Send Putin to His Grave

https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-fights-russian-assault-salt-mining-town-along-eastern-front-2023-01-09/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=Daily-Briefing&utm_term=011323

What is being done should be pretty obvious.  All, ALL nations of the world should do whatever they can to help Ukraine, short of sending a nuclear weapon to Russia's capitol.  That would be a good thing if Putin, and only Putin, could be taken out, though.  The thousands of ordinary Russians that would also be taken out are the reason I would not want to see this happen.

If one Russian who has the opportunity to take Putin out does this, though, he or she would be a martyr who would be loved by nearly all the world.  Wish it would happen--sooner rather than later.  DESTROY PUTIN AND HIS ACCOMPLICES!  DESTROY, DESTROY, DESTROY ! 

We saved Russia from one dictator in the 1940's.  Now Russia has its own dictator, it's own Hitler.  Someone needs to eliminate him, and THE SOONER, THE BETTER!

Representation in Washington (and in SC?)

 I went to a web site titled "SC.Gov" and took information, email addresses, to contact my representation in Washington.  Big mistake, apparently.  When I used the email addresses for Graham, Scott, and Wilson, I got returns from the system saying saying my message could not be delivered.  Great, I'm thinking.  Having received nothing back from Wilson, though, I decided to send him my thanks,  On trying to send my message, a form with the same questions I got from the two senators was received.  Apparently, even though I had email addresses for all three of these "representatives," none of the email addresses given on the site worked quite right.  Not a good thing in my book--looks like either none of my reps want me to be able to simply send them an email, or they all want to have me fill out a rather extensive form to make contact.  Not something I like at all.

Try it--you probably won't like it either.  SC.Gov:  "The official web site of the State of South Carolina" according to the info at its bottom of the page.  Not exactly useless, but not exactly what I would want out of my SC government site.  

Guess I should complain.  How and to whom are the questions I need to answer first.

War? Why!

 If there ever was any question in my mind, that deployment to VietNam in 1968  removed it.  Is war a good thing?  Definitely NOT!  

TET of ‘68 was definitely not a good thing for anyone over there.  Not for the VietCong, not for the Vietnamese patriots, and definitely not for those of us who were there to do our governments bidding.  My memories bring me back, often in the middle of the night to what I saw that night, to what let me know enough about war to last my lifetime.  You see, TET was a national holiday for all Vietnamese, South, North, Whatever–it was (and is) a major holiday for them.  For us, though? No, a definite no, would be my answer.  

What I saw was tracers running up and down my Airforce base’s streets…tracers that were generally loaded one to maybe six or so rounds in an M-16’s clip, that were used to show the rifleman where his bullets were actually going.  And what I saw lighting up the night, that night of TET, was terrifying, to say the least.  

Yes, we had our holiday display, and, while I know not how many of the enemy were taken out, I do know the number of our defenders who did not live to see the light of day was twenty-six.  Not a good night for us, by any measure other than the fact that we only lost twenty-six.

“War, uh, Good God! What good is it?  Absolutely Nothing!” is the first line of a song that defines what was happening that night in VietNam, and I can only tell you the people over there would agree totally with the statement.  As would the people in Ukraine today.  

What can we do today?  I don’t know, but whatever we can do to end this craziness, I hope our politicians DO do!  And that’s it.  And, to borrow a line from our AikenStandard paper’s Executive Editor, “Thanks for reading!”

Hitler 2

 The next time there is a Hitler, and whenever that Hitler might occur and whenever he decides to move toward Russia, hear this World--Let HIM!!!