RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 13, 2017 at 10:54 am
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2017 at 10:55 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It's possible to be proud of what a person did and got right while simultaneously acknowledging what they did and got wrong. The trouble only crops up when a person, for whatever reason™ is incapable of adequately identifying the latter. All of us have ancestors that were on the wrong side of history in some x. That much was, before the fact, an inevitability, and after the fact, an unfortunate consequence of that inevitability.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
