The military went woke in 1944 when the manpower shortage in Europe forced them to allow women into the services to do the admin and non combat jobs. Mom was the most woke person I ever knew and enlisted in the SPARS for an adventure and to help the was effort. Funny story. Mom and a SPARS friend went to a baseball game in DC. Two men seated behind them kept up a barrage of insults and nasty comments ending with one of the men spilling a beer on mom's friend who started crying so they left. They met two sailors on the way out who asked what was wrong. Mom told them the story and the sailors asked her go back into the stadium with them and point out the culprits. Mom heard later, that the sailors beat the crap out of the men in the parking lot after the game.
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Seeker of Truth. Dispenser of Wisdom. Protector of the Weak. Avenger of Evil.
Thanks to all who served and are serving. I appreciate all you do for your country.
I still call it The Jake.
you're welcome.
I would like to add my thanks as well.
Harry & skifishbum helped win the Cold War. Congrats, and thanks! 35 years ago the Berlin Wall fell and the world changed overnight.
West German kids talking with East German border guards next to an opening in the Berlin Wall during the collapse of communism in East Germany November 1989:
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To my brothers and sisters in arms a deep-felt Happy Veterans Day. Happy to have served for 21+ years, loved the people I served with, the places I got to go, and the team that I was on.....and now best to the next Greatest Generation that is out there protecting our freedoms and way of life. God Speed!
careful now... thank you's can backfire.
fact.
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