After four years of abuse at the hands of the Biden administration, the US military is being restored as a fount of inspiration.
“The job of the U.S. Armed Forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures, or to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun,” Trump said. “The military’s job is to dominate any foe and annihilate any threat to America anywhere, anytime, in any place.”
"Watching the Trump Administration honor the American military this Memorial Day Weekend, I felt a wave of relief as well as pride. Relief that the four-year nightmare of disdain and blind risk for our soldiers and sailors under the previous regime was over. Plus, real old-fashioned pride, not the artificial Pride that had been forced on them by fools and fanatics to elevate unworthy, unqualified servicemembers and reject the best of them. My relief extended to my family, specifically someone I didn’t want to be lamenting on a future Memorial Day.
"Two years ago, my nephew, Lucas, then 22, told me he was considering joining the Marines, and asked what I thought of the idea. There was a time I would have blurted, “Simper fi!”. However, here I had to pause to reflect.
"Lucas was a good kid, smart and athletic, though rather lost. His two attempts at college had gone poorly, and the movie work provided by my Second-Unit Director brother ended with George’s early retirement. Traditionally, the Marines were a perfect fit for a young man in his place. But this was an anti-traditional period.
"I reviewed my devoured history of the branch as referenced in The Marine Corps Hymn, which kids of my generation once actually memorized. “From the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli,/We fight our country’s battles on the land as on the sea./First to fight for right and freedom, and to keep our honor clean,/We are proud to claim the title of United States Marine.” For visual help, I mentally replayed scenes from great films associated with the song.
"I drew a blank on the Halls of Montezuma, which referred to the heroic Battle of Chapultepec in the now politically incorrect Mexican-American War (1846-1848). Very few people today even Remember the Alamo. But in September 1847, U.S. Marines stormed Chapultepec Castle to take Mexico City and win the war. The heavy casualties they suffered — some 130 killed, 700 wounded out of 7,000 men – inspired the red “blood stripe” on Marine officers’ dress blue trousers.
"I did much better on the Shores of Tripoli, recalling an incredible sequence from John Milius’ brilliant The Wind and the Lion. Fictionally relocated to Tangier, the sequence thrillingly depicts a disciplined band of Marines marching to and seizing the royal palace. Even nine years before his provocative Red Dawn, leftists screeched about Milius’ jingoism." . . .
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