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KentuckyWoman

(7,411 posts)
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 09:30 PM Jun 2025

Army 250th - It deserves celebration.

Army 250th. Should be a moment to appreciate the sacrifices these brave people are willing to make. Instead our men and women in uniform have become an afterthought. All that matters is dear leader now, and his stupid birthday.

The Army has helped develop advancements in food preservation, and the tech required for global communication. I do believe the Army developed the epipen. It would be better not to have war, but if we are going to have wounded, thankfully, the Army has been out front in pioneering surgical techniques, medical advancements, prothetics.

If I remember correctly we can thank the Army for super glue and duct tape.

Our Army is first out with food, medicine and clean water in disasters. They have delivered billions in assistance worldwide ... just last year alone.

War is heinous. It's good for nothing. Everyone loses. But it is reality. We became a nation after a war. I was born just a few months before Pearl Harbor. My father was Army. His father was Army, and his father too.

My father came home and went to college. I right now benefit from his sacrifices in many ways. I benefit from all their sacrifices. All of them... for the whole 250 years.

I hope we remember to celebrate our soldiers while reminding "His Majesty" that he is certainly no king.

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Mysterian

(6,595 posts)
1. Not with a repulsive Soviet-style parade of tanks through the streets of our capitol
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 09:33 PM
Jun 2025

As an Army veteran, I am disgusted and ashamed to see such a sad spectacle.

KentuckyWoman

(7,411 posts)
2. I don't get the sense that was the original plan
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 09:40 PM
Jun 2025

This has been in the works for several years at least. 250 is a big birthday. The change in leadership both in the WH and Pentagon twisted things. That's my understanding... minimal as it may be.

Mysterian

(6,595 posts)
9. A military parade through the Capitol was not the original plan
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 10:09 AM
Jun 2025

The only group that wanted an expensive parade of tanks and military equipment through the nation's capitol was Trump and his deranged cult.

johnnyfins

(3,927 posts)
3. Don't forget USAMMA
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 09:49 PM
Jun 2025

And their decades long infectious disease research. Yes, it was counter bio warfare, but that research, and the dedicated men and women who conduct it are IMVALUABLE.

Blue Full Moon

(3,609 posts)
4. Without tRump's vanity parade
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 09:54 PM
Jun 2025

Maybe that money should go to VA. Maybe pay raise so they don't have to be on government assistance.

Arazi

(8,887 posts)
6. Iirc, this year is also the Marine Corps and Navy 250th
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 10:26 PM
Jun 2025

No celebration for them tho since their anniversaries are in the fall and not on Caligula’s birthday

BannonsLiver

(20,783 posts)
10. Now now
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 10:28 AM
Jun 2025

“Good DUers don’t propagandize other DUers.”

You can keep telling yourself that it’s not about Trump. Meanwhile everything else from the media coverage, to the MAGA goons’ reaction, says otherwise. It’s an adorable little point to try and make but also completely out of touch with reality.

WarGamer

(18,820 posts)
12. Did you know later this year...
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 09:31 PM
Jun 2025

There are BIG plans for the US Navy and Marine Corps 250th Birthday too?

It'll be in Philadelphia and feature parades, flyovers, reenactments and much more??

Is that good or bad?

tavernier

(14,492 posts)
13. We honor our military every Memorial Day with local parades.
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 09:49 PM
Jun 2025

The US is not a dictatorship and we do not openly display our military strength to the world with a puffed up parade to appease the egotistical ego of a wannabee dictator.

jmowreader

(53,331 posts)
14. Not super glue, but the polymer from which it is made
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 09:59 PM
Jun 2025

During World War II B.F. Goodrich Company (they're famous for tires and aircraft landing gear) was trying to invent a plastic to make gun sight windows for aircraft. One of the polymers they invented they rejected because they couldn't get it to stop sticking to everything. In 1951 Eastman Kodak (which was always a chemical company but was most famous for their photography products) discovered this polymer, decided something that'd stick to everything would be a good adhesive, and created a glue they called Eastman 910 - because it cured in "nine to ten seconds."

Eastman Kodak later sold the cyanoacrylate business to a company that became known as Permabond...and they still make the original Eastman 910 formula.

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