08/19/2024
Can veterans criticize each other?
RPPS CORP
SELECT AND HONORABLE COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS
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The Select and Honorable Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs of The RPPS CORP having considered the question posed by the rho - ump governor of Minnesota, a weekend warrior who evaded service in a war zone: whether veterans can criticize each other renders its opinion in accordance with the ORGANIC BYLAWS of the Society.
The Society observed that the rho - ump governor is not a veteran as that term is defined by law 30 days on Active Duty. His question nonetheless has been considered.
The Society accepts that the Ho and the weekend warrior who deserted from the National Guard will be elected and a socialist government installed.
The proposition the rho - ump governor propounds that veterans have a gentlemanly privilege and avoid criticizing each other much like members of the august Senate is a dictum which is simply not true.
It goes far beyond the SOCIETY’s epigram, in a divided political culture, you HONOR THE VETERAN OF THE WAR YOU SUPPORTED.
Recently, m’Lord exploded with rage that a flighty (AF veteran) dared criticize the Corps, just as his Lordship expressed umbrage when I told him that the original purpose of the USMC (jar heads) was to baby sit the navy (swabbies) and protect the Captain of the ship from the swabbies and tars. Actually, his Lordship did not serve, but his saintly father, if he were alive, could have explained this intense interservice rivalry. The rivalry in US ranks rarely exceeds catcalls and occasionally fisticuffs. By contrast in British services, these confrontations are generally characterized by violence.
Thus Marine Jar Heads call the army “Ice Cream Soldiers;” the army calls the air force, “boy scouts;” the navy has earned a number of epithets, including swabbies, tars and ladies; in turn, the navy calls the coast guard, “fresh water seamen.” The new space service will have to live down the pre – existing term “space cadet.”
In literature as in life interservice rivalry became the subject of comedy in NO TIMES FOR SERGEANTS starring the US’s favorite Redneck, Andy Griffen. The song tells it right: It’s mostly us who serve overseas.
What about disdain for veterans of different wars? Eisenhower watching the ill – fated practice for D – Day remarked that there were too many officers sporting the right shoulder combat patch from World War I.
Where D – Day proved to be an unqualified success, practice for it was an unmitigated failure. Most of the 4th Infantry Division was lost on Slapton Shores. The disaster in Happy – Ending Hollywood America is rarely spoken of. Bad tidings rarely fall on the house of the good.
The rivalry between veterans of different wars exploded in a scene in the movie THE MEN staring Marlon Brando when the veterans of the Great War meet the veterans of the Great Patriotic War in a bar. In FROM HERE TO ETERNITY Sgt. Maylon Stark (George Reeves) tells 1SG Milton Warden (Bert Lancaster) the officers of the previous war were always better. In the comedy KING OF THE HILL, ne’er do well Bill Daughtry touches off a war in a veterans bar between veterans of different wars, some you’ve never heard of so that Hank Hill can fulfill his responsibility as Executor of the Estate of his late father Colonel Cotton Hill by flushing Cotton Hill’s ashes down General Patton’s toilet.
Of course I’m omitting THE BIG ONE. No it’s not World War II. It’s the Civil War Between the States. North and South don’t even have the same memorial day. They have different heroes, names for the war and the battles.
And that war still goes on. Though the soldiers shook hands, people who have never heard a rifle fired in anger in any war ordained to continue the fight tearing down the Southern monuments and removing their heroes from a place of honor. A military base is no longer dedicated to the bravest American soldier of all time: John Bell Hood who having lost an arm and leg in combat strapped himself in the saddle to continue the fight.
It seems there is no consensus argued for by the Rho - ump Governor of Minnesota. Perhaps the rho - ump governor should have hung around to find out more about veterans.
It is on that note, The Society bids you a cheery cheerio,
BY COMMAND OF THE SOCIETY
HA ANDREWS
COMMANDANT
LEGIO HARLOT
