#war heroes

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Honouring Service and Sacrifice

Marking Armed Forces Day by reflecting on time spent with the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at RAF Coningsby.

Learning about the extraordinary history of these aircraft and meeting the pilots and engineers who keep their legacy alive.

A powerful reminder of the courage, skill and dedication of those who serve, past and present. Thank you to all those who have served and continue to serve.

[deadpresidents]

You answered a question recently about the presidents who actually saw combat while serving in the military and I'm just curious when was the last time that one of the presidential nominees was a bona fide war hero? George Bush Sr?

George H.W. Bush was definitely a decorated hero of World War II, but there have actually been three major party Presidential since Bush 41 who I think could/should be classified as war heroes -- and they all lost their Presidential campaigns.

The most recent was 2008 Republican Presidential nominee John McCain, who flew nearly two dozen bombing missions during the Vietnam War before being shot down and taken prisoner. McCain was a POW for nearly six years and faced such brutal torture during that time that he was permanently disabled to the point of being unable to raise his arms above shoulder-level for the rest of his life. And when the North Vietnamese learned that McCain's father was a powerful four-star Admiral who commanded American forces in the Pacific during the war, they offered to release McCain for propaganda purposes, but he refused to accept freedom while other Americans were still held as POWs. McCain's not only the most recent war hero to be nominated for the Presidency, but he's the most recent major party Presidential nominee to have any type of military service.

Despite the despicable lies of the "Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth", 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry was also a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. Kerry was wounded in combat and awarded three Purple Hearts along with the Silver Star and the Bronze Star. Shortly after returning from Vietnam Kerry became an outspoken opponent of the war, which helped launch his political career.

Last but not least, the other major party Presidential nominee since George H.W. Bush who was a war hero was 1996 Republican nominee Bob Dole, who was so severely wounded during World War II that it took him YEARS to recover. As I once wrote:

Dole barely survived both World War II and the grueling attempts at rehabilitating his injuries afterward. And even then, Dole lost nearly all ability to use his right arm for the remainder of his long life (he died in 2021 at the age of 98) -- which is why he was almost always seen with a pen or a rolled up piece of paper in his right hand. Dole even has a pen in his hand in the official portrait commissioned to honor his service as U.S. Senate Majority Leader. Politicians spend a lot of time shaking hands, so Dole kept an item in his right hand at all times because he was physically unable to use it for anything else and it was a creative way to get people to shake his left hand instead.

[mengothemango]

Hi people I got into Recs of Rag lately and I made an OC (not really cause he's a real guy whos my war hero but ehhhhh)

LEO MAJOR!!!! this guys a freaking legend bro his life story is peak cinema

also I made him have a friedship with Simo cause THEY INCLUDED SIMO HAYHA!??!!???!?!?!?! MY SECOND WAR HERO?!?!??!?!?!?! AM I DREAMING CAUSE THIS MY GReaTEST HOPE FOR HUMANITY IVE SEEN SO FAR

theres gonna be a lil side story i'm making for how they became friend but before that (I'm still working sorry) have some doodle pages with other war guys I also look up to

DO NOT come after me for respecting Skorzeny because JA he did very bad things for a very very very bad man but at the same time IS THIS ALSO A CINEMA STORY?!?!?!?!?! LIKE PLEASEEEEE STOP SWITCHING ALIEGIANCES MAN

second doodle page cause I forgot about Milunka sorry I used like 20% more color theory on her

also I don't think I want to ship simo and Leo cause THEY ARE REAL PEOPLE AND THATS KINDA HELLA DISREPECTFAL BUTTT people ship simo and freaking Loki soooooooo maybeee I CAN ship them

if I can I'm only intending it to be a platonic ship cause I don't see them actually liking-liking eachother tbh

also this anime is the 2nd anime I've ever watching + the first manga I've ever read (THE ANIME IS SO BUNS but the manga is actually PPEAAAAKKKKKK)

it baffles me beyond repair that this is a real frame in the show

[the-a-word-2214]

Thinking about starting a discord server for Jack O’Connell and his characters! I’m still making my way through his filmography, but I’d love to know if anyone is interested.

[gwydionmisha]

War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge

References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorities

Defense Department to remove photos of WWII plane Enola Gay because it has 'gay' in its name

The Defense Department wants to remove photos of the Enola Gay, a WWII plane, because it has 'gay' in its name. No, this isn't a joke.

Clumsy execution turns a bad idea into another humiliation for Trump

Rachel Maddow shares AP reporting on a list of forbidden material that the Department of Defense under Donald Trump intends to delete in fur

In other Diversity ban censorship news....

National Park Service removes pages for transgender activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera

NPS removed the pages shortly after scrubbing transgender people from other government websites.

They scrubbed us off the Stonewall monument too.

D.C.'s Black Lives Matter mural will be erased. Look back at the iconic street painting

Over the past five years, Washington, D.C.'s iconic Black Lives Matter street painting has served as a powerful symbol of activism and a ga

[sophieinwonderland]

I have been reading your posts about Republicans. Honestly, the only good Republican in modern times I can name is the late John McCain. Agree with him or not, he was a good man at least. The face of Mitch McConnell when McCain refused to repeal Obamacare was priceless. He refused to repeal it because he knew that just repealing it would leave a ton of Americans without healthcare while waiting for a replacement, which could take years considering how slow politics often is (assuming they even had a plan to begin with).

I find it very difficult to believe Mitch McConnell wasn't aware of the fact it would take a long time to replace Obamacare with something that may or may not be better and that in the meantime numerous Americans would be without healthcare.

It's honestly sickening to think about.

I agree!

It's also worth noting this moment from John McCain's run for President:

Something I want to focus on here though is that it shows pretty well how even as John McCain was running a respectable campaign, the Republican PEOPLE were already becoming Trump's electorate.

There's this myth that I sometimes see that presents Trump as being a corrupting figure that somehow turned Republicans bad. And the Republican voters just are swept up in it.

So I think it's worth looking back at the time the Republican frontrunner tried countering the racist fearmongering about Obama, and HIS crowed booed him for it.

It's no surprise that this crowd would later support Trump as he mocked McCain for being a prisoner of war.

"He's not a war hero. He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured,”

As far as I'm concerned, most Republicans have been this for a while. Trump just gave them permission to embrace their hate more publicly.

[vertigoartgore]

Unknown Soldier TPB cover by cover artist Tim Bradstreet (used for both the 1998 1st edition and the 2014 2nd edition).

[josefgalahad]

The north american hero who won my heart

Sgt. Stubby 🇺🇸❤️