@DefensorArgento@BumperCrop1 I never understood this stereotype. Sure our idiots don’t know geography, but you in a foreign country only know we have idiots because our tech is so prominent we built the internet and broadcast their stupidity. We learn geography here in elementary school.
@Wronggrok@rk169rk@ApoStructura That’s why we have CEOs, CFOs and COOs. Motivation & ideas, money talent, and doers that execute ideas well.
Shotwell is an amazing doer. Elon found a gem. 💎
@Wrexham_Red@YorkshiremanDan@ProtectUkWomen@NadineDorries “Politics is the art of the possible”
You’re playing a pragmatic game because you lack vision and bravery.
You’ll always lose because you can’t see the win in the future. So you give up the game now.
“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
@Wrexham_Red@YorkshiremanDan@ProtectUkWomen@NadineDorries Politics is warfare. It’s a game of will, not math. And you lost your will.
This is one battle in a long war.
Losing battles is fine. It’s expected, so long as you retain your will.
Cowardice is what got you into this situation. It’s what keeps you in this situation. Be brave.
To the Commission,
As a Gold Star spouse, I am grateful that our nation is finally building a memorial to honor those who served and sacrificed during the Global War on Terrorism. This generation answered the call after September 11th and carried the burden of nearly two decades of war. Their service deserves to be remembered.
That said, I have serious concerns about the proposed design.
When I look at the concept images, I see an abstract landscape. I see architecture, symbolism, and reflection spaces. What I do not see are the men and women who fought these wars or the names of those who never came home.
My husband, SSG Alan Shaw, was killed in Iraq in 2007. He was 31 years old. He had a name. He had a family. He had children who grew up without their father. Like thousands of others, his sacrifice was not abstract.
Nothing about the current design makes me want to take my grandchildren there to learn about their grandfather and the sacrifices made by him and thousands of others. A national memorial should do more than inspire reflection. It should teach. It should tell a story. It should ensure that future generations understand who served, who sacrificed, and what was lost.
The men and women we lost were not concepts. They were individuals with dreams, families, and futures that ended in service to this country. I believe names matter because names force us to confront the true cost of war. They transform statistics into people.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial remains one of the most powerful memorials in our nation because visitors are immediately confronted with the scale of the sacrifice through the names of the fallen. The names are not a design element. They are the memorial.
I am not opposed to symbolism or artistic expression, but I believe the Global War on Terrorism Memorial should provide direct recognition of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. If someone visits this memorial fifty years from now, they should not have to guess who it was built to honor. The memorial itself should tell that story clearly and unapologetically.
The combat fallen deserve more than an abstract representation of their sacrifice. They deserve to be remembered by name.
Respectfully,
Sharrell Shaw
Gold Star Spouse
@stewartjerry253@Asst_to_the_RM Oh yeah we still played the games lol. Just less :)
I remember policing a road once, parallel to the block where we were getting shot from.
The entire city was a trash heap. Police the trash.
The level of stupid was off the charts some days.
@stewartjerry253@Asst_to_the_RM Great. More grass too. Like I don’t have nightmares about some Staff Sgt reaming my ass for walking on the grass.
That was the one good thing about the hectic deployment schedule. Less time playing fuck fuck games stateside.
@BuschidoEra@Gruntpa … can’t unsee this. Please let them just make a wall. I really love the Vietnam memorial. It’s really well done. Keep their names alive forever.
In my opinion the Vietnam Memorial is absolutely perfect. I don’t know why we are aftraid to reuse a perfect concept.
I want to be able to touch the names of Rangers/Soldiers that I knew that were killed in action.
It would bring me back there pretty much every year.
@EODHappyCaptain Yeah I’d rather have a wall so I can pay my respects. I served from the west coast but live in the east now. All my friends markers are on the other side of the country.
@jehanh4@mtaibbi A “fundamental right”? Broad suffrage that we have today is fairly new.
I doubt anyone before the 2000s would argue that it “benefits” us to have druggies and aliens voting.
Or that it benefits us to have weeklong elections.
@japan_nobunaga The British psyche is extremely rule based and kind. They will 'allow' the government to try and deal with it in a rule based manner until they finally break.
A beautiful poem that exemplifies this is Kipling's "The Beginnings"
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I want people finally held to account for what has been done to our country.
Civil servants, judges, politicians.
If they have knowingly placed unvetted dangerous third world savages in our communities, near our children, then a Restore Britain Government will aim to prosecute them.
If that includes Reform’s Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman, then so be it.
When they held the power - they welcomed that Sudanese monster into our country and handed him a visa. An attempted beheading followed their decision.
Those responsible must be held to account.
And I want to send a very clear message to officials planning to place more of these men in communities across Britain - near schools, nurseries, families.
When Restore Britain wins the next election, we will pursue you with the full power of the state.
That will apply retrospectively.
If those in power are made to feel the consequences of their decisions, the quality of those decisions will improve.
We are so far past half-measures now, the country is too far gone.
Britain needs a democratic revolution.
That is exactly what Restore Britain is going to do.
@OfAthenry@mufcseven7@JoshuaBarzon Our boy @elonmusk is literally building a mesh network so we will be able to reliably make fun of Euro-poors from our moon and mars colonies.
Our sons will be taming the solar system.
Their sons will be inventing new regulations on AC units and kitchen blades.