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Veterans’ Day

I’ve been thinking about how I might want to address this one since the birthday dinner for my grandfather last weekend.

He was interwar Navy. My cousin, who was at the dinner, was also Navy. Along with his brother. My uncle, one of the people at the party, was Army Nat’l Guard (and retired from that after his final trip to Iraq). My father-in-law was career Navy. My dad was career Army. (His marker at ANC says “Vietnam” and “Persian Gulf,” even if he wasn’t boots-on-the-ground in either…)

So, lots of military alignment here.

I wonder how much realignment is going to be happening with the return of President Trump.

This isn’t directly-related to US military policy, but I do wonder if it’s a bit of a failure of Western Europe.

The US paid a not-insignificant amount of your defense bills, and your countries have turned to absolute garbage since the Soviet threat ended.

Seriously?

One of the school trips I really remember was going to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, then Bergen-Belsen.

Can anyone ever really say “never again,” with pogroms happening in Amsterdam, and the perpetrators are being released?