Veterans’ Day is an apt time to honor and reflect upon the service of those who gave of their time and, for some, their lives, to honor a commitment. That commitment was to defend the nation and all its people and to preserve our democracy. Focus upon that commitment is more important at this moment than at most other times in our history. The threat to the people and to the democracy is not some foreign nation or interloper terrorist, but a “domestic” threat of large proportions.
Those who have sworn to serve and those who gave their lives
for that oath were NOT committed to follow the whims of a self-absorbed,
infantile, mentally unstable would be autocrat. This is someone who has
metaphorically spit on the graves of our fallen, calling them “suckers” and “losers.”
Our veterans and military personnel have sworn to protect the nation FROM such
dangers. All service personnel are sworn to protect the Office of President,
not an occupant who has lost re-election and hints at use of the Military to
stage a coup. This week, PUTHOP has filled high posts in the Military and
National Security structure with sycophants and toadies who have previously
been rejected by both Democrats and Republicans as unfit to hold such
positions. Their only current qualification is that they are “loyal” to PUTHOP
and will follow his directives without thought or question, and certainly
without regard to honoring any Oath of Office. Such moves may appear
desperation, but they also signal an attempt to seize control of the Military
in a bid to overturn election results and retain power despite the democratic
process. No other president in the history of the nation has ever tried to
employ the government and its offices in support of a coup as PUTHOP is doing.
On this Veterans’ Day we honor and place our faith in our
Military personnel to protect and defend the Nation, all its people, the Constitution,
and our democracy. We hope that ALL veterans, whether they were deluded into
voting for PUTHOP or for President-elect Biden, will remember that oath, the
oath that so many have died to uphold. We hope and expect that all military
personnel will support a peaceful transition to a new Administration which has
been chosen by a very substantial majority of voters in accordance with the
principles and processes of our representative democracy.
