I was a mover for several years and I did my share of moving our military around. During my years of moving a lot of military people you may ask who was it that I enjoyed moving the most . That’s an easy question to answer first I moved a retiring General to his new home on Lake Ten Killer, Lake Ten Killer is in Oklahoma, I didn’t make this up. The other one was the time I moved in the base commander, the Colonel picked up a chair and carried it into his house all by himself! This kind of thing just didn’t happen when moving military people after all I knew my place in the whole scheme of things. None of them ever said it, but I knew all of them, in their mind, Was calling me the c word. That’s just the way it was, they were in ” the service” and I was just a c word. I’m sure those of you that are familiar with the military know that the c word is about the worse thing you could be. The c word is of coarse–civilian. One time I was moving in this Army officer and on some of his boxes the word Captain was replaced by the word Major. It turns out that the civilian packers wrote Captain, because when packing military in was required to write their rank on each of their boxes, and it turns out he was just promoted to Major so when he discovered that the civilian packers were writing Captain on his boxes he made them x out all the boxes they wrote Captain on and replaced it with Major. This kind of military attitude was nothing new to me. In high school the kids that were in ROTC may it clear that the rest of kids were just civilians, they couldn’t help it after all they were taught this at their homes. But you know it wasn’t always like this where the military is always glorified. Todays song was made on Jan. 8, 1914 over 104 years ago. The song is featured on PBS American Experience: The Great War, here is a preview on the program.
It’s hard in this day and time to believe that there was a time in America where there wasn’t the worshipping of the military that we have today. There was a time when parents didn’t gladly sacrifice their sons because the military goes blindly into war.
The line in the song: Who dares to put a musket on his shoulder to shoot some other’s mother darling boy! reminds me of a quote from our former president, Jimmy Carter who once said: War may sometimes be a necessary evil . but no matter how necessary it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other’s children. We will never hear a statement like that from our current president. Yes President Trump loves the military and all it’s glory it’s such a shame that he had to take those five deferments during the Vietnam War. He took four deferments because his college education was more important than serving his county, and at the age of 22 after college he was already to serve his country and wouldn’t you know it he had to take another deferment because he had massive bone spurns in his heels, it’s amazing he could even walk! But good news for President Trump those massive bone spurns just disappeared right after he received his deferment. Although Donald Trump never got to experience war he still loves war, in fact he has wrapped himself with the American flag and loves the military so much that he has decided what America needs most is a military parade. Yes a military parade just like they have in Russia, China, and of coarse North Korea. Well he already holds Hitler style rallies where he is praised or maybe worshipped is a better way of describing them. The military parade that is planned to be on Veterans Day November 11,2018. What happened 100 years ago? Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect. The United States previously observed Armistice Day. The U.S. holiday was renamed Veterans Day in 1954. What could be more inappropriate to have a parade glorifying war on the 100th anniversary of the end of our first World war. Of coarse the purpose of the parade is not to glorify war it’s to glorify President Donald J. Trump. The cost of this parade is estimated to be around 50 million dollars but you know that’s isn’t anywhere near the real cost and I’m not just referring to the cost of money what is even more important is what is this going to cost the reputation of our country. Are going to be country like the theme of the first World War that’s Making the World Safe for Democracy or we’re going to become a nation ruled by the military? Just look at all the generals President has appointed to key jobs in our government, it seems that only generals and people that work for Fox News will get appointed by President Trump. I hope that when this parade happens on November 11, there will also be another parade in Washington DC The other parade will celebrate the Democrats taking back the House AND Senate which would once again make America Safe For Democracy!—-Join me again tomorrow when I will have a great song about taxes. Don’t know any great songs about taxes, well you will hear one tomorrow.