Mac Owens from 2001:
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The Last Pearl
"On this day, we resolve forever to keep the memory of the heroes of Pearl Harbor alive as a testament to the tremendous sacrifices they made in defense of freedom and all that we hold dear."--The Rightful Commander-in-Chief of the United States of America Donald J. Trump, Dec. 7, 2019
Pearl Harbor survivor Sterling Robert Cale dies at 102 | American Military News
Sterling Robert Cale, a Pearl Harbor survivor who served the United States throughout World War II, and also in Korea and Vietnam, and then met thousands of visitors as a volunteer at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, died Jan. 20 at his home in Aiea. He was 102.
Cale’s son, Sterling Ventula Cale, remembered him as “a humble leader.”
“He is the reason I am the man I am. Growing up with my father gave me that foundation. He taught me all the things that later on I would use in my military career for 23 years, and beyond.”
“My mother used to get so mad at him because he’d give me a loaded .45 (pistol) to hold, or he’d show me how protective masking worked, but when I became an NBC NCO (Nuclear Biological Chemical warfare Non-Commissioned Office) I was one of only two guys in the entire platoon who know how to react going through a (simulated) chemical battlefield. Those are the things that I remember him for, and they did well for me, and then for me and my troops later in life.”
Sterling Robert Cale was born and raised on a farm in Illinois. He enlisted in the Navy after high school and scored so high while training as a pharmacist mate that he was given his choice of duty station.
Cale chose Hawaii.
On the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Cale had just gone off duty after an overnight shift as a hospital corpsman at the Pearl Harbor dispensary when he heard gunfire and saw puffs of smoke. At first he thought it was surprise training exercise, then he realized that the aircraft overhead were Japanese and the attack was for real. On his own initiative, Cale broke into an arms locker to get rifles for himself and several other sailors, an unauthorized act for which he was initially told he’d be court-martialed but was later commended for.
Cale also distinguished himself by commandeering a small boat and leading two other sailors in pulling survivors — and the dead and dying — from among the patches of burning oil in the harbor. Cale’s training as a diver then got him assigned to the team that spent several days removing human remains from the sunken wreck of the USS Arizona.
Pearl Harbor was only the start of Cale’s wartime service." .......
Requiescat in pace
More: Lou Conter, Last Survivor of the USS Arizona, Passes at Age 102 (legalinsurrection.com):
"Conter recalled how one bomb penetrated steel decks 13 minutes into the battle and set off more than 1 million pounds of gunpowder stored below.
The explosion lifted the battleship 30 to 40 feet out of the water, he said during a 2008 oral history interview stored at the Library of Congress. Everything was on fire from the mainmast forward, he said.
“Guys were running out of the fire and trying to jump over the sides,” Conter said. “Oil all over the sea was burning.”
His autobiography “The Lou Conter Story” recounts how he joined other survivors in tending to the injured, many of them blinded and badly burned. The sailors only abandoned ship when their senior surviving officer was sure they had rescued all those still alive." .......
"What we never considered was a long, slow war, a conflict that burned and sputtered, skittered from one spot on the map to the other. The old wars were simple: the other side had accents, uniforms, nations, cruel habits and urbane sneers. The old wars took years. The old wars were in black and white. The old wars were monophonic, scored by Max Steiner, released by Warner Brothers, and the only proof they really happened at all was the small battered box in the back of Dad’s sock drawer, the box that held some oddly colored metal bars."--James Lileks
"Most writers have looked to the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; to find answers for the use of those atomic weapons. The real answers lay in thousands of graves from Pearl Harbor around the world to Normandy and back again. The actual use of the weapons as ordered by the President of the United States was believed to be the quickest and least costly (in terms of lives lost) way to stop the killing. I carried out those orders with the loyal support of the men of the 509th Composite Bomb Group and the United States military at large. Our job was to serve. Our sworn duty was to God, country and victory."--Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets, pilot and commander of the Enola Gay mission
8 Tales of Pearl Harbor Heroics | HISTORY:
3. George Welch and Kenneth Taylor
TAYLOR (LEFT) AND WELCH.
Army Air Corps pilots George Welch and Kenneth Taylor spent the evening before the Pearl Harbor attack attending a formal dance and playing poker until the wee hours of the morning. They were still sleeping off their night of partying when they were awakened around 8 a.m. by the sound of exploding bombs and machine gun fire.
Not wanting to miss out on a fight, the pair threw on their tuxedo pants and sped to Haleiwa airfield in Taylor’s Buick, dodging strafing Japanese planes along the way. Just minutes later, they became the first American pilots to get airborne after they took off in their P-40 fighters.
Welch and Taylor went on to wage a lonely battle against hundreds of enemy planes. They even landed at Wheeler airfield at one point and had their ammunition replenished before rejoining the fray. By the time the attack ended, the second lieutenants had shot down at least six fighters and bombers between them. Both were awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for their high-flying exploits, and Taylor was given a Purple Heart for a shrapnel wound he received when his P-40 was struck by machine gun fire.
4. Doris Miller
Doris Miller’s skin color usually relegated him to the role of cook and laundry attendant aboard USS West Virginia, but when the ship was struck by multiple bombs and torpedoes on December 7, he became one of its most vital crewmembers. Miller had rushed to his battle station amidships as soon as the shooting started. Finding it destroyed, the amateur boxer sprinted to the quarterdeck and used his hulking frame to help move the injured. Miller was among the men who carried the ship’s mortally wounded skipper to safety, and he then helped pass ammunition to the crews of two .50 caliber machine guns.
Despite having no weapons training, he eventually manned one of the weapons himself and began blasting away at the Japanese fighters swarming around the ship. “It wasn’t hard,” he later remembered. “I just pulled the trigger and she worked fine…I think I got one of those Jap planes. They were diving pretty close to us.”
Miller continued to operate the gun for some 15 minutes until ordered to abandon ship. His actions earned him the Navy Cross—the first ever presented to an African American—and he was widely hailed as a war hero in the black press. He later toured the country promoting war bonds before being reassigned to the escort carrier Liscome Bay. Sadly, Miller was among the 646 crewmen killed when the ship was later torpedoed and sunk in 1943.” …….
I miss those guys. They were a special breed and we were blessed to have them.
Today, all our Pearl Harbors are Sneak Attacks on the American People by our own wicked Government of Occupation.
They were the Pearls before swine.
Proverbs 24:19-20
Do not fret because of evil men,
nor be envious of the wicked;
for there will be no reward to the evil man;
the candle of the wicked will be put out.
Yes, Lord, Amen and Amen.
Congress Just Funded the Moscow Terror Attack and Now They Want To Do it Again--and BTW, BRICS IS the Plan, Not an Unfortunate By-Product
For "Democracy".
Sure, pal.
Who do you people think you are and what do you think you're doing?
This War does not defend Democracy in Ukraine--it prevents it.
Democrats hate Democracy and Republicans hate the Public.
But they sure love representing their Multi-National Fascist Oligarchs.
We overthrew Ukrainian Democracy in 2014 with the Color Revolution Maidan Coup. WE installed Zelensky and the Azov Nazis into power and paid Cut-Rate Churchill to slaughter his own people as cannon fodder.
We are Depopulating Ukraine in a continuance of the VAXX/Virus Depopulation Attack, for the benefit of BlackRock and other Vulture "Capitalists" and Fascist Corporations.
Russia invaded Russia because we repudiated every other commitment we’d dishonestly made and left them no other choice–and by design.
Our New Evil Empire War-Pig Class manipulated this war into existence. They love it. They crave it. They come to kill, steal and destroy like the Father of Lies.
Rest in the Vine: Ukrainian Rhapsody: To the D.C. War-Mongers, America is the Foreign Country:
Major General Smedley Butler, USMC, 1933: Smedley Butler on Interventionism (fas.org):
"War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism." .......
It hasn't changed in a century--except for the technology of Oppression.
Zelensky has cancelled elections, shuttered churches, seized tv and radio stations, arrested opponents, outlawed opposition and just carried out a terror attack in Moscow which we paid for. That's the so-called "Democracy" Congress is funding.
BTW, Zelensky sent a cadre of Nazis to the Capitol on Jan. 6th, to smash windows and blame us because what's a Reichstag Riot without some authentic Kristallnacht Nazis? Seig Heil, baby!
In fairness, however, the Swamp is stealing most of the money back in kickbacks.
Rest in the Vine: Putin Has a Firm Grasp on 12 Hundred Years of Russian History. Biden Has a Firm Grasp on a 12 Year-Old Child
The Last Refuge has done some brilliant analysis of the Russian Sanctions Regime, realizing that they were designed not to keep Russia OUT, but to trap America IN, into a Digital Currency Dictatorship.
The EU's Eva Braun, for example, just announced that Digital Currency should exist alongside Cash:
"IF YOU LIKE YOUR CASH, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR CASH!" Sound familiar?
BRICS has been portrayed as an unfortunate side-effect of this valiant War for Democracy That Sure Looks an Awful Lot Like a Puppet Dictatorship Complete With Nazis and Terrorism.
But I view BRICS as just more of the same effort to trap America into a Beast Regime Digital Dictatorship.
Yes, BRICS helps Russia. But it helps China even more. It empowers non-aligned countries and many enemies of the US.
But it hurts American strength and standing, and that is the life-long goal of Barack Hussein Obama, the fake #ActingPresident of America.
His Bankster Owners know it is in the interest of their Looting Party to weaken and destroy the Republic because a strong America stands in the way of their One World Government.
But they will fail, fear not. Our God has their number and they are falling even now, praise God!
Habakkuk 2:6-20
6 Shall not all these take up a taunt against him, with satire and riddles, and say,
“Woe to him who increases what is not his—how long?
And to him who loads himself with heavy debts!”
7 Shall not your debtors rise up suddenly,
and those awake who oppress you?
Then you will be their plunder.
8 Because you have plundered many nations,
all the remnant of the people will plunder you,
because of the bloodshed of men and violence of the land,
of the cities and all who live in them.
9 “Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house,
to set his nest on high,
to be delivered from the power of calamity!”
10 You have given shameful counsel to your house
by cutting off many peoples,
and forfeiting your life.
11 For the stone will cry out from the wall,
and the beam of the woodwork will answer it.
12 “Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed
and establishes a city on iniquity!”
13 Is it not from the Lord of Hosts
that the people labor to feed fire,
and the nations weary themselves for nothing?
14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord,
as the waters cover the seas.
Praise God our Deliverer, who is a Man of War, Mighty to Save! We call down the wicked schemes of the enemy and decree Victory unto Your Children. We stand on Your Holy Word, Lord. Thank You, Father God, thank You, King Jesus, thank You Holy Spirit, Yes and Amen!
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The Creased-Pants Crowd of the day marveled at Reagan: “He knows so little and accomplishes so much!”
And now we have in the current “professorial” #ActingPresident Obama, a “Reagan-in-Reverse”:
He knows so much and accomplishes so little. Except for the enemy.
Reagan’s Way:
“When a conservative quotes Jefferson that government that is closest to the people is best,
it is because he knows that Jefferson risked his life, his fortune and his sacred honor to make certain that what he and his fellow patriots learned from experience was not crushed by an ideology of empire.”
“Elected officials, their appointees, and government workers are expected to perform their public acts with honesty, openness, diligence, and special integrity.”
“Only now and then do we in the West hear a voice from out of that darkness. Then there is silence — the silence of human slavery.”
“Our party must be the party of the individual. It must not sell out the individual to cater to the group.
No greater challenge faces our society today than ensuring that each one of us can maintain his dignity and his identity in an increasingly complex, centralized society.”
“You can’t be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.”
“My idea of American policy toward [tyranny] is simple, and some would say simplistic. It is this: We win and they lose. What do you think of that?”