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Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated
Of dead and living. Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment
And not the lifetime of one man only
But of old stones that cannot be deciphered.
There is a time for the evening under starlight,
A time for the evening under lamplight
(The evening with the photograph album).
Love is most nearly itself
When here and now cease to matter.
Old men ought to be explorers
Here or there does not matter
We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion
Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.
When all Earth’s seas shall Levitate,
Dark shawled within the skies,
Upon our eyes will Starfish dance
Their waltz of Blind surprise.
The sun will Rise within wine Dark
As Argonauts imbibed,
Whose drunken arms embrace that sleep
Where Phaeton’s horses Stride.
Upon all of Earth’s wind-sanded shores,
As dolphins Learn to soar,
All we once were on the land
Shall be sealed behind the door
Of Ivory and Chastened Gold,
That the Mystery solved complete
Shall never til the seas’ Long fall
Wake mariners from their sleep.
— Van der Leun
I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this
air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
— Walt Whitman
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
— The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
Gerard Van der Leun
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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.