[ConorMacNessa]

So much of what was the America of our youths is being jettisoned by the current Regime. I spent two years as a military dependent in Taiwan when my Dad was stationed there - 1963-65, In 1969 I was with the 5th Marines in 'Nam - medevacked out in late June to USNH Yokosuka. On my way back to 'Nam, I went through transit at Camp Butler on Oki - an interesting couple of days. Never saw anything of the island itself.

It's a damned shame that, after almost seventy years of standing watch there, and after all the sacrifices made and brave acts performed by our Brothers there in 1945, that we are abandoning our post there.

These ill-begotten bastards in charge now are beneath our contempt!



"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[laplata]

Well said, Conor!

[Windflier]

So much of what was the America of our youths is being jettisoned by the current Regime.

Too true, but I believe that a majority of Americans still cling to those traditions, spirit, and character, that have always defined us as a people.

We're living through a temporary period of manifest insanity being forced upon the country by a lunatic minority. It won't last. It can't last, as their business model is unworkable in the extreme. Even if they had the power to cow every American, and bend us to their will, their policies and methods of social organization would crash. In time it would bring on the very revolt which they're now instigating, but stridently ignoring.

Nature's law is on our side. In the end, we will prevail.

[TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl]

Great post, great page. Semper fi, brother.

[texanred]

I understand why you think it's a shame to leave after 75 years but there haven't been a lot of “strategic necessity” arguments coming from the military when plans to close it started cropping up.

Is it imperative that we maintain WWII and Cold War positions that may not apply to the needs of this melinnium?