Showing posts with label Veterans' Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Veterans' Day. Show all posts
Monday, November 11, 2013
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Saturday Man Movie
Today, in commemoration of Veteran's Day tomorrow, or Armistice Day, as it was originally called, we see Gary Cooper as then-Corporal Alvin York, save his unit by making a single-handed an attack on an entrenched German line which resulted in his killing 28 Germans and bringing about the surrender of 132 others along the capture of 32 machine guns.
The real Alvin York was awarded the Medal of Honor for this act, and while he shunned publicity and offers of money for his story for year after returning home, he finally allowed this movie, Sergeant York, to be made about him in 1940, using the $150,000 he was paid for it to finance a Bible school he wanted to build.
The real Alvin York was awarded the Medal of Honor for this act, and while he shunned publicity and offers of money for his story for year after returning home, he finally allowed this movie, Sergeant York, to be made about him in 1940, using the $150,000 he was paid for it to finance a Bible school he wanted to build.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Another Veterans' Day, another Obama absence.
And the New York Post nails it.
Once more, we have a holiday set aside to honor Americans who have sacrificed for this country and it's ideals, and once more, Obama is somewhere else, doing something else.
This time he's in Indonesia, telling more muslims that America has to change and stop mistrusting them. And our veterans? They clearly don't rate very high on his list of priorities. But then his narcissism undoubtedly makes it painful for him to acknowledge his betters, and besides that, he knows that very few military personnel voted for him because they don't think too highly of him, either. And I truly believe that he holds our military men and women in contempt because he knows that he can't measure up to them and because they represent the real patriotic America that he's always despised and disparaged.
So as much as I'm disappointed in him ignoring our vets once again, I'm actually glad that he's not here trying to get in the picture. Obama being absent from celebrations for our vets is like Michael Jackson being absent from a ten year old boy's slumber party.
In other news, former President George W. Bush was honoring America's veterans at the Wright-Patterson Air Force museum in Dayton, Ohio today.
Once more, we have a holiday set aside to honor Americans who have sacrificed for this country and it's ideals, and once more, Obama is somewhere else, doing something else.
This time he's in Indonesia, telling more muslims that America has to change and stop mistrusting them. And our veterans? They clearly don't rate very high on his list of priorities. But then his narcissism undoubtedly makes it painful for him to acknowledge his betters, and besides that, he knows that very few military personnel voted for him because they don't think too highly of him, either. And I truly believe that he holds our military men and women in contempt because he knows that he can't measure up to them and because they represent the real patriotic America that he's always despised and disparaged.
So as much as I'm disappointed in him ignoring our vets once again, I'm actually glad that he's not here trying to get in the picture. Obama being absent from celebrations for our vets is like Michael Jackson being absent from a ten year old boy's slumber party.
In other news, former President George W. Bush was honoring America's veterans at the Wright-Patterson Air Force museum in Dayton, Ohio today.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
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