Legiontown USA
On
Memorial Day 2019, American Legion Post 1836, Blvd Gardens (Woodside,
N.Y.) held its annual ceremony which has occurred for over 50
consecutive years. The ceremony, which included the "National Anthem,"
"God Bless America" and the reading of the names of the deceased
veterans from our community, was highlighted by those killed in action.
The ceremony is meant to keep an awareness in the minds of our community
that “freedom is not free.”
It was won and is kept by the men and women who currently serve in the Armed Forces, as well as those who served in the past. Memorial Day reinforces in all of us the honor and valor of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. They must never be forgotten.
Our community heard remarks from our and neighboring elected officials which included
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Senator Michael Gianaris, Assemblyman Brian Barnwell, Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas and NYC Councilman Jimmy van Bramer. Six floral wreaths were donated by local organizations and hung under the main archway on the grounds of Blvd. Gardens, a 900 apartment co-op community. Our ceremony was also attended by World War II veteran Luke Gasparre, who is 95 years young.
It was won and is kept by the men and women who currently serve in the Armed Forces, as well as those who served in the past. Memorial Day reinforces in all of us the honor and valor of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. They must never be forgotten.
Our community heard remarks from our and neighboring elected officials which included
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Senator Michael Gianaris, Assemblyman Brian Barnwell, Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas and NYC Councilman Jimmy van Bramer. Six floral wreaths were donated by local organizations and hung under the main archway on the grounds of Blvd. Gardens, a 900 apartment co-op community. Our ceremony was also attended by World War II veteran Luke Gasparre, who is 95 years young.
17 comments:
What took them so long to post this?
It was posted on May 28 according to the website.
JQ, respectfully: how come it took Queens Crap (and others?) so long to get tbis item? The bartending imagery came out the next day in the media at the latest.
And that's all there is? Just her posing with 2 vets and Van Bramer and his mother?
This link was provided in the comments section of your post. Note in the comments section that a few comments where saying she was and I replied that if that if it was true then send a link proving it. Well lo and behold someone sent it today. If anything blame me for not doing more digging, but I in the midst of writing a post on Impunity and also reading other news items (the world is bigger than AOC ya know)
I don't think this discounts your inquiries of her absence at the parade. She usually posts everything (and I mean eve-ry-thing) on her twitter account and being a follower I didn't see anything about her visit to the legion or even at the memorial day parade.
And it definitely doesn't discount your opinions about her chief of staff. I think he's perpetrating a fraud and is doing some social media and publicity machinating and he has got to go.
As for that picture, well what can you say about it. She was there and greeted and conversed with everyone there. Sometimes a picture doesn't say a thousand words or even one at all.
I'm thinking this has been a tempest in a teapot from day one! How about we get on with some real news. Most politicians are not vets anyway and only show up on Memorial or Veterans day for the votes.
Political whores only like vets twice a year, Memorial Day & Veterans Day. Vets are ignored the rest of the year. On those two days they love them and need to be photographed with them.
❝Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.'❞ —Wendy McElroy
❝If voting was any good, they wouldn’t let us do it.❞ —Mark Twain
❝It’s easier to fool someone than to tell them that they’ve been fooled.❞ —Mark Twain
❝Politicians must be changed as often as diapers—and, for the same reason.❞ —Mark Twain
❝Always be aware of of the fact that the only thing hindering an all out revolution is your fear of losing the scraps they throw at you.❞ —Gore Vidal
❝Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.❞ —Robert LeFavre
❝A nation of sheep soon begets a government of wolves.❞ —Edward R. Murrow
❝Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.❞ —Friedrich Nietzsche
❝Its difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.❞ —Voltaire
❝I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if they knew they were slaves.❞ —Harriet Tubman
❝The chains of habit are too light to be felt—until they are too heavy to be broken.❞ —Richard C. IRITANO
❝You can fool ALL of the people some of the time, and if you do it just once—it lasts four years.❞ Alfred E. Neuman
❝The truth will set you free—but, FIRST it will piss you off.❞ —Gloria Steinem
❝No man will ever be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.❞ —Denis Diderot, French philosopher
❝Politicians are the entertainment division of the military industrial complex.❞ —Frank Zappa
❝Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when government becomes lawless and corrupt.❞ —Mahatma Gandhi
❝Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and trying to deny that we’re the ones who securely tied the knot.❞ —Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
❝This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.❞ —George Bernard Shaw
If sheep could vote, then they would pick the guy who feeds them—even if it’s the SAME person who would slaughter them, later on.
❝A people that elect corrupt politicians, impostors, thieves and traitors are not victims ... but accomplices.❞ —George Orwell
❝Belief is the death of intelligence.❞ ―Robert Anton Wilson
❝Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think that I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.❞ ―John Lennon
❝If you wish to keep slaves, you must have all kinds of guards. The cheapest way to have guards is to have the slaves pay t axes to finance their own guards. To fool the slaves, you tell them they need Law and Order to protect them against bad slaves. Then you tell them to elect a Government. Give them Freedom to vote and they will vote for their own guards and pay their salary. They will then believe they are Free persons. Then give them money to earn, count and spend and they will be too busy to notice the slavery they are in.❞ ―Alexander Warbucks
TRUTH is TREASON―in an EMPIRE OF LIES!
The truth is a closely held commodity (and, it always HAS been)!
❝Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.❞ ―Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
❝Politicians are the entertainment division of the military industrial complex.❞ ―Frank Zappa
The chains of habit are too light to be felt—until they are too heavy to be broken.
Finally, like I always (correctly) maintain: It's always better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven, and better to die in battle—than to be murdered!
❝No man will be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.❞ —Denis Diderot, French philosopher
❝Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.❞ ——Robert LeFavre
❝A nation of sheep soon begets a government of wolves.❞ ——Edward R. Murrow
❝Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.❞ ——Friedrich Nietzsch
Lee Camp, of Redacted Tonight, says:
❝...we have an economy that, at its core, is based on death, misery and hardship. It’s not based on health and happiness and life. When it’s humming along, that means our obliteration of the planet is running full steam ahead, and average workers are being appropriately repressed and held down, hoping to collect enough food stamps to papier-mâché a cast on their broken arm. In fact, The Washington Post admitted it this week—but acted surprised when they said it: 'Many analysts pointed to a seemingly unusual cause for the turbulence: rising wages.'❞
❝No, it’s not an “unusual” cause at all. When we start doing better—when wages start going up–Wall Streeters shit themselves.❞
❝The Earth is not dying. It is being killed. And, the people who are killing it have names and addresses.❞ ——Utah Phillips
❝The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.❞ ——George Orwell
❝It’s dangerous to be right when government is wrong.❞ ——Voltaire
❝The truth will set you free—but, FIRST it will piss you off.❞ ——Gloria Steinem
❝Being REAL is very different than being negative.❞ ——Owen Fox
TRUTH is TREASON—in an EMPIRE OF LIES.
❝It’s difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.❞ ——Voltaire
❝I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if they knew they were slaves.❞ ——Harriet Tubman
❝The chains of habit are too light to be felt—until they are too heavy to be broken.❞ —Anonymous
War is a racket, romanticized and celebrated with nostalgia by Hollywood and the corporate fascist bought media - so long as THEY didn't have to do the dying in ALL of the pseudo, proxy, petrodollar war crimes against humanity.
This sickening display of feigned loyalty and allegiance to the dead is nothing more than backstabbing, corporate demanded allegiance and loyalty to the elitist force of chaos and destruction so that billionaires like Walmart don't have to work for a living - and, extreme corporate welfare for billionaires is happily doled out - and, the public wage slaves are nickel-and-dimed to their cradle-to-grave deaths of never-ending adversity, beggary, obscurity, quiet desperation - and, PUBLIC SQUALOR, versus THEIR PRIVATE SPLENDOR (and UNJUST ENRICHMENT), and the ever languishing public be damned!
What? WHAT?? THIS IS NEW???
❝Democratic Party: stop scapegoating, look in the mirror, and ask yourself why you cannot landslide the worst, the most ignorant, the most corporate indentured, the cruelest Republican Party in history.❞ — Ralph Nader
❝The brilliance of Bill Clinton was that he transformed the Democratic Party into the Republic Party, and he pushed the Republican Party so far to the right—that it became insane.❞ —Chris Hedges
❝A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?❞ —Marcus Cicero
❝To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist; that is all.❞ —Oscar Wilde
❝The system cannot be fixed by the system.❞ —Tom Morello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exnaY0l4XsM
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1769957319694866&set=a.292964274060852&type=3&sfns=mo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AajslFuPro
http://www.tcm.com/…/Demon-Seed-Movie-Clip-Try-To-Behave-Ra…
One more quote:
"He had the ring. He had the flat. She felt his chin. And that was that." - Burma Shave
It's sad what queens has become. Queens is definitely becoming a 3rd world shitbox.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/veterans-walk-out-of-meeting-with-ocasio-cortez-after-she-bashes-us-foreign-policy
After seeing these two guys and the damage their ilk gives to us by supporting the machine hacks - those developer funded stooges we are given to elect to office - I almost decided to support AOC.
That guy in the Army uniform looks really screwed up.
That is no way to wear a beret.
Remember Ann-Margaret Carrozza?
Old deplorables didn't believe a "little girl" could win.
Couldn't beat her until she beat herself.
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