"WE THE VETERANS"

WHEN, WHERE AND WHY DID THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEGIN AND END?  WHAT CAUSES WERE IN PLAY THAT LED UP TO THAT DATE? DO YOU KNOW THE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS?  IF YOU ANSWER  YES, THEN CONGRATULATIONS.  YOU ARE IN THE 5 PERCENTILE OF WE THE PEOPLE THAT KNOW MUCH OF ANYTHING AT ALL OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND HER VETERANS.  TODAY I WANT TO TAKE YOU TO SOME OF THOSE PLACES AND PERHAPS THEN YOU WILL SEE WHY I REFER TO ALL OF US AS "WE THE PEOPLE", BUT TO A SELECT GROUP THAT WENT BEYOND, RISKED LIFE AND LIMB, AND PUT THEIR VERY EXISTENCE ON THE LINE FOR THIS GREAT NATION.  THEY ARE KNOWN TODAY AS OUR NATIONS VETERANS AND I REFER TO THEM NOW AS "WE THE VETERANS." I COULD NOT BEGIN TO ENTAIL WARS AND DETAILS IN A BLOG, SO IT IS UP TO YOU THE READER TO TAKE YOURSELF THERE. I WILL TELL YOU OF "WE THE VETERANS"

EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEGAN BACK IN THE 1730'S AND 40'S.  CHURCHES OTHER THAN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND WERE SPRINGING UP AND MOTHER ENGLAND DID NOT LIKE THAT.  ON ANY GIVEN SUNDAY A SQUAD OF BRITISH TROOPS WOULD SHOW UP AT A CHURCH, ROUST OUT THE CONGREGATION, BURN THE CHURCH DOWN AND RAPE THE YOUNG WOMEN.  SECRET BRIGADES WERE FORMED IN THE CHURCHES,KNOWN AS THE BLACK ROBE BRIGADE WHICH BECAME THE FIRST VETERANS, KNOWN AS THE MINUTEMEN.  PASTOR PETER MUHLENBERG, ON THE DAY THE FIRST SHOTS WERE FIRED AT CONCORD, RIPPED OFF HIS BLACK ROBE TO REVEAL AN OFFICERS UNIFORM OF THE FIRST CONTINENTAL ARMY.  THUS LED BY GEORGE WASHINGTON, CAME THE BATTLES OF LEXINGTON, CONCORD, AND THE WINTER OF VALLEY FORGE.  VIRTUALLY OVER HALF OF THE COLONISTS DID NOT WANT THE WAR AND WOULD HAVE PREFERRED TO REMAIN LOYAL TO THE QUEEN.  IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF WHAT ALWAYS OCCURS WHEN A SMALL GROUP DOES THE TASK OF MANY.  THIS MIGHTY NATION THAT ROSE UP OUT OF THE ASHES OF CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS OWES IT'S ROOTS AND VERY BEGINNINGS TO THE VETERANS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, 1774-1783.  THE NORTHWEST INDIAN WARS LASTED TEN YEARS FROM 1785 TO 1795, FOUGHT BY "WE THE VETERANS" OF THE CANADIAN MILITIA.  THE FRANCO-AMERICAN WAR LASTED FROM 1798 TO 1800.  THOMAS JEFFERSON COMMISSIONED 12 WAR SHIPS AND 5000 MARINES IN THE BARBARY COAST WAR FROM 1801 TO 1805.  A MUSLIM/CHRISTIAN WAR MUCH AKIN TO THE TERRORIST WARS WE SEE TODAY, "WE THE VETERANS", ( MOSTLY MARINES WITH SOME NAVAL PERSONELL ) SET FREE THOUSANDS OF US SAILORS IMPRISONED FOR BEING CHRISTIANS.  "WE THE VETERANS" ALSO DEALT A GREAT BLOW TO THE MUSLIM SLAVE TRADE, FREEING THOUSANDS OF SLAVES AND CONCURRING WITH THE BRITISH TO MAKE SLAVE RUNNING ILLEGAL.  

KNOWN AS OUR "SECOND WAR OF INDEPENDENCE,  OR THE WAR OF 1812, IT WAS FOUGHT MOSTLY ACROSS THE CANADIAN BORDERS OF THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER AND WATERWAYS OF THE GREAT LAKES AND ATLANTIC OCEAN. IT EVEN COMPRISED AN ATTACK FROM THE BRITISH ON NEW ORLEANS, WHERE "WE THE VETERANS" EULOGIZED IN JOHNNY HORTON'S SONG, "THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS."  ANDREW JACKSON AND WITH HELP OF CARIBBEAN PIRATE JEAN LAFITTE DEFEATED THE BRITISH.  AGAIN IT WAS "WE THE VETERANS" THAT SAW OUR WHITE HOUSE BURNED TO THE GROUND BY AN OVERWHELMING BRITISH FORCE SEEKING TO ONCE AGAIN MAKE US ROYAL SUBJECTS OF THE KING. AGAIN IT WAS "WE THE VETERAN" THAT KEPT AMERICA FREE AND OLD GLORY FLYING. 

IN 1815, ONCE AGAIN THE MUSLIM FORCES OF THE BARBARY COAST REARED IT'S UGLY HEAD, AND ONCE AGAIN "WE THE VETERANS" ANSWERED THE CALL.  FROM THERE "WE THE VETERANS" DID NOT BACK DOWN FROM FREEDOM'S CALL FIGHTING A MULTITUDE OF BATTLES AND WARS IN  A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST BELOW:

Second Barbary War or Algerian War	Algiers	1815	American victory
First Seminole War

West Indies Anti-Piracy Operations	Caribbean Pirates	1817-1825

West Indies Anti-Piracy Operations	Caribbean Pirates	1817-1825	United States victory
African Anti-Slavery Operations	African Slave Traders	1819 - 1861	Atlantic slave trade suppressed by 1865
Callao Affair	Spain	November 5–6, 1820	Spanish vow to punish those responsible for attacks on American shipping.
Arikara War	Arikara	1823	The Arikara eventually settled with the Mandan and Hidatsa on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota
Aegean Anti-Piracy Operations	Greek Pirates	1825–1828	United States victory
Winnebago War or Le Fèvre Indian War	Prairie La Crosse Ho-Chunks, with a few allies	1827	U.S. victory; Ho-Chunks cede lead mining region to the U.S.
Black Hawk War or Black Hawk Campaign	Black Hawk's British Band, with Ho-Chunk and Potawatomi allies	May–August 1832	United States victory
First Sumatran Expedition	Chiefdom of Kuala Batee	February 6 – 9, 1832	United States victory
United States Exploring Expedition	Fiji Samoa Tabiteuea	1838 - 1842	Successful expedition, victory in battle against aborigionals
Second Seminole War or Florida War	Seminole	December 23, 1835 – August 14, 1842	3,800 Seminoles transported to Indian Territory, 300 left in Everglades
Second Sumatran Expedition

 

 I HAVE CHOSEN TO GO ON WITH THIS CHRONOLOGICAL WAR LIST IN YET A SERIES OF BLOGS, SO THAT WE MAY FOCUS ON THE SUBJECT OF "WE THE VETERANS." SO AS YOU CAN SEE, IN THE EARLY DAYS OF AN EMERGING NATION, "WE THE VETERANS" BECAME A BATTLE HARDENED GROUP OF RAG TAGGED SOLDIERS DEFENDING THEIR FLAG TO THE BITTER END, A FLAG THAT WOULD EVENTUALLY EMERGE WITH A FIELD OF 50 STARS THAT ARE NOW ONCE AGAIN THREATENED.  ONLY THIS TIME WE ARE LIABLE TO AGAIN IMPLODE FROM THE ENEMY WITHIN, BOTH SIDES VITRIOLIC AND SEDITIOUS TO A POINT OF POSSIBLE NO RETURN.  VIOLENT RHETORIC AND RACIALLY CHARGED LANGUAGE THAT WILL SERVE NO GOOD IN THE SAVING OF A NATION.  SO ONCE AGAIN WE MUST LOOK TO "WE THE VETERANS" TO LEAD THE NATION OUT OF A MESS AND ERA OF FRIVOLITY. 

ONCE AGAIN I CALL FOR ALL VETERANS TO JOIN TOGETHER, AND AS COLONEL JACK TOOLEY URGED, LET US NOT RETIRE IN THE SENSE THAT WE MUST REMIND AMERICA OF WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE HAVE DONE.  FREEDOM IS NOT FREE, BUT IT IS THE AMERICAN VETERAN THAT MUST PAY THAT PRICE, IT IS THE AMERICAN CITIZEN THAT DRINKS THE MILK AND HONEY, AND IT IS THE AMERICAN POLITICIAN THAT RAPES,PILLAGES AND PLUNDERS OUR NATIONAL TREASURY INTO A 14 BILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT.  "WE THE VETERANS" NEED NOT ENTER THE VITRIOLIC POLITICAL ARENA IN ORDER TO HELP RESTORE FREEDOM AND VALUES IN AMERICA.  BUT IT IS "WE THE VETERANS" THAT APPARENTLY MUST RISE TO LEAD THE WAY, AS OUR SO CALLED "LEADERS" HAVE PROVEN BEYOND THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT THEY ARE NOTHING BUT CROOKS, LIARS, AND CAREER POLITICIANS.  NIXON SAID "I AM NOT A  CROOK", HE WAS A CROOK.  CLINTON SAID "I DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THAT GIRL", HE DID HAVE SEX WITH THAT GIRL.  BUSH STARTED THE STIMULUS THAT HAS LED US DOWN THE PATH OF FINANCIAL DESTRUCTION.  OBAMA HAS ADDED MORE TO THE DEBT THAN ALL PRESIDENTS BEFORE HIM COMBINED.  ROOSEVELT, KENNEDY, EISENHOWER, AND MANY OTHER PRESIDENTS HAD MISTRESSES.  IT IS IRONIC THAT THE VERY PEOPLE THAT RUN OUR COUNTRY HAVE A COMMON VEIN OF IMPROPRIETY AND LACK OF TOTAL MORAL VALUE. THE COUNTRY IS BROKE.  THE COUNTRY IS SPIRITUALLY BEREFT. THE COUNTRY IS WITHOUT AN ECONOMIC ENGINE OR ON A VIABLE COURSE OF CORRECTION WITH A REAL LEADER AT THE HELM AND THE RUDDER.  THE COUNTRY IS ON THE VERGE OF A CIVIL/RACIAL WAR, IF WE DO NOT ALL BACK DOWN, TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND COME TOGETHER AS ONE.  "WE THE VETERANS" MUST RISE ABOVE ALL OF THIS AND HELP CALM, HELP LEAD, AND USE ALL OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND WITS THE MILITARY TAUGHT US TO SAVE A GREAT NATION.  MAY GOD BLESS "WE THE VETERANS", MAY GOD BLESS "WE THE PEOPLES", AND MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS AMERICA AS A FAVORED NATION.  Hb

THE GOOD

TODAY WE LOOK TOWARD NEXT SUNDAY, A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE OF THOSE WHO DIED ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001.  IT IS A GOOD AND KIND AMERICA THAT HAS HELD TOGETHER, AND DID NOT LOOSE OUR COMMON GOOD.  IT WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY EASY TO HAVE GONE OFF HALF COCKED AND STARTED A WORLD WAR OVER THAT DAY AS WAS DONE ON DECEMBER 7, 1941.  INSTEAD WE CONDUCTED LOW LEVEL CAMPAIGNS TO ROUTE OUT THE TERRORISTS, NOW A COMMON THREAD THROUGH TWO PRESIDENTS AND PROBABLY TO BE CONTINUED ON PAST 2012. UNTIL WE TOTALLY DEFEAT THE TERRORISTS WHO CONTINUE TO SEEK MORE 9/11'S,  LET US HOPE AND PRAY THAT WE CAN SOON BRING HOME ALL OF "WE THE VETERANS" FROM TWO THEATERS OF WAR AND ENTER AN ERA OF PEACE.

THE BAD

THE BAD TODAY IS THE NEWS THAT WE WILL LEAVE A MERE 3000 NAKED AMERICAN VETERANS AT THE MERCY OF A YET UNSTABLE NATION OF IRAQ AND THE NEIGHBORING NATION OF IRAN.  ANY IDIOT IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD KNOW THAT THEY ARE SETTING UP ANOTHER BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIG HORN.  IF THEY ARE GOING TO LEAVE SUCH A SMALL INDEFENSIBLE FORCE, THEN THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF NEEDS TO GO TO THE UN AND NATO AND TURN IT OVER TO THEM AND BRING ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN HOME FROM IRAQ.  THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE PRETTY FOLKS. 

THE UGLY

TODAY JIMMY HOFFA MAFIA JUNIOR CALLED THE TEA PARTY MEMBERS "SON OF A BITCHES", AND IN VICIOUS VITRIOLIC AND SEDITIOUS LANGUAGE SUGGESTED THAT WE ARE NOT AMERICANS. FIRST OF ALL MR. HOFFA, THE APPLE DID NOT FALL FAR FROM THE TREE, BUT FAR BE IT FROM ME TO FIT YOU WITH CONCRETE SHOES. I WILL NOT HAVE TO, SOMEONE OF YOUR CALIBER WILL.  SECONDLY MR. HOFFA, MY MOTHER IS NOT A BITCH, AND I WOULD LOVE TO MEET YOU IN THE GYM IN A BOXING RING FOR THAT ONE.  THIRDLY MR. HOFFA, YOU APPARENTLY SEEMINGLY SPEAK FOR THE PRESIDENT AS HE DID NOT RECUSE YOU FOR YOUR ANGRY DIRTY TONGUE.  WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS CALL FOR CALM AND LESS RHETORIC?  FOURTHLY MR. HOFFA,  I AM TIME HARDENED AND BATTLE TESTED AND I AM A TRUE BLOODED AMERICAN THAT WOULD NEVER EVER SPEAK IN PUBLIC AS YOU HAVE.  NOR WOULD I EVER NEVER EVER  OFFEND EVEN ONE OF MY FELLOW AMERICANS IN SUCH A WAY.  IT IS "WE THE VETERANS" THAT GIVE OF OUR LIFE BLOOD TO GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH, BUT NOT THE RIGHT TO ABUSE IT.  YOU WILL LIVE TO SEE THE DAY YOU WILL REGRET THE UGLY NATURE OF YOUR BEAST, AND SOMEDAY YOU WILL STAND BEFORE YOUR MAKER.  WHAT WILL YOU CALL HIS MOTHER?????  

     

 

"A VETERAN SHOULD NEVER RETIRE"

HAPPY LABOR DAY TO ALL, AND MAY ALL VETERANS BE ENJOYING A DAY OF REST WITH THEIR SPOUSES DOING WHAT THEY ENJOY MOST.  BUT A QUESTION COMES TO MIND.  SHOULD IT NOT BE CALLED UN'LABOR DAY, OR NO LABOR DAY INSTEAD AS AFTER ALL IT IS A HOLIDAY?  MAYBE ALL CHILDREN SHOULD BE BORN TODAY?  

WHILE WATCHING A PATRIOTIC PROGRAM BY THE MORMAN TABERNACLE CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA THIS MORNING, COLONEL JACK TOOLEY WAS QUOTED AS SAYING: "A VETERAN SHOULD NEVER RETIRE."  COLONEL JACK FLEW OVER THE BEACHES OF NORMANDY ON "D DAY" AND ON INTO WWII, CARRYING HIS TRUMPET INTO BATTLE IN THE COCKPIT OF HIS PLANE.  UPON HIS RETURN HE COMMENTED THAT HE NEVER DISCUSSED THE WAR WITH HIS CHILDREN AS IT WAS TOO PAINFUL. RATHER HE ONLY DISPLAYED HIS TRUMPET AS A MEMORIAL IN THE LIVING ROOM NEXT TO HIS CHAIR.  NOW 89 YEARS YOUNG, JACK DOES TALK ABOUT THE WAR  ALOT TO ALL WHO WILL LISTEN,AND HE PLAYS TAPS AT MILITARY FUNERALS. HE HAS NOT RETIRED, AND NEVER INTENDS TO, BUT RATHER SAYS IT IS THE DUTY OF VETERANS TO SPEAK OUT AND TELL OF OUR DUTY TO GOD AND TO COUNTRY.  COLONEL JACK IS THE EPITOME OF WHAT WE SHOULD ALL STRIVE TO BE.

YES, MY FELLOW VETERANS, IT IS WE THAT MUST NOW PICK UP THAT BANNER, AND WAVE IT HIGH.  IT IS NOW WE THE VETERANS THAT MUST SPEAK OUT FOR THOSE WHO DID NOT RETURN, BUT RATHER GAVE THEIR VERY LIVES FOR US.  IT IS WE THE VETERAN THAT RISKED OUR LIVES, BLOOD AN LIMBS THAT MUST NOW COME TO THE AID AND RESCUE OF FREEDOM, FOR AS WE HAVE HEARD AND AS WE KNOW, "FREEDOM IS NOT FREE."  IT IS THEREFORE THAT IN ORDER TO YET ONCE AGAIN SECURE THE PEACE OF FREEDOM, WE MUST AGAIN REPLENISH THE COLORS OF OLD GLORY. THAT WE MUST ONCE AGAIN SHED OUR PURE RED BLOOD TO FLOW INTO THE WARM STRIPES OF RED.  THAT WE MUST ONCE AGAIN LIVE THROUGH THE FALLING OF THE PURE WHITE SNOW OF VALLEY FORGE TO WASH CLEAN THE PEARLY WHITE STRIPES.  THAT WE MUST LOOK UP TO GOD AND THE HEAVENS OF A PURE BLUE SKY, AND ON INTO THE DARKNESS OF NIGHT, INTO THE STARS ABOVE, SO AS TO GIVE OUR SOULS TO HIM AND TO THE 50 STARS WE STAND AND DIE FOR.  IT IS FOR OUR GOD AND FOR OUR COUNTRY WE DO THESE THINGS.  IT IS FOR OUR HARD FOUGHT FREEDOMS AND FOR THE DEAR LADY THAT STANDS AT OUR GATES, BECKONING: "Give me your tired, your poor/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free/The wretched refuse of your teeming shore/Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me/I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

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YES MY FELLOW VETERANS, IT IS AS TRUE AS IT WAS IN 1776 THAT FREEDOM IS NEVER FREE, FOR THE ENDLESS CYCLE OF HITLERS, MUSSULINIS, HUSSEINS, CASTROS, BIN LADENS, NORIAGAS, AMADINAJADS, IS NEVER ENDING. 

ON THE EVE OF 9/11/11 I URGE YOU ALL MY FELLOW VETERANS TO FOLLOW THE WORDS OF COLONEL JACK AND HIS EXAMPLE OF CONTINUED SERVICE.  OUR "LEADERS" AMONGST US ARE NOT LEADERS, THEY ARE CAREER POLITICIANS. THEY SEEK TO TAKE THEIR OWN GRANDMOTHERS KICKING AND SCREAMING TO HELLS DOOR IF NECESSARY TO FEATHER THEIR OWN RICHES AT THE VERY COST OF THIS NATION.  IF WE THE VETERAN DO NOT STAND UP AGAIN, IF WE DO NOT ONCE AGAIN BEGIN TO LEAD, AS OUR WWII PREDECESSORS DID, THEN I SUBMIT TO YOU THAT WE WILL LOSE OUR GREAT NATION TO A "POLITICIANS TYRANNY."  DO NOT MISTAKE MY VITRIOLIC WORDS AS WORDS OF SEDITION HERE.  I SPEAK AS A PATRIOTIC AMERICAN AND VETERAN WHEN I SAY IT IT THE POLITICIAN THAT IS TERRORIZING AMERICA, NOT "WE THE PEOPLE."  THEY HAVE HELD US HOSTAGE WITH HURRIED VOTES, AND SUCH RHETORIC AS TO NOW DIMINISH THE PENTAGON BY 33 PERCENT, DESTROY SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDECAIRE, MEDICAID, AND EDUCATION IN THE NAME OF BUDGET CUTTING.  THEY HAVE TAKEN GOD OUT OF CONTEXT AND REPLACED THE WRITTEN WORD AS FORBIDDEN.  THEY HAVE LOWERED STANDARDS OF EDUCATION TO A LEVEL OF:  WELL ACCORDING TO CHACHA, 10TH  http://www.chacha.com/question/where-does-the-united-states-of-america-rank-globally-in-the-field-of-education 

WELL ACCORDING TO STORMFRONT, WE RANK NINTH.

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WELL ACCORDING TO WIKI ANSWERS, WE RANK 35TH OUT OF 57 IN MATH AND 29TH OUT OF 57 IN SCIENCE. AND THAT WAS BACK IN 2006!!!  

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WE ARE IN DEBT UP TO OUR HAIR FOLLICLES AND THE ONLY LIGHT WE SEE COMING AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL IS A RUNAWAY TRAIN.  IT CURLS THE TIPS OF MY TOENAILS TO THINK THAT WHAT OUR WWII VETERANS HANDED BACK TO US ON A GOLDEN PLATTER, WE HAVE PLACED UPON THEIR GRAVES A RUSTED MESS.

YES, MY FELLOW VETERANS IT IS HIGH TIME WE GOT UP OFF THE COUCH, OFF OUR DUFFS AND WE FOLLOW THE PATH OF AN 89 YEARS YOUNG WWII VETERAN, COLONEL JACK TOOLEY.  "A VETERAN SHOULD NEVER RETIRE."  I BEG OF YOU, I DEPLORE YOU, I SEEK YOUR HELP UPON BENDED BAD KNEES WITH A CHERRY ON TOP!!!!! I AM BUT ONE VETERAN TOSSING BUT ONE SMALL PEBBLE IN A CHURNING SEA OF VITRIOL.  IN ORDER THAT WE MAY MAKE A WAVE, I MUST HAVE YOUR ASSISTANCE IN THROWING IN YOUR PEBBLES.  WE ALL VETERANS, ONE AND TOGETHER CAN TRULY MAKE A DIFFERENCE, BUT TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE.  WE MUST BEGIN NOW, OR FOREVER WILL OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN BE LOST IN A CAULDRON OF SOCIALISM.  OUR LONG STANDING BATTLE TO SEPARATE FROM THE SHACKLES OF ENGLAND WILL HAVE BEEN LOST.  DO NOT LET THEM DO THIS TO US AND OUR YOUNG VETERANS.  IT IS TIME TO ONCE AGAIN PICK UP THE BANNER AND FIGHT.  NOT WITH GUNS THIS TIME BUT WITH WORDS AND ACTION OF THE PEN AND SPOKEN WORD.  IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD.  LET US THE VETERANS PROVE IT.  WON'T YOU PLEASE JOIN ME IN SPREADING THE WORD? YOU CAN HELP IMMEDIATELY BY PUTTING THIS BLOG TO ALL THE VETS AND OTHERS ON YOUR EMAIL LIST.  BECAUSE WE THE VETS ALSO NEED OUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO HELP US.  I NOW HAVE FOUR FOLLOWERS, MARTHA CLAYTON BANFIELD, JAMES BANFIELD, KEVIN AND GENETTE, AND LIBERTY FORMAN.  IT IS A GREAT BEGINNING AND GOD BLESS YOU ALL, GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS AND MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS AMERICA.  Hb

VETERAN OF THE MONTH:

IT BRINGS TEARS TO MY EYES TO SPEAK OF THIS MAN, A MAUI, HAWAII NATIVE BORN SON, NOW DECEASED HERO AND FATHER OF TWO BEAUTIFUL GIRLS AND A SON, WITH ONE MORE ON THE WAY.  HIS NAME WAS KRAIG VICKERS, A SENIOR CHIEF PETTY OFFICER AND A FIFTEEN YEAR VETERAN OF THE U.S.NAVY.  CHIEF  VICKERS DIED ALONG WITH 29 OTHER MEMBERS OF THE SEAL TEAM SIX AND 7 AFGHAN SOLDIERS LAST AUGUST 6TH WHEN THEIR CHINOOK CH-47 WAS SHOT DOWN. HE HELD FOUR BRONZE STARS AND TWO PURPLE HEARTS, AND HE WAS A VETERANS VETERAN.  IT IS FOR HIM I SHALL, AND WE ALL SHOULD REDEDICATE MYSELF/OURSELVES IN THE COMING WEEKS AND MONTHS TO STRENGTHEN MY/OUR RESOLVE TO NEVER RETIRE.  IT IS FOR CHIEF VICKERS THAT WE MUST GO ON TO SPREAD THE WORD OF HOW WE BEGOT FREEDOM AND WHAT WE MUST STILL YET DO TO KEEP IT.  A TIME OF PEACE SHALL COME, THANKS TO SUCH MEN AS THESE.   GOD BLESS YOU CHIEF, WE SHALL ALL MISS YOU.

THE GOOD

THE GOOD THIS WEEK WE FIND IN THE KINDNESS AND HEARTS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLES THAT WITH PURPOSE OF MIND SEEK A TRUE AND LASTING PEACE IN THE WORLD TODAY.  WITH THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 LOOMING LARGE, LET US PRAY FOR PEACE ON THAT DAY AND THAT NO ACTS OF TERRORISM OCCUR. LET US ALSO  ALL PRAY TOGETHER THAT IN DAYS, WEEKS AND MONTHS TO COME WE SEE THE "ARAB SPRING" TURN INTO A SUMMER OF PEACE AND TRANQUILITY, AND NOT YET ANOTHER THEOCRACY OF HATE AND TERRORISM FROM FRAYED EDGED ISLAMIC TERRORIST GROUPS, SUCH AS THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, ALQAEDA, HEZBOLLAH, PLO, AND OTHERS. WE DO HOWEVER, AS CHRISTIANS, KNOW THAT OUR FELLOW MUSLIM BROTHERS AND SISTERS AS A MAJORITY SEEK TO LIVE PEACEABLY SIDE BY SIDE AND SEEK THE SAME PEACE AND TRANQUILITY AS DO WE. LET US HOPE AND PRAY THAT IT IS THEY THAT SHALL OVERCOME IN SUCH PLACES AS LIBYA, EGYPT, YEMEN, SYRIA, IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.   LET US ALSO HOPE AND PRAY THAT ROGUE NATIONS SUCH AS IRAN AND NORTH KOREA CAN SEE THEIR WAY TO THE TABLES OF PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING FOR THE GOOD OF ALL MANKIND.  FOR WE AMERICANS ARE THE PEOPLES WHO SEEK PEACE WITH THE PEN BUT ARE WILLING TO DEFEND OUR LIBERTIES, AND ARE WILLING TO SACRIFICE, AND LIVE AND DIE BY THE SWORD IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM.  MAY GOD BLESS THE GOODNESS IN THE AMERICAN VETERAN.

THE BAD

AGAIN, LEST I BE MISUNDERSTOOD, I SPEAK ONLY AS A PATRIOTIC AMERICAN AND A GOD LOVING VETERAN.  I WOULD LIKE TO SCOLD THE ENTIRE 535 MEMBERS OF A BODY OF INDIVIDUALS COMPRISED OF THE EXECUTIVE, LEGISLATIVE, AND JUDICIAL BRANCHES OF OUR SO CALLED GOVERNMENT.  YOU OF THE SUPREME COURT WHO HOLD YOURSELVES AS HIGH AND ALMIGHTY SUPREME, SHOULD BE REPLACED BY DIANA ROSS AND THE SUPREMES.  THEY COULD DO A BETTER JOB THAN THE NINE OF YOUR SORRY BUTTS.  HOW DARE YOU USURP THE AMERICAN VOTERS BY ALLOWING CORPORATIONS TO DONATE MILLIONS OR BILLIONS INTO THE POLITICAL/VOTING ARENA?  HOW LINED ARE YOUR POCKETS THAT YOU WOULD BE WILLING TO SELL "WE THE PEOPLE" DOWN THE RIVER? WHY, HELL MOLLY, YOU'D RUN OVER YOUR VERY OWN GRANDMA WITH A REINDEER AND A RUNAWAY SLEIGH JUST TO GET TO YOUR PRIZES UNDER THE CORPORATE TREE!!!

AND YOU THE LEGISLATIVE, THAT "GOVERN US" WHEN IT USED TO BE "WE THE PEOPLE" THAT OWNED THIS NATION.  NOW BY VIRTUE OF THE ACTIONS OF "THE SUPREMES" WE ARE HELD HOSTAGE BY YOU ALL, DEMOPUBLICANS AND REPUBLOCRATS, "MY SO CALLED FRIENDS ACROSS THE ISLE."  NOW CONTROLLED BY 22,000 LOBBYISTS, WE BEGIN TO SEE THE RESULTS, WITH WALL STREET TANKING, VIRTUALLY NO JOB GROWTH, 14 MILLION OUT OF WORK, 14 TRILLION IN DEBT AND THE U.S. POST OFFICE DECLARING BANKRUPTCY???? YOU @ZZWHOLES CALL THAT LEADERSHIP???  WELL I CALL IT A LOST SHIP.  WHICH BRINGS UP THE ONE LEFT OF 535, THE LEADER OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH, THE SO CALLED CAPTAIN OF THIS HERE USS AMERICA.  YOU SIR ARE THE PRESIDENT OF THIS NATION, WHY IN GOD'S HOLY NAME DO YOU NOT START ACTING LIKE ONE?  YOU CAME HERE NOT TO LEAD HER, YOU CAME HERE TO DESTROY HER.  YOU CAME HERE NOT TO CHANGE HER, BUT TO REARRANGE HER.  YOU CAME HERE NOT TO HELP HER, BUT TO CONFUSE HER.  YOUR TONGUE SPEAKS WITH TWO SIDES, NEVER KNOWING WHICH TO BE THE TRUTH AND WHICH TO BE A LIE, INTERMINGLING THEM BOTH WITH SUCH CAMPAIGN RHETORIC THAT NEVER LEFT THE TRAIL OF  HORSE HOCKEY PUCKS!!!!! I HEAR CHICAGO WILL NEED A NEW MAYOR IN 2013.

THE UGLY

          THE UGLY THIS WEEK IS THE JOB'S REPORT FOR AUGUST.  SPEAKING OF THE FORKED TONGUE, WHILE IN IOWA, MICHIGAN, AND MINNESOTA, OUR LEADER SPOKE OUT OF ONE SIDE OF JOBS AND JOB GROWTH.  THE AUGUST REPORT TOLD THE TRUTH OF "0", "NONE", "NADA", JOBS AND NONE ON THE HORIZON.  NOW ON THURSDAY HE INTENDS TO REVEAL HIS NEW PLAN FOR JOB GROWTH TO A LAME CONGRESS, WHILE DOING ABSOLUTELY ABOUT THE POSTAL WORKER CRISIS.  THE UGLINESS HERE MY DEAR PRESIDENT IS THAT WHILE YOU TALK THE PRESIDENTIAL TALK, YOU ARE NOT WALKING THE PRESIDENTIAL WALK.  I, WE, HELL MOLLY WE ALL, PRAY FOR YOU THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE THE MESSAGE OF US AND OF GOD TO MEND YOUR WAYS AND LEAD. EITHER LEAD, FOLLOW OR GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY.   

THE UGLIEST

WE SHALL, I AM AFRAID, ONCE AGAIN REMOVE YET ANOTHER LAME LEADER ONLY TO REPLACE HIM WITH YET ANOTHER LESSER OF TWO ( OR THREE ) EVILS, AND YET ANOTHER LAME LEADER.  ARE THERE NO TRUE REAL LEADERS LEFT IN AMERICA THAT CAN SEE THEIR WAY TO THE END OF THE TUNNEL WITHOUT GETTING RUN OVER BY THE RUNAWAY TRAIN?   TO DATE  WE  PEBBLES ARE  LEFT WITH BUT THE POWER OF PRAYER, FOR WE AS VETERANS NEITHER  HAVE NOR EVER SHOULD SEEK  POWERS OVER THAT OF OUR PEOPLE.   WE ONLY SEEK FREEDOM, BUT REMEMBER MY FRIENDS THE POWER OF PRAYER IS MIGHTY.