Happy VE Day! – small dead animals

Steve Bannon & co. discuss here.

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Pay attention People! Steven Bannon’s War Room youtube videos need you to watch and learn.
Guy is amazingly intelligent. Can we import him to Canada? God knows we need some brains in media in this country!

Hosed, Canada does not listen to intelligence. Canadians embrace socialism and doublespeak, they are unworthy of the country that was given to them and they are they are allowing a minority, tin pot controlled government to ruin their lives and take their freedom.

Just imagine if Mr. Little Potato Head had been PM then. He would have taken the armys guns, apologized to the Germans and given them a $ 10B check.

When I were a wee lad it wasn’t too hard to track down WWI vets. Today the youngest living WWII vet is over 90 years old.

As long as I am alive they will at least be remembered.

As a music nerd since the late 60’s (and still going strong) I was browsing assorted stuff early this morning while enjoying my coffee. One of my stops was DGMLive, the home of the band King Crimson. Leader Robert Fripp and his wife celebrated VE day and documented it in his diary:
https://www.dgmlive.com/diaries/Robert%20Fripp/rf-diary-may8-2020
As for the choice of song, Robert was indeed the guitarist on Bowie’s original version….

Also contained in there is a wiki link all about Robert’s uncle Alfie Fripp…wow, quite the life, well worth looking at!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfie_Fripp

Every day the waste becomes more apparent.
My father helped win the war.
Cost the lives of thousands of his peers
I helped destroy the country.
By letting our progressive comrades rule,you and I lost the real war.
Everything Dad volunteered to fight,we did to ourselves.
The ideologues ,self satisfied fools and bandits, rule and the future we pass to our children is slavery to an parasitic overload of crazed thieves..
Makes me so proud.

My mother passed away today. She lived under Nazi occupation and met my dad during the war. She was exactly Queen Elizabeth’s age. I was thinking that VE Day would be a nice day for her to be released from her suffering. She had been in hospice for a couple months following a heart attack, and in a coma for several days, so we were all prepared for this.

I spent a week with her toward the end and she told me some stories about life during the war that I hadn’t heard. Yes she was an elderly woman, but she was still sharp as a tack, still told old stories, and was still a vital part of our family and we will all miss her. One blessing was that we got her out of the nursing home we took her to after the heart attack before that was impossible so that she could die at home with family.

gellen says:

May 8, 2020 at 9:52 pm

Tim, my sympathies on the passing of your mother. I’m glad she was able to tell you some new stories before she passed away. We need all the stories we can gather. I’ve co-authored a book about the men on our town’s cenotaph and also a book of letters from the front (WWI) to preserve just how great that generation was. Because I lived near an airport training Royal Navy Fleet Arm pilots I was able to research and publish a book on the wartime history of that airdrome and the young men who trained and were killed there and afterwards. The stories need to be told and that generation remembered. I am 1-1/2 years younger than your mother and Queen Elizabeth and one thing I can say is that I’m looking forward to rejoining my generation in Heaven. Again, my condolences.
1. Nancy Ross says:
  
  May 8, 2020 at 10:35 pm
  
  There are a million war stories. Good that you captured some.
  My family wouldn’t say much. It’s a shame that there’s some stuff people won’t talk about. Good that some have told their stories.
  
  Currently reading: “Hitler’s Stolen Children– The Shocking True Story Of The Nazi Kidnapping Conspiracy”
  by Ingrid Von Oelhafen & TimTate
Nancy Ross says:

May 8, 2020 at 10:20 pm

My sincere sympathy for your loss.
Ex-VanIslander in ABQ says:

May 8, 2020 at 10:30 pm

Heartfelt sympathies to you.

For whatever reason I am now reminded of the mom of the first serious g/f I had back in the 70’s. I was always super-skinny and her mom was always “eat eat eat.” As a bit of a clueless teen more interested in getting intimate with her daughter I never understood….then, one day when I was maybe 17 I saw her arm with those numbers branded in. I was not that oblivious to history (back then, it was actually tough somewhat), and in a flash it all made more sense.