Why not a shutdown

We're being threatened with a "Government Shutdown." Hmmm...imagine if that were really to happen and the American citizenry could pick and choose how it could be reassembled. What would you want to leave out of the new one? Maybe the following will give you some thoughts . . .

•  “We only have one goal, and that is to have all of Detroit working together for one Detroit, with the Obama administration as a key partner.”  That's from Director of the National Economic Council, Gene Sperling. He and Detroit's key partner, Barack Obama, gave $320 Million of our money to the city of Detroit Friday.

•  The Army sent checks totaling $16 Million to AWOLs and deserters over the past two years. Said it was a "glitch" and they're working to correct it. Who could be so dumb as to allow a 16 million dollar glitch?

•   In 2010, the Internal Revenue Service spent $4.1 million on a lavish party for 2,609 of its employees in California. Expenses included $50,000 for line dancing and "Star Trek" parody videos, and $64,000 in conference perks like rubber duckies for employees ... plus free meals, cocktails and hotel-suite upgrades.

•  In 2012, the Department of Agriculture spent $300,000 on activities pro­moting caviar produced in the land-locked state of Idaho.

•  The Federal Communications Commission spent $2.2 BILLION in 2012 to provide cell phones to low-income Americans, up from $819 million in 2008. This despite a review that found that 41 percent of the over 6 million recipients were either ineligible or failed to prove their eligibility for the program!

 

•  The Department of Energy's Savannah River facility spent $7.7 million on severance pack­ages for 526 temporarily hired contract workers instead of issuing layoff notices. That's over $14,600 per "temporary" employee. Pretty nice "gratuity."

•  Taxpayers spent $700 million in stimulus funds on the Department of Energy's Smart Grid Demonstration Program. An audit found that $12.3 million in reimbursements lacked required supporting documentation.

 

•  The U.S. Secret Service spent $23 million to purchase a new fleet of luxury parade limousines. They didn't bother asking for competitive bids ... paid full price to the dealers.

•  The White House is currently spending $376 mil­lion on a four-year renovation of the Executive Mansion, which includes a second Oval Office for the president to use during the dusty renovation.

•  The General Services Administration's inadequate oversight of 33 courthouse-construction proj­ects from 2000 to 2010 cost taxpayers $835 million in extra building expenses.

 

•  The National Endowment for the Arts gave a $100,000 grant to fund development of a video game about a female superhero sent to save planet Earth from climate changes (darn, I missed it!)

•  The Transportation Security Administration has let 5,700 pieces of unused security equipment worth $184 million sit idle in a Dallas warehouse, costing taxpayers $3.5 million annually to lease and manage.

 

•  This year the U.S. government will pay $65 per year EACH  in service fees to keep 13,712 of its empty bank accounts on the books, costing taxpayers $891,280 (gee, that's almost as much as the Postmaster General earns in a year...).

 

•  Medicare was found to have OVERPAID hospitals and clin­ics for one kidney dialysis drug to the tune of $800 million per year, a continuing error that they won't get around to correcting until new rates are established in 2014.

 

•  In 2012 the Treasury's Inspector Gen­eral for Tax Administration admitted to $757 mil­lion in fraudulent income-tax refunds to prisoners in 2010.

 

•  Due to poor oversight, over 1,000 Pennsylvania prisoners were able to collect weekly unem­ployment benefits over a four-month period, costing taxpayers $7 million.

 

•  A fis­cal 2011 Performance and Accountability Report from the Social Security Administration (SSA) found it overpaid $2.11 BILLION in Social Security benefits.

 

•  The same report found that the SSA OVERPAID old-age, survivor and disability insurance benefits by $934 million in fiscal 2010 alone.

 

•  Also in 2010, 117,000 individuals received $850 million in cash benefits by double-dipping into Social Security's disability insurance pro­gram AND the federal unemployment insurance program.

 

•  The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded a $149,992 grant to researchers at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey to study college students' on-campus dining selections.

 

•  The Office of Naval Research conducted a $450,000 study to determine whether babies would pay attention to unin­telligent robots.

 

•  In a study costing $681,387, the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research confirmed that men bearing firearms appear taller, stronger and manlier than those who don't carry firearms (wonder where I could rent a bazooka?).

 

•  The same U.S. Air Force office also conducted a $300,000 study that concluded that the first bird on Earth probably had black feathers.

 

Now come on, fess up. Couldn't we get by without all of these government guys for a few days? So far they've managed to run up an unpaid bill of $16.8 TRILLION (and look at the great job they've done!). Of course, it won't happen ... at least for long. Where else could a bunch of dimwits have so much fun mismanaging OUR money?

 

Please read this article

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It's time to stand up for America

How long are we going to put up with Radical Muslims recruiting and training terrorists right here in our country.   We have enclaves of disenfranchised groups that are prime targets for these ghouls to go after.  The question is why.  Many of these ghettos are self imposed because the people who live there are unwilling to participate in the American way.  They have not taken advantage of the liberal educational programs that have been offered, they have not tried to assimilate into American society or even learn our language yet they have their hands in our welfare system and other so called entitlements.  Mosques have been the primary place where recruitment has taken place yet we still allow them to continue to preach their hateful rhetoric. 

Solution; if the so called moderate Muslims will not do anything to rid their Mosques of this cancer we as Americans must.  The concept that is being taught by these radicals is not a religion, it is a lifestyle and a criminal one according to our laws.  It’s time to quit sheltering it under the laws of the 1^st Amendment and call it what it really is.  Our laws prohibit multiple wives, they prohibit Sharia Law or the killing of women in the name of family honor, yet in these conclaves it is being practiced daily.  The local police in areas of Michigan, Minnesota, Kansas and   Massachusetts just to name a few have given up even patrolling these areas.   You may remember the little girl who fled her home and had to go through a big court hearing to get away from a forced marriage arranged by her father.  I believe she was like 12 years old.  Or about the two daughters in their late teens who were killed by their father for dishonoring the family by going on a movie date with non Muslims.  The recorded pleas from these girls fell on the deaf ears of their enraged father yet brought those who heard them to tears.  The freedoms that are inherent to our American way of life have escaped these people, yet they live here in the United States.  This is not a religion it is a forced way of life dictated by radicals who hide under our 1^st Amendment for protection.  It’s a huge problem and it’s growing at a rate faster than our own population.  Soon they will be sending their own to Washington to regulate and initiate our laws. 

America was built by the assimilation of many cultures who came together to form the greatest free society in world history.  Emigrants from all across the world fought to preserve the freedoms promised in our Constitution and Bill of Rights in World War II.  The immigrant today many times is not here to become part of the world’s greatest free country but to use it for nothing but personal gain or in many cases to spread hate and discontent among the susceptible in these communities. 

What have we become?

I’ve worked hard all my life to bring comfort to my family.  I’m not rich by any means yet I do not resent those who are.  Everyone has a different level of ambition, some are obsessed with material things that show their wealth to the point that they tend to be obnoxious.  Some have no tendencies for ambition and go through life on the back of others.  In either case they do not represent what the average American family is all about.  We are not looking for a free ride nor will we stand by and be taken advantage of.  We talk about the greatest generation being that of the decades from the 20’s through the 40’s.  They lived through the Great Depression plus while they were still recovering from it they helped save Europe from the horrific mad man Hitler.  I remind you of this because as we sit now we are becoming Europe and we are ripe for history to repeat itself.  We are becoming a 2^nd rate power with little or no clout in the world.  We are in the process of reducing our military to a level below that of tactical requirements.  We are surely going to wake up one day and be in the middle of a fight for our survival in the world.  We will need to call upon the inherited strength of those who have gone before us.  One huge problem though is that too few are left who have the ability to call up that personal strength as so many have become weak and dependent on others for their subsistence. 

America by nature is a capitalist country that was built on investment and the risk of those who aspired to wealth by building powerful corporations.  The Carnegies, the Rockefellers, Henry Ford or Thomas Edison were all extremely ambitious and built a huge amount of wealth.  In doing so they built the foundation of our industry and with it the strength of the United States.  Yes they were cruel task masters taking advantage of a population starving for work, in many cases working men to death in unfit conditions for little wages and even less humane treatment.  The saying that power corrupts comes from these examples, Rockefeller hated Carnegie and Carnegie hated Rockefeller over power and money and they set out to destroy each other squandering millions in the effort.  America found a solution for tempering these icons of industry by forming together in unions giving a voice to the common man once again.  These unions were not designed to control their workers but to bring safer working conditions and livable wages to their members.  For a few decades America flourished the 50’s and the 60’s brought a pride in workmanship that was felt throughout the western world.  When something had a Made in America label you knew it was a good product. 

Remembering what I said about power corrupting we fast forward to the unions of today where so much power is wielded by so few that even elections are won or lost by their support.  Where deals are made that the common worker has no say, where the dues money collected is used to further the power of the union and their political cohorts rather than the premise of creating better conditions for the workers.  To maintain their power these leaders have bullied companies into benefits that they cannot afford to maintain.  Retirement packages that were never the original intent of the founders, contracts where the employer has no power to replace lazy or problem workers.  The Progressive Movement in the United States found its start in these organizations and have brought the concept to our elected officials throughout government unionizing city, state and federal workers.  State and federal pensions have become so encumbering that whole cities have filed bankruptcy destroying the fiber that was America. 

Now we have a situation where our political parties have neutered the whole process of government with stalemate and political pandering.  The progressives have the power of the press gained through years of infiltration of our educational system.  It is now to the point that the information coming to the people is so tainted that it will take a giant wake up to shake the slumber from our huge silent majority.  It will most probably take another stab at once again being the Greatest Generation ever and I’m sure those who have gone before us would rise up and cheer at the site.  Please wake up America, soon we’ll be lucky to be able to find our way home.      

The Navy Yard affair

Once again we are faced with senseless violence that should have been avoided.  Whoever was responsible for the vetting for security of this person should be held responsible for his actions.  These companies that take on the responsibility for security clearances must be held to higher standards.  The last affair with the NSA leaker Snowden, (The Spy who loved us so much he gave all our secrets to our enemies) should have set off red lights everywhere in government.  We have many shrill voices in the legislature screaming for gun control every time something like this happens.  Just once I’d like to hear a reassuring voice of reason calling for a commonsense approach the problems.  For example; something as important as the security of the United States should not be left in the hands of a contractor because he has presented the low bid on a government contract.  I would like to see how these bids are awarded and what criteria are used in allowing companies to be involved. 

In my mind the problem doesn’t lie with the gun but with the ability to ferret out individuals who are mentally ill.  A sane person doesn’t just walk into a building and start shooting people, something in his background will show a tendency for violence and should have been identified by the security firm charged with his clearance evaluation.  Of course if we adhered to a program of stringent evaluation most of our legislatures and White House officials would be unable to buy a gun.  In the past the FBI looked into drug use and other illegal activity like draft dodging and falsifying documents when checking security clearances.  Barry Soetoro might have had some difficulty himself being a foreign exchange student and all.

Until we bring commonsense into the equation and eliminate the fog of political correctness government will continue to produce possibilities for these type events.  As a young man in the Navy even as common yard birds we were held to a much higher standard than many today.  The definition of Treason was clearly defined in the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice) and believed by all to be real.  In that era under the same circumstances had I done what Jane Fonda did I could have been executed and had I done what Edward Snowden did I surely would have been charged with treason.  The more we weaken our penalties the weaker we become as a nation.  Right is right and only commonsense provides the answers not the political correctness that is being shoved down our throats by a progressive society that is trying to alter the direction and definition of America.   

September 11, 2001

Each of us in our own way will always remember where we were on that horrifying day in September 2001.  Each of us felt the loss and recognized that our world would never be the same.  I pray for my children and grand children that they may solve the puzzle that is the Middle East, that they will find leaders who through strength of character with a real commitment to our way of life will defend their existence as freedom loving Americans.  We as a country have for decades survived through strength, strength of commitment to our military, and with a strong commitment to patriotism taught at every level of our growth.  The pride that accompanied the singing of the National Anthem or the presentation of our flag, I still remember how proud we were when chosen to lead the pledge of allegiance as a child in school.   Now we are plagued with what many call political correctness a scourge that weakens our society.  We can no longer choose and go after our enemies but are forced to wait for them to strike even when we know who they are and what their goals are. 

Our forefathers must be so proud, they hand us a glorious country with a wonderful Bill of Rights and a Constitution that protects and serves all mankind and we have surrendered it for what, political correctness so we don't insult our known enemies.  We have taken the God that they called upon while building this nation and thrown him out as to not offend those who seek to tear us down.  We have elected to allow our representatives to become an elite group who have used their power given them by us to insure their future existence.  They are more concerned with their personal power than the welfare of those they represent.  They buy their power by offering benefits to their constituents that our system cannot afford.  They have made us weak and meek in the eyes of our foes and it's just a matter of time before we are tested once again, the only question remains is when and where will they strike.

There will never be peace as long as it is the goal of one side to devour the other.  The religious fervor that emits from the Middle East is the cancer that will destroy the world if it goes unchecked.  We must find the will to say no to the false security offered by those who use us for their own benefit and demand to return to the strength of the eagle who our forefathers so proudly chose as our symbol of freedom.  Peace through strength, peace through personal commitment means a lasting peace for our children and the world.

The I.R.S. is doing what?

Here we go again, the IRS is digging into the membership records of the American Legion and other veterans groups.  They are requiring individual posts to show their membership records and any documentation of individual members.  This information is obtained through the individual vets DD214 document that defines his service duties during his or her time in service.  If this doesn’t scare you it surely should.  By identifying individuals with certain service related talents the government has a list of who to take out first in case of revolution or any cause for Martial Law.  This comes from an administration who wants to create a special force responsible to the President alone bypassing Congress or any other safe guards in our Constitution. 

You better wake up people, you may be happy for all the government assistance you are receiving now but when it comes to someone else deciding your Healthcare, your free speech or even what you eat you may find it’s to late to change the direction.  When those working get tired of supporting those who don’t and decide to join the legion of relaxation specialists the money will soon run out.  During a period when more money is being printed than earned, inflation will bring down the last bastion of capitalism in what we know as America.  Martial law will follow and this will decide our fate.

If I just sound like a doomster to you, try to understand the following;  The government gets its money from the people, it has no other means of support.  When there are fewer people earning than there are receiving the pot runs dry.  When the pot runs dry either they print more money or raise taxes on those few who are still earning.  When they print more money inflation begins to grow, we saw how that worked that in Germany during the war when a loaf of bread cost thousands of Marks and again during the Carter administration here in America when interest rates shot to 20% for homes.  When you over tax the worker you get less and less productivity as they work longer for the government then they do for their families. 

Whether you are a Democrat, Republican or Independent this will have an effect on you and your family.  Think first as an American rather than as a party member.  Think first as an American rather than as an ethnic identity.  Think first as an American rather than as a liberal, conservative or libertarian.  We have to be of one voice if we are to turn around this move to make our Constitution irrelevant.  This can be turned around but not in our present political atmosphere.  The war between our right and left wing of the government is destroying what we have left.  The right says the middle is too much compromise and the left says the middle is unattainable.  Both have set battle lines that will have little effect on them just on us the citizens. 

When the term harmonics is used it usually means things are lined up to make one single sound that resonates throughout the system.  In the past we at times have always had some sort of harmonics in our government and things moved fairly smoothly.  There has always been and will always be differences in ideology but simple men and women are able to come together and set a single tone that has kept this country humming the same tune.  Today we have a bunch of Narcissists from all parties who are more worried about their legacy and being re elected than our American culture.  Only you and I can do this, it has to come from the people in mass.  Demand a working system from the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government or we as Americans are going to turn the whole system upside down and start over.   

The disaster of the great society

First I’d like to discuss racism,  I truly believe that every man, woman, and child regardless of color, race or creed deserve the same opportunities for a good life.  I believe that a person earns that right through his or her actions not because it is legislated.  Out of guilt this country has almost destroyed that opportunity for blacks in America.  Never in the history of America has one group of people been so abused.  For decades we have tried to make up for a concept that came here from Europe along with our new emigrants in the 1600’s.  For decades we have been mislabeled as slavers because of the actions of a few.  We have made several generations totally dependent on government by continuing policies of apology and appeasement.  Let me make what I’m saying very clear.  Yes America was a slave country but it is equally important to remember that is was basically white Americans who fought through the bloodiest war in our history to abolished slavery.  Very few Americans actually owned slaves and the majority of Americans fought to destroy the practice.  It’s time to allow this entire race of people to assimilate into American society as complete citizens.  The Great Society approach has failed as you cannot legislate ethics and work habits on one hand and offer free  cookies and milk with the other.  We have generations of the same families living in government housing, eating government supplied food while paying them to have children without any means to support them.  It amazes me that so many great ones have been able to escape the government pandering and become extremely valuable members of our society while others have failed to take advantage of the education programs and opportunities offered to get them off on the right foot. 

The good doers of the liberal establishment with their hand out approach rather than offering a hand up have smothered any opportunity for many to have the capacity to survive in the real world by making it easier to take advantage of the system than to build on their own accomplishments.  Welfare, Aid to dependent children, food stamps and government housing is meant to be used as a hand up not a hand out.  The programs have become so bloated with things like free cell phones that it will take another two generations to break the cycle of dependency once and for all.  It’s time to stop the abuse and give these people a real chance to become productive useful citizens by enforcing child protective laws and requiring parents to take responsibility for the education and the actions of their children.  Fathers and mothers whether married or not should be required by law to be equally responsible for their children.  By offering real incentives for people to get off the system through job incentive for business we can rebuild their confidence in themselves and in America .  The idea that generations of some families have made a living off these programs rather than actively looking for work is obscene to most working Americans.  Blaming the establishment is easy looking in a mirror and deciding that the problem is right there in front of them is much harder.  Listen to the language on the street and wonder why your child can’t find work in the real world.  Look at the professional athletes many who find themselves unable to cope with success and end up back in the streets where they came from.  Education must be applied not taken for granted,  a child that goes to school yet fails to learn is the fault of the parents in most cases not the teacher.  A child who learns and applies themselves by studying hard and making good decisions is going to be a success.  The self proclaimed cool ones may stay cool in their own eyes but will always be the guy or girl on the street while the educated climb the ladder of success.   

The racism I see in this country is in the divisive rhetoric used by those who benefit from turmoil, Jesse Jackson,  Al Sharpton and others who prey on the emotions of the weak and downtrodden of America.  Racism is blaming everyone but themselves for their misery.  No I don’t consider myself a racist I detest the very thought of a any child being brought up in a world without hope basically being abandoned by their parents to be raised on the streets.  America will never be solid again until we learn that racism is wrong from whatever side it comes from.  Who can honestly say they do not profile, black white red or yellow each of us have to learn to trust rather than be suspicious, but that trust has to be earned not legislated.

That’s just my opinion     

Happy 4th of July

A very happy 4th of July to all Americans, this short video explains what our freedom is really all about. http://www.youtube.com/embed/rKsW6c_CgFY?feature=player_detailpage

Just my opinion

Each of us in our own way have a conscience that ultimately controls our thoughts and deeds.  When an entity like the media in general allows politics to supersede their conscience.  Turning away from obvious errors in judgment made by the present administration because of liberal bias is unforgivable.  Our country was founded on a concept of a series of freedoms one of which is freedom of the press.  By having an independent press, one unencumbered by political pressure or bias is one of our rights.  Over the years we have allowed progressive liberal ideology to permeate our schools and universities and go unchecked for the last two decades.  We are seeing the result of that bias in our news media on a daily basis.  From the failure of the media to report substantially on the Benghazi fiasco before the election to the IRS scandal that obviously comes as a result of prompting from the highest echelon of the administration and its supporters.  When Nixonites broke into the Watergate Hotel the media was relentless to the point of impeachment.  When Bush 41 made the mistake of utters the words "no new taxes" the media was all over it costing him his reelection.  When Bush 43 made the infamous statement while landing on the aircraft carrier "the war is over" it was like kids in a candy store as they stumbled all over the news with the story after the first uprising in Iraq.  How many items have they overlooked from the lips of Obama;

Transparency for one, Gitmo, the Benghazi outright lie about the video from the Secretary of State, our U.N. Ambassador and the President himself, the bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia,  the whisper to Medvedev in Russia when he thought the mic was off,  the VP Biden whispering in his ear that this was a big f...... deal.  Need I go on?  I could spend an hour listing negatives that have gone un-reported by the major media centers.  We have as a result over a 50% under informed population, a population that votes and cancels out the vote of the truly informed.  How about the Holder mis-speak as they call it in Washington regarding the charging of a reporter and subsequent phone tapping and email scanning. How about the gun running program that no one has really answered for?  From promising the most transparent government in our history to one of the shadiest is a big leap one that is going totally un reported by the big three.

Just my opinion     

Just a few thought's

What is the result of some of the legislation put upon us in the last few years?  Starting with Obama –care where we now have over 20,000 pages of regulations to try to understand.  Where in the end we will have just as many people uninsured as before it started.  I guess it makes sense, the people who don’t work for a living will have free health care and those that do work won’t be able to afford their premiums.  For the average business it will be a real headache just trying to make sense of the new regulations.  Many will trim their workforce by reducing hours to under 32 to avoid the additional insurance costs.  This is not a greedy move by employers it’s a matter of survival for many.  For the last few years many companies have just been hanging on and adding the additional cost with the health care bill will be their demise.

Once again the Republican Party is trying to self destruct.  The fight over emigration is just one example.  Something has to be done about the situation and rather than work out a solution that is the best for the country, politics is once again rearing its ugly head.  The Dem’s aren’t any better, they feel they have the upper hand and are trying to shove their agenda down everyone’s throat.  Just like Obama-care they want to be everything to everybody and are running us into a giant crevice that is so deep we can never climb out of it.  In all actuality we have 7 active party’s here in America; The Democrats, the Republicans, the Independents, the Libertarians, the Liberals, the Communists and the Conservatives.  The Republicans have been divided by the Conservatives, the Libertarians and the Rino’s.  The Democrats have solidified with the Liberals, the Independents and in many cases the Communists leaving the old blue collar Dems without a party to associate with.     

I never thought that I would live to see the day when Welfare would be an acceptable way of life to so many Americans.  The idea behind these safety net programs was basically to give people an arm up when they were in distress; it was never intended to be a way of life.  There are generations of families who have been on assistance for years. Section 8 housing, aid to dependent children, welfare, food stamps, free medical these are just to a few of the programs available.  Not a bad living for someone who doesn’t want to work.  The problem is that we have finally reached the point where just as many people are on some type of assistance as there are people working.  In 1776 Alexander Tyler a professor at the University of Edinborough made this statement: “"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.”   Sounds like we have finally reached that point, what’s next besides bankruptcy and another great depression? 

What set me off today is the Presidents declared war on coal.  In my estimation he is just trying to divert attention from the ongoing catastrophes surrounding his administration.  Mining has been one of the backbones of our industrial might in America with coal mining near the top and rather than try to develop a cleaner method of using coal saving thousands of jobs he once again turns to politics in an attempt to rally his left wing base.  Please, no more Solyndra’s or Chinese solar plants Mr. President, spend the people’s money on developing our own natural resources and creating new jobs and saving the few we still have.  

That’s my opinion,

Did we sleep through D-Day?

June 6^th D-Day passed without much fanfare yet I can guaranty you that every person who ever served in the military has considered what those kids went through on that day.  I remember a friend of mine now long past who was there in that 1^st wave on the beaches of Normandy.  He told me that what got him through it all was that he was more afraid of his Sergeant than the Germans.  That single invasion in Normandy included over 1,000,000 Allies, 700,000 Germans, over 8,000 artillery pieces, 2,500 Allied bombers, 1,700 fighters, 820 German fighters and bombers.  In that attack 2700 Brits, 946, Canadians and 6603 Americans paid the final price for our freedom.  It is estimated that between 4000 and 9000 Germans died.  Another 12,000 American and British Airmen were killed and 200 planes were lost in preparation for this battle.  By the end of the Battle of Normandy over 425,000 total were killed or wounded.

As time passes it seems we take these statistics for granted and don’t equate them with the terrible toll it took to achieve victory.  Can you possibly imagine the unimaginable fear that drove these men as they waded through the bodies of guys they trained with in many cases good friends floating in the surf only to get to the shore and face withering fire from the cliffs above?  Can you even consider the bravery it took to climb down those cargo nets and into the landing craft knowing that it was taking you to Hell.  I’ve been told by more than one survivor of that battle that the only words heard on those craft were that of the Lords Prayer.

It’s gross I know to even think about things like this but we must remember what it cost to maintain freedom.  Once forgotten things tend to be repeated and God help us if that’s the future.  They call those men and woman who fought to preserve our lifestyle in World War II The Greatest Generation, They for the most part not only went through the Great Depression in the 20’s and 30’s but went on after the war to build the greatest, strongest nation ever conceived.  Those who died that day should remain in our memory as long as America exists, they were true heroes of the 1^st degree.  The price they paid should not be in vain but be a constant reminder of our heritage.

They are still there in Normandy on guard, prepared to remind us of the tragedy of war in 77 different cemeteries 9,386 Americans, 17,769 British, 5,002 Canadians, 650 Poles along with 77,866 Germans.  They battle no more as they rest in peace with the knowledge that because of them we are free to live or lives in a Democratic and Free Society.

That’s all I got, won’t you join me in a silent prayer