#Military Cemeteries

[godallaswriter]

Holiday Spirit: Honoring Veterans

[cid5]

"Ghostlike" sculptures (by artist Jackie Lantelli) of soldiers who died in World War One next to their graves in Slimbridge cemetery.

[jacks-weird-world]

🪖Jack and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend at Arlington Cemetery, Virginia. Oct 17, 2024

[kevinfromwelcometonightvale]

Love how in welcome to night vale cecil talks about Carlos and his voice goes up, like, a while octave. And he regularly interrupts his broadcast to talk about Carlos. And he has little traditions with him. And they’re openly gay and nobody mentions anything about it except in that one episode with Cecil’s brother. And he loves him unconditionally. And they both just sound so in love and ughhh I love their relationship sm

[minarachelle]

Le cimetière militaire Francais du Plateau, France - 2022

[theworldofwars]

Russian soldier teaching German POWs a Cossack dance in the snow circa 1915

[geezerwench]

trump can go straight to hell.

[rednblacksalamander]

Pissing off the guys with the tanks has, historically, not worked out great for wannabe dictators.

[the-potus-is-a-russian-asset]

This man will take advantage of anyone at anytime for his own benefit. Using the families of fallen soldiers for political purposes is unfortunately not unique to Trump. However, showing zero respect for a fallen soldier via a big shit eating grin and a thumbs up takes a special kind of psychopath. Either he did not want to seem like a “loser” by showing solemn respect, or he is simply incapable of experiencing that emotion.

[nocternalrandomness]

An Eagle at Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minnesota - Photo by Frank Glick

[tomorrowusa]

^^^ What actually went on when Donald Trump desecrated Arlington National Cemetery.

What sort of person does thumbs-up photos in front of the graves of war dead? <spoiler>Donald Trump</spoiler>

Charlie Sykes has an excellent piece in The Atlantic about Trump's dreadful visit to Arlington. But the article is behind a paywall. So here is Charlie discussing that article with Jonathan Lemire who read excerpts from it.

[eopederson]

Military Honor Guard riding horses pulling caisson (hearse), Funeral, Arlington National Cemetery, 2021.

Veterans Day

[abessive-art]

Guy with the eye earring. [ID: a digital drawing of Carlos from Welcome to Night Vale. He is a brown skinned, robust man with mid length, messy, dark brown hair in a ponytail. He has glasses, and a bright purple earring with the shape of an eye. He's looking over his shoulder at the camera]

[jacks-weird-world]

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

Noah Berlatsky at Everything Is Horrible:

When you say that we are facing a fascist takeover of the United States, you often get pushback. One common talking point is that, if we were actually in the middle of a fascist takeover, you wouldn’t be able to say so. There are various reasons this is silly. First, and most obviously, in any fascist takeover, there is some moment where the fascists are planning to take over but haven’t managed it yet. Warning of a fascist takeover at that point is still possible. Necessary even. But perhaps more to the point, we are actually at the point where fascists are silencing people. People in the US currently refuse to speak against Trump and fascism because they are afraid that Trump and his gutter fascists will harm them if they oppose him.

Fascist vigilante harassment chills resistance

This week, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump oozed orangely into Arlington National Cemetary to take a picture of himself standing over veteran’s graves with an oleaginous smile and a big thumb’s up. You may think this is tasteless. And you’d be correct. It’s also illegal. It’s against federal law to campaign in Army National Military Cemeteries. An Arlington official attempted to enforce the rules, and told Trump he couldn’t take his grotesque pictures there. Trump campaign thugs then verbally abused the official and pushed them. When the official filed an incident report, the Trump campaign issued a statement insulting them and claiming they were mentally ill.

The official decided not to press charges, because they were afraid that if they did, they would be targeted, harassed, and worse by Trump supporters, according to the New York Times. Again, an Arlington official, doing their job, tried to enforce rules that are supposed to apply to all. They were roughed up and insulted. And they are afraid to stand up to Trump and his campaign because they know that if their opposition to Trump becomes public, their life will be destroyed. This isn’t an idle fear. Trump has sicced his fascist dittohead minions on election workers whose only crime was refusing to throw the election for Donald Trump. They were doxed and harassed at their home, and one had to go into hiding. Trump also organized a violent coup, in which his supporters attacked the capital building, terrorizing representatives and workers, and five people died. News organization have found a list of incidents in which Trump supporters committed violence explicitly in his name.

Standing up to Trump is frightening. If he singles you out, his supporters will try to hurt you and your loved ones. Trump and his campaign flaks are quite aware of this dynamic, and they use it to their advantage. The campaign said it could release video backing up its version of events. It hasn’t done so, probably because the video shows that the Arlington worker was in the right. But if the video shows the Arlington worker’s face, that worker will be tracked down by Trump supporters. “We have video” isn’t evidence; it’s a threat. And Trump’s threats, implied and otherwise, worked. The official was scared to challenge the leader of a fascist movement for fear of fascist abuse.

The Trump-created Arlington National Cemetery fiasco is a sign that Donald Trump continues to stoop so low by politicizing his appearance there.

The official that tried to stop Trump’s stunt by telling him no on allowing him to conduct photography for his campaign decided against filing charges due to the fact that the person would be subjected to harassment and death threats from MAGA bullies.

[roadtrippinlilly]

A Sunset To Honor...

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