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After scanning its face again and again,
I began to scale it, picking my holds
With intense caution. About half-way
To the top, I was suddenly brought to
A dead stop, with arms outspread
Clinging close to the face of the rock
Unable to move hand or foot
Either up or down. My doom
Appeared fixed. I MUST fall.
There would be a moment of
Bewilderment, and then,
A lifeless rumble down the cliff
To the glacier below.
My mind seemed to fill with a
Stifling smoke. This terrible eclipse
Lasted only a moment, when life blazed
Forth again with preternatural clearness.
I seemed suddenly to become possessed
Of a new sense. My trembling muscles
Became firm again, every rift and flaw in
The rock was seen as through a microscope,
My limbs moved with a positiveness and precision
With which I seemed to have
Nothing at all to do.
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of
universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I
reach my hands and play with pebbles of
destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs
reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe.
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Some of these death tolls are off. Vietnam is WAY off. So wo further ado ..
Revolution .. KIA .. 5000 …… Total deaths including exposure (Valley Forge) disease, POW mistreatment — 25,000
Civil War … long established figure … 600k
Union — 360 total; 140,000 KIA
Confederacy — 200K dead, no division between KIA and other deaths. Tens of thousands of civilian deaths in immediate aftermath of war
WWI — 116K total deaths, of which 46K were caused by influenza pandemic … 56,000 KIA (30K flu deaths occured in stateside training camps in a period of 4 weeks … incredible!)
WWII — Used to be 408k; but recently revised to account for 9500 Merchant Marines killed by U-Boats in Battle of Atlantic …. Some 310,000 KIA to inclube the Merchant Marines
Korea — 37K total deaths … 33K is total for KIA
Vietnam — 58K total deaths, of which 47000 were KIA …… 282K figure WAY off
Very inspiring. Thank you.
Multiculturalism. Under Ba’al.
A couple other corrections/additions: 1) Why leave out the War of 1812? True, the KIA toll was relatively light (2200 to 3500; deaths from all causes 15,000), but the war proved that our country was a going concern, and it gave us our national anthem (there’s a reason why Francis Scott Key’s statue in San Francisco was targeted last week).
2) WWI: We didn’t enter the war officially until April 1917, so the video’s reference to the outbreak of the war in July 1914 is (unintentionally) misleading. If we had joined the Allies in 1914, the KIA toll would have been much higher.
The hippies are entirely within their rights to burn the flag at Gettysburg on the 4th of July. That being said, if they try that shit next to me, I will whip their asses.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Why? Why should God? As Americans and the Church allows itself to be put into bondage to the demonic?
BTW you Traditional Americans, speaking of their “rights’ and their “free speech”, how’s the rights and free speech of yours working out? Have you noticed that the rights and free speech that you proclaim to so cherish for everyone, is not only being spoken, but ACTED OUT ON, while you are not only being thrown into the curb and stomped on physically, but so is your Traditional American muh rights and free speech? Why, it’s as if you believe their rights, and their free speech, which they act on, is more valuable than your muh rights and free speech, which you dare not act on. Well, just keep flapping your lips.
The United States, indeed all of Creation, is under God; but anyone who today mistakes that the United States is one nation is deluding himself.
Casey sed: “…burn the flag at Gettysburg on the 4th of July… I will whip their asses.”
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ghost sed: “Get out of the way and take notes. Gettysburg is my birthplace and the 4th of July was when my only son was born, and I almost died twice for that flag. “Whipped Ass” will have a whole new meaning when I climb up off their smoking asses and I don’t care how many of them there is.”
Easy Elder,
Most of us are not triggered that easily. Most of us either have jobs that prevent us from acting like asses all night long, or we are not foolish enough to put ourselves in harms way unnecessarily. If and when the threshold is finally met then an appropriate response will be dished out.
This vid was a nice effort, but the youngster who made it did slip some Soviets in there, and that ruins it for me. To most people, all uniforms look alike. It’s a shame.
No matter what anyone else says, it’s been an amazing 528 years.
Just look at what has been done.
It hasn’t been all peaches and cream, nothing ever is.
But the flowers far out numbered the weeds and this isn’t arguable.