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Dysfunctional
Veteran-Leave Me Alone
Editor's
picks from the web 10/29/2017
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International Society
of Dysfunctional Veterans
"In 1976, when I left the Army and the 75th Infantry Rangers,
I felt like an astronaut on a weird, alien planet. Since 1976, in
fifteen years, Ive had fifteen jobs, with none of them having
a happy ending. In all that time, I thought I didnt have a
problem. I felt the rest of the world had the problem and they were
out of sync with me. My wife and kids heard me say a million times,
Ive out lived my time and Ive out lived my kind.
I did not know it, but I was in a deep depression and suffering
from something I could not put my finger on. In 1994, one of my
Ranger buddies committed suicide while he was serving with the 10th
Special Group (Airborne). If Ranger Joe could not stay alive while
serving with SF, what was I going to do? Ranger Joes death
sent me into a dark downward spiral. After putting up with many
years of my dangerous self-destructive life style, which had now
taken a turn for the worse, my wife convinced me to get some help.
I was admitted to the Trauma Recovery Program (TRP) at our VA Medical
Center where I was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Great, what the fuck is PTSD? A label to hang on my head saying
that I was fucked-up? Just what I really needed! But, it was at
TRP that I met a man who probably saved my life. My wife had done
her best to try saving me many times, but she did not have the tools
to help me. TRPs Dr. Batte helped me cut through many years
of shit and was able to hand me a thread of hope.
While I was in The Program,
one night during a violent thunderstorm, I sat smoking a cigar and
drinking a beer, reliving a past life experience. I still felt out
of sorts. I was angry, frustrated and confused. I felt dysfunctional!
On a piece of paper, I wrote in big giant bold letters, Dysfunctional
Veteran-Leave Me Alone! At first, it was meant as a warning,
but as time went by, I started to laugh at my own words. Today,
I hide in my Hobbit Hole and sell a few t-shirts, a
Kilroy challenge coin, a patch, hat and other Dysfunctional Veteran
accoutrements. I use Kilroy peeking out of a foxhole because he
looks like how I feel.
Dysfunctional Veteran
sales help to keep me busy and out of my wifes hair. Your
best bet, buy from a dysfunctional vet!
Dysfunctional Veteran-Leave
Me Alone: As John Boswell once said,
'Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall
never cease to be entertained.'
Ranger Andy
While I was in The Program, one night during a violent thunderstorm,
I sat smoking a cigar and drinking a beer, reliving a past life
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BROKEN
ARROW
(the USAF code name for a
lost nuclear weapon). The weapon used at Hiroshima was a mere fifteen
kiloton fission bomb. The Mark-15 had a yield of 1.6 to 3.9 Megatons.
It was lost in the water near the American coast and has never been
found.
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Kilroy Was Here:
The Rest of the Story
Have you heard of the forgotten saint from the Forgotten War? He
has received the Medal of Honor and is in line for sainthood.
Have you heard of the
London Guns? If Hitler had completed them, they would have lobbed
600 300 pound bombs PER HOUR into London. They never fired a shot
but grossly affected world history in ways we will never fully know.
The US mainland has NEVER
been bombed from the air . . . right? WRONG! The Japanese did in
1942! Find out the details.
Jimmy Doolittle raided
Tokyo early in the war and was saved by a young missionary after
he crashed in China. Have you ever heard of him? Yes you have! While
on the subject, how about Doolittles crew chief's sweetheart
wings?
Did your grandfather in
WWII or Korea ever mention short arm inspections but
would never tell you what they were? Now you will know more than
you really wanted to know about them and why he wouldn't tell you.
Did you know that Boardwalk
and Park Place went to war in WWII?
We all suspect that the
government has safe places in case of war. One huge one has been
exposed within driving distance of Washington, DC. Kilroy was there
and has the story of a hidden fallout shelter large enough for all
of the Senate and House can meet. They were to be evacuated there
along with their staff but not their families. Now you can know
where one is but not where the new one is nor where the one for
the President and SCOTUS is!
You have heard about Gremlins,
Foo Fighters and Lena the Hyena. Do you know The Rest of the story?
Does the name Glyndwr
Michael mean anything to you? He should! He died at 34 doing absolutely
nothing worthwhile - A wasted life! But, what is the rest of the
story? What he did in death made him a hero of WWII!
These are only a few of
the amazing stories you will find in this ebook! Just $4.49
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Donald Malarkey, a World
War II paratrooper
Donald Malarkey, a World
War II paratrooper,
has died. He was 96.
Associated
Press
SALEM, Ore. - Donald Malarkey, a World War II paratrooper who was
awarded the Bronze Star after parachuting behind enemy lines at
Normandy to destroy German artillery on D-Day, has died. He was
96.
Malarkey was one of several members of "Easy Company"
to be widely portrayed in the HBO miniseries, "Band of Brothers."
He died Saturday in Salem, Oregon, of age-related causes, his son-in-law
John Hill said Sunday.
Malarkey fought fight across France, the Netherlands and Belgium
and with Easy Company fought off Nazi advances while surrounded
at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944.
He was often praised for his actions during the war, and was presented
with the Legion of Honor Medal - the highest honor awarded by the
French government - in 2009.
Malarkey was haunted by memories of combat and the devastation of
losing fellow soldiers and friends, his family members said. Still,
the release of the "Band of Brothers" miniseries was cathartic
for him and helped him come to terms with the emotional scars of
the battle, Hill said.
He remained close to the other surviving members of Easy Company
and attended his final Easy Company reunion in Portland, Oregon,
in August.
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Editor's
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Confederate president
Jefferson Davis statue
WHAT's RIGHT ABOUT
AMERICA!
The Good people in Pensacola
just don't know how to throw a proper violent protest!
Pensacola, FL is the home
of a 50' monument erected in 1891. It was named after Confederate
president Jefferson Davis.
Early on Saturday, August 26st,2017 About
300 protestors and counter-protestors turned out to Pensacola's
Lee Square. The rally was organized to support of the city's most
prominent Confederate memorial. Rally organizer Thomas Olsen of
Milton said he organized the rally "as a means of protecting
the history behind the monument." The counter demonstrators
were there to promote removing the statue. Soon both sides started
yelling at each other.
The demonstration began around 9 a.m. Dozens
of police officers were present to monitor the event, with additional
units standing by. No violence broke out during the two-and-a-half-hour
rally. Mr. Olsen made a short speech; then his group sang the National
Anthem.
After the National Anthem, The counter demonstration
started chanting "Show me what democracy looks like! This is
what democracy looks like!". To the thrill of bystanders, the
demonstrators started chanting with them! Both sides began chanting
the same thing.
The following is from a radio interview conducted by Andrew McKay,
a popular local News Radio 1620 personality. With him is Mike Wood
Pensacola Police PIO.
"You know, they are exactly right,
this IS what democracy, looks like," said McKay. Wood responded
you're exactly right! You know, we saw people with faces just inches
apart screaming at each other but ending up shaking hands and some
of them were hugging and saying "We are Americans first!"
I saw that several times. We didn't want this to explode. We didn't
want national coverage. But I sorta wish the National media was
there to show America what could be done.
The story is; Pensacola did it with class.
Pensacola did it peacefully. Said McKay. "These people got
their voices heard, got their point across and at the end of the
day, they didn't become violent."
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all use some good news!
More details:
To see the post on News Radio 1620's FaceBook Page, go to
https://www.facebook.com/NewsRadio1620/posts/1788233471205692
To see WEARTV's video on the demonstration,
go to
https://www.facebook.com/NewsRadio1620/videos/1786314931397546/
For a Podcast of the interview mentioned above, Go to
http://podcast.newsradio1620.com/index.php/post/4634/Mike_Wood_-_Public_Information_Officer_PPD
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HURRICANE CONTROL! What
happened?
What happened to the sometimes successful
efforts to control hurricanes?
As early as right after the end of WWII
until the 1980s, there were efforts to control or reduce the strength
of hurricanes. These efforts were mostly by the USA although conspiracy
theories of China's inventing methods of controlling the weather
abound.
Then they used dry ice, Silver Oxide,
and other methods to cool them off. Wouldn't you think that some
improvement would have been made in the last 70 years? Have you
heard of ANY! Even a small reduction like was accomplished in StormFury*
would help. What happened to the American "can-do" attitude?
My own vague memory recalls Castro blaming
the CIA of seeding a hurricane causing it to hit Cuba. Castro, as
well as worldwide anti-Americans and US Left, accused the CIA of
seeding a hurricane to ruin Cuba's sugar crop. Is this the reason?
Is the litigious world and PC the reason?
Operation StormFury* was discontinued for, among other things, "Governments
had to be willing to accept the risk of a public outcry if a seeded
hurricane (or Typhoon) devastated a coastal region. This outcry
and its legal consequences might arise even if the human intervention
had no effect on the hurricane."**
*Project Stormfury was an attempt to
weaken tropical cyclones by flying aircraft into them and seeding
with silver iodide. The project was run by the United States Government
from 1962 to 1983.
**Project STORMFURY: A Scientific Chronical
1962-1983
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0477(1985)066%3C0505%3APSASC%3E2.0.CO%3B2
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Shanghai South Station
Japanese-Bombing
( Wikimedia Commons)
War Crimes of Imperial
Japan: A Lesson In Moral Equivalence for Mr. Obama
(Breitbart)
- President Obama made a single, vague reference to "evil"
during his prepared remarks in Hiroshima: "We may not be able
to eliminate man's capacity to do evil, so nations and the alliances
that we form must possess the means to defend ourselves. But among
those nations like my own that hold nuclear stockpiles, we must
have the courage to escape the logic of fear and pursue a world
without them."
He spoke at length about the horrors experienced by the populace
of Hiroshima:
We stand here in the middle of this city and force ourselves to
imagine the moment the bomb fell. We force ourselves to feel the
dread of children confused by what they see. We listen to a silent
cry. We remember all the innocents killed across the arc of that
terrible war and the wars that came before and the wars that would
follow.
Mere words cannot give voice to such suffering. But we have a shared
responsibility to look directly into the eye of history and ask
what we must do differently to curb such suffering again.
"Let all the souls here rest in peace, for we shall not repeat
the evil," he said, when reading the inscription on a monument
at the Peace Memorial Park.
He somehow forgot to mention the evils perpetrated by Imperial Japan
or the unspeakable suffering it inflicted upon POWs and civilians
who fell into its clutches.
Let's correct that oversight, to help the President understand why
moral equivalence is the dim refuge of lazy minds, and equating
American troops with the Axis forces they defeated is an outrage.
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