Who could have imagined........?

 

  I realize that I have mentioned this previously, but as this heart-rending threshold approaches, I need to come back to the fact that the United States is fast approaching a death toll from Coronavirus that will EXCEED that of all the Americans who died in World War II. And, as I scroll down the list of all the major battles in both the Pacific and Europe, Africa, Asia and on the high seas, I see names that bring images of daunting casualties to mind. 

And....this is just one of MANY places where Americans rest in Europe.

   Here are just a few of these:  Anzio, Monte Casino, Normandy, Bastogne, Arnheim, Guadalcanal, Pelelieu, Tarawa, Iwo Jima, Kwajalein, Okinawa, Saipan, the Philippines and on and on, not in any particular order.  These are just a few of the major battles, some of which went on for months.  The embedded image is just one of many military cemeteries in Europe. In every case, as you stand there and take in the rows, the seemingly ENDLESS rows of white crosses and a smattering of Stars of Davids, it becomes clear how massive the loss of life was.  And, then you have other Allied cemeteries, and German ones too. 

  If you look it up, the death toll for Americans in WWII comes in at 405,000.  And, this includes 'all causes' not just enemy action. If a soldier was killed when his ammo truck crashed into a ditch in the dark....his name is there. A phrase that gets re-visited on occasion is: "All gave some; some gave all." And, as kitschy as that may be, it's simply true.  The commitment to make whatever sacrifice was necessary to beat the Axis powers was absolute. 

  And, here we sit, battling an invisible enemy, still considered by many Americans to be a 'fake news' item, a hoax.  When asked how they explain the 340,000 dead, the smarmy reply is that this must be a lie, an exaggeration of the leftist losers who want the rights of all Americans to be abrogated....uh, well, not too sure why they would want that....but, NewsMax says so, so it must be true.

  We are working on an epitaph for our dead that will read something like: "Killed by our own foolishness".  If the goddamned Idiot in the Oval had any leadership ability, any strength of character, any human decency, any FUCKING BRAINS.....we would not be in anywhere near this insane situation we now find ourselves in.

  I don't think I need to mention...again...that it's run completely out of control.  And, despite the timely arrival of not one but TWO vaccines...the current administration is so incompetent and so completely uncaring and disengaged....that they are bungling the actual distribution and administering of injections.  Is there anything else they can make a mess of before they're out of here?

  Actually, funny you should ask:  Yessiree, there certainly is.  The Idiot himself is tweeting that he wants a mega-demonstration to take place in Washington on the 6th...this coming week.  He is fanning the flames of violence with his blatantly inflammatory tweets. We knew--on some level--that this was coming.  He is too deranged to simply admit that he lost the election....and he's too just plain evil to let go of anything graciously or with some evidence that he's anything but a t-v gangsta.  

  So, buckle your seat-belts and hang on.  The next two plus weeks is going to be a rough ride.