Armed Forces Day—the Third Saturday of May

By Attorney Rees Lloyd

May 20, 2023

May 20, the third Saturday of May, is Armed Forces Day in America.

But the question raised this Armed Forces Day 2023, is: In these troubled times, will our divided nation, including our governing bodies and mass media, unite to honor for their service and sacrifice in defense of our freedom, all those 1.3-million Americans serving on active duty in the six military branches—Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Space Force, and Coast Guard — and in the Reserves and National Guard?

While veterans service organizations like The American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, and others will once again act to honor active duty military personnel on Armed Forces Day, it is doubtful that the nation — so transformed from what it was when Armed Forces Day was established in 1950 — will unite to honor active duty military members on Armed Forces Day under the progressive liberal “woke” ideology of the ruling Democrat Party and of the modern “woke” mass media — both of which never met a pervert it didn’t love, nor a patriot it didn’t despise.

Consider, among other points, that:

— Armed Forces Day 2023 takes place when the nation is facing unprecedented division and threats to our freedom, our sovereignty, our currency, our status internationally, including being threatened economically and militarily by the Chinese Communist Party, and being dragged into what may become WWIII in Europe if the war between Russia and the Ukraine is not resolved by negotiation rather than escalating warfare.

— We are being invaded at our southern border as never before. Literally millions of illegal aliens are invading as if they have a “right” to invade our country, instead of having the courage to do what is necessary to right-the-wrongs of the governments in their home countries. It is manifest that the situation at the southern border is out of control.

It is also manifest that no nation can maintain its national unity when its national culture, values, and heritage are overwhelmed by illegal alien invasion. Rome died when there were more unassimilated illegal alien immigrants in Rome than Roman patriots.

—Thousands of patriotic military members of our all-volunteer armed forces have been purged by the Department of Defense of the “Woke” Democrat Party Biden regime for declining to submit — on religious grounds—to vaccination by the experimental Covid drugs. The courts have issued injunctions stopping the Biden regime purges pending full trials. At the same time that the “Wokified” Biden DOD has purged out thousands of patriotic military personnel for declining Covid jabs, the DOD has announced failure to meet recruitment goals. Recently, the DOD, when questioned as to whether it was acting to reinstate the thousands of military members purged over declining the Covid shots, responded only that the purged could “re-apply.” In contrast, former President Donald Trump has stated publicly that, if re-elected president, he will order the purged patriots reinstated with a make-whole remedy.

—The Biden regime has sent over $100-billion to the Ukraine government in the Russia-Ukraine war, along with more and more sophisticated weapons, ammunitions, and oil from our strategic reserve, in what appears to be a proxy war with Russia, while not building up the funds, weapons, ammunition, and oil needed by our armed forces to protect America.

—Among these and other such policies of providing billions to the Ukraine—considered the third most corrupt government on the planet —the Democrat Biden regime is actually paying, with U.S. taxpayer dollars, the “pensions” of retired corrupt Ukraine government office holders and employees. Most recently, a new Ukrainian corruption scandal was exposed in the Ukrainian Supreme Court, resulting in the chief justice being arrested. This while it is learned that many of our armed forces personnel families at home are paid so low that they qualify for, and are receiving, “food stamps.” In contrast, illegal aliens are being provided phones, free medical care (overwhelming hospitals in border States), and housed in hotels at hundreds of dollars a night in NYC and elsewhere (apparently with room service, as well).

Thus, these and other facts indicate that it is unlikely that the elitist Democrat “Wokist” government regime, and the “Wokist” mainstream media, will give anything but “lip service” to honoring all active duty personnel on Armed Forces Day —unless American citizens stand up to the “Woke” governing authorities, and to the “Woke” media, and demand that that patriotic Americans on active duty be honored as they deserve to be honored.

Indeed, once upon a time in America, when Armed Forces Day was created, Americans gathered together to hold parades and other communal celebrations to honor our Armed Forces. So did governing bodies and the media.

So should it be again on every Armed Forces Day, and every day.

May God bless and keep all those more than 1.3-million patriotic Americans who by their service and sacrifice on active duty in the armed forces protect and defend the freedom of all 340-million of the rest of us Americans.

FOR GOD AND COUNTRY FOREVER; SURRENDER TO TYRANNY—NEVER!

E-Mail Rees Lloyd: ReesLloydLaw@gmail.com