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This year, at Thanksgiving, as you sit down to remember what you are thankful for, I cannot help but wonder if perhaps the people currently in Washington DC have forgotten the true significance of this annual day of gratitude. For it seems to me, all these thousands of miles away, in Australia, that you, like us, had increasingly lost hope and feel somehow that " The New World " has become " The New World Order "
Next year, things may well be completely different. President-Elect Trump is determined to resurrect Thanksgiving as a time to be proud again and to celebrate the richness that a FREE America provides. I feel that a turkey dinner is going to be a joyous meal, acknowledging the reason Thanksgiving is celebrated in the first place. So let us go back in time to when it all started...
When the first settlers arrived on the Mayflower in 1620 at Plymouth , they had hopes and dreams to found a Nation free of Religious persecution and constraints of the then King of England, King James I.
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At the end of WW2, America had about 6,000 merchant ships. In 2022, the United States merchant fleet had 178 privately owned, oceangoing, self-propelled vessels of 1,000 gross register tons and above.
Merchant ships are the lifeblood of international trade and commerce and even more so to island nations like England, Australia and New Zealand. They are also vital to the well-being of otherwise self-sufficient nations like the USA and Canada.
In 1941, England was the victim of an all-out drive by Germany to deprive Britain of its lifeblood of imports without which it could not feed its people. In a speech in 1940 Winston Churchill magnified the extent of this danger when he said that at any given moment 2,000 British merchant ships are in transit on the high seas. The losses of ships sunk by German submarines was huge and Churchill appealed to America for help. In 1941 alone Britain lost 1,300 ships sunk by German U-Boats.
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Last time, I discussed the role of America in the defence and defense of the allies in the lead up to World War II. When, thanks to the back-up of American production, Britain was able to fight the threat from its enemies. As the war progressed, the allies were facing greater threats and assembly lines were needed to keep the allies armed.
On 7th December Japan attacked the American base at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. Tension between the two countries was extreme and had been rising for a long time starting with the American disapproval of the Japanese Army behaviour in China. As a sanction, America progressively denied supply of materials to Japan until it reached breaking point with the complete embargo on oil supplies without which Japanese industry could not operate.
Japan was well aware of the American vulnerability of weak defenses and there was strong support within the military to invade California. The decision not to invade was due entirely to the fact that it was known that there were many guns in the hands of the civilian population and California was very far from Japan which made supply a logistical nightmare.
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I have never been reticent in expressing my love and admiration of America. I love the Americans who call it home.
As an Australian, I admire the exploits of their armed services ( when I was a boy during WW2 ) but it was my experience of living there in 1976 that cemented the attitude I developed and still have today.
America has gone through a very bad patch and dragged the rest of the Western World with it. Thank goodness hope is on the horizon.
Since the end of WW2, the only thing that has stood between Communism and the life that most of the free world enjoys is America.
The untold generosity to every beleaguered nation on this planet has not been appreciated by most of them.
Today we explore America's lead up to WW II.
Thank God for America.
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Humour is as old as humanity itself. I am not sure if our ancient ancestors, clad in loincloths and whipping up another batch of ochre for their cave paintings, found amusement in the absurdity of life.
But they must, sure as faith, be having a laugh at us now as we launch from one accusation of racism to another.
They must think it very amusing that we now rate our value as humans on how long we have lived in a country when, back in the day, no such thing as a country even existed.
We were all part of the same canvas, just painted with a different dye.
But back to humour, the point of today's ramblings.
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Yes, let’s be honest. The days when the Italians, Greeks, Poles, Hungarians, Poms and Chinese all packed up and headed downunder or over yonder bear no resemblance to the current influx of migrants.
The 3 phases of population growth can be loosely tied down to the pre World War II, post WW2 and the here and now.
Society has changed and societal expectation has shifted from what ‘they can do for us ‘ to ‘what we can do for them.’
This, my friends, is a very big shift indeed.
Even our aboriginals came from another place. They were settlers. Thousands of years later, more settlers came across the great unknown and across hostile and treacherous waters armed with axes, energy and attitude. Some were convicts, forced to settle in a far off land as a slave to a government wanting to rid itself of the " dross " and provide a free labour force.
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Captain Robert Blair "Paddy" Mayne, an amazing and legendary figure, is a name that might not be instantly recognisable to many, but his remarkable life story is one that deserves to be told.
Mayne was a man of extraordinary courage, unshakable determination, and unrivaled skill, making him one of the most distinguished and controversial figures in military history.
He was also a bit of a bastard.
Or so some would say. Mayne was remarkably brave, but he was also not far short of being a loose cannon.
I first learned about him watching " Rogue Heroes. "
Read more: Paddy Mayne - The Bravest Man Never Awarded the Victoria Cross
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