American ww2 hero Audie Muphy

[Baron Von Crowder]

Yeah, it's so much better today with our great race relations and public education system.

I got to tell yall this shit.

My wife is a high school teacher at a school with a 20% white demographic. They were told that the number of non-white students that had been disciplined was too high, and it needed to be more equal. The new policy is that the teachers have to document 4 referral worthy incidents before they can actually write them up. Each teacher, each student. They get 4 freebies before anything happens, in each class.

White students are to be written up for everything.

[46Tbird]

Yeah, it was pretty awesome in 1957 when the governor of Arkansas blocked the Little Rock 9 from going to Central High School.

Yeah, it's so much better today with our great race relations and public education system.

[ceyko]

There has to be thousands of military heroes we will never hear a peep about. Still, the publicized ones are still bad asses.

[Gasser64]

lot of white separatists back then

[YALE]

Yeah, it was pretty awesome in 1957 when the governor of Arkansas blocked the Little Rock 9 from going to Central High School.

[bcoop]

Actually, we peaked in 1957.

Not saying everything was perfect - it wasn't, especially in regards to race relations and women's status in society - but it was still our peak.


HIGH SCHOOL 1957 vs. 2014

Scenario 1:
Jack goes duck hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack.


1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2014- School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

Scenario 2:
Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.

1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2014 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it.

Scenario 3:
Jeffrey will not be still in class;
he disrupts other students.

1957 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2014 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The family gets extra money (SSI) from the government because Jeffrey has a disability.

Scenario 4:
Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.

1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college and becomes a successful businessman.
2014 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse,Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist.

Scenario 5:
Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.

1957 - Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smoking dock.
2014 - The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario 6:
Pedro fails high school English.

1957 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and goes to college.
2014 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against the state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English is then banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.

Scenario 7:
Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up a red ant bed.

1957 - Ants die.
2014 - ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents - and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

Scenario 8:
Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.

1957 – In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2014- Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.

Yay for forwarded emails!

[BP]

I had a pretty refreshing experience on Sunday at one of Fort Hood's commissaries. There was a pretty young black kid running around basically being a jackass like you see at the DMV, Walmart, etc... They don't have to be black but he happened to be.

As you can imagine almost everyone in there is somehow military related. There was an older black man who obviously is retired Army. He walks up to the kid and in his best drill Sgt voice started ripping him a new one. Along the lines of calm the hell down, stop acting like an idiot and be respectful of the people around you.

The mother kind of looked like she was shocked at first but realized this old man could probably kick her husband's ass and there wasn't anyone that was going to stop him. Needless to say the kid was calmed down after that. Hell I was nervous. You just don't expect anyone to step in and correct someone elses kid. I guess you should on base!

[46Tbird]

Actually, we peaked in 1957.

Not saying everything was perfect - it wasn't, especially in regards to race relations and women's status in society - but it was still our peak.


HIGH SCHOOL 1957 vs. 2014

Scenario 1:
Jack goes duck hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack.


1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2014- School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

Scenario 2:
Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.

1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2014 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it.

Scenario 3:
Jeffrey will not be still in class;
he disrupts other students.

1957 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2014 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The family gets extra money (SSI) from the government because Jeffrey has a disability.

Scenario 4:
Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.

1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college and becomes a successful businessman.
2014 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse,Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist.

Scenario 5:
Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.

1957 - Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smoking dock.
2014 - The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario 6:
Pedro fails high school English.

1957 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and goes to college.
2014 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against the state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English is then banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.

Scenario 7:
Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up a red ant bed.

1957 - Ants die.
2014 - ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents - and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

Scenario 8:
Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.

1957 – In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2014- Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.

[helosailor]

People today can't handle being told "no". Fifteen, or even twenty years ago, people absolutely flipping their shit over not getting their way, right-fucking-now, would have been unheard of.
We, as a society, have been circling the drain since the end of WWII. Things seem to have gotten exponentially worse since the late 60's. The only thing that is of any importance to most people anymore is their own wants, to hell with everyone else.
/rant

[Gasser64]

i blame the left coming out of the woodwork to hate on that american sniper movie

[likeitfast55]

I blame Al Gore and the internet he created.

[aggie97]

I had a conversation with a chinese immigrant today about our generations of Americans since WWI and WWII. The Great or Greatest Generation was an incredible, determined and persistent quality of American. A True American.

Then there was the baby boomers and Generation X. I read an article recently that considered changing the Millenials to the Worthless Generation.

In just 70 years we have gone from the Pillar of Society to a bunch of slack jawed worthless self obsorbed morons. Ask yourself why....the answer is probably obvious but it's also sickening at the same time.

Television and the struggle for ratings or popularity. Period.

[Frank]

Back in the day, they had a harder time finding recruits that weighed enough. Now they have fatasses that weigh too much to get in.

I remember hearing about my uncle that wanted to become a firefighter but was too underweight. Before his physical the next day, he ate a bunch of bananas. Unfortunately all he could get his hands on were green. He had the worst stomach ache afterward, but he passed the physical just barely and went on to serve a 35 year career with the Mesquite FD.

[O.C.]

Throw Tom Landry in there, 30 Combat Missions in a B-17 Bomber

[BP]

Jimmy Stewart doesn't get much credit either. He was drafted into the Army but didn't meet the height/weight requirements. So instead of going back to movies he started training to meet the weight.

He's credited with 20 combat missions during WW2 but flew in a lot more that weren't credited. He retired as a Brigadier General and was promoted to Major General afterwards by Reagan.

I didn't realize that Rob Riggle (comedian on Fox NFL Sunday) is a retired USMC Lt. Col, he did tours in Afghanistan and Kosovo.