Are We Still Worthy?
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Lawrence Peter Berra was a 19-year-old baseball-loving son of Italian immigrants when he enlisted in the Navy and almost immediately volunteered for a secret mission.
It was to serve as a gunner onboard a rocket boat in support of the first bloody waves of the Allied invasion of Normandy.
Lawrence and his mates were ordered to get within 300 yards of Normandy’s shore and batter the German machine gun nests with rockets. This gave soldiers landing on the beaches a better chance of survival. His job was to maintain the weapons and ordinance onboard while also manning one of the ship’s machine guns.
On D-Day, 81 years ago today, Hell rained down on Lawrence. He was stunned. His commander had to yell at him to keep his head down. Years later, he told his son, “Almost everybody on the ship was hit.”
Lawrence survived D-Day to take part in another landing in August in Southern France, where he was wounded in the left hand. He refused to put in for the Purple Heart because he didn’t want his mother to know he had been hurt.
After the war, all he had to show for the wound was a scar he kept tucked inside his catcher’s mitt for a Hall of Fame baseball career with the New York Yankees.
Lawrence’s nickname was Yogi.
Got bless the boys of D-Day . God bless America and may we be worthy today.
Last night, I sent you a newsletter about two nettling narcissists whose feud is just the latest reminder that our politics are not worthy of the memory of men like Yogi Berra.
Today, let’s strive to make this country great again. Not by returning to the days of racism, sexism, isolationism, xeonophobia, Gilded Age economics, and institutional corruption. But rather, let’s make America a country of informed and united citizens willing to sacrifice everything for a cause greater than themselves.
One of the many misconceptions about America is that we are a nation of leaders. No, our leaders have always been guided — for better and worse — by the will of the people. Trumpism is not a creation of Donald John Trump. It’s a reflection of we, the people — Republicans, for certain, but also Democrats and independents who have failed to band together and demand better.
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There was a time when Americans took pride in fighting against fascism.
And then America hating radical progressivism came along.
No, we are no longer the same people.
Donald Trump could write his knowledge and understanding of D-Day on one of his fingernails.
We learned that when the privileged college students burned their draft cards. In no way are we the same people who bravely and honorably went off to serve in World War II.
Is Trump honorable ? That is a yes or no question.
He is the President for the next three years and 7 months.
So you are unable to say he is honorable.
"It’s a reflection of we, the people — Republicans, for certain, but also Democrats and independents who have failed to band together and demand better."
The Dems no better to offer, they are leaderless, rudderless, divided, and have no positive vision of the future. They refuse to accept the reasons the American people have soundly rejected them