November 11, 2014, - 8:55 am

Veterans Day: Thank Them (& G-d) for Freedom & Country

By Debbie Schlussel

As I always say on Veterans Day and Memorial Day, the service and sacrifices of those brave men who served on the battlefield and in other capacities should be remembered every single day and not just on these two holidays. And as I also always say, on this day, let’s remember those who are still serving America and bring them home safely so that they, too, will be veterans and not casualties. Without them, we wouldn’t be here, and we certainly wouldn’t be free. But their lives and limbs should be sacrificed sparingly . . . for things that matter, for wars that matter. Sadly, because they’ve been sent to a losing war to hand over a Muslim country from one sect of Muslims who hate us to another group of Muslims who hate us and created a vacuum, we are now sending some of our soldiers back to that hellhole to risk it all again as “advisers.”

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Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke, Jr., Iraq War Vet, Hugs Pearl Harbor Survivor/WWII Vet Houston James (Graunke Lost a Leg, Hand, and Eye Defusing a Bomb in Iraq)

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Wounded American Marine Salutes President Reagan’s Casket

Today, as we celebrate Veterans Day and remember the service and sacrifices of those who served and survived, let’s remember that while they may have survived, many of our former troops came home with arms and legs missing, with eyes gone and whole faces and body parts disfigured, making life difficult for them forever. And let’s ask ourselves why we went into Iraq and Afghanistan, and why more than a decade later, we still have troops on the ground in Afghanistan, giving their limbs and lives on a regular basis, and why we must now send troops back to Iraq, which would never have been necessary had we not invaded in the first place for no apparent valid reason (and wouldn’t have happened had we installed a pro-American, brutal Sunni dictator–the only thing Muslims understand–instead of insisting on “democracy” for Islamocrazies).

We went to “war” in Iraq and Afghanistan without actually going to war, and now our military is being sent back to Iraq to go to war again because the first one was so mishandled and not thought out. While our military men were handing out candy and building roads to nowhere, Muslims surrounding them were always at war, constantly blowing our boys to bits. We went to war in Iraq to essentially hand over the country from Sunni Muslims who hate us (but maintained a sort of stability and bulwark against Iran) to Shi’ite Muslims who hate us and take orders from the Iranian Ayatollahs.

On this Veterans Day, I remember those who served in World War II, a war which America actually had the guts to fight and where there was CLEAR good and evil. We were the good guys, no matter what Brad Pitt and Hollywood told me in “Fury” (read my review). We weren’t there handing out candy and building roads while bombs fell upon us. We were prosecuting a war. And that’s why we won. I wonder what most of those World War II heroes–almost all of them now dead–would think of the appeasement of the new (and old) Nazis, the Muslims, that has been going on in this country for years and became appeasement on steroids after 9/11 and ever since. Would we have appeased the Japanese because they bombed us at Pearl Harbor? No way. And the Japanese were far less a threat than Islam is today. Would we have allowed the German-American Bund to impose its will across our great country while our men fought their patrons over and gave their lives for it? Nope, but we did that with Islam, with the number of Muslims in America and the number of their mosques more than doubling (mostly through immigration) in the decade and a few years since 9/11.







As I do every Veterans Day, today I will visit the graves of my two favorite vets, my late father, who served as a U.S. Army Captain during Vietnam, and my great-uncle Maurice J. Schlussel, MD, who became the U.S. Army’s chief medical officer for the South Pacific after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. My dad always thought that going into Iraq was a mistake and a no-win situation that would end up in Middle East instability on a great level. Bingo. I know both of them would be sickened by today’s appeasement of the enemy. They would ask why we fought and died over there, if we aren’t willing to protect those things on U.S. soil, and merely open the floodgates repeatedly to invaders. It is a good thing the current and last President were not around back then, during World War II, or we’d be saluting Hitler’s grandson. Or, rather, you would be, as the rest of my family would have perished in the ovens.

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My Dad’s Army Uniform From During Vietnam

Today, as you watch the President at various Veterans Day ceremonies, giving speeches and regurgitating trite plaudits to our military that he does not mean, know that the ghosts of Arlington National Cemetery cry out over his transgressions, his deliberate missteps that attempt to reverse what our brave men fought and died for, with the whole world laughing at and disrespecting America, once a strong bastion of the free and the brave. Now, it is a weak, borderless, Islamo-pandering place with a severely shrunken military, thanks to cooperation of Republicans with that Obama move.

Pray for our troops that are still serving both overseas and on U.S. soil. Appreciate their service and pray for their well being.

Bring all of them home alive in one peace, so that they will be veterans next Veterans Day and not the mourned next Memorial Day.

To those who served and survived, including my cousin Damian, Happy Veterans Day to you and thank you for your service. Thank you for risking your life and limb so that I and the rest of us can live our lives freely. So that I can say what I want here on this website and others can read it without fear of punishment. Your risks and service mean the world to me.

To most of us.

Thanks, Dad, and thanks, Uncle Maurice. And thanks to all of you who kept us alive and safe and continue to do so on U.S. shores in whatever capacity in which you served.

If you’ve ever worn the American military uniform in service to America, G-d Bless You (unless, of course, you spent your time in uniform appeasing the enemy).

Without you, our brave American veterans, who served knowing you might be called on to make the ultimate sacrifice, we wouldn’t be here living free.

Jewish-American Soldiers Pray at Goebbels’ House in Germany (See My Other Cool, Inspiring Photos of Jewish Soldiers Praying at Normandy, Etc.) . . .


Pfc. Abraham Mirmelstein (left) of Newport News, VA holds the Torah scroll as Capt Manual M. Poliakoff (center) and Corp. Martin Willien, cantor, both of Baltimore conduct Jewish prayer services at Schloss Rheydt, the castle home of Dr. Josef Paul Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister, in Munchen Gladbach, Germany. The services, held in memory of soldiers of the Jewish faith who died in the drive to the Rhine, were the first held east of the Roer River in Germany. The photo was taken by the U.S. Army Signal Corps in 1945 or ’46.






25 Responses

“I wonder what most of those World War II heroes–almost all of them now dead–think…” I wonder too, but I doubt that they’d waste their breath on today’s goings on. My Grandfather, a Marine Corps Veteran of the South Pacific during WWII, and his neighbor, who was an Army Veteran and survivor of the Bataan Death March, never really sat around telling war stories. People from that generation saw problem, solved it for the common good, and then went back to their daily lives if they were fortunate enough to make it home.
There are still many members in our military who are selfless and give more than their share similar to those prior veterans. For that, I am thankful today more than other days; but, I always remember the sacrifices, small and large, made by our veterans. Thank you.

nadie on November 11, 2014 at 10:10 am

post script: Brad Pitt and all the erudite scholarly educrats can try in vain to redact history. Now that most of the tankers from WWII have died it might make it easier for people who fake their way through life by pantomime and doctoral theses on things they’ve never experienced to do so. But the fact remains the same. The people who saw it first-hand know, and pay little attention to sophists.

nadie on November 11, 2014 at 10:25 am

As a US Army veteran of the Vietnam Era, I thank you for you homage of Veterns Day.

Panhandle on November 11, 2014 at 10:54 am

Very good column. I also appreciate all veterans, both those who are brave enough to volunteer and those who were just picked and served.

Just one problem…. and I don’t mean to be a prick but…

G-d did not do anything. Human beings control this planet. G-d did not make veterans fight the Japanese in WW2 or fight in the Civil War. He did not write the constitution to give us the right to protect ourselves. Humans did that. Human beings did it all. G-d may have created this planet, but he has absolutely no bearing on its day to day operations. On this Veterans Day, thank the Veterans, but don’t thank G-d. He did nothing.

Edward on November 11, 2014 at 11:00 am

To Panhandle, thank you for your service to my country.

To Edward, there are no atheists in foxholes so I hear. God is everywhere and while he may allow evil to flourish, he does empower us with the brains and will to do either good or evil. I pray that someday you will meet and experience a personal relationship with our Lord. He is mighty and wonderful and the best love you will ever know that is ever-present.

Happy Veterans Day to all who have served us. Thank you.

CJ on November 11, 2014 at 11:30 am

    Nice try CJ.

    You remind me of those athletes who thank Jesus for winning, but fail to thank their teammates who actually participated in the sport and won the game.

    Don’t forget, the Muslims, Nazis, Viet Cong, and Confederates all believed in the same G-d and thought (think) G-d is on their side.

    The Lord doesn’t care about soldiers. He is obviously too busy helping the Lions win and get to the Super Bowl.

    God is not mighty. God does not invent the bullet proof vest and helmet. He does not invent the weapons that help the armed forces. Humans do it all. Only primitive human beings thank an invisible man.

    G-d is not wonderful. Unless you think that letting 6 millions Jews and millions of others die in Europe is wonderful. Not to mention, 2 Israelis murdered by Allah loving terrorists. Your invisible man let that happen. Obviously no humans let it happen according to you.

    Thank you Veterans!
    G-d… not so much.

    Edward on November 11, 2014 at 11:56 am

      Eddie, peddle your dung elsewhere. An “Invisible Man” is worth infinitely more than a canker sore such as yourself.

      Worry on November 11, 2014 at 12:53 pm

      Calm down Eff-word, I thank G-d for everything, good or bad. Without the bad, we could not differentiate that from good. G-d may have let 6 million Jews die, as you say; but he may have also brought an untold number to freedom from Egypt on another occasion. I plan to thank G-d tonight as I raise a pint in honor of the selfless acts of veterans past and present.

      nadie on November 11, 2014 at 12:54 pm

      Edward sez:

      “Don’t forget, the Muslims, Nazis, Viet Cong, and Confederates all believed in the same G-d and thought (think) G-d is on their side.”

      Edward, “Allah” is not close to the same entity as the Christian or Jewish G-d. The Viet Cong were ostensibly atheists, though I expect some Buddhism and Taoism there.

      skzion on November 11, 2014 at 4:56 pm

    “there are no atheists in foxholes so I hear”

    Maybe, but when they’re back to safety there are plenty who revert to Godlessness.

    DS_ROCKS on November 11, 2014 at 6:22 pm

I notice that these days many liberals go through the act of ‘thanking’ veterans for their service and saying they value their contributions.

Kind of reminds me the illegal aliens marching for amnesty. They used to carry Mexican flags, and then their handlers told them to pretend to be patriotic (to the United States) and carry American flags.

Little Al on November 11, 2014 at 2:56 pm

Naval Reserve. 1981-2007

I served, therefore I remember.

Lest we forget, acknowledge those who serve, had served, and are willing to serve, and be grateful for the freedom to be yourself.

To Eddie: as an Atheist, I agree with you that man starts and ends wars. But I don’t believe in preaching the secular gospel the way that you are preaching. Leave that for another thread.

The irony is that it was X-tianity that brought us the enlightenment that eventually allowed everyone to express freely without the risk of getting beheaded for apostasy. For that, we should all be grateful.

So, for the agnnostic/atheist/skeptic veterans: my respects for your service.

For the veterans who are religious: the same.

For all: you are loved. Godspeed.

The Reverend Jacques on November 11, 2014 at 3:43 pm

    “Naval Reserve. 1981-2007”

    Oh, yeah? Which Navy are you talking about?

    DS_ROCKS on November 11, 2014 at 6:09 pm

      Ours, I’m pretty sure. It used to be called the “Naval Reserve” for 100 years. It’s now called the “Navy Reserve”, aka USNR.

      nadie on November 11, 2014 at 6:42 pm

        I was asking Jacques. I thought I remembered him saying that he was a Canuck.

        DS_ROCKS on November 11, 2014 at 7:04 pm

If only their courage under fire was matched by the Generals who command them.

japple on November 11, 2014 at 3:58 pm

I get tried of people thanking me for my service. I was paid, after all, and I joined with the express desire to fire on muslims. Reminds me of the “c.o.s” who refused to be deployed because they might have to fight – as if they didn’t realize what “arms” the “Army” refers to.

I thank all sorts of people for all sorts of their services – the burger flippers who fry my hamburger, the nurse who emptied my bedpan when I was in the hospital, the plumber who rooted my toilet when it was plugged up…

Also, eff Denny’s for expecting me to wait in line for 3 hours for a greasy “Grand Slam” breakfast. If they really wanted to do something nice, give us a gift certificate for a complete meal with beverage that I can redeem at any time.

DS_ROCKS on November 11, 2014 at 6:15 pm

Naziism is, perhaps, a little off topic for Veterans Day, but people should know that Nicki Minaj did a video that celebrates what we went to war gainst. She defended herself today, saying that she’s just a performer, and her work can’t be anti-Semitic because a Jewish person worked on the video.

The Vigilant Christian usually covers Illuminati stuff in the entertainment industry, and as usual, he did a YouTube video on Minaj’s work and another on her apology. The second TVC YouTube video was disturbing. He said that the Jewish person on Minaj’s team was a Zionist and not a “real” Jew.

Arg. Probably a topic for Debbie.

Barry Popik on November 11, 2014 at 7:25 pm

Typo: “against,” not “gainst.” Here’s a link:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/nicki-minaj-video-director-admits-using-nazi-inspired-imagery-20141111

Barry Popik on November 11, 2014 at 7:37 pm

I am gratified to learn that today, on Veterans Day, the US has taken a giant step towards world peace.

The climate change agreement just announced between the US and China will help move us away from war. Not only does it show the positive influence the U.S. is having on China, but, since climate change is the most important issue affecting national security, the safety of our nation, and the well-being of the world have been tremendously increased.

Little Al on November 11, 2014 at 11:28 pm

@ Little Al

Excellent. ROFLMAO

RA2216 on November 12, 2014 at 6:46 am

No offence Little Al. I wouldn’t hold my breath too long. Self-asphyxiation is bad bad bad, especially in my current condition.

Like any breakthrough, this Sino-American agreement will need to be taken with a huge grain of salt. I hope your stateside coverage covers hernia operations.

Just saying. J.

PS (especially to DSR): I am Canadian. 157 of my brothers (and 1 sister) paid the price for Kandahar, Helmand and Panjwaii. Lest we forget.

The Reverend Jacques on November 12, 2014 at 11:14 am

    Veteran’s Day is an American holiday, not Canadian. If it was a holiday for all vets, worldwide, then we should be taking self-congrats (like your “Naval Reseve”, but conspicuously leaving out whose Navy claim) from any ol’ vet, such as Nazi, PLO and Viet Cong vets.

    Shame on you for trying to jump on the Veterans Day bandwagon and glom kudos off of the backs of American veterans.

    Not saying that your *Canadian* Navy service isn’t worthwhile to Canada, but celebrate yourself on your own damn Canadian holiday.

    DS_ROCKS on November 12, 2014 at 11:41 am

      I beg your pardon, but how much were you drinking before you hit the keyboard? (Kool-Aid isn’t just for Hipster Liberals, don’t you know.)

      FYI: November 11 has different meanings depending on where you live. You call it Veteran’s Day, we call it Remembrance Day. Someone else may call it Armistice Day. Regardless, they all mean the same thing: we went to war, now we honour those who died and who survived and who are still serving.

      All I was just saying in my first post is that I was proud of my service, for better or worse. And I’d like to thank any vet, Can or US for the same thing.

      As for you, DSR, you’re cut off. Kool-Aid is not a good drink.

      The Reverend Jacques on November 12, 2014 at 6:26 pm

G-d bless our Veterans, living and dead. They give/gave so much and are slapped in the face by our government.

Holly on November 21, 2014 at 2:21 pm

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