Touching anecdote, Doc Sarvis, thank you.

The majority-- not all-- colored units in WWII were relegated to support functions such as transportation and not given the same chances to be war heroes like their white counterparts.

When you look at the newspaper coverage of WWII, you hardly see Soldiers of Color. But the Amsterdam News and other newspapers in Detroit and Philadelphia wrote about black soldiers all the time.

Sidenote:

The National Security Archives released this bit of secret information only a few years ago.

Landing on the five beaches of Normandy on 6 June 1944, each US Army company or platoon (I forget) had a soldier carrying a Geiger counter ("radiacmeter").

"Ike" was apprised of the US Manhattan Project and wasn't sure if the Third Reich didn't have an atomic bomb or some sort of "death ray" weapon.

Imagine, all the books or movies about D-Day that we read or watched over the decades never mentioned that.

Wow. Like penal battalions, Doc Sarvis.

*** Inconsiderate Pete Hogsbreath Further Strains USACID by Dragging Entire Family With Him to France ***

Excerpt: "Pete Hogsbreath's decision to bring six of his children and his strumpet wife on an official trip to France that began Friday is putting added strain on his US Army CID PSD amid heightened threats stemming from the Iran war the US is fighting on behalf of Israel."

My pleasure, Doc Sarvis.

Slavery is America's original sin indeed, as John Brown preached.

John Brown was hurriedly indicted, tried, convicted, and executed all within four months.

He and his message of freedom for the slaves needed to be quashed immediately.

The bloody Haitian slave revolt was still in the minds of whites all over the US, but particularly in the heads of wealthy Southern plantation owners.

Initially, prosecutors didn't know know how to legally charge John Brown, so he was indicted for "treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia."

Yet after the US Civil War, prosecutors were unable to come up with the appropriate charges for Jefferson Davis who outlived A. Lincoln in relative freedom by 24 years.

Sidenote: John Wilkes Booth may have attended John Brown's trial. He was confirmed to be at his hanging.

My favorite depiction of our American hero looking at all of us:

*** Republicans Ruin Everything: Dummkopf Trumpf Will Spoil NY Knicks Home Game By Coming ***

"The morbidly obese geriatric pedophile's expected presence at Madison Square Garden on Monday night for Game Three of the NBA Finals between the NY Knicks and San Antonio Spurs is going to provide a downer for the rest of the city.

In what was supposed to be a raucous, memorable atmosphere in and around MSG for the Knicks' first NBA Finals home game since 1999, Dummkopf Trumpf accepting team owner James Dolan's invitation has led to clamped down security, and inconvenience for everyone else.

There will be no watch parties around the arena, specifically at Plaza 33, which hosted thousands of fans for Games One and Two. Multiple people were arrested in the ecstasy of the Knicks taking a surprising 2-0 series lead " just two wins away from their first NBA title since 1973.

Along with the elimination of watch parties, there likely will be no vehicle or pedestrian access around secured areas."

~snip~

Remarkable that NY Knicks owner James Dolan would do this to his loyal and longtime-suffering fans. Whose side is this oligarch on? Oops! I answered my own question.

"You'd think Trumpf would be rooting for the Spurs. It's what got him out of Vietnam."
~ Jimmy Kimmel ~

#14 | Posted by Reinheitsgebot at 2026-06-07 11:30 AM | Reply |

**** GOP Rep Condemns Pete Hogsbreath's Idiotic and Racist D-Day Speech ****

GOP Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX):

"As the son of a D-Day veteran, look, there's a time and a place for these issues of immigration. That was not the day. Not the anniversary of D-Day. I think out of respect to the veterans, and myself being the son of a D-Day veteran, those remarks were out of place.

"I think it should have been about their sacrifice, their service to their country, and what they did to protect the free world at a time of great peril against Nazi Germany.

"That should have been the message. It always has been in the past. And, quite frankly, I thought it was just inappropriate."