Resurrecting the thread from last year…
I lost my WWII vet father 26 years ago, and this year lost my last personnel connection to the “greatest generation” with the death of the last of Dad’s old buddies, “Colonel Red Shack”, as I mispronounced his name but remembered him.
Colonel Red Shack landed at Normandy a “baby 2nd Lieutenant”, but by the time he got to Germany had been minted a Captain after surviving and heroically leading his men in weeks of “hedgerow murder” and months of road ambush.
I miss them all.
For my Vietnam War generation, and its ongoingly misused patriotic progeny, I find this column devestatingly accurate:
We owe them all a barely comprehensible debt, and a far less cavalier foreign policy.
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This showed up in my BlueSky feed today.
Today is even worse, far worse. Not only do we mismanage OUR wars (we don’t even call them wars anymore to obfuscate the whole thing), we also keep mismanaging other countries wars as well! It’s almost as if policy is set, on an ongoing and individual basis to choose whichever choice keeps the war going as long as possible (“proportionate response” is just one of those policies, but there are many more).