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Monday, November 11, 2019

On Veterans' Day


My Late Dad and all four of his brothers served for the duration of WWII. Only Pop and my late uncle Warren survived the war years. My dad left a leg behind on Sicily after crashing a glider during a night landing. My Mom's adult brothers likewise served, with one deployed in the D-Day landing. He survived, and recounted to me the experience. Spielberg nailed it. When I first saw Saving Private Ryan, my first thought was "holy shit, this is not entertainment!"


We went to Normady and the Omaha Beach D-Day Memorial in 2004. Sobering.


Then there's this:
...Writing in his new book—titled Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us[Donald Trump Jr.] detailed a list of grievances his family has suffered since his father decided to run for public office, while saying a "victimhood complex has taken root in the American left."

In it, the 41-year-old detailed a visit to Arlington National Cemetery the day before his father's inauguration in which he likened the lost lives of the service members interred there to the financial toll allegedly suffered by his family.

"I rarely get emotional, if ever," Trump Jr. wrote, according to an excerpt of the unreleased book published by Business Insider. "I guess you'd call me hyper rational, stoic.

"Yet as we drove past the rows of white grave markers, in the gravity of the moment, I had a deep sense of the importance of the presidency and a love of our country.

"In that moment, I also thought of all the attacks we'd already suffered as a family, and about all the sacrifices we'd have to make to help my father success—voluntarily giving up a huge chunk of our business and all international deals to avoid the appearance that we were 'profiting off of the office.'"

He later added: "Frankly, it was a big sacrifice, costing us millions and millions of dollars annually. Of course, we didn't get any credit whatsoever from the mainstream media, which now does not surprise me at all."
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"Yet as we drove past the rows of white grave markers, in the gravity of the moment, I had a deep sense of the importance of the presidency and a love of our country.
"In that moment, I also thought of all the attacks we'd already suffered as a family, and about all the sacrifices we'd have to make to help my father succeed—voluntarily giving up a huge chunk of our business and all international deals to avoid the appearance that we were 'profiting off of the office.'"
He later added: "Frankly, it was a big sacrifice, costing us millions and millions of dollars annually. Of course, we didn't get any credit whatsoever from the mainstream media, which now does not surprise me at all.
Tthe definition of the word "clueless."

Donnie Jr., just have daddy tell Treasury Secretary Mnuchin cut you a check. 



Below, a short YouTube thing I did some years back.

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