Our Troops Only Dream of Holidays at Home

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They Can Only Dream of Holidays at Home

Published on Friday, December 24, 2004 by USA Today
by Al Neuharth, USA TODAY Founder
http://www.usatoday.com/

Most of us love to spend Christmas with our families, but many cannot.
Some
numbers of this year's can-dos and cannots:

· More than 62 million of us will travel 50 miles or more to be with
family.

· Most of our 2.4 million military men and women will be unable to go
home for
the holidays.

· More than a half million troops serving overseas will have little
holiday
happiness, especially the 138,000 in Iraq.

My saddest Christmases came when I was ages 19, 20 and 21 serving in
the Army in
World War II. The 86th (Blackhawk) Infantry Division took me far from
my South
Dakota home, first to Texas and California for training, then to
France, Germany
and the Philippines.

Some of my Blackhawk buddies and I often were watery-eyed when we heard
the
holiday hit song of 1943 and 1944 - Bing Crosby singing, I'll be home
for
Christmas if only in my dreams.

Despite unhappy holidays, nearly all of us who served in WWII were
proud,
determined and properly armed and equipped to help defeat would-be
world
conquerors Hitler in Germany, Mussolini in Italy and Hirohito in Japan.

At age 80, I'd gladly volunteer for such highly moral duty again. But
if I were
eligible for service in Iraq, I would do all I could to avoid it. I
would have
done the same during the Vietnam War, as many of the politically
connected did.

"Support Our Troops" is a wonderful patriotic slogan. But the best way
to
support troops thrust by unwise commanders in chief into ill-advised
adventures
like Vietnam and Iraq is to bring them home. Sooner rather than later.
That
should be our New Year's resolution.

copied from:
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1224-07.htm


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· Most of our 2.4 million military men and women will be unable to go

The leftists who rule America are for having a unisex country and
for fighting "sexism". This should be replaced by a nation that is for
manhood and womenhood. Not only are the sexes different, but the
reason we are attracted to the opposite sex is precisely because they
are different.

In 1852 Emma Snodgrass was arrested in Boston for wearing pants.
Today women are allowed to be policemen and soldiers. Men don't need
to be protected by female policemen.
We don't have to have the kind of society we have now. The
government, and the media, and the schools, may all be leftist
enemies, but their ways are so contrary to human nature that it can be
changed.

The two main forces that reject the unisex society are religion
and nationalism. There certainly
wasn't much feminism going on in a Muslim country like Afganistan. And
it is no coincidence that the USA bombed Afganistan. The USA and its
masters the Jews are the enemy and that is the first thing we need to
be clear about if we are going to change things. There were also
Nationalist countries that were also bombed by the USA and the other
leftists. The media will tell us how terrible they say these countries
were. We must always remember that the media is the enemy and they are
the ones pushing unisex culture on us.

Feminism is something we must always fight against. But a normal
man who considers women his enemy must eventually go mad. Feminism may
be a major symptom of what is wrong with this country but it is only a
symptom. The Jewish control of the media and society is the disease.
And feminism is Jewish:

Gloria Steinem was a Jew. Bella Abzug was a Jew. Betty Friedan was
a Jew.

"THE JEWISH 100: A Ranking Of the Most Influential Jews Of All Time"
By Michael Shaprio

# 56 Betty Friedan (b. 1921)

Born Betty Naomi Goldstein to Harry and Miriam (Horowitz) Goldstein in
Peoria,
Illinois, educated at Smith College, married in 1947 to Carl Friedan,
the
mother of three children, divorced in 1969, activist, best-selling
author,
professor, a founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW), the
National
Women's Political Caucus, and the First Women's Bank, researcher,
journalist,
Democrat, clinical psychologist, and grandmother, Betty Friedan was
the most
influential feminist of the postwar era. Deemed by Marilyn French and
others as
an "initiator of the 'second wave' of feminism, " Friedan's writings
and
lectures, including the highly influential books THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE
and THE
SECOND STAGE, synthesized women's views on what equality meant and how
to live
and work...
When the war against fascism ended two decades later, four million
women lost
their jobs to returning GIs. Women were again told that their place
was in the
home. The freedom to work to build up and defend their nation was
over. Men
would earn the family's bread. What the boys needed was a warm place
to come
home to every night. Ironically, American soldiers had accepted some
of the
values toward women (Kinder, Kuche, Kirche - children, kitchen,
church) as the
Nazis they thought they had defeated...

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