Today's 266.. at this rate..
Projected PV.. for month 8246!
HAPPY VETERANS DAY NOVEMBER 11, 2016
AMERICAN VETERANS OF ALL WARS!
TOTAL AMERICAN CASUALTIES
Sunday Telegram 5/26/1991 ASSOCIATED PRESS by Saul Pett
1. CIVIL WAR - 497,000 Dead (31 from North Brookfield!)
2. WORLD WAR II - 406,000 Dead
3. WORLD WAR I 116,000 Dead
4.VIETNAM - 58,000 Dead
5. KOREA 54,000 Dead
6. MEXICAN WAR 13,000 Dead
7. REVOLUTIONARY WAR 4,000 Dead
8. SPANISH AMERICAN WAR 2,400 Dead
9. WAR OF 1812 2,000 Dead
10. INDIAN WARS 1,000 Dead
11. PERSIAN GULF 141 Dead
I was taught by the Good Jesuits of Saint Louis University that the History of Mankind is war..
Today we are embattled in many wars: 1.Obesity 2. Tobacco addiction & lung cancer 3. Alcoholsim 4. Drugs. 5. Financial ruin (Gambling) 6. The insensivity of BIG BUSINESS TO OUR AMERICAN HERITAGE really sucks!. There just doesn't to be much loyalty any more to American loyalty. A recent trip to the Port of Boston reveals of hundreds of containers ... perhaps from all over the world! Since Vietnam and free love... AMERICA SEEMS TO BE IN AN ABJECT FREE-FOR-ALL.
The rich keep getting richer and the poor, poor, are not included in the AMERICAN DREAM. Whether you agree or disagree..I really do not care. I cannot live your life. It is either Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way.
The West Brookfield Veterans Day Program was superb! I choked and had TEARS OF HAPPINESS. Chase Robert, Lily Wictoria and Medeline Grace Potvin.. the delight of my being... revealed to me West Brookfield is HEAD AND SHOULDERS above the frey of most Public Schools.
The POTVIN NAME AKA "WINE" ... Has been here since 1858.It is fun climbing Life's Ladder but you must we have a tremendous work ethic. lazy?
I saw 12 Months and 12 Days in the Vietnam at 1967 - 1968. When first there, I wrote Senator Kennedy a letter conveying my observations of the "War Machine" from Vung Tau.. 60? miles from Saigon.I an not going to bore you with the details!
Kennedy wrote back! His words of encouragement and appreciation are emblazoned on my memory....'you have a great future..knowing you served your Country...etc. Not bad, I do say....LOL.
Summarizing Veterans Day with a breakfast in the AM at the Senior Center I submit
Americans of all ages must G.O.Y.A. (either get out your antiques OR...Get off he Couch!
Yours truly
Robert Louis Potvin
Chief Blogger -In- Charge
United States Army - U.S. 51574051
91P20 Radiographic Technician E-5
Candidate for Soldier-of-The Month
44th Medical Brigade
68th Medical Group winner
Soldier of the Month July, 1967
36th Evacuation Hospital Winner
Soldier of the Month July, 1967
345th Medical Detachment
Spokesperson with Thomas H. Moss, M.D
"Venerial Diseases"
AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY PHOTOGRAPHS
WORCESTER
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