B. U. G. S.

I am going to get to the rest of hte earlier comments, but Derek commented on “December 7” from a young man’s point of view, so I want to get to that today.

Derek says,

“Wow. I am a young person so I have only had to hear 20 years of it. My grandfather fought in Okinawa and got two purple hearts. I don’t think that he ever would have wanted to go if he had known what the consequences were.”

“Do you have as much disdain for WWI? It was always my thought that WWI caused WWII.”

“JFK was another one I had to hear about. The old “Ask not what your country can do for you” crap got real old growing up. I thought that we weren’t supposed to have an allegiance to our government – they were to have one to us. Thank God JFK JR. was a real screw-up politically or else my generation would have had another guy’s ego to burden us for the rest of our lives.”

Comment by Derek

World War I did to Europe what World War II did to America. America did almost no fighting in WW I because Europe was so exhausted by then that the massive industrial might of America ended teh war within months of hte time we got there in late 1918.

American industry in 1917 was larger than Germany, France and Britain combined.

So there wasn’t much OF World War I over here. But the amount of oppression the Federal Government managed to impose in that small period is frightening.

But there was a REACTION to THAT oppression. In the 1920s and 1930s there was a return to “Normalcy” that had many meanings but the important one here is that, year after year after World War I, people marvelled at what we had fallen for in the war hysteria.

But the war hysteria os World War II lasted for years, and we celebrate it every year. Being totally sheepish in World War II is still celebrated as the ultimate patriotism.

Charles Lindbergh and others are still in the Memory Hole of history. They thought that the whole approach was wrong. And no punishment for them, even after their death, is never enough.

I do not underestimate where a man can be at age twenty. If I were talking to the twenty-year-old Bob Whitaker, I would have a lot to learn from him. His attitudes were my attitudes. I could give him facts I have learned, experiences I have had.

I could give a twenty-year-old Bob Whitaker TOOLS that I have. But I would have to convince him they were tools he could USE.

The World War I generation came home and took their country back over. The World War II Generation brought their obedience back here with them.

The World War I generation came back as Americans.

The group that calls itself The Greatest Generation came back as slaves who were were determined to teach slavery to our people.