We're Done Dishonoring Our Dead | by: E.M. Burlingame
In the dim, smoke-choked haze of this campfire somewhere in the mountains of Idaho, I think. Who knows, Iâve been in the bottom of not a bottle but bottles for days. Wherever I am, I sit here, hunched over a fifty-year-old scotch strong enough to burn away the memories. But it doesnât, wonât, canât. The demons donât drownâthey just whisper louder, angrier, clawing at my skull, demanding to know what and why. What the fuck did they die for? Why did we bleed and break and lose everything for a system that just says, âthank you for your service,â while weâre left choking on the decaying cadavers of their lives, our civilization and world?
Jeremyâs dead. Died on some commando raid, brains out, trying to drag an Air Force TAC off a road alive, PKM rounds ripping the air. Took one to the headâbamâblood speckled grey matter painting the dirt before his boys could even suppress the fire. And for what? So we could hand that shithole back to the enemy years later like it was a used hooker. Would he have done it if he knew? If he knew weâd just piss it all away? Yeah, probably. Thatâs the kind of solid motherfucker he was. There for his boys, not the fucking locals. The best of us. His mother and sisterâtheyâre walking corpses since, hollowed out, crushed under a weight thatâll never lift.
Dawsonâs gone too. Christmas Eve, he ate a bullet. Self-inflicted, they say, like that makes it cleaner. Couldnât take the painâthe broken back, the scrambled brain from tumbling off a cliff in the black of night on some pointless patrol. They pumped him full of pills, turned him into a junkie, but it didnât touch the real hurt: the betrayal. Would he have signed up if he knew? If he knew the government was brewing a plague to fatten Big Pharmaâs wallets, a vaccine jacking the âunexpected death rateâ up, whatever the fuck that is, by 40%, while the suits in government, business and banking count their stolen trillions? Hell no! None of us who knew him will ever fill that hole he left. Good men like him donât survive this soulless meat grinder of a world.
Pepper died in some goddamn qalat, in some nowhere village thatâs never mattered in the whole stinking history of man. Honestly, I donât know much about it. What kind of fucking friend was I? I only know he took a round to the femoral arteryâbled out fast, hot and red, in the hands of his 18D teammate and buddy whoâs carrying that shit nightmare to this fucking day. His wife back home? Sheâs got nothing now but a flag and a fading memory. Whyâd he enlist? Because the 2008 financial crisisâthose slick Financialists pulling stringsâstripped him broke which shoved him into the Army. Would he have served if he knew it was all a rigged game, a wealth grab for the rapists at the top? Maybe. Who the hell knows. He was also a quiet, solid motherfucker.
Ericâs dead too. Blown into five wet chunks by an IED he was disarming to keep little local kids from getting shredded. My team had to find the parts, scrape him up, bag him, ship him home to his boys and a closed casket funeralâtwo little guys under seven whoâll never again see their adored dad. His EOD junior, Ken, lost an arm, his brain turned to mush in the blast, condemned to stumble through life half a man. Would Eric have left those boys if heâd known? If he knew the lunatics in chargeâteachers, social workers, doctors, government freaksâmight one day try to trans them, pump them full of estrogen, carve up their bodies, throwing their genitals in the fire? Hell no. He lost himself trying to save strangersâ kids. That great father sonofabitch died for a future thatâs turning to poison.
Three of my other boys offed themselves within ten months of one another. Few years back. Died back here in the States, not even on the battlefield. Brain injuries, career problems, divorces, courts ripping their kids away, handing them to unfit mothers while the system took half of everything theyâd ever built, would ever build. Every one of them with at least two years in straight up combat. Would they have pushed so hard to be selected, to wear the beret, if they knew? If they knew their own government would flood our streets with the same enemies we fought for twenty-five yearsârape gangs, murderers, human traffickers all protected by the insane, by academics, politicians, NGOs, cops and judges, while good men rot in jail for fighting back? If theyâd known our intelligence agencies and law enforcement would be flooding fentanyl into our streets, killing hundreds of thousands of our own? Not in a million fucking years!
What the fuck are we doing? Fighting for these bastards, these fucking antihumanist viruses. These parasites that create nothing. That do nothing but take, as the send us away to murder the innocent to collect on their debts! What the fuck are we doing guarding their accumulation of even more wealth by slaughtering humans in their sleepâtheir wives and kids just âgetting in the way.â All so some pedophile, some predator, some Financialist Resentful can cash in on a ten-million-dollar âperformanceâ bonus this year, while our families have barely enough to eat.
What do we get for it? Millions of civilians dead, our own minds and bodies shattered, our own souls sold as if we were nothing more than cheap whores, our own friends and colleagues broken for life and deadâso they can flood our towns with drugs and poverty and slave and worse, with scum who hate us, just so landlords and the banks behind them can suck up rent paid for votes made by human garbage.
Elections stolen right in front of us, dissenters calling it out locked in solitary for years, a global web of pedophiles and genocidal murderers, slavers allâ entertainers, politicians, royals, bankers, bureaucrats and businessmenârunning the show, and not one of them made to pay for their blatant crimes. A trillion dollars a year in trafficking, and thatâs only drugs and humans. Laundered through the major banks at four and a half percent, keeping the whole racket going. The economyâs gutted, 80% of the numbers pure made up bullshit, the middle class is ash, veterans killing themselves faster than bullets ever could, more dead at their own hands than in all wars combined since WWII.
Yeah, the elites are scrambling hard to patch their regime, to regain trust, to reset the contract, to make us believe in their superiority, but itâs too late. Way too fucking late, man. Somethingâs brokenâsnapped clean through. The kind where it canât be welded and there ainât no more spare parts. Itâs all just broken and gotta be completely replaced as a whole. A reckoning thatâs not coming; itâs here. A reckoning in blood and guts and gore. Twenty-five years of the most ruthless hunting and killing in every corner and community of the world. And all that knowledge is resident in tens and hundreds of thousands here at home who just donât believe or care anymore who dies, nor how, to make it right.
The elites believe weâre sitting still for this? That weâll leave it in their hands. The very useless or abusive or predatory hands created this very problem. Weâre not fucking insane. We donât do the same thing and expect a different result. Well, not anymore. Voting ainât getting us out of this. And we know it. Fuck it all into nothing! Weâre not letting them destroy us, our families, our dead, our civilization and way of life so many of our own have died for. Not anymore. We wonât dishonor our dead any longer by doing nothing. We know whatâs left: smash it, burn it all, and kill. Soon. We feel it in our bones. When exactly and how, Iâve no fucking idea, no one does, no one can. We just know, when it all goes, this reckoning thatâll wash over our homelands as purging fire, this time, itâll be TRAITORS FIRST!
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