Archive for June 22nd, 2004

The Paper Hat Crowd

Someone was telling me about flying helicopters in Nam and I, as usual, thought of something funny.

I thought I might say, “HELICOPTERS? Yea, you spoiled brats had HELICOPTERS in Nam. But in Africa, we had no damn helicopters! One unit had an old defunct ‘copter we used to call ‘Wishful thinking with a propeller on top.'”

In Africa you went in on foot or by parachute. They offered me parachute training and I said, “You ain’t seen hand-to-hand (combat) until you try to get me out of a plane at five thousand feet!”

If I had said what spoiled brats they were in Nam to have helicopters, I could have been one of the paper-hat brigade, one of the group that calls itself The Greatest Generation, the one that talks about its Sacrifices, and how everybody needs to show them Gratitude, Gratitude, Gratitude and how about some Gratitude for a change?

Gratitude is the main lyric of The Song of the Greatest Generation. It gets them money. But the refrain is how easy everybody else has it. “We were raised in the great Depression, we fought The Great Big War,” they sing, tears in their eyes.

I have all the money I want, but I sure would enjoy doing some of that “You have it easy!” bit. It sounds like a lot of fun.

The paper hat crowd wears paper army hats. What kind of hat would an ex-spook wear? He could have on a paper Casper-the-Ghost hat. The trouble is that that looks just like a Ku Klux Klan hood.

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The Woman Who “Saved the World”

I believe this is the anniversary of the day that Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. By a strange coincidence, it is also the anniversary of the day that the entire political left in America switched from demanding American neutrality to demanding that America get into World War II.

Within a few days of Hitler’s attack on the USSR, the United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany.

KGB files that were opened when the USSR collapsed showed that Communist infiltration into the Roosevelt State Department went deeper than even Senator McCarthy suspected. But, as Joe Sobran pointed out, even the parts of the Roosevelt State Department who were not Communists never made single statement that Stalin would not have approved of.

One of the unsung heroes of the American left was the daughter of the American ambassador to Berlin in the early 1930s. She was a fanatical Stalinist and her letters on the subject are a matter of record.

In the early 1930s, the only major power that Hitler threatened was the USSR. It was a major accomplishment to change the situation so that the West destroyed Hitler and gave a third of the world to Stalin and Mao.

The daughter of the American ambassador had a role in that process. She gave sex to German officers for information and planted information where needed.

When you are worshipping The Greatest Generation for this wonderful achievement, don’t forget this woman, who had more to do with ‘Saving the World’ than any hundred Medal of Honor winners in World War II.

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