And in exchange we get narcissistic tyrants like the Lyin King.
How long will it be until a generation comes along that has regains that strength, dedication, faith, and perseverance in the face of adversity??? We’re going to need such a generation pretty soon...
I read that the average age of the surviving WWII veterans is 93. They are passing away quickly.
The greatest generation(s) took our guns and wrote a law to replace the American voter.
From unionizing government, to Vietnam, to the 1965 Immigration Act, JFK was the end of us.
“However, if there is one man who can take the most credit for the 1965 act, it is John F. Kennedy. Kennedy seems to have inherited the resentment his father Joseph felt as an outsider in Boston’s WASP aristocracy. He voted against the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, and supported various refugee acts throughout the 1950s. In 1958 he wrote a book, A Nation of Immigrants, which attacked the quota system as illogical and without purpose, and the book served as Kennedy’s blueprint for immigration reform after he became president in 1960. In the summer of 1963, Kennedy sent Congress a proposal calling for the elimination of the national origins quota system. He wanted immigrants admitted on the basis of family reunification and needed skills, without regard to national origin. After his assassination in November, his brother Robert took up the cause of immigration reform, calling it JFK’s legacy. In the forward to a revised edition of A Nation of Immigrants, issued in 1964 to gain support for the new law, he wrote, “I know of no cause which President Kennedy championed more warmly than the improvement of our immigration policies.” Sold as a memorial to JFK, there was very little opposition to what became known as the Immigration Act of 1965.”
JFK: The unfit commander of a high performance boat that that on a calm clear night managed to be surprised and rammed by an enemy vessel many times larger and less maneuverable than his own.
JFK should have been charged with a crime for allowing his vessel to be cut in half by an enemy ship.
Rest in peace Mr. Gardo.
I love to hear Bobby Ballard tell about how he happened to take the assignment to search for PT 109.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/07/0709_020710_kennedyPT109.html
Kennedy himself would be 96 now.
Those Kennedy boys seemed to have a tough time navigating around bodies of water.
RIP.
I read that the average age of the D-day soldiers in 92 now.
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