The
off-handed way Trump talks about military deaths enrages me. Trump cares more about oil futures than the
death of military members.
This is the
same guy who, in his first term, hid in the safe room of the white house when
demonstrators were outside; the same guy who freaked out when all the lights in
Air Force One were shut down on the approach into Iraq when he visited the
troops; the draft dodger who avoided Vietnam service claiming bone spurs.
This fucking
bellicose coward doesn’t know or give a fuck about the military “suckers and
losers”.
I’m a
Vietnam vet. Fifty-eight thousand men
lost their lives in Vietnam for absolutely nothing.
But war is
not only about death.
I was in the
Portsmouth Naval Hospital when a 19-year-old Marine was brought in. He had taken three rounds across his stomach,
and a large portion of his intestines had been removed. He was told he would have to wear a
colostomy bag for the rest of his life.
He was engaged to a young girl, and they were supposed to be married
after his deployment. I would hear him
crying at night, because what young girl would want to spend her life with a
man with a shit bag hanging from his stomach.
He kept saying he wished he had died.
I rode with
a group in Florida. One of my buddies in
his early twenties, had been in the infantry.
We called him Choo Choo. His patrol had been ambushed and all killed
except him. He was seriously wounded. He survived by playing dead while the VC
looted his body. An army unit came in
and rescued him and collected the dead.
He was placed on the fender of a tank.
At some point on the trip out, he fell off the fender and was left in a
ditch. A patrol came back and found him
and transported him to the field hospital.
Choo Choo
would have seizures, usually after drinking.
During those seizures his
breathing would get short, and he would make that noise: chu chu chu… with each
breath. I told him he sounded like an
old steam train. He said that sometimes
he heard himself, and it scared him, because he always thought of the thump of helicopter
blades.
This is the
cannon-fodder, these are the expendables, these are the “suckers and losers” of
war that Donald Trump doesn’t give a fuck about. These are the “more troops will likely die”
that Trump speaks about with less passion than he does about his new ballroom.
War, what is it good for?
Absolutely nothing!
the Ol'Buzzard
Barron needs to enlist.
ReplyDeleteYou're right that Trump and his cronies don't give a shit about who will die or be wounded.
ReplyDeleteThe Man is a Vietnam Vet and fought in every conflict after that, is 100% Disabled from his 39 Years of Service, this Moron Coward in the White House enrages him and I too and for the same reasons. My Dad was also a Vietnam Veteran, Serving 27 Years, and so were some of my Paternal Native American Cousins and Uncles, who were recruited as Trackers from the Reservations during Wartime. On my Mom's side of the Family her Brother was in the Welsh Guards... we have many Generations of Veterans and you're right, this Administration cares not about any of us, Active Duty or Retired. He disrespected even Gold Star Families and all People of Color and Women who have Served are being particularly maligned by this Administration as DEI. Therefore, I think he should only send MAGA White Male Christian Nationalists to fight his Wars, including all his own Sons... and see how that works out for him. Sorry to rant on, but that pathetic Creature and his Sycophants sickens me more than any Humans on the Planet right now. Talking about how Iranian Religious Fanatic Dictators are mistreating their own people when he's doing the exact same thing to our own people in our Cities that didn't Vote for him. And I won't even get started on his participation in a Pedo Ring and the current Coverup to protect himself and his Child Rapist Friends.
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