Memorial Day is supposed to be an annual reflection on the meaning of the deaths of so many young American men who died in service to our country. For me it is an occasion to look back on how my views have changed.
As a younger man, one who didn’t serve in the armed forces, I was an unabashed neocon warhawk who believed the narrative that America was making the world freer and safer by invading countries, breaking their shit and then coming home to parades. It wasn’t until I finally took the red-pill, followed by the rest of the red-pill bottle, that I really started to question the military-industrial complex that sent young White men to die, often while killing other young White men.
Now with each passing year, Memorial Day for me is marked by a mixture of sadness and rage.
This is what I usually post on Memorial Day…
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A lot of people living in America don’t know the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day. They also don’t care. It is another day where they don’t have to work and get to drink some beer and grill out with family. I would cautiously say most of the men who died in the various wars would be happy that people spent the day with family and friends, even if they didn’t know for sure why
As Memorial Day winds down, I saw something interesting from the New York Post:
A lot of that is likely historical ignorance, I doubt you could find many Americans on the street that could locate WW II on a timeline within a decade, much less give more specific dates like Pearl Harbor and D-Day. On the other hand, what exactly did we “win” in WW II?
- Almost 300,000 U.S. soldiers and sailors killed in action, mostly in Europe.
- As soon as the war ended, the Soviets took over half of Europe and enslaved tens of millions of people for almost 50 years.
- Five years after WW II ended, we were fighting communists in Korea and then a few years later in Vietnam. Another 80,000 killed in action and millions wounded physically and emotionally.
- In the aftermath of the Allied “victory”, Western Europe seems to have lost any will or desire to survive and they are slowly surrendering their freedom through mass migration, a refusal to have children and growing degeneracy.
- The United States had a few decades as the leader of the free world but within two decades of the end of the war, our culture was collapsing and at a mere 75 years after WW II we are on the verge of complete collapse and ruin.
- By the time we reach the 100th anniversary of the end of WW II in 2045, there likely won’t be a West around to commemorate it.
Let me be clear that by no means is any of that to brush over the terrible things the Nazis did (nor the often equally terrible things the U.S. and our allies did), or to deny the things that actually happened (as opposed to the cartoonish Hollywood villainy). Bad things happen in wars, they always have, and even the “good guys” commit atrocities. History is written by the victors and that is why we have a ton of movies about the Holocaust but almost none about the Holodomor or the firebombing of civilians in Dresden, the open air concentration camps where German POWs died of starvation or the decades of tyranny inflicted on Eastern Europe by our “allies” in the Soviet Union.
On the other hand, Hitler rose to power in no small measure because the U.S. entered the First World War and tipped the balance, and that was definitely a war we had no business fighting in. In fact, you will be hard pressed to find a war since 1812 that was waged for a legitimate U.S. national interest with the notable exception of the Pacific theater of World War II. After all the Japs actually attacked us, after we goaded them into it of course so FDR could get his pretext to declare war. We couldn’t really let that go.
I still maintain that if the boys in the landing craft on D-Day could have seen what would become of America and Europe in 2021, they would have forced the drivers of those craft to turn around. None of them would have wanted to die for what the West has become.
Maybe people are starting to wake up and realize that most of the wars we have fought have been about something other than what was best for the American people. We can honor the memory of those who nobly made the ultimate sacrifice while questioning the motivations of those who sent them to die.
You can be sure that none of them wanted what we are now. It’s up to us to change it.
It’s up to us to change it.
Yea most,.even on here haven’t got that through their heads or they have an have already given up…I would say also there is no us in any sense that counts because we are all or most are atomized individuals with no sense of duty, honor, or sacrifice to anything except maybe our families…Our ancestors would be ashamed at how weak and broken we really are ..
That George C. Scott as Patton giving the morale speech is EPIC.
I LOL at grease the treads of tanks and make the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
The two pearl handled six shooters is right up there with Clint and the rattlesnakes on the handles.
The grips on Patton’s revolvers were ivory. What? You think he was a New Orleans pimp or something?
I find it rather shameful that Memorial Day has become just another excuse to fuck off with a 3 day weekend, eat like pigs and for various and sundry stores to hold “huge sales” in order to induce more rampant consumerism, and finance more debt.
Another thing that really rubbed me wrong was a Baptist church a few blocks from my home that recently installed a big, obnoxious full color animated electronic signboard out front, like something right off the Vegas strip. Today it was flashing a big, animated American flag graphic with the message “Happy Memorial Day!”. WTF is happy about it? It’s suppose to be a somber day to recall those who gave their lives (and in retrospect, most probably did so foolishly) for a bunch of damned hypocrites (politicians) and ingrates (NPC’s).
Got together yesterday with the family and had a low key dinner, as we try to do at least a couple of Sundays each month. Today, I didn’t go out and spend money on needless bullshit, but surmise plenty of people did.
The one positive thing I can say is that recent geopolitical circumstances seem to have soured many more people on the idea of foreign entanglements (even though the government clearly isn’t listening to that faction, and is instead kissing ass to the zionists, as per usual). Perhaps that sentiment builds enough that when the collapse finally hits here, the current pig power structure will hunted to extinction. Of course, there are myriad other reasons to do so, irrespective of their warmongering for israel.
Re: “I still maintain that if the boys in the landing craft on D-Day could have seen what would become of America and Europe in 2021, they would have forced the drivers of those craft to turn around. None of them would have wanted to die for what the West has become.”
William Manchester, the noted author, biographer and historian – was an enlisted U.S. Marine during WW2, and saw a lot of action, including being seriously wounded at Okinawa. After the war, he went to school on the GI Bill, and became a college professor and writer of some renown. He tried to bury the past.
However, by the time the 1980s rolled around, he had placed enough years behind him to look more objectively at the war and his role in it. He determined to retrace his steps as a young Marine, as well as those of his comrades, as they island-hopped across the Pacific.
Eventually, he arrived at Okinawa, where so many years before he’d almost lost his life. Reflecting back on that time, he mused that none of the boys who joined the service knew what the post-war world would look like; they fought to preserve the pre-war America, the one they knew and loved. Looking back at the many strange and unpleasant things which had occurred since the war, he said, “We didn’t know, we just didn’t know”…. Manchester and his buddies had no idea they were making the world safe for feminism, Marxist radicals and others who despised historic America.
What we have now is what you get when you let jews run your country. The answer to nearly every problem is “it’s the fucking jews”. Between them and their pets, the negros, there is nothing more destructive to a civilized society. But hey, at least we aren’t speaking German!
Fridge croaked and I lost ice-cream, several half-gallon individual servings : probably the keezer-xionists.
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Dog horked on the couch : goyslop from the keezer-xionists.
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Flat tire : definitely the keezer-xionists.
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I don’t recognize that old wrinkled face in the mirror : dang keezer-xionists!
I bet your fridge croaked because some jew that worked for the corporation that made the fridge wanted to save a few shekels in order to give those shekels to his fellow shareholders, and made the fridge with cheap materials causing it to die early.
I bet the flat tire blew out for the same reason.
This is what we call a straw man argument.
Arthur, here is the most incredible fact of my own life, looking back on it. You and I are, I think, fairly close to the same age. You might relate.
I started Kindergarten in 1975 and graduated from high school in 1988.
The United States withdrew its military from Vietnam in March of 1973. Bush invaded Iraq in February of 1991. Other than Reagan’s weekend in Grenada, there was no active military fighting overseas during that time. When I started Kindergarten, the US was not fighting in a war, and would not do so through my entire scholastic career. For most of Generation X, this was the case – peacetime was the norm. Yes, there were proxy wars, funding the Contras, etc. – but there was no wartime deployment. No soldiers coming home in flag-draped coffins. No soldiers coming home maimed, forever altered, or even having lost their minds. For nearly eighteen years.
I grew up in relative peacetime. However, if you’re Gen-Z, Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
When we look at the many, many pathologies of the Millennials and Gen-Z, I don’t think we can ignore the fact that they’ve grown up watching the best among them (normally White men) getting blown to bits in meaningless overseas wars.
You know that Japan didnt attack the US just for fun.
The US wanted the Empire of Japan to get out of China and some other countries and cut all ties with Germany.
According to a German not-mainstream media journal during the discussions the Japanese side felt like they were trying to nail liquid foam to the wall. The US used words to say what they wanted and when the Japanese said: OK, we did that, the US responded that no, these words meant something else.
And on the demand of cutting all ties with Germany the Japanese side responded with: It takes time to change the course of a ship, meaning according to the concept of honour the Japanese could not tell the Germans directly to go to hell. Honour demanded that it would take some time.
The US didnt like it and instituted harsher and harsher embargoes on Japan.
In the end Japan with only fuel for 6 months had the choice of surrendering to US demands completely and loosing face and honour or go to war.
And nobody can tell me that in the department of foreign affairs there was not one guy who understood japanese psychology and knew that this was the 100% sure way of making the Japanese attack the USA..
In this magazine there was also an article of the ABC, ABD and ABCD treaties between the various nations (USA, GB etc). And in the last treaty, the ABCD it was mentioned that if one of three conditions are met, then this is an automatic declaration of war of the USA against Japan.
I do remember one of those points and it was a japanese fleet passing the Kra peninsula.
And this happened three days before Pearl Harbour.
Your comment goes to a larger point that I’ve raised now and again: the US (by way it it’s political leadership, at any rate) doesn’t negotiate in good faith. I’m not even sure they’re capable of doing so. We have a bunch of two faced, lying pricks running things, and when they sit down to make an agreement, they are almost always playing games, leaving the other party to the negotiations at an automatic disadvantage, which is almost certain (likely by design) to force them into a hostile position, so that the US can “justify” beating their ass with military force. Just like a drunken asshole will keep taunting someone, until they successfully incite them into a violent response. It would appear this has been the case for a long time.