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He was only 63 years old when he died, But what a life he led! What with rising from genteel poverty, West Point, The War with Mexico, taking a part in the Indian wars, the war between the States & Command of the incrediable Army of Northern Virginia. Followed by a honorable surrender to overwhelming force.
Then President of a Southern University after turning down some profitable jobs. While encouraging the South to come to terms with the peace. I get tired just by reading ths!
Now I don’t really care what anybody else might say about him. But you could do a WHOLE lot worse than to use him for a role model. As I hold that unlike so many of us. The man talked the talk & REALLY walked the walk! Grumpy
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A Playful Game Goes Awry
A simple game of “cops and robbers” turned a child’s world upside down at Bagley Elementary School in Alabama last month.
J.B. Belcher, just 6, mimicked a finger gun, and was then thrust into an adult situation, reported Fox News Digital.
A Distress Signal from the School
“He was terrified, rightfully so,” shared Jerrod Belcher, J.B.’s dad, revealing that his son faced an interrogation and was forced to sign a Class III infraction form for using finger guns.
Comparing Imaginary Finger Guns to Real Threats?
Labeling a child’s playful act alongside serious offenses like arson and bomb threats, as a Class III infraction?
The suspension notice claims J.B. committed a “3.22 Threat” infraction, akin to threats involving actual weapons.
Signature of Innocence
A document, bearing J.B.’s hesitant, childlike signature, screams the absurdity of expecting such young ones to grasp these adult concepts.
Belcher’s attorney, M. Reed Martz, underscores that it highlights the ludicrousness of the school’s approach.
Can Play Equal Violence?
Arson, assault, and threats are all severe. But finger guns? Fox News’ Laura Ingraham and many others ponder if they can reasonably share a category.
A Slight Reprieve But Not Enough
J.B.’s back in class with a downgraded Class II Infraction, yet the family demands the district to erase this blip from his record, refusing to let him be labeled violent or dangerous.
“Additionally, the school must remove any label, warning, or other sort of classification of J.B. as a potentially violent or dangerous student,” says the letter drafted by Martz.
Not an Isolated Incident
Sadly, this isn’t the school’s first rodeo. Another 6-year-old faced a Class III infraction last year for a water gun incident.
These youngsters are ensnared in surprisingly harsh, adult situations for mere child’s play.
More Harmful Than a Punch?
The bizarre irony: a finger gun is deemed more dangerous than a physical punch in this school’s eyes. Belcher aptly points out the non-existent injury record from finger guns in history.
“It should be noted that punching or hitting a student would have only been a Class II violation, so in the eyes of these school administrators, a finger gun is more serious than punching a classmate in the nose,” Belcher told FOX News Digital.
“Many noses have been broken by fists, but in the last 600 years since the invention of firearms, not a single person has been so much as bruised by a ‘finger gun,’” he added.
Taking a Stand
Martz and the Belcher family are demanding a rectification, hopeful it won’t reach legal complexities. They’ve given the Board of Education a deadline to acknowledge the situation’s absurdity and act.
Finger Guns Vs. Reality
So here we are, questioning: how did we get to a point where a child’s imaginative play leads to genuine fear, threat labeling, and potential legal action?
The recoil from this scenario sparks a broader debate about our school systems, children’s rights, and how best to safeguard both.
Let’s aim for a future where child’s play isn’t court material.
‘Didn’t end the way I wanted’: Gen. Mark Milley looks back at US exit from Afghanistan
The withdrawal involved a chaotic, enormous evacuation from Kabul.
Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a new interview that he has “lots of regrets” about how the United States’ 20-year conflict in Afghanistan ended, telling ABC News’ Martha Raddatz that “in the broader sense, the war was lost.”
August marked the two-year anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, when the military and State Department worked to evacuate some 124,000 embassy personnel, American citizens and at-risk Afghans following the Taliban’s takeover of the country at the end of America’s longest war.
In an interview for ABC’s “This Week” that will air Sunday, Milley, who is retiring at the end of September, praised the courage of those involved while acknowledging the chaos that unfolded as the Afghan government collapsed before a planned power-sharing agreement with the Taliban could take effect after the U.S. left.
Raddatz asked Milley if he shared the feelings of Gen. Frank McKenzie, the former head of U.S Central Command, who said in a recent interview that he “particularly” regrets not evacuating embassy staff, American citizens and at-risk Afghans earlier.
“Of course, I mean, we lost, obviously, the 13 at Abbey Gate on top of the 2,400 that were killed from 9/11 on in Afghanistan,” Milley told Raddatz in a clip from his interview, referring to an attack at the Kabul airport in which 13 U.S. service members were killed along with scores of Afghans.
“It didn’t end the way I wanted it. That didn’t end the way any of us wanted it,” Milley said. “Look, at — when the enemy is occupying your capital … that’s a strategic setback, strategic failure. That’s what I testified to in public. And there’s no way you can describe that as a strategic success.”
However, Milley also pointed to successes during the withdrawal, calling the evacuation “an amazing logistical feat.”
“It exceeds that which came out of Vietnam during Operation Whirlwind,” he said. “And those people are free today because of the courage and the bravery of all of those that were on the ground at the airport.”
Nonetheless, he said, “In the broader sense, the war was lost. We were fighting the Taliban and their allies for 20-plus years. And they prevailed in that capital for a lot of reasons that we don’t have time to go over today. But, sure, lots of regrets by a lot of us from, from 9/11 on.”
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley interviewed by ABC News’ Martha Raddatz at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2023.
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Other administration officials have challenged the view that the withdrawal was in disarray or mishandled. White House national security spokesman John Kirby said in April: “For all this talk of chaos, I just didn’t see it, not from my perch.” And Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Congress in March that he had “no regrets.”
“Wars aren’t lost in the last 10 days or 10 months. Typically, they’re the cumulative effect of lots of turns and twists over many, many years,” Milley told Raddatz. “And this war, when the final history is written, will prove to be the same. Lots of lessons learned. Lots of lefts when you should have gone right. And that’ll all come out in due time. But lots of regrets, absolutely, 100%. Every single soldier I lost is a regret.”
Milley said he had a message for those who fought in Afghanistan.
“I want everyone who ever wore the uniform over there to hold their head high because they did what their nation asked,” he said. “And we protected the United States for 20 consecutive years from attack from Afghanistan, and we gave the Afghan people hope for a better life.”
Raddatz circled back to McKenzie’s comments that it was a mistake not to evacuate more quickly.
“Do you agree with that?” she asked.
“Yeah, I agree with that,” Milley answered.
“So that was a mistake,” Raddatz pressed.
He said, “I think as you look back on it, I think that some decisions with respect to moving the embassy and Department of State could have been made a little earlier.”
ABC News’ Matt Seyler contributed to this report.
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In my humble opinion as a former Grunt & American Taxpayer. The man is a disgrace to the uniform. In that he did not put his stars on the Presidents desk and say that he needed more time for getting out of that cluster f*ck of a war.
He also should of been relieved of command by Trump. For calling Red China and saying that we would not launch a nuclear attack if Trump ordered one. This verges on the edge of Treason in my book.
But instead he will write a book, get a high paying job with the Defense Industry and sail off into the Sunset.
I just hope that when he dies that some of our REAL Generals will be waiting for him to be put on the carpet. Men like Washington, Winfield Scott, Zachery Taylor, Kearny, Grant, Lee, Jackson, Sherman, Sheridan, Longstreet, Custer, Pershing, Ike, Patton, Puller & Schwarzkopf. Of whom I am pretty sure will just love roasting this person for a good long time.
All in all , this just shows to me, that something is really wrong with our system of producing war winning Generals.
Nothing like REALLY overbuilding a pistol so that it will never blow up due to bad handloading. (DON”T DO IT Dear Readers !!!!!)
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Have a Great Friday night! NSFW
The Davy Crockett
The Davy Crockett was a Recoilless rifle that fired a portable nuclear warhead, the M338, that detonated with force equal to around 10 and 20 tons of TNT, or 40–80 Gigajoules.
It’s users were advised to shoot it and get the hell out of there as fast as possible, as the warhead had an instant kill distance of 500 ft (150m) and a possible lethal dose of radiation at around a quarter mile (400m)
Unlike many experimental weapons, this one actually entered service, from 1961–1971.
That’s all folks!