It’s my misfortune to be born into a circle of loser relatives.
My uncle, my father’s younger brother, wanted to enroll in the Marines in 1918, but a recruiting sergeant was not fooled by my uncle’s younger appearance.They don’t want drummer boys, they told him. So he went home, forged.My grandfather’s immigration papers and he was accepted through the army, who appointed him a doctor and sent him to France.He arrived just in time for the Germans’ last desperate push on the Marne.Not only was he unlucky; he was a loser who deserved to be ready for college.
If one should believe in the claims of The Atlantic magazine by publisher Jeffrey Goldberg, the terms “loser” and “dumb” applied to Americans in the military through President Donald Trump; publicly in the case of Senator John McCain.Atlantic cites four anonymous resources claiming to have first-hand knowledge of the discussion, but Trump denies the allegations.
If Trump made those comments, maybe he’s right about my circle of relatives.
You could make a lot of cash on the black market during World War II in the United States, but my mother’s younger brother joined the Charlie Company of the 397th Infantry Regiment while fighting the Nazis in the Alsace-Lorraine Vosges.In the winter of 1944, I became one of the purple-hearted losers walking on a German mine.The Germans were smart enough to shoot down suction cups like him.
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Around the same time, my brother-in-law left his 17-year-old girlfriend, my sister, to connect wires in the Signal Corps in New Guinea and the Philippines and take shots through the Japanese who practiced his skill.shooting at American mountaineers. He came unscathed to the house, but terror never abandoned him.
Turns out all my male cousins have lost one way or another.They joined the Navy,Possibly it would have been with the concept of avoiding combat on the ground, but in fact they had their abs outside Okinawa when the Japanese introduced fanatical kamikaze raids opposed to their aircraft carriers.The Navy had absorbed them.
The list of losers grew in Vietnam: my wife’s first husband, a Navy sub-lieutenant who had traveled and packed his bags to get home when he killed through a 122 mm rocket, a few weeks after the birth of his son, to which he never lived.to see What a loser. You see, Mr. President, some of the biggest losers have gold stars after their names and are also inscribed on a black wall in Washington, D.C., a few steps from the White House where he lives.
You stop at it for a while; it’s a wonderful photo shoot.
My youngest daughter will never get a chance to meet her stepfather because he’s one of the losers of the purple center.It is a green beret, a genuine package of suction cups that may have made genuine money through the advertising real estate trade.
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You were the wise guy who let military service go through the chance to make genuine money.He simulates respect for infantrymen and sailors, airmen and the Coast Guard when he makes a flaccid greeting as he walks down the stairs of Air Force One, but his fake respect for those young men will have to hide an inner contempt for them.Instead of protecting our nation, they may only be making genuine paintings managing hedge funds.
Ross K.Baker is a leading professor of political science at Rutgers University and a member of the USA TODAY Taxpayer Board.Follow him on Twitter: Rosbake1