Author Archena Posted on November 11, 2024November 11, 2024Categories Monday, SpecialTags , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Thank You, Veterans

There are no veterans remaining from the War to End All Wars. World War I didn’t end all wars but it did begin the tradition of remembering those who died on the field of battle defending their nations. In Europe, they call it Remembrance Day and display the red poppy, recalling the poet’s words In Flanders Fields. Those who died on the bloody fields of World War I have not been forgotten even though those who fought alongside them and … Continue reading “Thank You, Veterans”

Author Archena Posted on February 28, 2023February 28, 2023Categories Current, MondayTags , , , , , , , , , ,

Isolationism is NOT in America’s Best Interest

George Washington famously advised that the US ‘avoid foreign entanglements’. In typical American fashion, we proceeded to ignore it completely and take it completely overboard as it suited us. Washington’s warnings were specific to his time and certainly an accomplished general like Washington had more than enough sense to realize the US had survived the Revolutionary War by the skin of its teeth and didn’t need to be trying that again anytime soon. We did, of course, in the War … Continue reading “Isolationism is NOT in America’s Best Interest”

Author Archena Posted on December 10, 2022December 10, 2022Categories Current, FridayTags , , , , ,

The Foolishness of Hopelessness

I like Dr. Steve Turley on YouTube. Of late, I haven’t agreed with him on a lot of things but today I heard him say something that was absolutely right – it ain’t over. He mentioned the Berlin Wall and Roe V Wade as changes no one ever thought would happen, except those fighting for those changes, of course. There are a host of others. The abolition of slavery was fought for from before the beginning of the Revolutionary War … Continue reading “The Foolishness of Hopelessness”

Author Archena Posted on December 8, 2021December 8, 2021Categories CurrentTags , , , ,

A Day of Infamy

Only a few are left now who were alive that fateful day 80 years ago. Maybe that’s why we seem to have forgotten the lessons of that time – it certainly isn’t because they didn’t tell us. Tom Brokaw called them ‘the greatest generation’ and they have full right to that title. The US wanted no real part of the war. Sure, we aided Britain and embargoed Japan – but Americans had no stomach for sending their boys to fight … Continue reading “A Day of Infamy”