This Part 4 of "Veteran's Spotlight" will be to honour a patriot of America and guardian of democracy and veteran's, and lone known living US Army WW1 Vet, US ARMY CPL. FRANK BUCKLES. Cpl Buckles also still on the front, pushing for a National Memorial in Washington, DC to honour WW1 Veteran's till this day. But there is quite a bit of history as well to this 20th & 21st century hero. A few video's below of the man, and his war era. Thank You Sir!
***** "FRANK BUCKLES" PART 2
***** VETERAN'S SPOTLIGHT 3, 2, 1 HERE
1) CPL. FRANK BUCKLES, LAST KNOWN LIVING WW1 VET ... THANX TO FREEWHITEWATER
2) WW1 CPL BUCKLES, THANX TO SOLDIERSMEDIACENTER
3) AN INTERNATIONAL ART, IMAGE, MUSIC COMPILATION OF WW1 ERA, THANX TO UBUNTUBIRD
POST NOTE: As far as the long fight Cpl Buckles had to endure at over the age of 100 just to get a National Memorial in DC ... this shouldnt even be questioned or allowed for that matter in this nation. Just the monetary gift's alone, the pay- off's, earmark's, etc of only a handful of our so called representation could cover such cost's. Yet most of these representative's will be there for their photo- op's with our veteran's. Folk's like Cpl Buckles are true and a valued asset, much of our representation are of not much value or integrity, basically worthless, certainly not worth the pay they receive.
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Reps wouldn't make a pimple on this guys ass.
ReplyDeleteIndeed Tim ... the politic's in this nation are not at their best today and of course too much special interest's infiltration, the great one's we do get, can hardly get a thing done just because of the overall disease in Washington. This last video for instance of the international art/ music of WW1 era show's a clear example of the difference between our country too ... being that you may find many WW1 memorial's in various countries. You see Tim, here with our political crew, as James Carvelle (political strategist, and one of my favourite's) clearly put it ... "Every week is basically election week to our rep's..." (similar word's) ... almost everything they do or propose is strictly special interest's call's, politically motivated, etc, they care more about the win/ lose game between themselves than America as a whole, and when the people ask for something, as I said in past post's ... they only put it through for a vote if they can figure out a way to milk us in some way off it. Same with this controversy and stall over the WW1 site for DC ... being if these vet's were still alive and not just one or a few, they would quickly find the fund's, because it would mean "vote's", they cant get vote's from dead people or vet's, basically, so they dont care about them, meaning also, that there is not only a lack of integrity, but any kind of trust whatsoever. This is one of our biggest problem's in this nation. And the thing is, we have politician's that are really sincere, but this disease that has infected our government is the issue. This is also why I would support drastic change's like not seen in our history there, as far as donation's/ support/ contribution's, earmark's, salaries, benefit's, etc, etc ... the pay- off's and bribe's alone would clean up so much and be actual "cut's" that would save billion's in the longrun, the spending they all rant and put on show's about, saying it's to save tax payer's money and put money back in their pocket's, not one American is going to see that with what we have currently, to think otherwise is foolish.
ReplyDeleteThanx for stopping by and your voice Tim.