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(24,100 posts)in2herbs
(4,630 posts)Bayard
(30,513 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
(26,860 posts)And honor?

Deuxcents
(27,961 posts)usonian
(26,860 posts)Last edited Wed Sep 24, 2025, 12:01 AM - 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
(4,746 posts)calimary
(91,173 posts)Most nobly so.