An interesting book I found at a yard sale last week, details the fate of the USS Houston, a WW II destroyer made famous because FDR, the President rode in her several times and formed an attachment to her. She was a noble ship, built in 1929, and was sunk by the Japs in 1942. Out of a crew of several hundred, a bit over 300 survived. She was sunk five miles off shore, and those that weren’t shot in the water by the Japs, eventually were enslaved, along with 60,000 Allied prisoners and 200,000 Asian prisoners, in building a 300 mile narrow gauge railway between Thailand and Burma. 13,000 POW’s and 100,000 others died building that line. That was the railroad dealt with in David Lean’s “Bridge on the River Kwai.” There were 688 bridges on that “Death Railway,” as it came to be called.
The POW’s, probably as most prisoners, always tried to do everything possible to thwart their enemy, and it reminded me of the Democrats’ current activities to stop Trump, and give him and his administration every possible scheme to harm him and stop his programs. The Demos so far have stopped at nothing, and invented things I never thought about, to keep America from being great again. What the POW’s did was very clever, and I must admit the Demos are being very clever too, although I cannot understand why they would want to harm their own nation. The POW’s did it because the Japanese were their enemy. The Republicans aren’t the Democrats enemy just because they won the election. Get over it Demos!
At any rate, from the “Ship of Ghosts,” I quote a few lines from page 292, and 293. “Any way you could slow the Japanese down, you tried to slow them down. Sgt. Roy Offerle of the Lost Battalion, recounted with glee the time his Branch Five Kami, while trying to move a three or four-storey-tall derrick to drive a new bridge piling, managed to topple the thing over, shattering it to pieces. The prisoners disconnected train hitches, and mastered the art of appearing to work hard while actually doing nothing. Through scrupulous inattention, they left loose patches of dirt in vital stretches of embankments, laid rails a shade too wide, set weak timbers for the most crucial links in bridge trestles, and let scarce and valuable tools slip under an alluvial floor of monsoon mud. If you caused even a one-day delay in the railway getting finished, a soldier might be saved. They seized every opportunity in their theatre of combat operations, just like any soldier, sailor, or Marine would do.”
They were starving, deathly sick, and their captors had no mercy of any kind. Donald Trump is trying to fulfill his every campaign promise, in spite of Democrats using every trip in their crooked book to bring it all to a halt. Yes, Trump’s tweet to Mika was crude, rude, and I am ashamed of him. I know he dislikes apologies, but gave one to Meghyn; and he owes one to Mika.
– Don Stott
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We now have one ounce silver rounds for 28 cents over spot. Check the web site for pictures of them, which include Silver Towne Buffaloes, Morgans, and Prospectors. 10 Ounce bars at 23 cents per ounce over spot, include Silver Towne Flag, Eagle, and Buffalo bars. No one else can meet these prices. Our supplier bought a mint! One of the most frequently advertised metals outfits (who pays for the ads?) brags that the have one ounce silver rounds for 89 cents over spot. None of the TV advertisers have a Better Business Logo on their ads. We’ve had an A+ rating since 1977!
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