This Blog is being written on Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2023; the day commemorates the SIX (6) million Jews killed by the Nazis, during World War II, the Holocaust. The date was chosen because it marks the date the concentration camp Auschwitz, was liberated from the Nazis by Soviet troops during World War II.   What is shocking, nay appalling, is the rise of anti-Semitism among Americans in 2023; what is shocking is how the righteous Ruling Elite in America intends, to combat this rising anti-Semitism, with platitudes and bromides and with worn out sophomoric appeals to America’s better angels.   Doesn’t the Ruling Elite have any clue about the American character?   Winston Churchill, whose mother was from Brooklyn, knew more about the angels in America than any current American thought leader.   It was Churchill who pegged the American character:  “ You  can  always count on the  Americans to do the right  thing  after they have tried everything else. ”   Americans in 20

In April, 1945, less than a month before Hitler committed suicide in his bunker, effectively ending World War II; Lt. Bob Dole, a small-town Kansas boy was leading a patrol against the Nazis in Italy. A Nazi machine gun had pinned down his radio man, and Lt. Dole, being a member of the Greatest Generation decided to rescue the unfortunate soldier.   His reward for that courageous act was swift; his body was shredded by the very same machine gun. So shredded, the Medics, doing instant triage,    left him for dead, and moved on. When they doubled back, after saving the ones they thought could be saved, they found him still alive.   His right arm was useless; he was paralyzed and could not walk.   Dole had been assigned to the elite 10 th  Mountain Division, to replace a commanding officer who had been killed in combat. Dole never understood why.   “I thought it was mighty odd that a kid from Kansas who had seen a mountain up close only once in his life would be assigned to lead a platoon