Op-ed:
Surrounded By The Best Men On Earth
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor /
Right Side Patriots on America Political Radio
Wearing a cowgirl hat does not make one
a cowgirl just like placing a feather in one's hair does not make
one an Indian, but dishonoring the ultimate sacrifice made by the
brave with lies about their Commander-in-Chief indeed makes you if not a
traitor than a subversive.
Gold Star father and White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly was
“stunned” and
“brokenhearted” that
“a member of Congress would have
listened in” on a president’s phone call to the widow of a
fallen soldier as did Florida District 24 Rep. Frederica Wilson.
“
I thought at least that was sacred,” Gen. Kelly said
as a true look of sorrow...a haunting ever-etched in his
conscience look of sorrow...crossed his face,
“When I was
a kid growing up, a lot of things were sacred. Women were sacred,
life was sacred; that’s gone. Religion, that seems to be gone as
well. Gold Star families – I think that left at the convention over
the summer, but I just thought the selfless devotion that brings a
man or woman to die on the battlefield – I just thought that might
still be sacred”...and with those words spoken... spoken with an
authority few have heard...you could hear a pin drop as an eerie yet awe inspiring silence overtook the
White House briefing room.
“
And when I listened to this woman, and what she was saying,
what she was doing on TV...the only thing I could do to collect my
thoughts was to go walk among the finest men and women on this earth.
You can always find them at Arlington National Cemetery,” were
Kelly's words spoken as they brought back the pain of not
only his own Marine son lost, but with painful remembrances
that
“among
the stones” were those he put
there because “they were doing what I told them to do
when they were killed.”
Dear God how does but a mortal man
manage what must be never ending pain knowing that someones beloved
husband or wife, mother or father, son or daughter, brother or sister
is gone forever because of an order you gave no matter that said
order saw them doing the most important selfless act afforded only to
the truly brave...those so brave as to give up their life to assure
that freedom not only lives on but thrives in those now forever left behind.
Only the honorable, the decent, the
good could survive such pain by knowing in their heart they did what
had to be done and only the dishonorable, the indecent, and the truly
vile could turn the general's words said into political fodder for
their own political and personal gain. Such is the case of Florida
Rep. Frederica Wilson who in doing what she did cast a pallor of
darkness and the misery of contempt over those who mourn a loved one
lost to the horrors of war.
“
I hope, as you write your stories, let’s not let this last
thing that is sacred — a young man or woman giving his or her life
for country — let’s somehow keep that sacred. It eroded a great
deal yesterday by the selfish behavior of a member of Congress,”
were the so truthful last words Gen. Kelly said that day to the assembled press
corp.
See Gen. Kelly's heartfelt remarks in full here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps5ttDzWBaY
And one would think that after all the general said that a decent
person would back down...might even apologize for words and actions
previously taken...but not Frederica Wilson who now thinks she is a
“rock star” for taking the president and a general on. By
saying a few hours after Gen. Kelly spoke that,
“John Kelly’s
trying to keep his job. He will say anything,” what this vile
woman is doing is first, not addressing this 4-star general with the
due respect he deserves nor is she speaking of her true disdain for
our veterans which is a matter of congressional record, for the fact
is that Frederica Wilson has more times than not voted against
measures intended to help veterans and their families.
And no matter that she now squawks that she is totally
“committed to
honoring our service members, not only with words but with deeds,”
Frederica Wilson did vote against most of the bills that would continue the funding for
veteran benefits, including payments to the widows of fallen soldiers
as well as her opposing the much needed measures designed to help improve the
Department of Veterans Affairs. Wilson opposed the 'Consolidated and
Further Continuing Appropriations Act,' which prevented a government
shutdown and provided funds for the U.S. military and the V.A.
In
June of this year, Frederica Wilson voted against the 'Department of Veterans
Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act'...an act to
establish a special department within the V.A. that would help
improve accountability and protect any and all whistleblowers by appointing a
special assistant to serve as the new department’s executive
director's secretary and whose duties would include the ability to
remove...to fire...federal employees when necessary...dead weight
federal employees not on our veterans side.
And for those who don't know, Frederica Wilson also voted against
the 'Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act' which would allow our
veterans deemed
“mentally incompetent” to buy firearms,
unless found by a judge to be a danger to themselves or others.
Remember, mental incompetency has become a much overused catch phrase that liberals love to throw at any and all current gun owners or those
wishing to purchase a firearm.
By now we all know that what started as Rep. Wilson criticizing
President Donald Trump's condolence phone call to Mysehia Johnson, the now Gold
Star widow of Army Sgt. La David Johnson...one of the four Americans
killed in Niger earlier this month...has become a controversy that
shows no sign of abating any time soon. And why...simply because the
left relishes in keeping it going and to make sure it does the left
has now added the hot button topic of racism into the mix with Wilson
claiming the phone call itself was
“racial charged”
because Sgt. Johnson was black.
And Wilson claims this because
Trump's (anything but) racist words in his phone call
“upset his widow.” Well of
course they did...her husband had recently died...not to have been
upset should have been the thing to raise suspicions not the other
way around.
This is a lie on all accounts for calling the
families...no matter the race of those fallen in war...has long
been something many presidents in their role as Commander-in-Chief
have done. In fact, President Trump called all four families of those
killed in the Niger ambush...and he called them specifically to express his deep personal
condolences...something Barack HUSSEIN Obama did not do when 1st Lt.
Robert Kelly, the son of Gen. Kelly, was killed in Afghanistan in
2010. Maybe there was some racial overtones in that lack of action on Obama's part that the left
chooses to turn a blind eye to.
“
There is no perfect way to make that phone call,” Gen.
Kelly said at the press briefing as he told those assembled that his
first advice to President Trump was not to place those calls because it
is not a phone call family members look forward to as,
“There is
nothing you can do to lighten the burden of these families.” Then adding words to the affect that the most important phone calls come
from a dead soldier's buddies on the field, however, when asked about
the best wording for such calls Gen. Kelly told President Trump, and
again I quote,
“Let me tell you what my best friends told me: He
was doing exactly what he wanted to do when he was killed. He knew
what he was getting into by joining that 1%. He knew what the
possibilities were, because we’re at war. And, when he died, he was
surrounded by the best men on Earth, his friends.”
“
Surrounded by the best men on Earth”...no
truer words ever spoken.
And that is exactly what President Trump tried to say in his own
special way...that Johnson was a
“brave man, a fallen hero” when he
placed those calls not just to Sgt. Johnson's widow but to the
families of the other three men killed that fateful day and he did so with
not a hint of racism in his words or in his heart for this president
sees the uniform not the color of the man or woman wearing it.
And what President Trump's call to Sgt. Johnson's widow get
him...Frederica Wilson saying,
“The White House itself is full
of white supremists.”
No...I don't think so for the only supremacist...this now of the
black kind...is Frederica Wilson herself who took Gen. Kelly's words
defending President Trump...words said that
“even for someone who
is an empty barrel, we were stunned”...and twisted them into a
racist remark when she had no idea what those words even meant.
“
That’s a racist term ― thinking about that, we looked it
up in the dictionary because I had never heard of an empty barrel and
I don’t like to be dragged into something like that,” she said. And just in
case you are wondering who “
we” is...Frederica Wilson was referring
to her buddies in the Black Caucus...her buddies who think they alone
in their blackness are better than anyone else.
But her racist claimed words are again but another lie for the
term 'empty barrel' came from the proverb
“empty vessels make
most noise” that dates back to the 15th century and possibly
even to the time of Plato. In fact, the Oxford Dictionary of Word
Origins, states that the proverb means that
“foolish people are
always the most talkative.” And
the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs defines the term to mean that,
“Shallow people with nothing valuable to say are the most
talkative or noisy.”
Even the snowflakes and
the uneducated's favorite Urban Dictionary, as of Friday last, states
that being called an “empty barrel,” while
not a flattering term, is in no way a racial term as Wilson claims.
And if Frederica Wilson can lie about a word's meaning...
if she
can turn a condolence phone call made by the President of these
United States into words of racism...if she can turn the words of a decorated 4-star general who also is a Gold Star father into words of
hate for black soldiers...than Frederica Wilson can go to hell and
take the (I believe) lying, race baiting Black Caucus with her.
May God bless all who serve in today's theaters of war...may God
keep safe John Kelly Jr. now serving his fifth tour against
ISIS...may God lighten the burden and pain Gen. Kelly carries in his heart everyday...may God grant President Trump the wisdom and strength to deal
with the hate and lies thrown at him...and may God put His hand over
the mouth of a shameful woman who continues to dishonor all who not
only wore the uniform of our great nation but those who died
protecting her.
Silence is golden Frederica...silence is something you surely need
to learn.
Copyright @ 2017 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved
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Wearing a cowgirl hat does not make one
a cowgirl just like placing a feather in one's hair does not make
one an Indian, but dishonoring the ultimate sacrifice made by the
brave with lies about their Commander-in-Chief indeed makes you if not a
traitor than a subversive.
“And when I listened to this woman, and what she was saying,
what she was doing on TV...the only thing I could do to collect my
thoughts was to go walk among the finest men and women on this earth.
You can always find them at Arlington National Cemetery,” were
Kelly's words spoken as they brought back the pain of not
only his own Marine son lost, but with painful remembrances that “among
the stones” were those he put
there because “they were doing what I told them to do
when they were killed.”
