For Memorial Day, retired USMC LTC Max Morton memorializes the lost Republic, and the warriors our new oligarchy has betrayed.
When I talk about members of the military who I served with, I purposely use the term warrior. Despite the social deconstruction du jour, the purpose of the military is to conduct war. Clausewitz famously stated, “war is the continuation of politics by other means,” and that other means is fighting and killing the enemy. If you think sending your military to war to do anything other than kill your enemy is acceptable, realistic, or moral, you are a dangerous fool who has no understanding or regard for the myriad disturbing consequences of half-assed armed conflict. So nouveau U.S. Army commercials and Navy wokeism comedy aside, the purpose of the military is to kill the enemy, and the people who do that killing are warriors.
Like many in flyover country, I come from a family with a tradition of military service, some of us were the proverbial lifers and others single-hitch patriots, so the concept of service and sacrifice is ingrained into our psyche. For our family, having to give your life in service to your country was always a possibility. Within that context, Memorial Day, for me, has been not just a remembrance but an acknowledgement of the outcome associated with that risk…that is until this year.
When I look at America, the way it is today, I wonder if any of the killing and dying was worth it. America today is run by someone, we’re not really sure who, and every part of its culture and history is being deconstructed.
The Constitution is not even a speed bump to a new class of oligarchs and tyrants who are in the process of “reimagining” America as a giant Eveready battery to power their globalist business interests. Clearly half the country no longer believes in ideals like individual liberty, freedom, free speech, live-and-let-live, the Golden Rule, or tolerance.
What happened? If I could go back in time and talk to my dead friends and comrades who fell in service to America, what would they say? Would they still have volunteered? Would they still have put their lives on the line for this? Because this is pretty much nothing like the way of life I know they signed up to defend. This is an abomination. This is something I expect they would fight against.
It’s a near-certainty that, before very much longer, they will get their chance.
Hmm, maybe I’m in the wrong here, maybe I have my head stuck someplace where the sun doesn’t shine, but with the people we have in office now and the unknown people behind the elected people, I’m seriously considering trying to talk my grandkids out of serving in the U.S. military, it that is what they are thinking of doing. For them to go into the ” woke ” ( what the hell ever that means ) military is just pissing in the wind from what I’ve been seeing on the news.
Right after 9-11 happened, my son wanted to join the army. I talked him out of it and I’m glad I did. I told him that this country is worth fighting for but the government isn’t worth one drop of American blood. What did we accomplish by going to the sandbox? Not one damn thing. Just like Vietnam where we lost over 58,000 men. What was accomplished by that? We didn’t know it at the time but we were fighting for a corporate monster that devours young men like hamburgers. We had a poem back in the Nam. It went like this:
“We the unwilling, fight the unnecessary, led by the unqualified, die for the ungrateful.” Let’s make it very clear, that in every war since WWII American warriors have not fought for our country. We have fought for the American government and corporate interests while being duped into believing that we were fighting for our country.
Bring the pain. No quarter. There are some who are unafraid to die painful physical deaths just like the cold, hungry, tired men of Washington’s army.
NO QUARTER.