First Americans
Related: About this forumLovie777
(21,949 posts)in2herbs
(4,258 posts)Bayard
(28,782 posts)I am glad this honorable man received the recognition that he did. Certainly nothing from MSM.
Contrast and compare with all the hoopla over Kirk getting shot.
usonian
(23,733 posts)And honor?

Deuxcents
(25,680 posts)usonian
(23,733 posts)Last edited Tue Sep 23, 2025, 11:01 PM - Edit history (1)
Our leaders were were quality people, though there was the time an admiral returned a fleeing Lithuanian seaman to his ship (1) a horrible blunder. Okay, most were quality and some were spineless trash. I worked with/for honorable people, most of whom were OUTSTANDING.
It was in the service I learned the term "shit floats", (2) and isn't that entirely appropriate to the sack of shit Oompa-Loompa?
(1) https://emerging-europe.com/culture-travel-sport/jump-for-freedom-the-stranger-than-fiction-tale-of-lithuanian-defector-simas-kudirka/. HOLY SHIT, This was awful.
(2) https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shit+floats
The opposite of "The cream rises". A saying used to denote that people in positions of power often got where they are through corruption and do not deserve the advantages they have.
wendyb-NC
(4,607 posts)calimary
(89,185 posts)Most nobly so.