Loved your word about what Memorial Day really is about, WW. My father, too, fought in WW2, in the Philippines and Germany. And he lived to tell me some thrilling war stories. Now, if I were in the military, and got orders to storm the beaches of some foreign nation (like Iran) and lay my life down for Black Rock and pedophiles, I'd tell them to pound salt. If that ended up in my dishonorable discharge, so be it. I wish every soldier in every branch would so the same. Fighting wars on foreign fields is no longer about freedom. It's all about what you said, "We’re defending the financial interests of people who wouldn’t piss on a burning soldier if it meant missing their tee time." Piss on them!
You forgot us who were very unpopular after Vietnam was over and enlisted into the first All Volunteer Service. No... We didn't see any action per she but we were manning the Alert Barns with Interceptors (F-4's) until The Cold War ended.
We went out in public with 35-10 regulation haircuts and NOBODY liked us.
But we did it anyway.
So thanks anyway... Same thanks we received back then too.
Nowadays I hear people say Thanks for your service and I'm like Who Me?
You are the king of "Smooth Transitions." As for attorneys, look into Aaron Siri. He is an incredible human and his 2 main paralegals are top shelf. He is in New York. Nicole Pearson in Orange County, CA (where I am) is a pitbull in the best way. If you need contact info for either of them, please let me know and I will happily provide it. Thank you to your grandfather for doing God's work. My father in law died before I met my husband but was on par. He also was a guard at the Nuremberg trials. My husband and his siblings are first generation Latvian Americans. May God continue to keep you safe and restore your health. We need you and Lily.
On this 2026 Memorial Day I’d like to honor two of my uncles who fought in WW2… they were twins assigned to the same paratroop battalion… Roy and Joy Greene.
While parachuting into France in early July 1944 my Uncle Joy was shot and killed by the Germans before his feet ever touched the ground. He was 22 years young. My Uncle Roy, parachuted with the same unit into the same French field at the same time. He wasn’t killed, but captured.
My Uncle Roy never spoke much about his service and about the day he lost his twin brother. Being in the same unit and doing the same dangerous things they both knew the risks of one or both of them not making it. Such was the fate of two Texas farm boys.
From what little Uncle Roy did reveal was that his captivity, from July of 1944 to the end of the war almost a year later, was absolutely less than ideal. He hated the program “Hogan’s Heroes” with a passion. He would yell about it being NOTHING like that… no dumb guards… no imbecile camp commandant… nothing to eat but whatever bugs and rats you could catch for days and weeks on end. HH television show did a real disservice to and damaged those who actually went through it. Add on top of that no medical care and standing out in roll call half naked and snow up to your calves. They Germans didn’t care. It was a miracle he survived it. He often wondered WHY he was spared and his brother taken. I think it bothered him until the day he died around 1995.
This is dedicated to my two brave uncles who gave their all… just in different ways… so that I can sit here in my living room writing this with A/C and a full belly.
My man! I just wrote about how complicated Memorial Day is as well! On your note about the literacy rates, you’re spot on because people have written about how literacy rates dropped when public education was created around 1905.
"In Flanders Fields" is a famous World War I poem by Canadian soldier John McCrae, written in 1915 after the Second Battle of Ypres, where he buried a friend.
In Flanders Fields
By John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
I have been thinking about America and war. There was a time when America was very hesitant to go to war. Before World War I and World War II we tried to avoid sending our young men to their deaths. Up until the Korean War whenever we entered we finished it, over, done. Since and including Korea we have never won a war. Conflicts ended, but we never actually won. The war in Iran is the final culmination of all those wasted efforts. We not only did not win in Iran, we lost. Not just nothing gained but we are worse off than we were in 2018 when DJT nixed the Obama Iran nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Now we are on our way to Bay of Pigs Part Deux! This is just madness!!!!!
But you should not limit your remembrance to US combat veterans only, you should be remembering ALL the people we have killed worldwide. I want you to consider that because of the world-wide murder spree addictions of politicians, fascists, and Citizens, Memorial Day MUST include remembrance of the MILLIONS of people killed around the world in our selfish wars of greed.
my heart goes out to the men and women who put their lives on the line for a lie they were sold when they were too young to realize that they were defending the evil they thought they were fighting. please take a moment and read through the Auschwitz-Burkinau official web page. look at the history, look at the numbers they quote that went through the prison camps. I'm not saying they were right to do what they did. also read through the morgenthal plan jc1067, and how the United States and allied forces starved 25 million people in Germany to death after the Nazi surrender. look at Vietnam we fought allegedly to stop the Viet Cong that were so bad we had to drop agent Orange on 2 millions of innocent people 500,000 children afterwards have suffered birth defects. in world war II we were fighting for the same entity that is killing people in Gaza. in the Vietnam wars we were fighting for CIA drug trafficking, Afghanistan Iraq Libya Syria Lebanon Palestine we have spent the better part of two decades blowing up the Middle East for the greater Israel project. I do not blame the soldiers I believe that is why the suicide rate is so high. they realize at some point that what they thought they were fighting for was a lie. and then they realize the millions of people they have slaughtered. the estimate in the Middle East since desert Storm is upwards of 40 to 50 million fucking people.
My dad spent 2 years in Korea. He loved to tell stories about all the crazy stuff that happened, inside and outside the wire. He was a very proud veteran and was very active in local veteran organizations right up until he died in 2021.
My FIL was a SeaBee in WW2. He lied about his age and went in on his 17th birthday. The only thing he ever said about his service was that he joined the Navy figuring he wouldn’t get shot at. Only to discover that the SeaBees were first on the scene and took more incoming small arms fire than the landing troops that followed. Other than that, he wouldn’t talk about it.
You and most readers here will probably curse me before you finish reading my comment, but the truth must be told. I answered the call in 1968, enlisted in the Air Force, volunteered for Vietnanm twice, both initially, and then by extending my tour for 6 more months, for a total of 18 months service, in-country. I was trained in aviation electronics , and worked on F-4 Phantoms, Ec-47's, C-7 Caribous, and AC-119 gunships.I was like most Vietnam veterans, gung-ho one minute, and anti-war the next. Through many years of slowly becoming un-brainwashed, I am recovering from the lies of revisionist history, which includes, mindless patriotism, which is found nowhere in the Bible, therefore, it is not a Godly virtue. There is nothing wrong with loving your fatherland (from which the word is derived), but in most cases, it is manifested as an idol of false worship, which means, that many people, including veterans, are worshipping their government, along with its many idolatrous symbols, such as the flag, the national anthenm, the pledge of allegiance and the constitution, itself. Before you bow again to the idol of the flag, remember that that flag was flown by the Union army under Lincoln, the worst mass murderer in American history, and his worst general (Sherman), as they raped, pillaged and plundered the south, all to enforce Lincoln's tariff, and not to free the slaves. Then, Sherman, Sheridan (who said,"the only good Indian is a dead Indian), Custer, and their partners in crime went out west, flying the same flag that was drenched with innocent blood, and massacred and conquered the Indians, to establish the American Empire. The same flag was flown by the same military, who mass-murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in in the fire-bombing of Hamburg, and Dresden, Germany, and Tokyo, Japan, and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, Japan. These were all cities of refuge, with no credible, military targets. So much for the "greatest generation." What a crock of shit. There is no "greatest generation," because no foreign war that the U.S.A. ever fought was constitutional, much less, moral. I'm speaking specifically, to Christians who call themselves, "patriots." What part of the words, "YOU SHALL NOT MURDER," (Commandment 6) do you not understand, you stupid, self-righteous, hypocrites? You are pagan idolaters. You need to repent of this idolatry. There was a Japanese soldier who was with the invading force that took the island of Attu, in the Aleutian Islands in W.W. ll. After the ensuing battle when American forces retook the island, there were no Japanese survivors, as all of them fought to the death. On this man's body was found a Bible, with many of his personal notes written. After further investigation, it was learned that he was a devout Christian, because American missionaries had established a church in his home town. His notes proved that he loved the Lord Jesus Christ. It was also proven that he died fighting, believing that he was doing his patriotic duty to God and his country. How tragic. God and country? that is an oxymoron. How about, God and nothing else. Commandment 1: "YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME." How many American soldiers have fought, killed a nameless enemy, and died, believing that they were doing there patriotic duty to "GOD AND COUNTRY"? All because they believed the lies of their evil government. Worse yet, how many have died in bogus, foreign wars because they were immorally drafted against their wills, and forced into glorified slavery, even if they weren't killed? Patriot, especially, Christian patriot, you are worshipping a false god, and bowing to idols. Where in the Bible are you told to take up arms and kill your brothers in Christ, because your government tells you that they are your enemy? It dosesn't. There were many Christians in Hitler's Nazi Army., who fought and died for their fatherland, as well, who were not members of the Nazi Party. The constitution is a pagan secular document that is based on the philosophy of 18th century Rationalism, and secular humanism. There is absolutely, nothing Biblical, or Christian about it. Just for the record, I am not against any of my brothers in arms. I support all veterans, but they need to wake up to the lies of patriotism, and the lies of revisionist history. There is a lot more information at: MichaelGaddy.substack.com and at: Bibleversusconstitution.org and at: MarkKreslins.substack.com
This was really special. Thanks for honoring all of our heroes with your talent. Not only did you honored them, you brought their sacrifices home to enrich our hurting country. Bless you, WiseWolf.
Loved your word about what Memorial Day really is about, WW. My father, too, fought in WW2, in the Philippines and Germany. And he lived to tell me some thrilling war stories. Now, if I were in the military, and got orders to storm the beaches of some foreign nation (like Iran) and lay my life down for Black Rock and pedophiles, I'd tell them to pound salt. If that ended up in my dishonorable discharge, so be it. I wish every soldier in every branch would so the same. Fighting wars on foreign fields is no longer about freedom. It's all about what you said, "We’re defending the financial interests of people who wouldn’t piss on a burning soldier if it meant missing their tee time." Piss on them!
You forgot us who were very unpopular after Vietnam was over and enlisted into the first All Volunteer Service. No... We didn't see any action per she but we were manning the Alert Barns with Interceptors (F-4's) until The Cold War ended.
We went out in public with 35-10 regulation haircuts and NOBODY liked us.
But we did it anyway.
So thanks anyway... Same thanks we received back then too.
Nowadays I hear people say Thanks for your service and I'm like Who Me?
When we enlisted they guaranteed us full medical for the rest of our lives as thanks...
Then W came along and that was that. SSDD for us
You are the king of "Smooth Transitions." As for attorneys, look into Aaron Siri. He is an incredible human and his 2 main paralegals are top shelf. He is in New York. Nicole Pearson in Orange County, CA (where I am) is a pitbull in the best way. If you need contact info for either of them, please let me know and I will happily provide it. Thank you to your grandfather for doing God's work. My father in law died before I met my husband but was on par. He also was a guard at the Nuremberg trials. My husband and his siblings are first generation Latvian Americans. May God continue to keep you safe and restore your health. We need you and Lily.
On this 2026 Memorial Day I’d like to honor two of my uncles who fought in WW2… they were twins assigned to the same paratroop battalion… Roy and Joy Greene.
While parachuting into France in early July 1944 my Uncle Joy was shot and killed by the Germans before his feet ever touched the ground. He was 22 years young. My Uncle Roy, parachuted with the same unit into the same French field at the same time. He wasn’t killed, but captured.
My Uncle Roy never spoke much about his service and about the day he lost his twin brother. Being in the same unit and doing the same dangerous things they both knew the risks of one or both of them not making it. Such was the fate of two Texas farm boys.
From what little Uncle Roy did reveal was that his captivity, from July of 1944 to the end of the war almost a year later, was absolutely less than ideal. He hated the program “Hogan’s Heroes” with a passion. He would yell about it being NOTHING like that… no dumb guards… no imbecile camp commandant… nothing to eat but whatever bugs and rats you could catch for days and weeks on end. HH television show did a real disservice to and damaged those who actually went through it. Add on top of that no medical care and standing out in roll call half naked and snow up to your calves. They Germans didn’t care. It was a miracle he survived it. He often wondered WHY he was spared and his brother taken. I think it bothered him until the day he died around 1995.
This is dedicated to my two brave uncles who gave their all… just in different ways… so that I can sit here in my living room writing this with A/C and a full belly.
Brilliant!
My man! I just wrote about how complicated Memorial Day is as well! On your note about the literacy rates, you’re spot on because people have written about how literacy rates dropped when public education was created around 1905.
The great American hero General Smeldly Butler wrote the book “War is a Racket” and he fought in all kinds of wars, including WWI. Definitely resonating what you’re saying here: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/short-thoughts-may-25-memorial-day
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If a data center is being protected by military then its probably not just a data center.
"In Flanders Fields" is a famous World War I poem by Canadian soldier John McCrae, written in 1915 after the Second Battle of Ypres, where he buried a friend.
In Flanders Fields
By John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
I have been thinking about America and war. There was a time when America was very hesitant to go to war. Before World War I and World War II we tried to avoid sending our young men to their deaths. Up until the Korean War whenever we entered we finished it, over, done. Since and including Korea we have never won a war. Conflicts ended, but we never actually won. The war in Iran is the final culmination of all those wasted efforts. We not only did not win in Iran, we lost. Not just nothing gained but we are worse off than we were in 2018 when DJT nixed the Obama Iran nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Now we are on our way to Bay of Pigs Part Deux! This is just madness!!!!!
Thank you for remembering and honoring a cousin and an uncle of mine, among countless others, who never made it home.
The honored dead, RIP
Siri is outstanding -- don't know if he takes on cases outside of the medical freedom space
But you should not limit your remembrance to US combat veterans only, you should be remembering ALL the people we have killed worldwide. I want you to consider that because of the world-wide murder spree addictions of politicians, fascists, and Citizens, Memorial Day MUST include remembrance of the MILLIONS of people killed around the world in our selfish wars of greed.
https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/memorial-day-in-memoriam-remembering
https://substack.com/@griobhtha1/note/c-264167820?r=4r78rn&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
my heart goes out to the men and women who put their lives on the line for a lie they were sold when they were too young to realize that they were defending the evil they thought they were fighting. please take a moment and read through the Auschwitz-Burkinau official web page. look at the history, look at the numbers they quote that went through the prison camps. I'm not saying they were right to do what they did. also read through the morgenthal plan jc1067, and how the United States and allied forces starved 25 million people in Germany to death after the Nazi surrender. look at Vietnam we fought allegedly to stop the Viet Cong that were so bad we had to drop agent Orange on 2 millions of innocent people 500,000 children afterwards have suffered birth defects. in world war II we were fighting for the same entity that is killing people in Gaza. in the Vietnam wars we were fighting for CIA drug trafficking, Afghanistan Iraq Libya Syria Lebanon Palestine we have spent the better part of two decades blowing up the Middle East for the greater Israel project. I do not blame the soldiers I believe that is why the suicide rate is so high. they realize at some point that what they thought they were fighting for was a lie. and then they realize the millions of people they have slaughtered. the estimate in the Middle East since desert Storm is upwards of 40 to 50 million fucking people.
Thanks for sharing this. Great post.
My dad spent 2 years in Korea. He loved to tell stories about all the crazy stuff that happened, inside and outside the wire. He was a very proud veteran and was very active in local veteran organizations right up until he died in 2021.
My FIL was a SeaBee in WW2. He lied about his age and went in on his 17th birthday. The only thing he ever said about his service was that he joined the Navy figuring he wouldn’t get shot at. Only to discover that the SeaBees were first on the scene and took more incoming small arms fire than the landing troops that followed. Other than that, he wouldn’t talk about it.
You and most readers here will probably curse me before you finish reading my comment, but the truth must be told. I answered the call in 1968, enlisted in the Air Force, volunteered for Vietnanm twice, both initially, and then by extending my tour for 6 more months, for a total of 18 months service, in-country. I was trained in aviation electronics , and worked on F-4 Phantoms, Ec-47's, C-7 Caribous, and AC-119 gunships.I was like most Vietnam veterans, gung-ho one minute, and anti-war the next. Through many years of slowly becoming un-brainwashed, I am recovering from the lies of revisionist history, which includes, mindless patriotism, which is found nowhere in the Bible, therefore, it is not a Godly virtue. There is nothing wrong with loving your fatherland (from which the word is derived), but in most cases, it is manifested as an idol of false worship, which means, that many people, including veterans, are worshipping their government, along with its many idolatrous symbols, such as the flag, the national anthenm, the pledge of allegiance and the constitution, itself. Before you bow again to the idol of the flag, remember that that flag was flown by the Union army under Lincoln, the worst mass murderer in American history, and his worst general (Sherman), as they raped, pillaged and plundered the south, all to enforce Lincoln's tariff, and not to free the slaves. Then, Sherman, Sheridan (who said,"the only good Indian is a dead Indian), Custer, and their partners in crime went out west, flying the same flag that was drenched with innocent blood, and massacred and conquered the Indians, to establish the American Empire. The same flag was flown by the same military, who mass-murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in in the fire-bombing of Hamburg, and Dresden, Germany, and Tokyo, Japan, and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, Japan. These were all cities of refuge, with no credible, military targets. So much for the "greatest generation." What a crock of shit. There is no "greatest generation," because no foreign war that the U.S.A. ever fought was constitutional, much less, moral. I'm speaking specifically, to Christians who call themselves, "patriots." What part of the words, "YOU SHALL NOT MURDER," (Commandment 6) do you not understand, you stupid, self-righteous, hypocrites? You are pagan idolaters. You need to repent of this idolatry. There was a Japanese soldier who was with the invading force that took the island of Attu, in the Aleutian Islands in W.W. ll. After the ensuing battle when American forces retook the island, there were no Japanese survivors, as all of them fought to the death. On this man's body was found a Bible, with many of his personal notes written. After further investigation, it was learned that he was a devout Christian, because American missionaries had established a church in his home town. His notes proved that he loved the Lord Jesus Christ. It was also proven that he died fighting, believing that he was doing his patriotic duty to God and his country. How tragic. God and country? that is an oxymoron. How about, God and nothing else. Commandment 1: "YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME." How many American soldiers have fought, killed a nameless enemy, and died, believing that they were doing there patriotic duty to "GOD AND COUNTRY"? All because they believed the lies of their evil government. Worse yet, how many have died in bogus, foreign wars because they were immorally drafted against their wills, and forced into glorified slavery, even if they weren't killed? Patriot, especially, Christian patriot, you are worshipping a false god, and bowing to idols. Where in the Bible are you told to take up arms and kill your brothers in Christ, because your government tells you that they are your enemy? It dosesn't. There were many Christians in Hitler's Nazi Army., who fought and died for their fatherland, as well, who were not members of the Nazi Party. The constitution is a pagan secular document that is based on the philosophy of 18th century Rationalism, and secular humanism. There is absolutely, nothing Biblical, or Christian about it. Just for the record, I am not against any of my brothers in arms. I support all veterans, but they need to wake up to the lies of patriotism, and the lies of revisionist history. There is a lot more information at: MichaelGaddy.substack.com and at: Bibleversusconstitution.org and at: MarkKreslins.substack.com
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This was really special. Thanks for honoring all of our heroes with your talent. Not only did you honored them, you brought their sacrifices home to enrich our hurting country. Bless you, WiseWolf.