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Respectfully, OKJack™Group™ Middle and Working Class Disabled Veterans™ We Paid the Dues that Aren't Required™
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Coming
sooner than you think shall be a searing narrative. Why? Because
it's way past time for the
legislative +
executive
&
judicial branches
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Hello from us here at OKJack™Group™—where We Paid the Dues that Aren't Required™. Occasionally we are asked by some of our readers how to view The Road Map to OKJack™Group™CommonSense™ in the way we designed it to be viewed—for example, with the downloadable true type fonts depicted on each of the five gray interactive buttons, below. Simply click any of the following gray buttons—and then save (download) any individual true type font file (.ttf file) to your OS (operating system) fonts folder, e.g., c:\windows\fonts. Microsoft Internet Explorer browser users should have no difficulty viewing this web site's fonts. However, other browser users, e.g., Firefox, may have to update the settings described below. Tools-Options-Content-Advanced-Fonts Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above Tools-Options-Colors Override the colors specified by the page with my selections above
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November 19, 1863 Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln President of the United States
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August 9, 1960 Respecting your August 1 inquiry calling attention to my often expressed admiration for General Robert E. Lee, I would say, first, that we need to understand that at the time of the War between the States the issue of secession had remained unresolved for more than 70 years. Men of probity, character, public standing and unquestioned loyalty, both North and South, had disagreed over this issue as a matter of principle from the day our Constitution was adopted. General Robert E. Lee was, in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation. He believed unswervingly in the Constitutional validity of his cause which until 1865 was still an arguable question in America; he was a poised and inspiring leader, true to the high trust reposed in him by millions of his fellow citizens; he was thoughtful yet demanding of his officers and men, forbearing with captured enemies but ingenious, unrelenting and personally courageous in battle, and never disheartened by a reverse or obstacle. Through all his many trials, he remained selfless almost to a fault and unfailing in his faith in God. Taken altogether, he was noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as I read the pages of our history. From deep conviction, I simply say this: a nation of men of Lee’s calibre would be unconquerable in spirit and soul. Indeed, to the degree that present-day American youth will strive to emulate his rare qualities, including his devotion to this land as revealed in his painstaking efforts to help heal the Nation’s wounds once the bitter struggle was over, we, in our own time of danger in a divided world, will be strengthened and our love of freedom sustained. Such are the reasons that I proudly display the picture of this great American on my office wall. Sincerely,
Dwight D. Eisenhower President of the United States General of the Army
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In the opinion of the undersigned, there was but one president who could really be counted on to bring America's diversities together upon inauguration to his first term on January 20, 1953—that singular American being 62-year old General of the Army Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, the Soldier who conceived, planned and executed the stratagem that deceived the Nazi German occupiers in France. Said strategy led to the June 6, 1944, D-Day Invasion of Continental Europe that would take a diverse allied navy from Great Britain across the English Channel to the French coast, where an even more diverse allied army & air force would battle their way through France, Belgium & Holland, across the Rhine River and on to Berlin. Enroute to said German capital city, the highest ranking military minions of the evil 56-year old Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler, surrendered unconditionally on his behalf and theirs at Reims, France, on May 7, 1945 & again at Berlin on May 8th—VE (Victory in Europe) Day being declared on May 8th. The then Soviet Union celebrated Victory Day on May 9th.
German Surrender Document Primary Signatory 54-year old 4-star Colonel General Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl on Behalf of the German High Command May 7-8, 1945 Click to Enlarge Sidebar: Fascist Italy had already capitulated and its evil 61-year old fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, and his 33-year old mistress, Clara Petacci, had been murdered on April 28, 1945, their corpses then disgustingly hung upside down in the Milan, Italy, city square. No doubt, the foregoing brutal deaths further disheartened Hitler, who had been hiding in a Berlin bunker with his 33-year old mistress, Eva Braun. Hitler and Braun would be married just before their mutual suicides on April 30th, and their corpses then buried in a shallow grave, drenched in gasoline and burned beyond visual recognition. General Jodl would be arrested on May 23, 1945, stripped of rank & military accoutrements, charged & tried, executed by hanging on October 16, 1946, and subsequently cremated to prevent any graveside memorial to him by his family, friends & admirers (see German surrender document, above, signed by Jodl 2-3 days before his 55th birthday). The longest serving president in U.S. history (12 years) and 50 years old when first inaugurated in 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, failed to prepare America for war against Nazi Germany, Imperialist Japan & Fascist Italy in the 1930s during those countries' military buildups and cumulative rush toward World War II (1939-45). Roosevelt's vice president and successor in 1945 apparently didn't learn the foregoing lesson of unpreparedness. Said 60-year old Harry S. Truman, failed to maintain America's military readiness in the 1940s following World War II, thus resulting in far too many American, South Korean and allied NATO casualties, when pitted against the evil 56-year old dictator of communist China, Mao Tse-tung, and his evil puppet dictator in North Korea, 38-year old Kim Il-sung. Roosevelt was not a military veteran, and although Truman was a young officer during America's ill-advised and casualty ridden participation in World War I (1917-18) at the direction of congress and then 61-year old president, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Truman found himself no more prepared to be Constitutional commander in chief in 1945 than Roosevelt did in 1933. Said another way, neither Roosevelt nor Truman had the depth & breadth of strategic, operational & tactical military education and experience that Eisenhower possessed when he was first inaugurated in 1953. Truman's lack of constitutional and professional military preparedness not only led him down the problematic road to the cold decision to further test atomic weaponry on two major cities in Japan, but also led him to ill-advisedly send ill-prepared American Soldiers headlong into the Korean Civil War without a Constitutional Congressional Declaration of War against either communist China or against communist North Korea. In addition, Truman had an inferiority complex with regard to 70-year old Medal of Honor recipient and Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan and the Far East, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur. As the war on the Korean Peninsula dragged on, Truman made perhaps the greatest strategic error of that conflict, i.e., he relied on the arrogant and unfounded opinion of MacArthur that Mao Tse-tung would not order Chinese communist forces to cross the Yalu River into Korea once American, allied and South Korean forces fought their way to and halted their advance at that critical geographic boundary between China and Korea. The foregoing led MacArthur to publicly and ill-advisedly disagree with Truman on conventional military and atomic strategy, which in turn led Truman to force the 5-star general into retirement—the latter being Truman's greatest operational & tactical error. To make a long story short, Truman decided not to seek reelection to a second term as president. That in turn led to the Eisenhower presidency, whereby Ike brought the violence on the Korean Peninsula to a rapid close. However, no peace treaty was ever signed between Kim Il-sung and the NATO commander who succeeded MacArthur. Nevertheless, America under President Eisenhower enjoyed the first 8 years of real peace in more than 10 years. Not only that, Ike did not fall for the French ploy of backfilling that country's ground & air forces in Viet Nam after their unequivocal defeat by 43-year old North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap and his conventional and guerilla forces in the north at Dien Bien Phu on May 7, 1954. Of course, another president and parallel congresses would come along and ill-advisedly commit America's ground, air & naval forces to the unwinnable Viet Nam Counterinsurgency, an indeterminate conflict that America's congressional politicians would fail to unconditionally support, and which America's 50-year old General William Childs Westmoreland would never quite understand. As a matter of fact Westmoreland not only didn't understand the unwinnable nature of counterinsurgency warfare, but failed to come to grips with the fact that the by then 53-year old General Giap would continue to employ the brutal 13th Century playbook of 30-year old prince and general, Tran Hung Dao, for the reunification of Viet Nam. Said Tran Hung Dao/Giap playbook would continue to be employed, no matter how many Vietnamese and Americans had to die in the process—and they did die in great numbers following the American-South Vietnamese coordinated murder of America's 62-year old puppet South Vietnamese president since 1955, Ngo Dinh Diem...as well as the assassination of 46-year old American president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, both unfortunate and untimely deaths occurring only three weeks apart in the month of November 1963!
Best Regards,
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Retired) Writer, Producer & Publisher Life Member, OKJack™Group™ Middle & Working Class Disabled Veterans We Paid the Dues that Aren't Required™ |
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