If you don’t mind I would like to tell you the thoughts of combat. The first thing you need to know is that those you are fighting want to kill you. There are no gray areas when at war, it is simply kill or be killed. Therefore, all of your attention is the mission no matter where you are or what you would like to think. It is so matter-of-fact that all your energy cannot be directed anywhere else. Thoughts of home, wishes for comfort, the philosophy of the ancients is all moot.
I would like you to also consider America with the foremost recognition that no one anywhere on Earth has always been right. America is imperfect, as are all nations. Mistakes are made no matter the plannings intricacies. I ask a lot but it is because I was there and those who have not been there, bless them, are prone to thoughts of fantasy whereas combatants are facing the starkness of human misery but making the best of each second. Men and women will sometimes fold under that pressure so be glad you have not had to bear witness in thought and deed to killing.
Now, and with the above in mind, think of Joe Biden and, more, those who enabled him. Think of what this would have meant to America had anything gone wrong during that administration. Wrong like an attack on the homeland or entering into some conflict overseas. You can shake your head and say it never happened but doing so misses the point.
The point being that we must be cognizant of who we elect not because of party but because of mental stability and what it takes to face the reality which is our world. I hear some Democrats saying it was all about winning and to a person these are all people with no grip on common sense. Dolts, in a word. Those with only a scholarly sense of our world, the reality of which is that this world is cutthroat and making intellectual sense is best left to lofty places untouched by horror.
Today is Memorial Day and our flag flies for those who did not come home. Those who lost their husbands, boyfriends, fathers and made such a sacrifice that we have no conception of how difficult all this loss of life is. For myself, each day is a day of remembrance for those friends I lost in Vietnam. If I do nothing else in the rest of my life I ask you to remember the fallen when you go about your daily business and not consider life a given. It is not a given. It is sorely bought for you.
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