Last Thursday afternoon in the District They Call Columbia, we had
a tornado warning. Our COO sent round an email telling everyone to get away
from outside windows, which is probably good advice, because I’d have been the one
glued to a window, shooting photos. As it happens, I was WFH in the People’s
Republic, where it got so dark around 1530 that my solar-powered garden
butterfly lights came on. Sometime after that, the skies opened up and all the water
in the world came right down on us.
(A few weeks ago a tornado actually touched
down about a mile from me, although thankfully there was no loss of life.)
Well, during a staged event that afternoon for yet another farm
bailout to offset the fallout from his tariff wars, as the Chaos Monkey was
peddling porkies about him being calm—the calmest ever, dammit—when throwing a wobbly at Nancy Pelosi and Chuck
Schumer the day before, and was calling on his toady aides to—one by one—swear
to the assembled media that his account of the encounter was true, and calm…soldiers
of The Old Guard were carrying out their duty at the Tomb of the Unknowns
across the river at Arlington National Cemetery. Including placing flags at the
Tomb in honor of Memorial Day.
And on Friday morning, as Cadet Bonespurs (proud descendant of a
long line of military service dodgers) hauled off for a state visit to Japan
and golfing with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, The Old Guard tweeted
photos of what real devotion to duty looks like. Viz:
Today I am grateful for the generations of men and women of our
armed services who have made great sacrifices for the survival of our nation
and our democracy. And I’m grateful for The Old Guard for their dedication to
honoring those sacrifices. And I’m grateful for social media, which enabled America’s
Regiment to disseminate these photos that silently remind us of what duty looks
like.
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