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WAS IT WORTH IT ?

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 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...
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THE DEATH ANGEL GATHERS IT'S LAST HARVEST

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  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...
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A LOST BOY FROM SUDAN

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   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...
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LIGGETTS DRUGSTORE

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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.
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JUST RIGHT

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 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...
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WHAT WILL BE THE HISTORICAL LEGACY OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP ?

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   What will be the historical legacy of Donald Trump.? Will he be the president who saved America or will he be the president that just bought us a little more time? We measure the greatness of Lincoln based on the fact that he saved the Union. Like Trump he was hated but today most Americans consider him to be one of our greatest presidents if not the greatest. Many call him the "Great Emancipator" but freeing the slaves was secondary to saving the Union. The slaves would not have seen their freedom if the Union had not first been saved. Lincoln took bold action during the war in order to save the Union. Such as suspending habeas corpus and imprisoning people that he considered dangerous to the survival of the Union. These actions are still controversial today but we generally give Lincoln a pass because of the historical outcome of his leadership. America was saved and slavery was abolished.   President Trump faces a far more dangerous Democrat party today than Lincoln...
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CHOOSING THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER

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 Sergeant Edward F. Younger was one of six military pallbearers chosen to select the first unknown soldier to be honored at Arlington National Cemetery. Originally the Army wanted a commissioned officer to make the selection until Major General Harry L. Rogers, the Army quartermaster general intervened. He wanted an enlisted soldier to have the honor. Sergeant Younger was chosen because of his heroic record in WW1. He was severely wounded twice and had been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Like so many combat veterans he was very humble and always denied that this was the reason that he was chosen. He felt that he was just an average soldier, just like the unknown soldier doing his duty.  Younger walked into the city hall at Châlons-sur-Marne, France, and gazed upon the four identical caskets that lay before him. He felt “overwhelmed” as he selected the Unknown: “I took the flowers and advanced to the little temporary shrine through a line of French troops. I entered t...
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