My father cried.
I had never seen it. Not once in my life.
70 years old. Post-war generation. He hated America with everything he had.
60 years. Not one kind word. Not one.
Then March 2011 came.
He sat in front of the TV. Every day. Silent. Fists on his knees.
Your Marines digging black mud with their bare hands for Japanese strangers.
Your 19-year-old sailors sleeping on cold steel floors so our grandmothers could have beds.
Your carrier sailing INTO the radiation while the whole world ran out.
He watched all of it. And said nothing.
Then one night I passed his room and I froze.
Behind that door, my father, the strongest and most stubborn man I ever knew, was sobbing like a child.
I couldn't move. I just stood there in the dark hallway, listening, crying with him.
Then he said it. One sentence. It tore 60 years apart:
"I was wrong about them."
Do you understand what that took?
A lifetime of hatred. Gone.
Destroyed by soldiers carrying soup to strangers.
America, you didn't just save our towns.
You reached inside my father's chest and healed a wound he swore would never close.
He passed away believing in you.
Happy 250th. ๐บ๐ธ๐ฏ๐ต
An old man who hated you died loving you. My father.
Christopher Hitchens: โIn 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.
Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.
Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.โ
Careful, this site is a CESSPOOL! ๐คช
They all learned that word right after Elon purchased it. ๐คฃ
It's always funny when some of the most prolific liars warn people about "disinformation."
USPS worker involved in the Wisconsin 2020 Election testified that their higher-ups ordered them to backdate over 100,000 ballots.
Adjudication workers in GA were working with no oversight or chain-of-custody, which allowed them to switch Trump votes to Biden at the click of a button.
Election workers in Detroit testified he witnessed election workers counting and processing invalid ballots for Biden.
Other election workers in multiple states were threatened or even permitted to observe the counting as their job required them to do.
Every recent forensic report coming out today is confirming everything we were told in 2020.
Gavin Newsom's CA State Park employees destroyed the Palisades & Malibu, they mocked residents in leaked texts as their homes were burning. Now, on Independence Day 250, they're hanging the American flag upside down, in full view of the burned out Malibu lots. Unreal.
๐บ๐ธ BREAKING: The largest fireworks show in the history of the WORLD has just kicked off in Washington, DC
850,000 MUNITIONS โ last year's was 20,000
Trump PROMISED to make it happen, and he MADE IT HAPPEN! ๐ฅ
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!! ๐บ๐ธ๐ค๐ฏ๐ต
250 years of freedom deserves art this EPIC!!
Japan's greatest wave meets America's greatest birthday!! ๐๐
Hokusai's masterpiece is now made of stars and stripes, a samurai is riding it, and Mt. Fuji dressed up for the party!!