The lasting image of Joe Biden’s Presidency may be of him repeatedly staring at his watch while the flag draped coffins of fallen Americans moved across the apron of Dover Air Force Base.
They died in the Biden disaster at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan. While the families of those soldiers wept, the President was obviously inconvenienced by the ancient ceremony of remembrance.
No President in our history has done more to diminish the vitality of America or humiliated more of our closest allies.
Should anyone be surprised that a President who undermines our two closest spiritual and historic allies—the United Kingdom and Israel—would at best be indifferent to the place in society of twenty million American veterans.
Robert Wilkie said no president in US history has done more to diminish the vitality of America or humiliated more of their closest allies
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The woke tide engulfing America has descended on veterans. The Biden veteran priorities are DEI, transgender rights and union prerogative. The word veteran is noticeably missing from each one.
Donald Trump fired 8,000 Veterans Affairs employees, 2,000 for grievous misconduct. Joe Biden brought them all back with back pay.
Donald Trump sent half of the veterans’ population into the private sector to get care closer to home at a time of their choosing—Joe Biden is forcing all veterans back into government run healthcare.
There is also an agenda just as pernicious. The Department of Veterans Affairs was born of war.
In the most biblically righteous inaugural address ever delivered by an American president, an exhausted Abraham Lincoln with but five weeks to live called upon his countrymen to care for those who had taken up arms in defense of the nation.
Lincoln closed his remarks with these remarkable words: “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. “
These words have been emblazoned on VA hospitals and buildings since the 19th century—until Joe Biden.
Robert Wilkie said we must never subject them to the activists of whatever liberal clerisy happens to be in the ascendancy
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As we speak Lincoln’s words are being ripped from VA walls because the Great Emancipator had the temerity not to be “inclusive” or mention 21st century pressure groups in a speech he gave in March of 1865.
The woke mob has come for veterans and Joe Biden is leading the parade.
The Vietnam War created a lasting slogan: “Never again will one generation of veterans abandon another.” That must be our charge today—and always, regardless as to what Joe Biden does.
President Dwight Eisenhower had it about right. A few months after he was inaugurated, he gathered 40 Korean War soldiers on the presidential yacht, the Williamsburg. Some were horribly disfigured; some were missing limbs.
Eisenhower walked among them, and he asked them to stand at attention, and those who could, did.
And he said: “Your country can never compensate you for what you have given to your country. But you have a charge from me … You never put your uniform away. You live to remind your fellow citizens why they sleep soundly at night.”
All told, more than 41 million American men and women have served during times of war, and more than one million have given the last full measure.
Robert Wilkie said the lasting image of Biden’s Presidency may be of him repeatedly staring at his watch while the flag draped coffins of fallen Americans moved across the apron of Dover Air Force Base
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And if you were to ask any of them why they did it, they would tell you it was the right thing to do. Memorial Day is for them.
We must never subject them to the activists of whatever liberal clerisy happens to be in the ascendancy.
The irony is that the social justice agenda ignores the basic principle of military life: Military service has been, and will always be, the great leveler in American society. The uniform brings together Americans from every corner and social stratum in the country.
On the June 5, 1944, America’s greatest airborne warrior, Gen. Matthew Ridgway, tossed restlessly in his cot. Gen. Eisenhower tasked him with leading the airborne assault on Hitler’s fortress Europe.
Ridgway planned the operations of the 101st Airborne Screaming Eagles, the 82nd Airborne All-Americans, and the Red Devils of the British 6th Airborne Division. The great man asked for the prayer that God gave to Joshua: “I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.”
In May 1986, as President Ronald Reagan awarded Ridgway the Presidential Medal of Freedom, he said of him: “Heroes come when they’re needed. Great men step forward when courage seems in short supply.”
Memorial Day is about great men and women and their memories that we can never forsake — not even Joe Biden can tarnish that.