(ThyBlackMan.com) This past weekend, we heard many saying, “Happy Veteran’s Day” to those who have served this nation in uniform. I traveled to Hendersonville, Tennessee, for a Veteran’s Day event. I find it odd that airlines ask about active-duty military status or give boarding preferences to active-duty members but never mention veteran.
First, should we say “happy?” Just like Memorial Day, there is nothing happy about that day. We should express our sincere appreciation by affirming “honor” on Memorial or Veteran’s Day. Regarding the moniker “veteran,” that designation has an extraordinary meaning in my family. My dad was a World War II veteran. My older brother was a Vietnam War veteran. My father-in-law was also a Vietnam War veteran. I served 22 years and retired from the US Army in 2004, serving in several combat zones. My nephew currently serves in the US Army, having had several combat deployments. Two of my five brothers-in-law are veterans, and both of my sons-in-law have served, or are currently serving, in the US Army. Multiple generations have taken the oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
That oath has no statute of limitations for the real, true veterans. For true American veterans, we are concerned about what we see happening in our America.
Our Constitution says that it is a specified duty of the federal government to protect every state in this union from invasion in Article IV, Section 4. It is referred to as the Guarantee Clause. Yet we have elected officials who do not abide by the rule of law or uphold our Constitution. When we hear about hundreds of thousands to millions of illegal immigrants crossing into America and receiving taxpayer-funded benefits, it is highly disturbing. That is especially true when one reflects upon the fact that we have homeless and jobless veterans in America. Those men and women are willing to give their lives for this nation. Imagine the numbers of single military-aged males, and the “gotaways” who are walking freely in our nation. Their numbers are greater than our active-duty US Army and US Marine Corps, the latter just celebrated their 248th birthday on November 10th. In the past three years, we have lost more Americans to the scourge of fentanyl than our combined losses in the Korean and Vietnam wars.
Veterans know that our American sovereignty is supposed to be defended and secured.
Somehow in our America, we have elected officials who openly support a terrorist organization that killed Americans on October 7, 2023. These same terrorists are allied with another Islamic terrorist organization that killed 254 Marines, sailors, and soldiers on October 23, 1983. I speak of Hamas and Hezbollah. These Islamic terrorism supporters, American and otherwise, are attacking people in our streets. Sadly 69-year-old Paul Kessler lost his life in California. They are attacking US military supply ships at the Port of Oakland. They are destroying businesses and creating intimidating situations for Jewish American college and university students. Veterans do not accept our enemy receiving aid and comfort in our homeland. Hamas controls the Gaza Strip and they are more than willing to murder their own people for the stated objective of annihilating the Jewish people.
Not only do we have Islamic terrorism supporters roaming our streets, but we also have criminals running rampant. So-called judges align more with ideological activism than with the rule of law and protecting legal and law-abiding citizens. Leftists are undermining law enforcement while also undermining our constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Yes, as the same progressive socialists open our borders, join hands with Islamic terrorists, and release violent criminals back onto our streets, they want us disarmed.
Veterans took an oath to the Constitution, which is where you will find, as part of our individual Bill of Rights, our right to keep and bear arms, since a “well-regulated [trained] militia being necessary to the security of a Free State” is a specified responsibility to American citizens, veterans!
Our federal government, and many elected officials, have decided it is not concerned with the Constitution, a restraining document on their powers. They have focused on advancing an antithetical ideological agenda to our Constitutional Republic. We are told that we are in danger of a terrorist attack. I guess Moms for Liberty and parents at school board meetings aren’t the real terrorists after all.
As a veteran reflecting on my America, I realize that “these are the times that try men’s souls.” I also realize, just as with Esther in the Bible, veterans were made for a time such as this!
We need more veterans, true, patriotic vets, who believe that there is no end to their oath to the Constitution to step up. We need our veterans to continue their service in elected offices, especially in law enforcement and at the local levels of governance. We encourage this at American Constitutional Rights Union’s Committee to Support and Defend. If we reflect upon our America, we must answer the call of duty and service once again. My reflection upon America leads me to believe America needs its veterans now, more than ever, in positions of leadership.
Columnist; Allen West
Official website; https://twitter.com/AllenWest
Mr. Travis King’s case is one of the reasons why it is not a good time for young, black men to join the U.S. Army. Don’t let the U.S. Army mess over your children like this. Many members of the U.S. Army will willingly ruin the reputation,and career of young, black men like this one. The U.S. Army trained, and deployed this soldier, and subsequently has also ruined this young man’s reputation, and his career by not providing proper medical care,allowing him to be placed in improper incarceration,and giving him a Dishonorable Discharge. This former soldier will have trouble finding employment, and adjusting to civilian life, due to his combined U.S. Army record, and civilian background,and also will probably be a target for a policeman’s bullet. The sentencing judges knew all of this before adding to this soldier’s list of woes. The U.S. Army remains an overall racist, and seriously racial discriminating place to be. Make no mistake with your understanding of this attack on black folk in America. Black men and women are under attack by many White Americans, even those enlisted in the U.S. Army.Young, black men, find some other occupations to work. Do not join the U.S. Army, and subject yourself to the basically unchecked tortures of centuries old White Supremacy, and White Privilege.
African Americans should not fight for an autocratic America !!! Find something else to do other than being overlooked by racist white men and women from the American south and the Midwest that populate all the branches of the military. African Americans are often overlooked for deserved promotions, and fought against fiercely by the Veterans Administration who many times deny much needed services to them when they come home mentally, and physically injured by combat. You would be surprised at how many ” good, heroic, black soldiers ” are sitting in prisons and mental hospitals throughout this nation and abroad. American branches of the military play a lowdown, dirty trick on many black soldiers who are encouraged to enlist but are not promoted or cared for properly, and who are also systematically denied leadership promotions. Don’t fight for a white supremacist, white privileged,existential,nihilistic, autocratic America. Stay home and take care of your families as best you can.
Don’t Fight for an Autocratic America. Stay home and take care of your families as best you can.
The African American should legally resist fighting for an America where over seventy-four million citizens voted for the political autocracy proposing nihilist Donald John Trump. Seventy-four million voters, under the auspices of seeking existential freedoms, wanted to trash the U.S. Constitution in favor of Trump’s proposed nihilist autocracy which sought to enhance and magnify white privilege, and white supremacy globally. “There isn’t a dime worth of difference “between the political philosophies of Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy,Benjamin Natanyahu, and Donald John Trump. All four nihilist leaders advocate autocratic governments. All of the American heroes who have fought and died in defense of American democracy would turn over in their graves to learn that a large percentage of Americans are willing to consider residing under the rule of an autocrat rather than a duly elected president heading a pluralistic democracy with a capitalist economic based that believes in an unequal distribution of available goods and services based on merit. Merit is defined as usefulness to the republic. As a member of NATO, America has an eclectically conceived developing democratic identity of its own separate and apart from those of eastern and western Europe. Not all of us vacate in Europe to commune with our relatives. The roots of a strong America are not all planted in Europe. America should refine its own democracy to embrace all of its citizens. We need to get in touch with both the metaphysical, and physical aspects of our American being. It is time for America to reify its own commitments to its own citizens when it comes to the African American by clearly showing that African Americans henceforth will, and shall enjoy full benefit of equal protection under the law if it wants to call for the shedding of African American blood in defense of eastern and western Europe.African Americans Should Not Fight and Die for a Democratic Party and Republican Party Created Autocratic Government America:
Matthew 2:2
“Saying, where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.”
King James Version of the Holy Bible (KJV)
Matthew 2:2 ( Matthew 2nd Chapter,2nd Verse) Context:
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, SAYING Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born. And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet. Jerusalem was then a client government of the Roman occupying forces. Jerusalem is now a client government of the United States of America.
There are many holds other men can have on the minds of our leaders. Some holds are physically achieved with chains, leg irons, and handcuffs, and other holds are with theological indoctrinating ideas and scientific achievements. The nation of Israel, Jewish beliefs, empirical scientific discoveries, and Christian theology have great moral, ethical, and scientific holds over the thoughts of many American citizens chiefly by virtue of the Christian interpretations of the King James Version of the Holy Bible, and the scientific accomplishments of Dr. Albert Einstein, and Dr. John Robert Oppenheimer both of Jewish persuasion. I do not want Israel to call for the spilling of the precious blood of American youth enlisted in our military branches. We should say ” no ” to fighting Israel’s wars because Israel has had more than enough time to make peace with its Muslim neighbors if it is indeed ” peace ” that they are seeking.African American men and women in the military should legally resist fighting for an America where over seventy-four million citizens voted for the political nihilist autocracy proposing western European colonial idealized existential, nihilist, white supremacy, white privilege Donald John Trump whose political ideologies still pollute the minds of republicans today.
Seventy-four million voters under the auspices of seeking existential freedoms, chiefly freedom from governmental regulations, wanted to trash the U.S. Constitution in favor of the republican party. Trump’s proposed autocracy seeks to enhance and magnify white privilege, and white supremacy globally. “There isn’t a dime worth of difference “between the political philosophies of Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and Donald John Trump. All three leaders advocate nihilistic, autocracies that lean towards dictatorships. As a member of NATO, America has a multiracial, eclectic developing democratic identity of its own separate and apart from those of eastern and western Europe.
We must study, learn, and uphold the positive cohesive attributes associated with being a true American. America is not like any other country on earth thanks to our politically flexible, organizing document named the” U.S. Constitution.” America has its own magnificent identity. The roots of a strong America are not all planted in Europe where global colonization was born. America should refine its own democracy to embrace all of its citizens. It is time for America to reify its own commitments to its own citizens when it comes to the African Americans by clearly showing that African Americans will, and shall enjoy full benefit of equal protection under the law if America wants to call for the shedding of African American blood in defense of outdated eastern and western European colonization political ideologies such as those being enforced at the point of a gun together with the destructive forces of rockets and bombs in Israel and Gaza at this very moment.