, 156,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in France on D-Day to Liberate Europe from Nazi tyranny.

It is one of the most well-remembered battles in history, with annual remembrance ceremonies taking part on the famous beaches where thousands of men died.

But some argue the celebration of the role women played in helping the Allies prepare for the invasion has been neglected in comparison.

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Here’s two women’ memoirs that would make an eye opening read.

Too soon we forget how “war” consumes huge amounts of resources and leaves behind a legacy that shouldn’t be forgotten.

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VETERANS: Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act makes things worse

Thursday, June 6, 2024

https://ampamerica.com/only-veterans-lose-at-va-monopoly/

ROGERS: Only Veterans Lose at VA Monopoly
by Sam Rogers | May 29, 2024 | Opinion

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The VA’s fingerprints can be found all over the recently introduced the Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act, which gives VA bureaucrats the power to take a veteran in crisis and send them to a facility on the other side of the country rather than getting them help where they are, as fast as possible. It even sunsets consideration of “Best Medical Interest” which should objectively terrify any healthcare recipient.

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The old joke about vets saying that their VA doc is out to kill them seems to right true.

Argh!

Anyone remember D-Day and why vets deserve the best care available?

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VETERANS: Vets can”t seem to get “an official diagnosis” and the benefits they earned from a grateful nation

Monday, May 27, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13448193/nick-ranstad-sniper-afghanistan-message-joe-biden.html

The sniper with one of the longest kills in Afghanistan has a message for Joe Biden
By Wills Robinson For Dailymail.com
Published: 12:58 EDT, 26 May 2024 | Updated: 13:39 EDT, 26 May 2024

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Sergeant Nicholas Ranstad was twenty minutes into a nap when his spotter woke him up.

Four Taliban fighters were 1.28 miles away from the hut where the Army specialist sniper was living in Kunar Province in northeastern Afghanistan.

If the insurgents had looked more carefully, they would have seen white marks on boulders beside them. Randstad, a 28-year-old Florida native, had been using them for target practice for weeks.

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But what happened to Ranstad in the years that followed has become all too common among veterans from the War on Terror.

That story is one the Pentagon doesn’t want you to hear.

Eleven years after killing the Taliban fighter with a once-in-a-lifetime shot, he walked into the home of a friend, Marine veteran Sean Miller.

Like Ranstad, Miller was a fellow veteran who struggled with PTSD.

He had shot himself in the head.

Ranstad called 911 to report a suicide, but ended up being arrested and taken into custody because of the flurry of emotion he felt in the seconds that followed.

When he saw his friend’s body he was so upset he fired four rounds into the floor of the house.

He then ripped down the Marine flag outside Sean’s home and draped it over his body.

The responding officers read him his Miranda rights and he ended up in jail for several days before being released on a $10,000 bond.

He was charged with reckless use of a firearm and firing it inside a dwelling, and it took 13 months to clear his name.

Ranstad admits his reaction in that moment of rage wasn’t right, but the situation showed signs of a crisis that runs far deeper.

Now 45 years old, married for 18 years and with a child, he has been out of the military for six years.

He was honorably discharged because of his own battle with PTSD and the ongoing effects of a traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Thousands of veterans suffer from TBIs during their service, but trying to get an official diagnosis for them is a struggle.

It means veterans cannot get full benefits – even if they suffer symptoms such as headaches, insomnia, confusion, frayed memory, bad balance, racing hearts, paranoia, depression and random eruptions of rage or tears.

Ranstad’s story and his interactions with Sean before his tragic death are a painful reminder of the shortfalls of veteran care across the United States.

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Maybe the young boys and girls, who don’t make it home, are the “lucky ones”.

Instead of help, they get politicians and bureaucrats and “stolen valor”.

Sorry, but vets should be standing tall for their fellow vets and not tolerate this abuse.

GB GBA

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VETERANS: A “national draft” should be permanently taken off the legislative radar

Monday, May 27, 2024

https://www.infowars.com/posts/the-american-journal-feds-propose-bringing-back-national-draft-for-war-with-russia-tune-in-now/

Feds Propose National Draft

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Yeah, I know it’s Alex Jones.  And, yes, he’s the nation’s stopped clock.  

BUT

I remember Charley Rangel introducing draft legislation annually as a an anti-poor anti-black reminder of the evils of a “draft”.

You’d think that the anti-slavery amendment would cover it, but obviously not.

And, vets especially should have strong opinions about “old men sending young men to die”.

It’s time that “We, The Sheeple” recognize that the MIC (military industrial conspiracy) uses “the military” as a cash cow.  And that it’s the ultimate “jobs” welfare program.

Time to put the squeeze on this boondoggle.

Yes, we need a small professional military to defend the nation if needed.  We don’t need the current monstrosity.

Remember the Dead Old White Guys were dead set against a Federal Army, but not a Navy.  Let’s return to their wisdom,

Anyone who has seen the movie Glory knows that in the Civil War (that was not so “civil” and more about Northern Aggression against the South) the army was raised by the States.  And that immigrants fresh off the boat enlisted for the wages.

Let’s return the “army” to the States and shrink the Federal Welfare rolls.

Start by ending any possibility of the draft.

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VETERANS: This is a slap in the face for every vet, families of vets, and the image Ameircans have of their Gooferment

Monday, May 27, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13449637/Catholic-Knights-Colombus-memorial-day-parks-service-biden-NPS.html

Catholic Knights of Columbus group sues Biden for banning them from holding traditional Memorial Day mass at Virginia cemetery because service is a ‘demonstration’

  •     The fraternity has held a service at the national cemetery every year since 1960
  •     But a policy change means the mass is now classified as a ‘demonstration’

By Dominic Yeatman For Dailymail.Com
Published: 20:32 EDT, 22 May 2024 | Updated: 00:46 EDT, 23 May 2024

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A Catholic fraternity is taking the White House to court after it was banned from holding an annual mass it has staged at a national cemetery for more than 60 years.

The Knights of Columbus has held a Memorial Day mass at the Poplar Grove National Cemetery in Virginia every year since 1960.

But it is claiming religious discrimination after the National Park Service (NPS) decided the religious service amounted to a ‘demonstration’ and decided to ban it on the Petersburg site.

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And the USA has a “Catholic President”!

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VETERANS: Gene F. Walker finally returned home; sadly

Friday, December 1, 2023

https://people.com/remains-wwii-soldier-identified-nearly-79-years-after-death-8406492?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Human Interest
Remains of WWII Soldier from Indiana Identified Nearly 79 Years After His Death

  • Gene F. Walker will be buried in San Diego in early 2024, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency

By Brenton Blanchet
Published on November 24, 2023 12:57PM EST

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The remains of a soldier killed during World War II at age 27 were identified by military scientists after nearly 79 years.

On Wednesday, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that it had identified the remains of U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Gene F. Walker of Richmond, Indiana, and that he “was accounted for” in July of this year. 

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A 1944 obituary, cited by WTHR, noted at the time that Walker was survived by his wife and a daughter whom he never met. 

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So sad and a reminder of the cost of war in the lives of men, widows, and children.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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VETERANS: Sgt. Henry Gunther and just how much your Gooferment cares for you

Saturday, November 11, 2023

https://dailyreckoning.com/a-tribute-to-sgt-henry-gunther/

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A Tribute to Sgt. Henry Gunther
Brian Maher
Posted November 11, 2022

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Recall the divisional chieftain who condemned 61 of his men to the grave that morning so that others might bathe — a certain William Mason Wright.

This human gem received promotion to Executive Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Army after war’s end.

He could claim the distinction, after all, of capturing the final American objective of the war.

A less gaudy distinction fell to a young man under this man’s command that morning of Nov. 11, 1918. We refer here to Sgt. Henry Gunther, aged 23 years, of our former city of Baltimore.

This poor fellow was the last allied fatality of that fateful morning — and of the Great War itself. His time of death:

10:59 a.m.

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So anytime that a Gooferment politician or bureaucrat expresses concern for the troops, vets, KIA, WIA, or MIA, think of Sgt. Gunther and you’ll know what’s true.

Sadly, true.

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