Britain Has Lost Itself

[RVN VET71]

28. My Dad was a Navy Chief in WWII

Ashore for supplies, he and his companion EM stumbled on a group of Nazi soldiers, their rifles stacked, a campfire burning, eating their dinner. The Nazis saw them and lunged for their weapons. Dad and the other sailor, armed with what Dad referred to as “Tommy guns” got the drop on them and killed all of them, I think he said there were 7. Dad was not proud of what happened. Just happy to be alive. He never mentioned this to me until after I’d returned from Vietnam.

Were he alive today, I’m afraid he’d be staying out of bars for fear he’d kill somebody -- many frequenters of such establishments being racist and authoritarian (no, I didn’t say “most”, just many). He’d be home with a bottle and a case of beer watching the news through teeth ground down by the gritting of them, beyond depressed and in despair for the world and mankind.

My point is that my father had to kill Nazis to stay alive, and now we have millions of “Americans” whose loyalty to that erstwhile “lost cause” is on public display, overtly in the form of parades and attacks on protesters, subtlety in the form of viewers of Hannity and Ingraham and the rest of the Fox sty of fat, rich,Murdoch fed pigs.

(Sorry for the rant.)