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Why I Am Against War

Sue, reading that again and the comments from Bito and KQ brought tears to my eyes. I miss those tow guys. They were so good !

Thanks again for bringing that blast from the past. It is just as good today as ever.

Peace.

» Posted By Nirek On June 29, 2014 @ 6:48 am

NoMan, thanks very much for your kind words. We seem to be on the same page my friend.

Peace to you and yours.

» Posted By Nirek On June 29, 2014 @ 6:37 am

Sue, the French were there and Michelin rubber had rubber plantations. I fought in them with my company. it was easy to take cover since the trees were in straight lines. you could peek quickly and see if anyone was in the open, but so could they.

» Posted By Nirek On June 29, 2014 @ 6:34 am

Kalima, I was told the same but it was with boxing gloves and let them either talk it out or fight it out. Just the leaders. Think of the lives saved!
Peace to you and yours, too.

» Posted By Nirek On June 29, 2014 @ 6:26 am

Harleigh, I have to agree with you. Monica is like a computer. She has facts to back up what she says. I just have a hard time changing my view of some things I have always believed. I’m trying , though.

» Posted By Nirek On June 28, 2014 @ 12:02 pm

Wasn’t Walt D. also dishonorably discharged from the service, too. He used to sit on the corner of his desk with the discharge over his shoulder and say good night to us at the end of his show.

» Posted By Nirek On June 28, 2014 @ 8:32 am

Monica, we are both against war and war profiteers, so I will gladly leave it there.

» Posted By Nirek On June 28, 2014 @ 8:26 am

Harleigh, I was in third grade when we went there. I’ll never forget what I saw.

» Posted By Nirek On June 28, 2014 @ 8:25 am

Monica, you will get no argument from me that profiteering was part of the WWII. But when I was a kid my Dad was stationed in Munich Germany. He took us to the concentration camp at Auschwitz. I remember seeing the hanging tree and the gas chamber and the ovens. We even went inside it. There were pictures of the Jews lined up beside an open trench and the Nazis shooting them. They fell into the trench.
Those memories are etched in my mind and that is one reason I am so against war.

Remember we did not enter the war until Pearl Harbor.

I’m also against war profiteers. That includes the MIC.

» Posted By Nirek On June 27, 2014 @ 4:02 pm

Sillylittleme, we have always got maintenance on our infrastructure to spend money on, we don’t need war. Why not put the money into doing the right thing for our people , country, and environment instead of perpetual war?

» Posted By Nirek On June 27, 2014 @ 2:45 pm

Monica, WWII was fought because Hitler was a despot killing millions and Japan did the Pearl Harbor thing. That was the thing that got us involved. We were on the sidelines until then. This is why I singled out WWII as the one war that was necessary or righteous. For all our wars since I agree with you and the General.

» Posted By Nirek On June 27, 2014 @ 2:42 pm

God, Mother Nature, Or The Higher Power.

Thanks all for the very kind things you have written here. You all touched my heart. I didn’t think this post would get many replies. You folks always surprise me, pleasantly. I am awe struck that you all seem to feel similarly.

Peace to all of you.

» Posted By Nirek On June 27, 2014 @ 4:00 am

Murph, this could work as my theme song. I always loved this song.
Thanks for posting it.

» Posted By Nirek On June 27, 2014 @ 3:56 am

“May the force be with you”, KT!
I always liked that “force” was similar to “God” or “Mom Nature” herself.

» Posted By Nirek On June 27, 2014 @ 3:52 am

Yes Murph, I did see it, thanks.

» Posted By Nirek On June 27, 2014 @ 3:48 am

Kalima, this could be the answer to my question. What happens to the void made when the oil is removed from underground? Water fills that void? Maybe.

» Posted By Nirek On June 27, 2014 @ 3:42 am

Beatlex, all this time I felt that I was alone in feeling this way. You and all the rest of my friends here at the Planet make me feel good about our world, thanks.

» Posted By Nirek On June 27, 2014 @ 3:32 am

Thanks, Babe.

» Posted By Nirek On June 27, 2014 @ 3:28 am

Absolutely, Kes, a camera does no harm.

Kalima has tried to teach me how to post pictures from my game camera and I am too computer illiterate to understand why I can’t do it.

» Posted By Nirek On June 26, 2014 @ 6:33 pm

Kalima, I am in awe of your way with words. The poems are beautiful, thanks for them.
You are right about seeing the beauty around us. All we have to do is open our eyes and minds. There is so much beauty that we overlook every day.
Thanks for just being you, Kalima. Like all the pictures you post on MB. Specially the photos of animals. They inspire me.

» Posted By Nirek On June 26, 2014 @ 6:03 pm

Cyndi, thanks for both the compliment and the poem. There is nothing political about either and I like to get away from the politics for a while. I’m glad you like it. I am so impress by you every post you make.

» Posted By Nirek On June 26, 2014 @ 5:54 pm

Kes, we see deer all the time. I have a game camera and set it up to get pictures.
When I got home from Vietnam I went hunting and every shot I heard , I was flat on the ground. Quit hunting and stayed out of the woods during hunting season.

One day several years ago I was walking out to a telephone pole to do a job. On the way I almost stepped on a fawn. I knew enough to not touch it. A mother deer will abandon a fawn with the smell of a human. So I looked around and sure enough the mother was trying to get my attention. She wanted me to move away from her baby. It still was wet from its birth.

I felt blessed to witness that fawn.
Thanks for the photo, Kes. It is beautiful.

» Posted By Nirek On June 26, 2014 @ 5:47 pm

Monica, I never thought anyone would read this simple post of mine. I wrote it because Mother Nature has not made junk. Everything in nature has some beauty to it. Even the skunk is kinda pretty. It just smells bad to us.

» Posted By Nirek On June 26, 2014 @ 5:38 pm

KT, I feel kinda like a hybrid of what you believe and what my Catholic parents believed. I hope that makes sense to you.

» Posted By Nirek On June 26, 2014 @ 2:26 pm

Monica, thanks. I feel like I am the luckiest guy to live here with all God’s creatures.

» Posted By Nirek On June 26, 2014 @ 2:24 pm

Thanks Kes. I write about things I’m passionate about. The spiritual feeling of being exposed to nature is my church.

» Posted By Nirek On June 26, 2014 @ 1:58 pm

KT, we all have different beliefs. But if there is a God and he/she created this world he/she did a wonderful job.

» Posted By Nirek On June 26, 2014 @ 1:56 pm

Kes, I do not see a picture, but will imagine something of beauty.

» Posted By Nirek On June 26, 2014 @ 1:53 pm

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Murph, they were both pretty decent people, too.
I think Cyndi is a very decent person.

» Posted By Nirek On June 25, 2014 @ 1:09 pm

Cyndi, I think you are a closet progressive. Or at least more progressive than you admit.

» Posted By Nirek On June 25, 2014 @ 7:53 am