Handsome young Irish-American USMCR lieutenant Edward Flanagan, killed in action by communists from North Korea (And why? because the US had destroyed NS Germany, which was on the verge of wiping out the communists!)
Four US Marines at the “Frozen Chosin” Reservoir in Korea, mauling the GIGANTIC 500,000-strong Red Chinese army as it withdrew in a successful “fighting retreat.”
As legendary Marine colonel, later general Chesty Puller put it, “the Marines are advancing to the rear.”
Korea offered the Marines and US Army a taste of both wicked humidity and heat (as in WWII and in the Spanish-American War, fought in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines) but also, in winter, arctic snow and cold. Korea is located literally next to Russian Siberia.
My father came to hate both mountains and snow, whch evoked his two years of traumatic experiences in Korea. After he retired from his business in Providence, Rhode Island, up in snowy New England, he moved 1,300 miles southward to hot, flat Florida, to Vero Beach. located on the warm Atlantic coast.
Vero Beach
Dad and I in front of his house there, a block from the water.
Although an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Vero Beach (as his grandfather from Scotland had been up in Pennsylvania), Dad confessed dispiritedly to my mother (as she once related to me):
“I stopped believing in God after Korea.”
A K-Bar knife Marines used in Korea. My father killed many Red Chinese soldiers in close combat with his knife, a bayonet, or up-close with his Smith & Wesson revolver, a .38 Detective Special, on which he had carved five notches.
At least three times Dad said to me, of his many brushes with death: “I don’t even know why I’m still here.”
Below is a book about the Marines in Korea by a Marine colonel and later Republican US Congressman, Paul “Pete” McCloskey, with whom I had some good dealings myself.
He got an imprisoned former Marine sniper and WN named Shaun Walker out of federal prison at my request, because Walker clearly had been set up and railroaded by the Feds.
Walker and his wife; he got many years for a bar fight with a Mexican that likely never happened; the ADL got the totally uninjured, unscratched Mexican, who had gone skiing the very next day, to file a criminal complaint against Walker two years later for a racism-motivated assault and battery! And of course the Feds put him in a prison 2,000 miles from his wife in California.
Handsome and brave Irish-American congressman Pete McCloskey of the Bay Area in California went to the aid of a fellow Marine, and he also connected with me because my father had also been a Marine officer in Korea.
His superb book
I will never forget one paragraph. (I am paraphrasing it now, since we lost everything, including this book by McCloskey, in 2014, thanks to Obama-Biden, the criminal FBI, and the politicized US Postal Service, which confiscated — stole — donations mailed to us, including $120 from a wonderful, very young, blond female supporter in Rhode Island.)
Although being shot in the head was grotesque to look at, at least the Marine would die almost right away and be out of his misery.
If a man is shot in the gut, it does look better, except for blood coming out of his mouth and nostrils, but the pain is far, far worse.
A modern rifle bullet can tear through all your vital organs, and also spread fecal matter all throughout your torso, leading to infection, to “sepsis,” even if the corpsman [medic] can somehow patch you up, keep you alive, and send you to the rear.
US Army infantry private in pain after being shot in the gut (from “Saving Private Ryan”). Medics did de facto mercy killings in hopeless cases that involved great pain, using an overdose of morphine. (Margi takes a very small dose of morohine from me twice a day for her lingering throat pain from her former throat cancer.)
The Red Chinese my father fought were well-led, fairly well-equipped, well-disciplined and courageous. Let that be a lesson for Biden (or for Trump, if he should return to any puppet kind of “power”.
China is a formidable, wealthy. and gigantic foe, and the Han Chinese may not be as original or creative as the white race, but they are energetic, practical, and good on execution. But East Asians do have some creativity, though less than we do.
And the Chinese shelled his position, and in relentless human-wave attacks came at the Marines both day and night, and also at the brave British Commonwealth and Turkish units located to either side of him.
Of course, the Americans shelled right back, here seen in action with the 155mm “Long Tom” tank-mounted rifle.
Once, a US Army officer came by my father’s section of the trench line and set up a huge array of bright, theater-like spotlights to light up and also blind the Chinese during their next night-time attack.
“When they hit us that night, I flicked all the lights on, and they stood there stunned. We must have mowed down a thousand Chinese that night. They were stacked up like cordwood.
But then they learned how to shoot out the lights.”
My dad emphasized that, unlike the Chinese troops, the North Koreans were truly sadistic, twisted bastards, violating all the rules of war toward prisoners — torturing, humiliating and shooting them, with the Red Chinese actually behaving far better.
As in WWI, also a trench-warfare war, many Marines and Army soldiers suffered from extreme PTSD, from months of terrible, permanent tension, waiting with dread to be attacked or shelled.
It was actually therapeutic for the Marines to go out on patrol and attack the enemy, though that did cost Marine lives.
But better that, than sit there, awaiting what the foe would do to them next.
“Marines are trained to attack. That is the mindset of the Marine Corps, John. We take it to THEM.”
Evocative Korean War monument on the Mall in Washington DC
My book review on Amazon of this book (awaiting approval):
https://www.amazon.com/My-War-Jungle-Long-Delayed-Lieutenant-ebook/dp/B08ZSMBNCV/ref=sr_1_2
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I am a former US Marine, though I served in the Reserves and only after Vietnam (getting three meritorious promotions and making corporal in a year).
My father, however, was a WWII Marine, fighting on the Japanese-held islands of Tinian, Saipan, on Borneo and on the Philippines, and as a senior NCO on Iwo Jima.
A German-American Marine brigadier general commanded the Iwo amphibious assault, and the cave and jungle fighting:
6,000 Marines died, and almost all 20,000 Japanese
A young Marine sees his buddy’s head lying on the black sand (from the superb Clint Eastwood movie “Flags of Our Fathers”).
And then my father was a frontline officer (a captain) in the dismal second half of the Korean War, the horrid and depressing trench-warfare phase.
Half of his Officer Class at Quantico, Virginia was killed in Korea or wounded and evacuated, as he was. He spent three days in a coma from a Chinese mortar round, waking up in a hospital in Tokyo, Japan, whence he was evacuated back to the States.
Everything Mr. (fmr Lieutenant) Davis says matches my father’s own embittering experience in Korea — which was, as Dad put it, “America’s first no-win war.”
In 1964, as a conservative and prominent Republican who also knew Senator Barry Goldwater, a Vietnam “hawk” (I met Goldwater myself as a boy in 1968),
….I remember Dad being very upset, in a quiet and grim way, when Lyndon Johnson won the 1964 presidential election and, worse, his Democrat party also won in a landslide for Congress, which meant LBJ got his way on everything for a while.
He told me: “John, Vietnam is going to be just like Korea, a no-win war. [US Army] General Douglas Macarthur said it best: “The United States cannot win a land war in Asia.
With Japan in WWII, it was islands, and we could surround them, cut them off, then get them.
Macarthur accepts the Japanese surrender
But on the continent of Asia, the Red Chinese and the Soviets can send — over land, by rail, or air — to their fellow communists, an infinite supply of men and matériel.
Even if we put 500,000 or a million men in there, which the American people will not support, the North Vietnamese can field five million men, and Red China can add another 20 million.
Barry Goldwater said it would take nuclear weapons — it would take using the Bomb — to defeat North Vietnam.
Otherwise, the war is just not winnable.”
But the Red Chinese had nukes too after 1964.
He then looked up at the stars, and teetered on the back of his heels.
I had never seen this before, and it meant he was very upset.
“In Korea, we lost so many good, good men, and for what? My dear friend [USMCR Lieutenant ] Ed Flanagan was my best friend, and what did he die for?
You cannot ask a man to die for nothing, to give his life for a pointless and impossible task.
If we are in it, we should win it — or not go to war at all.”
And this is more or less what in this book fmr Lieutenant Davis also says, in hindsight.
Our damnable politicos knew well that the Vietnam War was not winnable. Our enemies could always escalate, ratchet it up, a lot more than we could.
My father chose in 1954 not to make a career of the Marine Corps, which he orherwise loved, because he felt “the top brass in Washington are in bed with the politicians.”
He said: “Up to the rank of major, Marine officers are close to their men, and would never betray them. But to make colonel or general, you may have to keep your mouth shut, and go along with whatever lies the politicians inside the Beltway are telling the Amrican public. And I could not go along with that, and see fine Marines die, and still sleep at night. So I did not stay on active duty,” he sighed.
(He did stay in the Reserves and retired from them as a lieutenant colonel.)
I will add that the quality of writing by Mr. Davis was truly Hemingway-esque, that is, vivid, pithy, honest, gritty, gripping and logical, with never a single wasted word. This is a simply outstanding book in every way.
Thank you, Mr. Davis, Lieutenant Davis, and retired Judge Davis — and Semper Fidelis.
……Margi’s burgeoning garden
To save money, and for good PR (people loving to see a flourishing veggie garden) Margi has been planting up a storm. It also gets her out in the sun and the fresh air. 🙂
Oh-oh, INTRUDER ALERT! (On the grass, in the crook of the shadow …)
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I need your financial help to WRITE MY SACRED ARYAN SCRIPTURE FOR US AND OUR TIMES. Others have been making big sacrifices. How about you?
What is my religion based on?
https://johndenugent.com/eternal-solutreanism/
BEFORE this, it was other countries. It is a worldwide, concerted effort. Sometimes it is a team of hackers in Canada.
Or in France
Or IsraHell….
If I were not paying EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS A MONTH for a website monitor who sits there 12 hours a day, plus $150 for a Russian webmaster with an IT degree, plus $100 for webhosting, this is all you would see.
What other English-speaking blogger speaks two foreign languages fluently (German and French) and is conversant in four more (Spanish, Swedish, Greek and Russian),
–has lived twice in Europe (Austria and France)
–had a security clearance in Marine Corps intelligence and rapid promotions,
–had a father who was a friend of several Republican presidents, and
–combines genuine spirituality with white nationalism and the vital extraterrestrial context of our whole problem
….to create a NEW SYNTHESIS TO PUSH OUR CAUSE OUT OF ITS DOLDRUMS and TOWARD VICTORY?
AND I PROVE EVERYTHING I WRITE! 🙂
I am also paying a European professional writer, “François Arouet,” who has a child, a former Princeton student, to add top material on current events and culture to my site.
I now have in François a paid, full-time writer cum website monitor who watches for hackers, reporting intruders to my Russian webmaster, who is also paid by me.
I wrote this webmaster after he stopped not only hacking but many trolls posting disgusting comments:
It is great that individual trolls can be banned. Some are sick people and I feel unclean even reading their garbage.
Others are professional trolls with the NSA and pure evil. They are trained liars, slanderers and psychological warriors.
So thanks for blocking them!
…..Recent donations
–21 June 2021 200 euros, photos from the Louvre Museum, and a kind note from M in France
–18 June 2021 150 euros, photos of the Roman arena in ancient Paris, then called “Lutetia,” and card from M in France.
–17 June 2021 200 euros, photos and card from M in France. (Lower-right: I always carry a sandwich in case I get hungry …)
— 16 June 2021 100 Australian dollars ( = $60 US) from Australian comrade P
He ends his kind letter:
TO ALL MY AMERICAN FRIENDS!
Please send John a donation — whatever you can spare.
John is doing wonderful work on the vaccine issue.
He is trying to save lives!
— 11 June 2021 $20 and note from T in New York State
— 8 June 2021 US$500 and kind note from C in North Carolina (Internet/phone cut-off notice on pink paper on the right)
— 8 June 2021 100 euros from M in France
— 4 June 2021 $300 via Amazon gift card from G in Cicero, Illinois
These Amazon gifts pay for vital things I need or that keep Margi healthy so I can do my mission without a beloved spouse who is sick and dying on me, draining me in every way.
Among them, this incredible $40 book Virus Mania:
— 4 June 2021 100 euros ( = same in dollars) and Versailles pictures from M in France
–29 May 2021 $100 via Amazon gift card from J in Nevada
–29 May 2021 $200 loan from P in Florida
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— 28 May 2021 200 euros, photos and letters from the heroic M in France, who rightly quoted Mussolini to me: “If one cannot give his blood, at least one can give money.”
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— 24 May 2021 150 euros from M in France
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— 22 May 2021 $100 via Amazon gift card from J in Nevada
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–May 16, 2021 $300 via Amazon gift card from G in Illinois
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— 16 May 2021 $50 via PayPal from H in Denmark
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.(Not the donor) This was Povl [ = Paul] Riis-Knudsen, a very, very brave Danish national socialist whom I met several times via Matt Koehl, the then leader of the NSWPP.
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For generations jewry has owned or controlled the main newspapers in Scandinavia (as well as in Holland), successfully brainwashing Germany’s neighbors and blood kindred to hate themselves, their race, all their German cousins — and obviously Hitler and his national socialists.
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Incredibly, Denmark let SEVEN THOUSAND little German children, evacuated from East Prussia in 1945 to escape the mass murderers of the Red Army, perish of hunger and a total lack of medical care in Danish barbed-wire death camps after the war. Inconceivable with such an otherwise highly civilized and decent nordic people!
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Anyway, Povl was a true hero to stand up for NS in a country that the Jews had taught day and night to hate our sacred cause, the true cause of the Scandinavian peoples too who now are being overrun by Muslim savages!
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A comrade urged me to not overglorify nordic genes. Believe me, I do not. To let little children perish over the course of months over a Holocaust that the Germans never committed — and over an occupation which was a military necessity but also extremely mild — was a staggering crime against humanity and little blond Germanic children by their fellow nordics.
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If people say, well, the Jews brainwashed the Danes, well, from 1940-45, under German occupation, they had also gotten THE TRUTH! And they rejected it! This is truly a benighted planet…
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— 15 May 2021 Five letters containing generous donations (100 euros x 4 plus 60 euros) arrive suddenly from M in France!
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– May 14, 2021 check for $20 from M in Indiana (US)
— 11 May 2021 220 euros, letter, photos of the Paris Métro and of Freemantle in Australia
–28 April 2021 $25 Amazon gift card from T in Florida
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— 26 April 2021 newest number of the Circle of Friends of Léon Degrelle from G in France
— 24 April 2021 $5 in cash plus letter about Covid and the Talmud from R in Florida
— 23 April 2021 100 euros, cars, meme on change, and Montmartre/Paris photos
— 23 April 2021 check for 50 dollars and ltr from K in California
— 13 April 2021 100 euros, Paris photos, meme and card from M in France
— 6 April 2021 $300 via Amazon gift card from G in Nevada
— 6 April 2021 100 Euros ( = 100 US dollars), photo of the Paris Metro and card asking about Jesus’ one act of violence, His expelling of money-changers from the Temple
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— 5 April 2021 100 dollars and card from P in Florida
— 2 April 2021 350 Euros via PayPal from M in Germany
Another brilliant article.
JdN, what happened to “the war to end all wars”?
Your articles remind me of what other people have told me of their war. A British Army officer who served in Korea retold to me how they had to stop firing the Vickers machine gun so they could remove the piles of dead communists, as the bodies were so deep it was preventing them from firing rhe machine gun, even if feed cooling water and belts of ammo could fire 24/7 for a week.
The [Brits] just mowed down wave after wave of fanatical, screaming communits.
The second point about mercy killings reminded me of 18-year-old Captain Vidgen on D-Day. As their [armored personnel] carriers moved inland, his friend Captain Alistair Loyd’s carrier was hit by a [German] 88mm gun and blown to bits.
Alister was screaming in agony after losing both legs and an arm. He wasn’t calling for God or his mum or medical, only to be put out of his misery.
A soldier stepped forward and shot him in the head. A 19-year-old begging to be shot.
Perhaps instead shoot all the politicians first upon their declaration of war!
Great comment. If the body is kaputt, leave it behind. You died a hero, now you are welcome to see God, angels and relatives.
We need a law that if you vote for a war, you go, or your children and grandchildren, and this means right to the front lines. The kings of old fought in battle! Why not the politicians of today?
Then, hah, all wars will suddenly cease! 😉
J bankers who finance wars should clear minefields with their feet . Shtrafbat style.