And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, September 8, 2019
Begin your Sunday with a great read of military heroism: Sacrifice at Saint-Nazaire
Heroes all. I was particularly moved by the two captured commandos that were being interrogated on the ship, who knew it was set to explode, yet said nothing.
I recall reading of the this raid for civics class while in junior high school along with the raid on Dieppe. The Dieppe raid had many different raids combined into one overall plan. we students chose to concentrate on the raid of a Wurzburg radar station near Dieppe in an effort to gather intel on the radar technology the herms used. This part of the raid involved the Canadian forces and volunteer radar and research technicians who were told that they would not be allowed to be captured alive. And yet, they went anyway. That was the point of the lesson; that they went anyway. Civics classes in schools today...one wonders if they teach that the president who said "ask not what your country can do for you..." was a Democrat. I can see him at the pearly gates when todays democrats show up. he will probably say "come in here? Your kidding, right?"
Why aren't kids taught this in school these days? No wonder they have no idea how exceptional our country is. To have Democrats actually say that they have never known a time when ourcountry was "great" just infuriates me. I realized how great our country was every time I was sent to a different country in my 21 years in the Marine Corps. I have never seen an old woman, sitting in the gutter, begging for money in the United States (Thailand). Or a dead body just lying beside the road (Bangladesh). This country has done so much for so many. Simply amazing how short sighted our elected officials are.
Heroes all. I was particularly moved by the two captured commandos that were being interrogated on the ship, who knew it was set to explode, yet said nothing.
ReplyDeleteI recall reading of the this raid for civics class while in junior high school along with the raid on Dieppe. The Dieppe raid had many different raids combined into one overall plan. we students chose to concentrate on the raid of a Wurzburg radar station near Dieppe in an effort to gather intel on the radar technology the herms used. This part of the raid involved the Canadian forces and volunteer radar and research technicians who were told that they would not be allowed to be captured alive. And yet, they went anyway. That was the point of the lesson; that they went anyway.
ReplyDeleteCivics classes in schools today...one wonders if they teach that the president who said "ask not what your country can do for you..." was a Democrat. I can see him at the pearly gates when todays democrats show up. he will probably say "come in here? Your kidding, right?"
Why aren't kids taught this in school these days? No wonder they have no idea how exceptional our country is. To have Democrats actually say that they have never known a time when ourcountry was "great" just infuriates me. I realized how great our country was every time I was sent to a different country in my 21 years in the Marine Corps. I have never seen an old woman, sitting in the gutter, begging for money in the United States (Thailand). Or a dead body just lying beside the road (Bangladesh).
ReplyDeleteThis country has done so much for so many. Simply amazing how short sighted our elected officials are.