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Secret ingredient....can you guess?
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup flour+ 4 tbsp
Egg replacer for 2 eggs
8 tbsp. vegetable margarine
4 oz. semi-sweet chocolate
1 tsp. cinnamon
4 tbsp Cinnamon liqueur
1 tsp cayenne pepper
1/2 cup dark chocolate, broken into peices
Grease or line muffin tins. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Melt together margarine and chocolate. Cool.
Combine flour, sugar and egg replacer. Stir briskly until mixed. Blend in chocolate mixture and cinnamon, cayenne. Lastly add chocolate bits. Spoon batter into prepared pans filling half full. Bake for 20 minutes. Make 12 jumbos or 24 regular cuppies.
Frost with your favorite chocolate frosting and sprinkle with cinnamon candies.
In honor of my daddy, brother, son, American & Ukrainian grandpapas, uncles and cousins who have served with true hearts and honor......let us say NO MORE WAR to serve the bankers, CEO's and politicians who are not worthy of their sacrifice.
i sing of Olaf glad and big
whose warmest heart recoiled at war:
a conscientious object-or
his wellbelovéd colonel (trig
westpointer most succinctly bred)
took erring Olaf soon in hand;
but—though an host of overjoyed
noncoms (first knocking on the head
him) do through icy waters roll
that helplessness which others stroke
with brushes recently employed
anent this muddy toiletbowl,
while kindred intellects evoke
allegiance per blunt instruments—
Olaf (being to all intents
a corpse and wanting any rag
upon what God unto him gave)
responds, without getting annoyed
"I will not kiss your fucking flag"
straightaway the silver bird looked grave
(departing hurriedly to shave)
but-though all kinds of officers
(a yearning nation's blueeyed pride)
their passive prey did kick and curse
until for wear their clarion
voices and boots were much the worse,
and egged the firstclassprivates on
his rectum wickedly to tease
by means of skillfully applied
bayonets roasted hot with heat—
Olaf (upon what were once knees)
does almost ceaselessly repeat
"there is some shit I will not eat"
our president,being of which
assertions duly notified
threw the yellowsonofabitch
into a dungeon,where he died
Christ (of His mercy infinite)
i pray to see;and Olaf,too
preponderatingly because
unless statistics lie he was
more brave than me:more blond than you
· · · · · ·
Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962)
With thanks to my dear friend Stoney.
Stützpunkt North 2011
Experience memorial Stützpunkt North in Frederikshavn (Northern Jutland, Denmark) - the largest single historic marker and reliving of the Occupation and the liberation of Denmark in recent times.
In the days 20-22 of May 2011 we will commemorate the occupation and liberation of the city of Frederikshavn at Bangsbo Fort, Bangsbo Museum, around Frederikshavn Port, in Parks and in the streets.
More than 60 Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and German friendship societies, museums and World War II enthusiasts will honour and remember those difficult and dark years with civil events, aircraft and great military-vehicles show.
At a peaceful small town cemetery in Central Illinois flags mark the graves of those who served. While Memorial Day is and should be about those who died in combat, deceased veterans are also recognized.
On the left is my uncle who served with the 10th Mountain Division during the battle up the spine of Italy in WWII. After his service he became a much loved small town doctor.
On the right is my dad. Dad was in the blue water Navy from 1936 to 1956 and all through WWII, including the battle for Leyte Gulf.
My wife and I will attend the Memorial Day service at Camp Butler near Springfield, IL this afternoon as we have for many years. EDIT: Ungrateful fools cancelled the Memorial Day Service again this year.........COVID 19..........
Gen. Paul J. LaCamera, United Nations Command / Combined Forces Command / U.S. Forces Korea commander, along with U.S. and ROK senior leaders gathered at the United Nations Command monument this morning to honor the brave men and women who gave their lives in defense of our nation and its values.
From My Photo Archives: Color Guard marching in the 1997 Memorial Day Parade at La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Mayor Bill de Blasio delivers remarks at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial at Riverside Park on Monday, May 26, 2014. Credit: Diana Robinson
Gen. Paul J. LaCamera, United Nations Command / Combined Forces Command / U.S. Forces Korea commander, along with U.S. and ROK senior leaders gathered at the United Nations Command monument this morning to honor the brave men and women who gave their lives in defense of our nation and its values.
Gen. Paul J. LaCamera, United Nations Command / Combined Forces Command / U.S. Forces Korea commander, along with U.S. and ROK senior leaders gathered at the United Nations Command monument this morning to honor the brave men and women who gave their lives in defense of our nation and its values.
David Frank Andrews
Killed in action in a skirmish at St, Mary’s Church, north of Petersburg, VA
Just one month before the surrender of Robert E Lee at Appomattox Court House, he
was buried in place the day of his death.
After the War, a concerted effort was undertaken to locate the bodies of those buried where they died and rebury them in a cemetery with a proper head stone. Those who had a note with a name of the deceased in a uniform pocket or affixed to their clothing were given an epitaph to identify them. Those who did not, have only “unknown” for eternity.
My great x3 grandfather rode in the 6th Ohio Volunteer Calvary, Co.L with his older brother, David. Joseph Andrews was there at the time of his brother’s death but did not have time to put a note in his pocket. David would be buried by the enemy. Joseph would be at Appomattox the day the fighting stopped and he would share some rations with an enemy that was starving.
No one ever spoke of David after the war. Joseph would, however, name his only son, David. In 2000 while I was visiting Andersonville, GA, I saw a book on the counter, The History of the Ohio 6th Volunteer Calvary, Co L. I purchased the book and found Joseph and much to my surprise, I found David. Upon obtaining his muster records from the National Archives I learned the rest of his story.
The caretakers at the National Cemetery in Petersburg tell me he is buried in one of the graves marked “unknown”. After so many years of being unknown in our family, he may lay in an unknown grave, but he is known in our hearts and memories.
Rest in peace, David.
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Governor Phil Murphy and Brigidier General Jemal Beale deliver remarks at the Department of Military and Veteran’s affairs’ Memorial Day Ceremony in Wrightstown, NJ on Monday, May 25th, 2020 (Edwin J. Torres/ NJ Governor’s Office).
I was enlisted in the voluntary Army (85-89). I think most people don’t realize who’s doing the volunteering. Mostly, when the media talks about “troops”, they do it with an axe to grind.
So, while you’re enjoying the third day consider this.
I didn't find many common denominators among soldiers. They come from…black, white, brown, yellow… citizen or not…rural, country, and city with all the stops between. If you were going to define culture by race or location, excluding Jewish, those are widely represented. Strangely, I do not remember seeing one Jewish person in the Army. Also fair to say, as you get closer to the fighting end of the service; you see more white and brown people and less blacks… which would probably surprise a lot.
Another revelation might be economic class. You see few people from grinding poverty. You see a few, but very few, from wealth or power. The nearly all come from the range well within those end-points. What I saw in the Army was a much better representation of America than college. Certainly, a more reflective sample than any trading floor or investment bank I have worked at since.
But the deviation and why you should care.
The two, nearly universal, common drivers bringing people to enlist are:
•They are long patriotism and short on opportunity.
o It is both of these in equal measure. People with an axe to grind try to point to one or the other. For some reason, it's very difficult for the hard left/right to believe that both of these can exist together… but they do.
•They are willing to take huge risk to get some opportunity.
If you consider for a moment what that means, you might pause.
The people we remember this weekend were largely cast out. Sure, they are in culture/class representative of society, but that short on opportunity thing… that means they are (for many reasons) representative outcast…not the people that can make decisions.
Those with the power of options do not serve. Those are the people represented by media, intelligentsias, business, art, and government. While they make/approve the decisions to go to war, or how to pursue war… Sons and daughters of the establishment. certainly are NOT the ones fighting.
That is precisely why we need a draft. We wouldn’t be in Iraq. We wouldn’t be floundering in Afghanistan. We wouldn’t have made an entire list of mistakes, and we wouldn’t continue to make those mistakes… If the people with acess to the public's attention were serving. The absent accountability and review would not be ruling today.
I’m no bomb-throwing-america-hating-lefty-peacenik. But the way we’re pursuing these wars is not just stupidly ineffective and breaking the country many of us deeply love… it is also just wrong.
It’s wrong people long patriotism short opportunity pull down 3, 4, 5, 6 combat tours. Those aren’t going to be people putting their lives back together. After multiple combat tours, those are alterred people.
It is wrong that people with voice and power avoid any corollary effect of their decisions made directly or through omission. It is the kind of wrong that cost greatly when the bill is no longer avoidable.
We need a draft.
And when you see that kid in uniform, waiting on a airplane, remember you’re looking a patriot riding a big bet. He’s all in on red, hoping it doesn’t turn up black.