Reflections of An Uncommon Common Man

 No one but the Communist left is angry over the arrest and deportations of thousands of violent illegal aliens, sexual predators and D.U.I. offenders but some among the more right leaning patriots of the country get a little jelly legged at the prospect of rounding up illegals whose only sin was crossing the border illegally. They are seen as virtuous hard working people who are simply victims of circumstances trying to escape grinding poverty and oppression for a shot at the "American Dream". Is this really an accurate depiction?  How many of these people are committing fraud by working on stolen social security numbers? How many of them are driving without a valid drivers license and insurance? How many leave the scene of an accident because they don't have these things? These things drive up our insurance costs. How many are voting illegally canceling out the vote of legal American citizens? How many are being paid in cash under the table avoiding the payment of incom...

 This 100 year old WW2 veteran was weeping because America has gone to hell. He questioned whether his sacrifice and the sacrifice of others in that war was worth it. On our Veterans Day, which is Remembrance Day in in the UK a 100 year old British WW2 veteran was nearly in tears when he also questioned his sacrifice and the sacrifice of others. One of the hosts asked him why he would say something like that. If someone has to ask that question in Britain after that country has been invaded by multitudes who hate the country and want to destroy it. Also that British people are being jailed for exercising their right to free speech that simply proves the old veterans point. I have noticed that this video has already been removed by YouTube.  I think about this a lot. If I had a time machine and could tell those soldiers preparing to storm the beaches of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, North Africa, Sicily, Anzio or Normandy how America would be just eighty years later. W...

  Kind reader, right here my pen, and courage, and ability fail me. I shrink from butchery. Would to God I could tear the page from these memoirs and from my own memory. It is the blackest page in the history of the war of the Lost Cause. It was the bloodiest battle of modern times in any war. It was the finishing stroke to the independence of the Southern Confederacy. I was there. I saw it. My flesh trembles, and creeps, and crawls when I think of it today. My heart almost ceases to beat at the horrid recollection. Would to God that I had never witnessed such a scene!  I cannot describe it. It beggars description. I will not attempt to describe it. I could not. The death-angel was there to gather its last harvest. It was the grand coronation of d*ath. Would that I could turn the page. But I feel, though I did so, that page would still be there, teeming with its scenes of horror and blood. I can only tell of what I saw. Our regiment was resting in the gap of a range of hills i...

   While working at my security job in Nashville yesterday a man walked up to me and struck up a conversation. He spoke good English but with an accent. I asked what his country of origin was and he said Sudan. He asked if I had ever heard of the " Lost Boys Of Sudan". The only lost boys that I remembered were from the vampire movie of the 1980's starring Kiefer Sutherland. I told him no and he told me that he was one of the " Lost Boys of Sudan". He then began to tell me an incredible story that could easily be turned into a movie. When he was about six years old in 1987, I say about because he doesn't know exactly when he was born, the Northern Muslim Sudanese army murdered his parents. They destroyed his village and killed thousands of Christians in South Sudan. Over two million people died in that war. They ki8lled people in some of the most hideous ways including burning people alive. This was part of the Second Sudan War which lasted from 1985 until 20...

I lost two of my favorite people in 2012. My Aunt Goldie Brown Evans who was not only my Aunt but my second mother who raised me after my parents died. She was my mother's last remaining sibling. Also my father's last remaining sibling who was my Aunt Freddie Segroves Davidson. Freddie told me sometime before she died that she met Goldie, who we called by her nickname "Didi", before my father ever met my mother. During World War II they both worked at Liggett's Drugstore which was at the corner of 6th and Church Street in Nashville. After Didi passed away last May I found these two pictures of Liggett's. Didi is in both pictures.

 Yesterday I Googled Charlie Kirk's name because I wanted to know what religious denomination, if any that he was affiliated with. I was immediately struck by Wikipedia's description of him as a right wing activist. It went on to say that " his more disputed positions included his criticism of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Martin Luther King Jr. as well as his promotion of COVID 19 misinformation, false claims of electoral fraud in 2020 and white genocide conspiracy theory." Kirk is also described as a Christian Nationalist as if that is a bad thing. I will deal with Wikipedia's truly despicable mischaracterization of Charlie Kirk later but first I want to address the term right wing. Wikipedia and the media in general nearly always describes people on the right as right wing, or far right. Out of curiosity I looked up Jane Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, George Clooney, Joy Behar, Barbara Streisand  and Michael Moore to see how Wikipedia described them. Fonda, Goldber...