And we're both a little olderThe unknown soldierBreakfast where the news is readTelevision children fedUnborn living, living, deadBullet strikes the helmet's head ( Jim Morrison)
51 years ago today the Paris accord was signed, thus ending the Viet Nam War. I must say i do not specifically remember this day in history. ( i believe talks had been progressing and the peace agreement was imminent ) I certainly do remember the War though.....i remember the evening news disrupting the family dinner...I remember my father screaming at Walter Kronkite every few days and threatening to throw the television out into the street......I remember the draft ....i know they put each day of the year into a bowl and drew the dates one by one ..all 366 possible birthdays....the number that corresponded to your birthday became your draft number....so if you were born on June 14th and they pulled that out of the hat first....you and everyone else born on that day had a draft number 1. This was before the internet and so they would print the draft results in the ancient artifacts at the time...the daily newspapers. I also remember the bracelets with the names of the MIA-POWs that people were encouraged to wear until the name on the bracelet was freed.....or unfortunately more frequently their corpse was retrieved or identified. My oldest brother was draft age eligible but was a student at Manhattan College, so i guess he was exempt....i do remember as a 6-, 7- or 8-year-old kid being afraid that he would have to go to Viet Nam. Maybe having the country at war during such an impressionable age, had an impact on my generation. I remember the Vets finally received their welcome home moment in the Spring of 1985....I was on delayed entry into the Navy when the Viet Nam Vets marched over the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall and Thousands of Cheering New Yorkers /Americans. I was with my Uncle Frank, he had served in WWII .(he brought home a Knotsee Flag from the fall of Berlin and i am in possession of it today)...and he was a retired NYPD officer.....we went into a dozen Bars in the Wall Street area, and he seemed to know someone in every joint....he had the gift of Gab and a zillion great stories to tell.....I turned on the news this morning and they are calling this Holocaust Remembrance Day....no mention of the war that tore America in half, coming to an end.
And so 51 years later, the demented Commander in Chief is threatening action against TEXAS.....Not the Hooties and blowfish in Yemen that keep firing missiles at the US Navy in the Red Sea. His sights are set on Texas for the crime of defending our nations border and installing razor wire to prevent an illegal alien invasion.
Basement Joe also urged and signed off on the sale of 23 billion in Fighter Jets to Turkey....Turkey will in turn use these Jets to attack our Kurdish allies in Syria. (Not a good time to be a friend of America). This was payback for Turkey "ALLOWING" Sweeden to join NATO. Erdogan, the same man that gassed and or imprisoned thousands of his political opponents; has been meeting with Iran ....yep, that Iran......why would a NATO member be offering an olive branch to Iran ? hmm....lets hope those fighter Jets aren't used against our guys in the not too distant future.
You have to wonder just how much damage this man, or whomever is calling the shots; can do to this country before the next inauguration.
Make a grave for the unknown soldierNestled in your hollow shoulder
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