Jimmy Kimmel
and the errand boy sent by grocery clerks roasted the Secret Service, Washington's
political and media elite at the 98th annual White House Correspondents'
Association dinner on Saturday night at the Washington Hilton.
Looking ahead
to the next four years, Da Preezy of the United Steezy mused, "In the
first term I sang Al Green. In my second term, I'm going
with Young Jeezy." (First Lady Michelle Obama nodded in approval.)
Shannon Bream tweeted
a memorable catchphrase: “There’s a term
for President Obama…Maybe not TWO terms.”
And what we’ve
all thought when Kimmel joked, "It
doesn't matter if you're black, like President Obama, or white, like President
Obama, or red, like President Obama's agenda."
Jim Treacher,
the guy who sicced the world on Obama for eating dog writes, “For the one or
two non-nerds reading this, that stands for Mystery Science Theater 3000, the show that played awful old movies
while some guys heckled them. Here are Bill Whittle and Andrew Klavan doing the
same thing to The Road We’ve
Traveled, the Obama campaign’s ridiculous, lie-filled, Tom Hanks-narrated
propaganda film.”
Is the errand boy sent by grocery clerks cool? No, indeed he is not. The corporate-controlled media is hard at work trying to get the Preezy of the United Steezy reelected.
President
“Cool” recently appeared on the Jimmy Fallon show to “prove” his coolness, but
instead gave the appearance of utter desperation while diminishing the office
of the president. Fallon thought his
schtick was funny and Obama was chasing the youth vote.
Is Obama
cool? I’d be a helluva lot more
impressed with him if he was merely competent—something he is not. He’s all microphone and teleprompter—no
message. The question to ask is: If you have nothing to say, does it matter
that you have endless venues in which to say it?
The
once-smitten-with-The-One, Peggy Noonan writes,
“There is a growing air of incompetence around Mr. Obama’s White House. It was
seen again this week in Supreme Court arguments over the administration’s
challenge to Arizona’s attempted crackdown on illegal immigration. As Greg
Stohr of Bloomberg News wrote, the court seemed to be disagreeing with the
administration’s understanding of federal power: ‘Solicitor General Donald
Verrilli…met resistance across ideological lines…Even Justice Sonia Sotomayor,
the court’s only Hispanic and an Obama appointee, told Verrilli his argument is
‘not selling very well.’ This follows
last month’s embarrassing showing over the constitutionality of parts of
ObamaCare.”
Emerging
from her stupor, Noonan continues, “It’s interesting that the Obama
campaign isn’t using what incumbent presidents always sooner or later use,
either straight out or subliminally. And that is ‘You know me. I’ve been
president for almost four years; you don’t know that other guy.’”
You know why the
campaign is not saying “You know me.” It’s because we do knowhim and we haven’t
liked what we’ve lived through from Jump Street. This post was linked at The Other McCain. Thanks, Smitty.
Saul Alinsky
dedicated his book, Rules for Radicals, to
Lucifer.
“Lest we forget at least an
over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends,
mythology, and history...the first radical known to man who rebelled against
the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own
kingdom — Lucifer.”
I received an
email the other day from blogger friend Smitty of The Other McCain. In it he asked, “How about putting Axelrod on
Axl Rose? I'm envisioning some story
about the pressure of polishing the Obama Administration turd getting too great,
and he snaps, and forms a band called Confiscated Guns and Subsidized Roses.”
On CNN’s State of the Union last Sunday, Candy
Crowley read off a laundry list of scandals to Obama strategist David Axelrod
who then tried to spin Obama’s record on good governance.
CROWLEY:
“Let me ask you in the broader sense, so you’ve got the GSA, the Secret Service
scandals, you have had sort of an ongoing thing about government money that was
given to Solyndra, the solar power company that went bankrupt and how they got
the backing that they did. You've had Fast and Furious, the ATF scandal that
Eric Holder has been working on. Do you think that the totality of that hurts
the president?”
The mistakes
are legion. Does anyone see how this
regime can recover from its growing litany of scandals?
The GOP will
offset its cost with money from what they dub a “slush fund” in the Democrats’
2010 health care law
In
a hastily called press conference Boehner said, “Today I’m pleased to announce
that on Friday the House will vote on a bill to extend the current interest
rate on federal student loans for one year. We will pay for this by taking
money from one of the slush funds in the president’s health care law.”
“You
know, this week the president’s traveling the country on the taxpayers’ dime,
campaigning and trying to invent a fight where there isn’t one, and never has
been one on this issue of student loans. We can and will fix the problem
without a bunch of campaign-style theatrics,” said Boehner.
“Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.”—Babe Ruth
It was a
bright, sunshiny day as Red Sox fans celebrated their 100 years of yesterdays
at Fenway Park. More than 200 Hall
of Famers poured out of the tunnel to the delight of those in attendance. All the greats—Jim Rice, Carlton Fisk, Carl
Yastrzemski, Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd, Bill “Spaceman” Lee, Bill Buckner, Luis
Tiant, Pumpsie Green, Johnny Pesky and Bobby Doerr.
Maestro John Williams
composed and conducted a special tribute, “Fanfare for Fenway” for the 100th
anniversary followed by “The Star Spangled Banner” and a flyover by vintage
World War II planes.
Then, like so
many other times over the past three-and-a-half years, the American people had
their day spoiled with “a few” words from the current occupier of the Oval
Office.
One website reported
that he delivered a video message recognizing the centennial amid a chorus of
boos.
The video
embedded with the piece is dubious because the uniforms are wrong, the game is
obviously a night game and the audio of POTUS’s message is absent. Nevertheless, Allahpundit received an update
from a reader who was at the game and he
informs us:
“I was at the
Red Sox game yesterday and can confirm the reported booing occurred, mixed with
cheers at about a 50/50 ratio I’d say.”
“I think the
reason there’s no video is because of the timing. The opening ceremony, which
lasted about an hour, had officially ended and the game had begun. Most people,
myself included, had stowed their phones and settled in for the game.”
“Obama’s
message was brief, perhaps 10 seconds long, and began to play, I believe, after
the first inning or half inning. It took me (and likely most others) by
surprise, so there was little opportunity to catch the moment on video. As it
turned out, there were other prerecorded messages played all game long between
innings. Obama’s was just the first, and the only one booed. Most, if not all,
of the other messages played were from people with Boston roots (e.g., Conan
O’Brien, Dennis Leary, Mark Wahlberg), and they all received favorable
reactions from the crowd.”
“Obama, a Democrat,
and Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, outlined the weaknesses they
saw in each other's economic plans in dueling speeches in Ohio and North
Carolina.”
"’I
wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth,’ Obama said at a community college
outside Cleveland, in a not-so-subtle dig at Romney's fortune, which is
estimated at up to $250 million.”
In Charlotte, the
site of the 2012 DNC convention, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney reminded his
supporters that the errand boy sent by grocery clerks is leading America down
the same disastrous path as the bankrupt country of Greece.
"One
thing I am convinced that you are not going to see at the Democratic
convention, you're not going to see President Obama standing alongside Greek
columns. He is not going to want to remind anybody of Greece. He doesn't want
to remind anyone of Greece because he has put us on a road to become more like
Greece," said Romney.
"With
trillion dollar deficits each of the years he has been in office, with
forecasts of huge deficits down the road this is a president who is putting in
peril our economic future," he added.
Piling on insult
to injury Romney said, “We’ve learned who Barack Obama is and what he’s capable
of doing. He’s over his head, and he’s swimming in the wrong direction.”
Romney’s
clever swipe at the president’s cheesy Greek columns and the DNC’s pathetic
hero worship is, by far, a more powerful metaphor for the stuttering
clusterfuck of a miserable failure than the pitiable reference to silver
spoons.
P. T. Barnum,
the American showman and scam artist best remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes
and for founding the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is
attributed with saying, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”
Barnum died in
1891, but were he alive today, he would be laughing his ass off at the suckers
who flocked to a Bronx loan shark, E & M Multi-Services, a tax preparation outfit
to receive a “free” debit card preloaded with funds worth $1,000 in cash.
In order to
procure the so-called “Obama Stimulus Card”, the hoodwinked dupes supplied E
& M Multi-Services with their Social Security cards, state IDs and more. Only one problem though: their cards were frozen due to a pending
fraud investigation.
These
bamboozled boobs will vote for the errand boy sent by grocery clerks again this
year because they never learn.
Oh, and let’s
not forget about the identity theft issue, although I doubt any of them have a
credit rating worth bragging about.
These are the same folks who vehemently oppose showing their ID to cast
a vote in an election, but like good little sheeples, willingly hand over their
documents for “free” Obama money.
Barnum was right.
There is a sucker born every minute.
On Monday’s edition of Hannity, the suspender-wearing
liberal adherent lost it once again yelling at panelist Jennifer Stefano, “You
don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.”
Despite Sean Hannity’s best efforts to force the fat fool
to apologize, Beckel refused insisting he was not on air. Finally, when he realized that his comment
was indeed aired, he mustered a demure apology and fell silent for the remainder
of the segment, but not before he expressed his fear that he would be fired
from his gig at Fox.
At 11:18PM, Beckel tweeted, “I just may not be cut out
for the tv business.”
I despise the guy and make no bones about it, but firing
him would deprive us of witnessing his hoof-and-mouth disease as his regularly
makes fools out of the current regime.
You will
recall that in February Reuters reported that the Obama regime was looking
for a new campaign slogan to replace the stale catchphrase “Hope and Change”.
On Monday,
during an interview with Diane Sawyer for ABC World News, Romney suggested that
Obama “start
packing”.
The day
before, while appearing on Fox News Sunday, David Axelrod told Chris Wallace, “The
choice in this election is between an economy that produces a growing middle
class and that gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids a chance to
get ahead and an economy that continues down the road we’re on.”
The scorching
irony is that Axelrod’s insult turned out to be a ringing endorsement for Mitt
Romney.
“When someone
you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.”—Author Unknown
On Easter
Monday I received a phone call from my best friend in the world—a friend who's been in my life for thirty-three years.
The instant I
answered the phone I had an ominous feeling.
My friend’s first words to me were, “Tommy died today at 3 o’clock.”
Tommy was her
oldest son. He was only
forty-eight. He leaves behind a wife, a
son and a daughter.
Since the time
Tommy was sixteen, he’d been sick. He
was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Over
the years, he’d had two double transplants adding functioning kidneys and a
pancreas in an effort to save his life.
Later, when
the transplants were reaching the end of their life-giving usefulness, he was
fitted with an insulin pump. It was
clear from the start that the pump was not going to help abate his
diabetes. For the last two years, Tommy
underwent dialysis three times a week with each session lasting for hours.
He would come
home from dialysis weakened and weary.
Tommy had to
have several amputations. He suffered in silence but was incredibly brave.
His wife says
that on Easter Sunday, he struck out on his own to visit his father at his home
and then weakly climbed into his truck to visit with his mom—almost as though
he knew his time on earth was drawing to a close.
On Easter
Monday, his brother Ronnie called my best friend imploring her to come to the
hospital right away, but pleaded with her to drive carefully. She didn’t arrive in time to say goodbye.
Tommy was, to
me, a brave man who fought the ravages of diabetes with courage and grace. He was quick to laugh and quick to
encourage. He was an inspiration to all
who knew him.
How lucky I am
to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. He was a good man and
a good friend. He has gone to be with
The Father—to bathe in the glory of God—to never know another moment of
suffering or pain.
His memorial service will be held on Thursday.
There will be no blogging until I get back home from
Tommy's memorial service and spend a little time with his mom, my best friend,
in an effort to console her in her dark hours of mourning.
Today,
shortly after 2:20PM, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum graciously
suspended his campaign thanking his supporters and the many volunteers who gave
their all in his efforts to win the nomination.
It
seems that when his daughter Bella fell ill again over the Easter weekend, he
and his family re-evaluated their priorities and decided the run for the White
House would steal precious moments with Bella from them.
Mr.
Santorum’s improbable bid for the presidency amazed pundits and everyday
Americans. He worked harder on the trail
that any other candidate. Any other. Period.
During his
presser, Santorum discussed the privilege of traveling around the country,
hearing the stories of Americans. He said, “It has been inspiring to me, the
story after story that we’ve been engaged with. And it turns out it wasn’t
really my voice that I was communicating, it was your voice. The voice that you
gave me from the stories and the experience that I’ve had.”
Almost
immediately following his statement to the press, Team Romney sent the
following email:
“Senator
Santorum is an able and worthy competitor, and I congratulate him on the
campaign he ran. He has proven himself to be an important voice in our party
and in the nation. We both recognize that what is most important is
putting the failures of the last three years behind us and setting America back
on the path to prosperity.”
Attorney
General Eric “Nation of
Cowards” Holder has been a critic of the Voter ID laws that have been
sweeping the country.
“There is no
proof that our elections are marred by in-person voter fraud,” said Holder in a
recent interview with NBC Nightly News where he described Voter ID laws as a
“solution in search of a problem.”
The Justice
Department recently rejected Texas’s voter identification law, saying that it
would disenfranchise a large number of Hispanic voters. In the interview,
Holder said Texas had failed to make the case that voter fraud was a pervasive
issue.
Holder went on
to say that the voter identification laws amounted to “a solution in search of
a problem.” The attorney general said that there was little evidence of voter
fraud and that the laws requiring voters to have state-issued identification
were bound to inhibit voter turnout.
Because voter
fraud is essentially irrational, it is not surprising that no credible evidence
suggests a voter fraud epidemic. There is no documented wave or trend of
individuals voting multiple times, voting as someone else, or voting despite
knowing that they are ineligible. Indeed, evidence from the microscopically
scrutinized 2004 gubernatorial election in Washington State actually reveals
just the opposite: though voter fraud does happen, it happens approximately
0.0009% of the time. The similarly closely-analyzed 2004 election in Ohio revealed
a voter fraud rate of 0.00004%. National Weather Service data shows that
Americans are struck and killed by lightning about as often.
Using a
calculator and applying the Washington State and Ohio numbers of 0.0004% and 0.0009% to the 2008 presidential election
between 5,000,000 and 12,000,000 fraudulent votes would have been cast (total
of 129,000,000 votes were cast). Yes, the percentages look small and likely
would not have changed the outcome, but 5 to 12 million is not insignificant.
Enter James O’Keefe and his Veritas Project. The video embedded below shows a young man
entering a D.C. polling place asking for a ballot, not just any ballot mind
you, but that of Attorney General Eric Holder.
Dan Amira, of New
York Magazine, counters the humiliating video by writing, “There
are a lot of disruptive things that people are capable of doing that they
nevertheless don't do, and which we consequently don't need to freak out about.
Someone could, hypothetically, go to a local supermarket and lick all the
apples, just to savor the essence of apple without coughing up 30 cents. That
doesn't mean we should lock up all the apples behind a Plexiglas barrier.”
U.S. Deputy
Attorney General James Cole refused
to answer questions from The
Washington Times affiliated America’s Morning News radio program regarding
the Project Veritas video showing an undercover activist being offered Attorney
General Eric Holder’s voter ballot.
All this
reminds me of the scene in the movie, A
Few Good Men, where Col. Jessup angrily says to the JAG, “You want the
truth? You can’t handle the truth!”
Mike
Huckabee is a pleasant enough guy with a preacher-man façade. Cumulus
Media Networks is sending him, unarmed, into the Roman Coliseum to be
devoured by ravenous lions.
This Monday, the
former Arkansas governor will launch a three-hour show that will play on about
200 stations nationwide in the same time slot as Rush Limbaugh.
“In the supermarket, there’s an aisle for cereal, and
there’s probably more than one box in the cereal section. Not everybody wants
Cheerios. Some people want Frosted Flakes—though I’m not saying that I’m the
Frosted Flakes, maybe that’s a terrible metaphor,” said Huckabee.
The slogan for the new show is “More conversation, less
confrontation.”
Cumulus is hawking Huck’s gig as a “safe,
non-dangerous alternative to Rush,” adding, “If you are looking for
conservative content, we want you to consider our guy instead of theirs.”
I’ve got a
newsflash for the Dickey Brothers and Cumulus:
Politics is not a playground, it’s a battlefield. There
will be blood.
The New York Timesadmits
that Limbaugh has been the most powerful talk radio host in the United States
for two decades. “Other news media personalities, like Bill O’Reilly, have
tried to go up against Mr. Limbaugh and failed, but Mr. Huckabee has the
advantage of his political credentials and Mr. Limbaugh’s own weakened
position.”
Political
credentials? You’ve got to be kidding.
Maurice
Clemmons was facing 95 years in prison for a lengthy
list of crimes, but was pardoned by Huckabee over the objections of
prosecutors and family members of his victims.
Citing his
young age when he committed those crimes as the reason he commuted his
sentence, he showed up in Tacoma, Washington killing four police officers. In effect, his pardoning of this criminal
wound up being his “Willie
Horton”.
His nickname, “Tax Hike Mike”, is not undeserved. The Tax Foundation
makes no bones about the fact that during his 10-and-a-half years as governor
of Arkansas he “presided over $505 million worth of tax increases. Sales taxes were raised. So were gasoline taxes and the per capita tax burden on the state’s residents grew by 50 percent.”
On October 26,
2007, Pat Toomey (then-president and CEO of Club for Growth and now-senator
from Pennsylvania) said
of Huckabee:
“Huckabee
makes no secret of his desire to turn the GOP leftward, calling himself a ‘different
kind of Republican,’ adopting protectionist positions, and peppering his
campaign speeches with the kind of class warfare rhetoric one expects to hear
from John Edwards. No doubt, this is the reason that the liberal media is so
smitten with him.”
“Instead of
talking about curtailing government spending, Huckabee refuses to endorse
President Bush's veto of a vastly expanded S-CHIP. He is an unabashed fan of No
Child Left Behind and an opponent of private school choice. Huckabee is also
quickly becoming the labor unions' favorite Republican, recently gaining a
union endorsement along with Hillary Clinton.”
“…the liberal media is so smitten with him.”
[Emphasis mine]
Jeffrey Lord,
writing for The American Spectator, opines:
“What do you
think our far-left friends over at Media Matters think of all this? They, after
all, have spent weeks now trying—and failing abjectly—to strip Rush Limbaugh
from every one of his 600-plus stations in a phony, ginned-up hate campaign
designed to intimidate Rush's sponsors.”
“Media
Matters loves Mike Huckabee! And the New York Times hasn't loved a ‘conservative’
with such fervor since it regularly lathered over the pre-2008 John McCain.
Speaking of which, when will Cumulus sign RINO devotee Megan McCain?”
Rush has his
warts too, but the blemishes on the charming preacher-man are too ugly to
ignore.
“The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a
helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world,
and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it."—Augustus William Hare
There’s an old
adage asserting that even a blind pig can find a truffle once in a while—the
point being that every so often someone says something absolutely spot on.
What else besides the Constitution does Mr.
Obama not know?
Here, in
outline form, is why the pronouncements from President Barack Obama, warning
the Supreme Court to not overturn Obamacare are so chilling:
1. The
President supposedly went to Harvard Law School, graduated from same, was Law
Review President of the Harvard Law Review at Harvard Law School. Then he
supposedly taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. Those
are powerful law schools. Yet he obviously knows little of how the Constitution
works if he thinks it would be rare or startling for the Supreme Court to
overrule a law passed by Congress.
2. If he does
not know how the government works under the Constitution, he should not be
President.
3. If he does
not know how the Constitution works even in its broadest strokes, what else
does he not know?
4. Is he
really so arrogant that he thinks he can lecture and threaten the Court? This
is his second attempt to bully and demean the Court. Is this from arrogance or
from foolishness and arrogance? In
either case, it is not good.
Stein opines
that he, Obama, apparently thinks that it's his job to leave Western Europeans
and Americans stripped of missile defense. He apparently thinks it's his job to
unilaterally disarm America. That shows a yawning chasm in what he knows and
what he does not know.
Another
subject Mr. Obama thinks he knows about and doesn't is the oil companies. He
hates them. Why does Mr. Obama hate them? Because of a juvenile, City College
of New York circa 1937 leftist view of
the whole world. Sad. Disturbing. That is a highly anti-American worldview.
This blog post
is not an April Fool’s joke. There is currently an internet contest being
sponsored by Circle
of Moms—Top 25 Political Moms. The
website claims it is the “largest and fastest-growing online community for
moms, connecting over 6 million moms worldwide to share advice and support
essential to the journey of motherhood. More than 13% of moms in the US are
members, and we attract 100,000 new moms every week.”
There’s no
prize for the winner, just the satisfaction of being recognized as one of the
Top 25 Political Moms.
I didn’t know
about the contest until I read a post by BigFurHat over at IOwnTheWorld. Since then The Lonely Conservative has been
in second place behind a Lefty site whose owner says [emphasis mine], “I promise that if I win I will faithfully
continue to register our collective dissent against all things unjust and stand
up for the little guy and fight Scott Walker until he's out of office and kiss
the crap out of your babies, and so on. You have my word. Or you can
recall me (after a year). So please vote! There's some unfortunate competition in the contest (scroll down
the list, you'll see what I mean) as well as some other great blogs. My friend
"Hippie Liberal Momma" is a particularly refreshing voice; check her
out. And vote daily for all the ones you like (I hope that includes me). But
choose carefully, as accidentally voting
for the wrong blogs could lead to who only knows what kind of trouble down the
road, including, but not limited to: perpetuation of the stay-at-home-mom-myth,
senseless infighting among women who should otherwise be aligned, unhealthy
exposure to dangerous "family values" hypocrisy, defunding of Planned
Parenthood, dismissal of sexism and racism as 'myths of the left' and
legal mandates that school lunches include the 'Parents' Choice' package (Twinkies, walking tacos, freedom fries and a Bible). So vote
for me if you oppose any of that and I'll do my best to fight it.”
The
Lonely Conservative writes, “The top bloggers from the left aren’t your
mom’s Democrats. They’re radical progressives. The one in the lead describes
herself as ‘Leftist. Very, very leftist’ and has made it her mission to see
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker defeated. I’m sure she has no problem with
the vicious way
her side has treated Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefish. The website running
the contest says they have millions of followers. Do you really want that 'very, very leftist' winning and sending the message to millions of moms that
her views are mainstream? Don’t you want to do something, no matter how small,
to show that there is no conservative war on women?”
At 4:35PM
today, The Lonely Conservative trailed the Lefty site 2292 to 2110. Checking back at 6:03PM, the vote tally was
2314 for the Lefty and 2159 for TLC—more than double the number of votes for
TLC in an hour-and-a-half. Awesome.
Voting ends April 4 at 7PM Eastern. You
can vote
once every 24 hours. If you have access
to multiple computers, vote
from those as well. It seems that’s how
that Lefty site manages to stay ahead of Lonely.
Thanks for your vote.
UPDATE:
9:36PM 4/1/12—You all have propelled The Lonely Conservative to the
top of the list. She leads the Lefty
2413 to 2391. Keep those votes coming.
UPDATE:
2:00AM 4/2/12—A quick check shows that in the last few hours the
Lefty site has retaken the lead over The Lonely Conservative by 61 votes. Let’s redouble our efforts and help TLC win.
UPDATE:
4:23PM 4/3/12—When I voted a few minutes ago, Karen was leading the
Lefty by 300 votes. Let’s keep pouring
on the votes. Defeat those commie
mommies! Voting
ends on April 4 at 7:00PM Eastern.
Harold Dooley, a Vietnam Veteran from Harrisburg, NC, hugs
his wife after finding the name of Frank Tafoya on the Moving Wall, the
traveling half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on display at the
Vietnam Veterans Homecoming Celebration at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. Dooley
was a Sgt. Track Commander with the 4th Infantry Division and 10th Armored
Calvary, and Tafoya was one of his gunmen. Dooley recalled, "He was 18
years old. He said he joined the Army to see the world." Dooley was in
Vietnam from 1966 until he was injured by a land mine on Friday, January 13,
1967; an injury for which he received the Purple Heart. When he came home, the
only ones who welcomed him home were family members. On being at the homecoming
celebration at the Charlotte Motor Speedway today and being able to find Frank
Tafoya's name and place his hand on it, Dooley said, with tears in his eyes,
"I feel like I made contact with him." Photo courtesy Melissa Melvin-Rodriguez, The Charlotte Observer
They didn’t
want strangers to know where they had been, so many Vietnam veterans stopped on
their way home from serving to buy new civilian clothing and either burn or
throw away their uniforms. Many, upon
their return home, were spat upon.
While they
served in a protracted war, the American people were waging their own war at
home against the U.S. government.
On Saturday,
March 31, 2012 thousands of veterans displayed evidence of their service
donning ball caps, t-shirts and leather vests at the Vietnam
Veterans Homecoming Celebration at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. On this day, strangers came up to them to
thank them for their service.
Forty years
later, those who attended the homecoming showed those who had once been so unfairly
hated that there would finally be peace for them.
Once, they
didn’t want anyone to know where they had been.
Now, they stand proudly among the rest of us. It’s about time.
I would ask
all of you when you see a Vietnam vet or any vet, tell them you appreciate
their sacrifice, their service and their courage. God bless our troops. May they never again have war waged against
them by their own countrymen.