THE BEST FRIEND A MAN COULD HAVE

UNITED STATES NAVY SEAL JON TUMILSON WAS LAID TO REST THIS WEEK.  BEING ONE OF THE 30 MEN WHO DIED AUGUST 6TH IN THE TRAGIC CHINOOK CRASH IN AFGHANISTAN, AS THEY WERE SHOT DOWN BY AN ENEMY RPG ROUND. DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF HIS CASKET, HIS DOG HAWKEYE, WHOM JON CALLED "HIS SON", LYE IN SILENT MOURNING FOR THE ENTIRE DURATION OF THE MEMORIAL EVENT.  JON DIED FIGHTING FOR AND PRESERVING FREEDOM FOR THE 3000  INNOCENT SOULS THAT DIED ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001.  JON DIED PROUDLY SERVING HIS COUNTRY AND WITH HIM A PART  OF HAWKEYE DIED TOO.  I HAVE HEARD OF CASES WHERE THE MASTER'S DOG NEVER LEFT THE GRAVESIDE MARKER AND DIED THERE.  

HAWKEYE WAS THE BEST FRIEND JON EVER HAD, AND JON WAS THE BEST FRIEND AMERICA EVER HAD.  IT IS MEN AND WOMEN SUCH AS THESE WE EULOGIZE. IT IS SUCH MEN AND WOMEN AS THESE THAT KEEP THE RED IN THE FLAG BLOOD RED.  MAY GOD BLESS AND BE WITH YOU FOREVER AND EVER NAVY PETTY OFFICER JON TUMILSON, AND MAY YOU REST WITH HIM IN PEACE IN HEAVEN.  IT IS WITH GREAT SADNESS THAT I REITERATE THIS TALE TO YOU, FOR YOU SEE JON NEVER GOT TO ENJOY VETERAN STATUS.  OH YES, YOU CAN WALK INTO AND JOIN A VFW, BUT ONE DOES NOT GET PROCESSED INTO THE VETERANS AFFAIRS UNTIL YOU RECEIVE THAT PIECE OF PAPER THAT RETIRES YOU OR RELEASES YOU FROM UNCLE SAM'S CHARGE.  UNTIL THEN YOU ARE STILL "IN THE MILITARY."  VETERAN'S STATUS WILL NEVER COME FOR JON.  I LIFT YOUR LAST GLASS IN TOAST TO YOU SIR.


ON THE DAY USAMA BIN LADEN WAS ANNOUNCED DEAD,  ( THAT IS ANNOUNCED NOT PRONOUNCED ) I COULD NOT REALLY UNDERSTAND ALL THE YOUNGSTERS OUT IN THE STREETS DANCING, YELLING AND CHEERING HIS DEATH.  WHY DO THEY CARE, I THOUGHT? THEN IT OCCURRED TO ME, FOR THE MOST PART THEY WERE 8 TO 15 YEARS OF AGE, AND HIGHLY AFFECTED BY THE TEARS OF THEIR PARENTS AND THE SORROW OF A NATION.  IT ONLY MADE SENSE THAT THEY WOULD CELEBRATE HIS DEATH.  IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THAT WE HAVE SO MANY OF THEM VOLUNTEERING TO SERVE IN OUR NATIONS EFFORT TO HALT THE TERRORISM THAT HAS PLAGUED US SINCE BEFORE THE DEATH OF ISRAELI ATHLETES AT THE OLYMPICS IN 1972.  GOD BLESS THEM AND GOD BLESS THOSE WHO WENT BEFORE JON AND THOSE WHO WILL GO AFTER HIM.  WE WILL NEED THEM ALL AND MORE IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE. 


WHEN MY NEPHEW JOHN ASSISTED ME IN ESTABLISHING MY NEW WEBSITE @ http://www.harleydalebrown.com  I WAS VERY PROUD OF THE WORDS HE USED TO DESCRIBE ME.  I WAS ALSO PROUD THAT ON MY BLOGSITE, "HE, JOHN" PUT THE WORDS "VETERANS SOCIAL".   IT WAS THE PERFECT THING TO MAKE ME UNDERSTAND HOW I NEEDED TO COME TO MY COUNTRIES AID VIA MY FELLOW VETERANS AND NOT FROM POLITICAL VITRIOL.  SO AGAIN, MY FELLOW VETERAN, WE ALL COME FROM DIFFERENT WALKS OF LIFE, AND WE ALL HAVE OUR POLITICAL PARTIES, ALLEGIANCES, AND BELIEFS, BUT WE MUST BE DIFFERENT AND SEPARATE OURSELVES FROM THE VITROLIC AND SEDITION NATURE OF THE NATION.  LET US  REMEMBER WHEN WE FIRST JOINED UP? LET US REMEMBER WHAT WE WERE TOLD ABOUT NOT DISCUSSING POLITICS IN PUBLIC, AND TO NOT SAY ANYTHING BAD OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF WHETHER WE LIKED AND AGREED WITH HIM OR NOT? LET US ALL FALL BACK IN RANKS FOR A MOMENT AND SPEAK TO THE NATION AS THE VETERANS WHO GAVE OF OURSELVES TO SECURE THIS FREEDOM?  I DON'T KNOW, I AM JUST ASKING QUESTIONS HERE? WILL OR COULD THIS POSSIBLY HAPPEN?  FOR AFTER ALL, I AM BUT ONE MAN ALONE CASTING THE DAILY STONE IN THE WATER,  I MAKE A RIPPLE SO SMALL, I HAVE POSTED SEVEN BLOGS AND NOT EVEN RAISED THE WHISKER OF A CAT WITH A FAT RAT RUNNIN UNDER.  BUT EVEN IN MY DOUBT THAT WE MAY COME EVER TOGETHER, THAT IS AGAIN THE STANCE WE MUST TAKE IN ORDER TO JOIN TOGETHER. IN ORDER THAT WE MAY GIVE EXAMPLE TO THE NATION.  WE MUST ONE AND ALL TOGETHER PUT OUR POLITICAL DIFFERENCES IN OUR HIP POCKET, WE MUST DEMONSTRATE TO THE CITIZENRY OF THE NATION THAT WE CAN AND MUST JOIN TOGETHER FOR THE GOOD OF THE NATION. AND  "WE THE VETERANS" MUST SHOW "WE THE PEOPLE" THAT THIS IS POSSIBLE,  AND WE MUST LEAD THE NATION TO HELP IN THE CAUSE OF SAVING THE NATION.  OH YES, I CAN ALREADY HEAR YOU NAYSAYERS, "YOU JACK WAGON HARLEY, MAYBE WE NEED TO TAKE YOU ON DOWN TO MAMBY PAMBY LAND???  HAVE YOU TURNED INTO CHICKEN LITTLE", THE SKY IS FALLING, THE SKY IS FALLING?    WELL HELL MOLLY NO, THE SKY IS NOT FALLING, WE KNOW THE JACK WAGONS ARE IN DC.  I HATE TO TELL YOU THIS MY FELLOW VETS, BUT THE SKY HAS ALREADY FALLEN.  IT WAS ALREADY FALLING WHEN REAGAN SAID THE FAMOUS WORDS "GORBACHEV, TEAR DOWN THAT WALL."  AND TEAR DOWN THE BERLIN WALL HE DID, AND ALONG WITH IT CAME THE FLOOD OF GLOBAL CHANGE FOLLOWED BY WHAT WE NOW SEE, GLOBAL CORRECTION.  

I AM IN THE MIDST OF A BOOK BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, CALLED "THE WORLD IS FLAT."  IT DEALS WITH THE CHANGING WORLD AND THE "LEVELING OF THE PLAYING FIELD." SO MUCH HAS ALREADY BEEN SAID AND MUCH WILL BE SAID AND DONE IN THE NAME OF THE "FLATTENING OF A ROUND BALL OF DIRT AN ROCKS." BUT LEVELING A PLAYING FIELD REQUIRES REAL LEADERSHIP AND RE INOVATION, BUT WHILE WE HANG IN LESS THAN TRIPLE A PERIL, UNEMPLOYMENT REMAINS AT TEN PERCENT, NEW HOME STARTS ARE VIRTUALLY NOT, AND CURRENT HOME PRICES HAVE TANKED AGAIN WHILE WALL STREET JUST TOOK A FIFTEEN PERCENT HICKEY, OUR "FEARLESS LEADERS" ARE ALL ON A FIVE WEEK VACATION. SO IT IS  WE THE VETERAN THAT MUST REMAIN ON WATCH.  I MYSELF AM NOT WAITING FOR THE BIG FISCAL ECONOMIC BALL TO FALL IN OCTOBER, SO TOGETHER, LETS  TALK THE TALK NOW AND WALK THE WALK NOW. 

SO I WILL NOW GIVE YOU FACTS THAT FEW KNOW, BECAUSE IF YOU KNOW IT YOU DON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT IT.  BUT IT WILL MAKE YOU WANT TO WALK THE TALK AND TALK THE WALK FOR  RIGHT NOW.    IN A YOU TUBE "GOVERNMENT GONE WILD"VIDEO YOU CAN VIEW @ http://www.youtube.com/embed/VtVbUmcQSuk  THE MODERATOR SPELLS OUT THE FOLLOWING.   JUST LAST YEAR ALONE OUR FEARLESS CONGRESS SPENT 413 BILLION DOLLARS IN JUST INTEREST ON THE DEBT.   JUST LAST YEAR.  THAT IS MORE THAN WE SPENT OF THE DEPT. OF  AGRICULTURE, DEPT. OF HEALTH , DEPT. OF TRANSPORTATION, DEPT. OF ENERGY AFFAIRS, DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY, DEPT. OF  JUSTICE, DEPT. OF  COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY, DEPT. OF  LABOR, DEPT. OF SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, DEPT. OF THE  VETERAN'S ADMINISTRATION, AND THE DEPT. OF  HOUSING URBAN DEVELOPMENT.  COMBINED!!!!!...  SINCE 1988 OUR CONGRESS HAS SPENT OVER 8 TRILLION DOLLARS IN JUST INTEREST ALONE, MUCH OF IT GOING TO OTHER COUNTRIES BUYING OUR BONDS WHILE WE STILL SEND THEM FOREIGN AIDE.  8 TRILL? 8 TRILL??? REALLY??? REALLY??  THAT IS ENOUGH TO BUY A DREAM CAR FOR EVERY TAX PAYER IN AMERICA, NOT BAD CONSIDERING ONLY 50 PERCENT OF AMERICANS PAY TAXES.  ACCORDING TO THE NON PARTISAN CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE SAY THAT BY THE YEAR 2021 THE  INTEREST ON THE DEBT  WILL BE 1.1 TRILLION DOLLARS A YEAR!!!!!! THAT IS  1 AND 1/2 MORE THAN TIMES THAN WE SPEND ON NATL DEFENSE.  BY THE YEAR  2046 EVERY SINGLE DIME OF TAXES WE PAY IN THE GOOD OL'US'OF A,  WILL BE SPENT ON JUST THE INTEREST ONLY.  TO PUT ALL THAT IN CONTEXT,  IF CONGRESS STOPPED ALL SPENDING  TODAY AND SPENT NOT A SINGLE NICKLE ON ANYTHING ELSE, AND ONLY  PAID 100 MILLION A DAY IT WOULD TAKE 389 YEARS JUST TO PAY OFF NATL DEBT.  REDUCING DEFICIT IS NOT TALKING ABOUT REDUCING THE DEBT AND IT WILL BE THE DEBT AND INTEREST ON THE DEBT THAT WILL BE THE DOWNFALL OF US, THE "U' AND THE "S' IN THE USA.  

THIS IS WHY WE MUST BECOME INVOLVED NOW, TODAY, MY FELLOW VETERANS.  NOT TOMORROW, NOT AFTER OUR FILTHY RICH VACATIONS UNTIL AFTER LABOR DAY, BUT TODAY.  I IMPLORE YOU ALL TO JOIN ME IN THIS EFFORT.  WE MUST MARCH ON WASHINGTON DC IN EVERY WAY WE CAN, BY WRITING, BY PHONING, BY TRAVELING BY CAR, TRAIN, PLANE, BOAT, MOTORCYCLE, BICYCLE, TENNIS SHOES, WHEEL CHAIRS, WALKERS, CRAWLING ON HAND AND KNEE, WE MUST STOP THIS INSANITY NOW AND TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK.  MAY GOD BLESS THE VETERANS AND MAY GOD BLESS MY AMERICA.  Hb  im pissin in da wind  )-  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~~~   ~~~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

THE GOOD

THE GOOD IS HAWKEYE.  I HAD A DOG LIKE HIM ONCE.  HER NAME WAS DESTINY. SHE HAD A BROTHER AND WE NAMED HIM MANIFEST.  THAT WAY WE WOULD ALWAYS HAVE MANIFEST/DESTINY, HARDEEHARHARLEY.  WE LOST DESTINY ONE HOT TEXAS SUMMER DAY.  SHE WAS OLD, SHE WAS TIRED, AND SHE WAS IN PAIN, SO WE BELIEVE SHE (BEING BLACK) LAID UNDER THAT BIG TRACTOR TIRE ON PURPOSE.  WE SHALL ALWAYS MISS HER, AS I AM SURE SHE WOULD MISS ME LIKE HAWKEYE MISSED JON.  WHEN I WAS LYING IN BED WITH A BROKEN NECK, RUPTURED BACK SPINE AND CRUSHED NERVES SHE NEVER LEFT MY SIDE.  DOGS ARE THE GOOD.  I AM NOT SO SURE ABOUT HUMANKIND. OR sometimes EVEN USING THE WORDS HUMAN AND KIND IN THE SAME SENTENCE.

THE BAD

A SHAMESTREAM  COMMENTATOR COMPARING POLITICAL CANDIDATES TO CURLY MO AND LARRY.  YA BUT AINT DAT GOOD?  YA DATS WHAT I MEAN, IT'S BAD.  BUT WHAT USED TO BE BAD THAT NOW MEANS GOOD, IS IN THE NEW LINGO "SICK".  YOUR SICK NOW MEANS GOOD.  BAD MEANS BAD AGAIN.  AND WHAT IS GOOD IS THAT I WOULD VOTE FOR CURLY, MO, OR LARRY RIGHT NOW TODAY BEFORE I VOTED FOR THE LESSER OF ANY TWO EVILS.  WHAT IS WITH THIS CRAP POT OF SO CALLED LEADERS THESE DAYS?   THE POLITICAL PROCESS WE HAVE IN PLACE TODAY  IS LITERALLY DESTROYING AND TEARING APART OUR NATION, NO MATTER WHAT SIDE, LEFT OR RIGHT THEY ARE COMING FROM?  ITS BULL%#@.itz bad!!!

THE UGLY

CONDOLEZZA RICE UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS VISITED THE DICTATOR MUAMMAR QADDAFI AND UPON ONE SPECIAL OCCASION, HE PRESENTED HER WITH A GOLDEN LOCKET AND CHAIN WITH HIS PICTURE IN IT. TODAY THEY FOUND A SCRAP BOOK OF CONDOLEZZA  KEPT BY THE GOOD COLONEL, AND HIS EXPRESSED LOVE FOR HER.  NOW I AIN'T SO SURE JUST HOW PRETTY IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN IF SHE AND HE HAD ULTIMATELY BECOME HE AND SHE AND THEY HAD A LITTLE HE OR SHE.  NOW DAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, WELL I'LL JUST LEAVE IT TO LETTERMAN OR LENO TO PAINT DAT PICTURE, OR WAS IT CONAN DAT DID DAT????