On Hamas

If Arab nationalists had a reasonable argument against the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, which they did not, any such argument has since been invalidated by the subsequently self proclaimed Palestinians crimes and terrorism. They are like the Noldor in Tolkein's Silmarillion who have fallen under the Prophecy of The North and the Doom of Mandos.

𝑇𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑦𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑; 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑉𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑉𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑜𝑢𝑡, 𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑜 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠. 𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐹𝑒̈𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑟𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑉𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑡ℎ 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝐸𝑎𝑠𝑡, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑝𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑖𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑂𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑒𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑢𝑒. 𝑇𝑜 𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑙 𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑛 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙; 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑘𝑖𝑛 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑖𝑛, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛, 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑏𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟.

𝑌𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑚𝑎𝑛. 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑦𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑦𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ'𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤.

The crimes of Hamas and its supporters exceed those of the Nazis in their depravity. It proved hard but possible after the Holocaust for the German people to rejoin the community of nations. While the poisons of Totalitarianism and Racism that National Socialism fostered can never be completely eradicated, and indeed preceded that movement, sincere efforts to repudiate them merit acknowledgement. Also in its 12 year rule the NSDAP did not sink roots deep enough to eliminate opposition and the legacy of an alternative culture that could be restored and built upon.

Among the Arabs who identify as Palestinian the situation is far worse, and indeed it is worse than it was some 55 years ago when the KGB sponsored the creation of a Palestinian identity, separate from Jordanian Egyptian Syrian or Lebanese, as a permanant source of conflict. Not just Israel but no nation, Jewish Christian Secular or indeed even Muslim, can exist at peace with a nation that rejects every concept of tolerance restraint law decency or humanity. If the seeds of an alternative set of values still exist among the Palestinians of Gaza, and in the West Bank where polls indicate that if the Authority under Abbas were to allow an election then Hamas would win, and in the camps controlled by Hezbollah in Lebanon, then only through the comprehensive defeat of Hamas could a path open for the repudiation of the culture of death. Only then could a possible future for the descendants of the Arabs who migrated to lands between the river and the sea in the 19th and 20th centuries based on peace decency and respect be found for them as citizens of whatever country they may come to.

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.

Wretchard T. Cat:
"Most people have been brought up to be civil to a fault, to avoid making a public spectacle at all costs and in extremis to walk away rather than be openly disagreeable. This is a civic virtue in a high trust society.
But in a tribal society the rules are different."

Reading about the NYPD "Sheltering" in Grand Central Station with the pro-Hamas mob baying outside and the French government caving to the Islamists and demanding that Israel stop hunting the monsters who hide behind women and children and under a hospital after they murdered babies in the most depraved ways imaginable I wondered what would happen if people did resort to vigilantism and if the Israelis did use their own clandestine forces to destroy the sanctuaries their enemies have formed in societies no longer able to defend themselves?

Hamas, which is part of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), is engaged in Insurrection and Invasion. It is not a Law Enforcement problem but a military threat that uses women and children as strategic and tactical assets.

Radical mob insurrections in the Arab world have been marked by savagery and butchery. In 1958 KIng Faisal II of Iraq, the cousin of King Hussein of Jordan the father of the current king of Jordan, was deposed by a secular coup. The king and his family and his Prime Minister were killed, their bodies were mutilated and desecrated and dragged through the streets. In 2011 Islamists chanting "God is Great" sodomized Muammar Gadaffi with a bayonet before shooting him.

The MB is banned in Egypt and Jordan and in many other countries. The population of Gaza overwhelmingly support Hamas. While it was flawed the election of 2006 did result in a win for Hamas. In 2007 the coalition with the PA broke down and in a civil war Hamas seized control of Gaza. Since then they have ruled through terror and used Gaza as a platform for attacking Israel, and threatening the government of Egypt and the PA on the West Bank. The have refined using the plight of the population that they have caused to extort aide from the Israelis that they attacking. Aide which is then diverted to enable a greater military threat. All opposition has beenkilled or expelled and the population by all reports is both dependant on and supportive of Hamas.

The governments of Egypt and Jordan are determined to keep the population of Gaza in place and out of their countries. This is not due to an attachment to the Geneva Conventions prohibiting displacing civilians that have been routinely ignored in other cases. The insistance that they remain in Gaza, where they have and will launched not just military attacks but terrorism of unspeakable sadistic horror, is due to their determination not to expose their nations to the same horror. They believe with good reason that if they admit the population of Hamas and its supporters then they, the leaders of Egypt and Jordan and their supporters, will die and that their people will be subject to a bloody tyranny.

What will happen if the Hamas terror is met by terror and identified perpetrators and supporters of violence against Jews are killed? Would the NYPD vigorously pursue the cases? Would the federal government flood the city to protect the Muslim community, and impose restrictions on Jews? What if the violence escalated and 200,000 Muslims, open Hamas supporters and women and children, declare that NYC is not safe for them and they begin marching en masse across the George Washington Bridge to New Jersey? If those people were to be permitted to enter NJ then all of the cultural social and legal protections would be swept away and a sharia compliant system would replace it.

Who would stop them and How?

On Racial Identities

I owe decency to individuals. As members of a hostile community I don't owe Blacks a damn thing. As a group they have been badly served by "Leaders" who have been corrupt tools of the racists who exploit them. Given that they are a shrinking and not very influential part of the larger society, with above average expressions of social pathologies, I see no reason to invest in promoting the affiliation of people with that identity group. If individuals in response to normal decent treatment affiliate with and identify with productive communities then that would merit support and encouragement.

The question then is what is meant by "Black" as a social group. If it means identifying with Racism Misogyny Antisemitism and violent and criminal behavior then that does not merit support encouragement or tolerance. If it means a group recently arrived in the United States from some backwards and repressive place, which can be applied I think to those grandchildren of slaves who left the former plantations and moved to America in the 20th century, then they deserve neither more nor less support than anyone else. The vast majority of Americans, Jews Germans Italians Greeks Slavs Asians etc are the children of people who migrated to the US from nasty places after the Civil War but before the children and grandchildren of the former slaves left the plantations. Subsequent arrivals by Hispanics, East Asians, East Europeans, South Asians and others add to the overwhelming majority who have their own legacies of oppression that they came to America to escape and who have no connection to any injustice that the ancestors of Blacks faced.

The only people that the Blacks may have had claim against were the minority of Whites in the Slavocracy of the South who used slaves to compete with free white labor. The great great great grandchildren of that group are often found among the Democratic Party elite that still exploits Blacks as an identity group. Indeed some of them are themselves Black, notably Barack Obama. Even the Wasps of the North should not be any logical target for claims advanced by advocates of collective guilt.

What the Left uses the nurtured sense of grievance and entitlement and alienation in the Black community to advance is a general criticism of Capitalism. The thoroughly irrational argument is that since the Jews Italians Russians Wasps etc all benefited from Capitalism in America and the slaves suffered then everyone owes the descendants of the slaves. That is ridiculous on many levels but first because the above mentioned Slavocracy was not a Capitalist society. Indeed that is why a Civil War at the cost of 600,000 dead, proportionately over 6 Million if fought in today's America, had to be fought and to free the slaves.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/polling/antisemitism-worst-among-black-americans-democrats-despite-mlks-defense

Who Is Working for Whom?

кто кого?

- VI Lenin (Who, Whom?)

It is more likely that the Obama/Biden regime is Putin's puppet than Trump was.

Biden made noise about condemning Putin and backing Zalenskyy but that is Theater. Biden and Putin and almost everyone else expected Putin's army to roll into Kyiv in less than a week. They expected Zalenskyy to accept a payoff and get on the plane ready to take him into exile. The support promised for Ukraine and set in motion, stripping Nato stocks and increasing the ability of China Iran (except for unexpected domestic trouble) and other anti-Western forces to act with impunity, was arranged before the Russians got bogged down.

Putin's propagandists push the story that Ukraine is the hopelessly corrupt tool of Putin and that they recklessly started a war against ethnic Russians. Stalin had moved ethnic groups around to create conflict and increase dependence on Russia in peripheral districts like Crimea and the Donbas. Zalenskyy campaigned on reducing conflict with ethnic Russians in the Donbas. His doing so undermined Putin's plan to exploit ethnic grievances, as he had done in Georgia.

The former Ukraine regime, the one that Putinbots scream was elected fairly and then overthrown and which was the one that rented Hunter Biden, and Joe, and which Biden blackmailed to fire an honest prosecutor, was Putin's tool. Putin invaded because Zalenskyy was deconstructing the web of corruption and exposing the links to Putin and to Biden. That was what was revealed in the phone call that the Democrats had the nerve to impeach President Trump over. The links between the Democrats and KGB/SVR/CCP Intelligence run deep and go back decades.

Who destroyed the Nordstream pipelines? Was it the US or the Russians or some other actor? If the US did it was it to harm Putin or serve as part of a plan on his behalf? We do not know but we have zero reason to accept any claims made by Biden. Will Putin attempt to fully mobilize and crush Ukraine and the Baltics too? Could Putin even pull it off now that Ukraine has against all odds chewed through the trained Russian forces?

On Alec Baldwin and "Rust"

Alec Baldwin the Actor was not responsible for the gun having live ammunition. The actions he was supposed to do that day, drawing a weapon and pointing it at the camera and pulling the trigger, are in fact a traditional part of film lore. In fact that is the closing image in "The Great Train Robbery" of 1903. It is an actor's responsibility to hold production to the contract and the contract does state that a certified Armorer will distribute and collect all firearms used on set and will demonstrate to the crew and actors that the weapon is not loaded with live ammunition and may be handled safely as instructed. Any potentially dangerous condition on a set, such as the use of firearms or a live flame, is reason for a Safety Briefing by the Director and the Assistant Director with all cast and crew present.

As I said it was Baldwin's responsibility as an Actor to ask that the Armorer be present and do their job but frankly I doubt that their not doing so and instead the Assistant Director handing him the weapon would be considered a criminal act on Baldwin's part. After all the Actor is there as an employee and as such is taking orders. Unfortunately for Baldwin though he was not simply there as an Actor. He was also the film's Producer. It was his job as the Producer to hire the Armorer and the Assistant Director, and for that matter the Actor who should have had the briefing that would have revealed if the weapon was safe to use on set, and see to it that they provided a safe work place. For his failure as the Producer, who was the Employer and the Manager present, Baldwin should in my opinion be held responsible. 

An actor is not working as a soldier or law enforcement officer whose job it is to safely handle firearms. It is not the actor's job to handle live ammunition. It is the actor's job to handle a prop and make it appear to be real. You may see an actor appear to do dangerous or even impossible things but it is not real. You may believe that you saw the actor jump out a window and land on a roof 30' away or fall 4 stories into a dumpster and then run away. They didn't. The actor jumped just far enough to be out of the frame of the camera and then you saw a Stunt Double who is trained and qualified to do so fall 20' or 30' and you do not see the double land on a cushion. In fact you know that happened because it is hard to enjoy the illusion if you are really afraid that it is real, unless you are one of the few who seeks seeing people hurt.

Nevertheless a film set is a dangerous industrial workplace. People do get injured or killed on set. Tragedies have happened including on the "Rust" set and the deaths of Vic Morrow and two children on "The Twilight Zone" set, and too many others. Safety rules and procedures have been developed over decades and hundreds of skilled professionals work to create the illusions. For his failure to follow those rules and properly employ and manage those professionals I would hold Alec Baldwin responsible. It was his job.

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Instapundit: THE ESTABLISHMENT STILL SUPPORTS HIM, THOUGH: Alec Baldin May Be Criminally Charged.
https://www.emilypostnews.com/p/alec-baldwin-may-be-criminally-charged

Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 10:51 pm
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Decline and Fall

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/department-race-diaspora-and-indigeneity-established-university-chicago

The Barbarians are in the gates. When they brought in the Marxist cypher Yee as Provost and then the Berkley apparatchik Alivisatos to kill the effort to retain the University as a redoubt against the Orwellian tide sweeping through the academies the game was up. Arguably it has been a losing fight since John Boyer first worked to cut back the Core and expand the College. There were brave rear guard actions in defense of The Life of The Mind and Intellectual Freedom with high standards, this is the university that closed its school of Education when they saw that it could not maintain the expected level of scholarly standards, but all of that will now crumble before indoctrination and censorship by mobs of entrenched bigots. It is a sad thing when a great university declines. The fall of Alma Mater is like the senescence of any parent, a time of grief and reflection. While I am no religious fundamentalist I think that such a loss can be described by analogy to scripture.

"𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒅𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆! 𝑶 𝑱𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏, 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒔."

"𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒏, 𝑶 𝑳𝒖𝒄𝒊𝒇𝒆𝒓, 𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈! 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒖𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅, 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒔𝒕 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔!"

For those who prefer a more literary depiction of a decline with the hoped for but not expected chance of recovery, with the assurance that I wish the University no ill, may I suggest Frodo's words of judgment and pity for Saruman, "𝑯𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒏𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕. 𝑯𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒔; 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒎, 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕."

Dad and Dole

Bob Dole took a bullet for Dad.

God Bless and Rest in Peace.

He saved my father's life.

Thank you Sir.

WW-II was an interesting war. Everyone showed up. One day Dad, who was a Squad Leader, was in a foxhole next to a road in Italy when a German fighter plane straffed the road. A jeep stopped and a man clutching a violin case jumped out and jumped into my father's foxhole. It was Jascha Heifitz, the greatest violinist in the world. As I said, everyone got into the act.

By April 1945 my father was, in a foxhole, in the Appenines near Bagni di Lucca. The snow was deep. It was bitter cold. Every third day he had to turn his underwear inside out to keep the lice busy. Dad was sick with frostbite feet and maybe typhus. Odds were that he was going to die.

Dad had already used up more favors than God usually hands out. He was originally supposed to be in the first group of recruits sent to reinforce the Philippines. Dad caught a cold in boot camp and was reassigned, so he missed the Bataan Death March. Instead the Army sent him to spend a couple of weeks in Florida at Fighter Recognition School, where he was the only student not a field grade officer, and then sent him to England. There he had a date with some Countessa or Baroness whose family had a castle and only learned along with his colonel that they were heading for Mers el Kebir for the invasion of North Africa when the English village girls who typed the orders yelled it to them as Dad and the colonel marched to the troop ship. Dad survived that.

In North Africa Dad was sent up to observe so he was not caught in the disaster of Kasserine Pass. He took shelter in the graves the ever methodical Germans had Russian prisoners dig in advance. The Germans did not come back after the battle on the other side of the hill. No one ever discovered what happened to the Russians. Dad survived that.

In Italy Dad landed at Salerno. He asked the locals "Dove tedeschi?" and they replied "Lasciato tre giorni." Then the Americans waited for the Hermann Goering Division to show up. Dad survived that.

The Army, which is run by geniuses, was concerned that someone might steal Mt Vesuvius, so they had my father set up a machine gun nest on top of the volcano. It erupted. They did credit Dad with shooting down a Messerschmitt but Dad said that the pilot was probably already dead before he fired a shot. Dad survived that.

Dad's CO was a Colonel who had been a Midwest bank VP. I think he was like Mr Milton in "Best Years of Our Lives." A fearless character normally found someplace warm and dry two miles behind the lines he would volunteer his men for anything and threatened to put my father on report for dragging a mattress found in an abandoned farmhouse into his foxhole (naturally) before Monte Cassino. General Alexander stopped that. He shook his swagger stick and said, "That's the spirit man. Forage man, forage." Dad survived that.

Dad's own troops proved more dangerous. When he learned that they were stealing supplies and running them across the boot to sell to the black market on the Adriatic coast Dad put a stop to it. Someone tried to kill him, taking a shot that parted his hair. Dad survived that.

So when Dad was filthy hungry sick and freezing in the mountains near Bologna it was reasonable for him to think that his luck had run out. Then a strapping young Lieutenant from the 10th Mountain Division, looking like a recruiting poster, jumped into Dad's foxhole and said, "I got it. Get out of here." That was Bob Dole and three days later he took the bullet that was meant for my father and strong as he was, it would have killed my father who was a strong man but was weakened by 30 months of almost constant combat, it crippled Dole for life after putting him in the hospital for over a year and a half. Thank you Bob.

Dad went to the Aid Station where the Army doctor said he had used up his quota and was supposed to send Dad back to the line, where he would have surely died. Then the Doc said, "Hell, what can they do to me?" and sent Dad to the hospital and saved his life. Then the Army told Dad that he was going to be shipped to the Pacific to join the invasion of Japan. They said, "Make out your will. Consider yourself as already dead." Then Harry Truman dropped the bomb. Thanks Harry. Dad survived that.

BTW, Dad did not vote for Bob Dole.

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