“Write drunk; edit sober.” – Ernest Hemingway
~ Preface ~
March 17, 2014 ~ February 15, 1968: Being the Chef, bartender and janitor at the off-post Officer and NCO club near the North Point, Germany home of the 619th Ordinance unit, I was cleaning up the club after the monthly combined wives club luncheon, when Holroyd informed me that I had a call from Division Headquarters which I needed to take. It was Frank (our former Company clerk) telling me that my tour of duty was nearly at an end, and asked how many days leave I wanted to take in the States. I told him that I had no desire to return home, “What’s up?” The answer was the one, which most of us dreaded at that time. TET had taken its toll that month in Viet Nam, and I was being called up. “Oh shit,” I thought to myself, but, what the hell? – I was ready for a new adventure anyway. After all – it was easy in the movies, wasn’t it, John Wayne and all? I told Frank that I would take 45 days and began to make my preparations. Continue reading
~ Forewords ~
“You always take care of your men before you take care of yourself.” Fred Behrens lived this truth on every mission he flew until his luck ran out on April 23, 1971.
We, at American Policy Center and numerous other organizations here in the U.S. and other countries (Norway, England and Canada to name a few), have been speaking out against the many ways our countries have been working toward a one-world government. We started only some 30-40 years ago, but others were speaking out well before we woke up.to the destruction planned by those seeking to control the entire globe. One of those was Jo Hindman, who focused on Regionalism. Thankfully, she was on it; she was quite intelligent and was able to explain and expose it. Regretfully, those in power – both in D.C. and in the states – either remained ignorant as to what they were burdening their constituents or liked being in on the power. 
Digital 
They didn’t all disappear at once. Some were renamed, others were folded into broader courses, and many were transformed by technology or pushed aside as schools devoted more time to academic requirements and tested subjects. Traditional shop became engineering or career and technical education. Typing blended into computer literacy. Home economics evolved into family and consumer sciences. Mechanical drafting moved from pencils and T-squares to computer-aided design.
“National security” has become the government’s all-purpose permission slip to behave badly.
The sun was beginning to settle behind the western ridge, when I pulled an old wooden chair out onto the back porch, set my coffee beside me, and leaned back far enough that the chair gave a little groan beneath my weight. I took that as a good sign. A chair that has known you for twenty years and still complains when you sit down is a chair with character, and I have always trusted character more than furniture advertised as “ergonomically engineered.”
We don’t need permission from Silicon Valley or Washington to start thinking for ourselves. The moment we stop outsourcing our minds is when we take back America!
Eight years ago in the summer of 2018, an automated monitoring system at the US government’s Social Security Agency flagged a questionable transaction and immediately forwarded it to a human worker at the agency to investigate.
WE are in a war. Man has been in that war since day one. Just studying history shows that there are people who want to make all the rules, who want to control what we eat, if we eat, what we believe, and even how long we get to exist on this mortal coil.
It’s early, even for me. I read the opening quote before falling asleep, and it stayed with me all night. The metaphor didn’t hit me until about 3 AM. So here I am. Rising from a fitful slumber with that quote echoing in my mind, and unsure where it could lead.
