The purpose of Poetslife is to promote the art and discipline of American Tactical Civil Defense for families and small businesses and to contribute practical American civil defense preparedness guidance for all Americans through my articles in the The American Civil Defense Association (TACDA.ORG) Journal of Civil Defense and leadership as the volunteer Vice President of TACDA.

8/30/2021

Afghanistan SITREP

U.S. Marines and quiet professionals, please see my analysis of how ISIS uses social media to recruit suicide bombers, soldiers, media sympathy, influence, power and successAlso see ISIS Use of Social Media as a Force MultiplierThis analysis was widely used back when your senior leadership actually cared about your lives more than their careers. I provided this analysis free to them at a CBRNE convention in Virginia.
Not one Pentagon general has resigned...or even threatened to resign, after our "allies the Taliban" Biden's words, not mine, killed hundreds of American Christians and over a dozen Marine's. The truth will come out about this debacle one day.We must save each other as our leaders have told us clearly... we are on our own. We must give 110% (see my poems at the end of this analysis) to save each other as our political and military leadership is craven and compromised. I dedicate this to the U.S. Marines and the quiet professionals. Was anyone really surprised when the Mohammedians hit our Marines at the Kabul airport with a suicide bomber or hit the Americans at the hotel nearby? One of the greatest impacts of the Taliban victory in Afghanistan is that state-sponsored terrorism is back. The difference now is that they will not have 30-year old Soviet Union equipment. They will have 21st century mission critical state-of-the-art American arms. The first thing the Taliban did when they took over, besides killing hundreds of Christians, is they seized the weapons of anyone outside their death cult. Just like the gun grabbers here, they want to disarm you so they can enslave you. If you want to know how we lost the war in Afghanistan, see the links below. Captain Matthew Lohmeir's removal from Space Command for his courage opposing Marxism in the USAF offers valuable lessons. With so many of my family who served in the Air Force, and one who died over the South Pacific in WWII, it breaks my heart to read Captain Lohmeir's story. The weather genius who runs MSE Enterprises and wrote the book Warnings Mike Smith has a post about manhood that offers more reasons. His book Irresistible Revolution: Marxism's Goal of Conquest and the Unmasking of the American Military details the deconstruction of our military via Marxist ideology to ruin it as a fighting force.Dinesh D'Soua does a great job describing how the careerocrats who now run the military are one of the primary reasons we now have an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. And most importantly, to get their 30 pieces of silver, the Roman Catholic cardinals and bishops who aid and abet the child sex trafficking's at the border. Yes, there are many Americans working hard in the background to save this Republic, but time is running out. The Cardinals and Bishops Church of Nice is destroying the Church Militant so there may soon be no Christian warriors left to defend this nation.Let us not forget the military industrial complex is owned by the same investors who own the Big Media.

Warrior Poet gives 5 effects of the monumental failure of the Biden Administration globalists here.
Here in the War Zone are true SITREP reports and analysis of the the horror the current administrations greed, cowardice and incompetence has visited on Afghanistan, the U.S. and the world. So much so that much of the world now believes the CCP model works. 
I gave this same analysis to a background influencer and agree completely with what this analysis says.

You will be able to see the video of what is happening at that airport without the lying legacy corporate media and CCP filter.

To all the American and European Veterans who served there nobly protecting the world from these savages, hold your heads up high. You did your duty with honor, grit, courage, and dedication. 

It is not your fault you were sold out by craven globalists and their allies. And your expertise is still needed so we can deliver a safer, better world to our grandchildren and children.

Is this a Repeat of Saigon 1975

This is worse than Saigon in 1975.

In Vietnam, we at least made an effort to get our military hardware and military assets out before we left.
For a first-rate view of what happened, see Tom Glenn's excellent book The Last of the Annamese

I was going to the American College in Paris that Spring. Everyday I had to pass a communist bookstore with a map of the provinces in South Vietnam falling. As each fell, they would color it red.
One day while eating breakfast alone in my bedroom as my "host" French family only brought me out occasionally to impress their neighbors with how cosmopolitan they were, the noodle arm no chest French teen ager who lived with his mom in the 7th Arrondisement then, burst into my room as I studied.

He was yelling loudly, "C'est incroyable! C'est incroyable! Les Americans est completement fou!!!  Vite! Vite!"

He motioned for me to come to the living room where, on a grainy black and white television, there was live footage of American helicopters being thrown off American Navy ships. 

Total chaos. 

People were scrambling on top of each other trying not to be thrown into the depths of the Pacific Ocean and drowned as my MIA Uncle Frank Curley was in February 10, 1945.

Other news reports showed our U.S. Marines trying to control a panicked mob as it overran the security walls around the U.S. Embassy in Saigon in a desperate attempt to get onto a U.S. helicopter for safety and freedom for them and their families.

I know that was their motive because when I returned to the University of Pennsylvania for my junior year I tutored a Vietnamese family that fled and they told me how and why. There were 16 of them packed into broken down row house in a high crime West Philadelphia neighborhood. 
But they always insisted in feeding me from their meagre food rations when I taught them American English and Culture. Last I heard all of the children became doctors at American Universities.

The 7 N. Vietnamese divisions that occupied Saigon allowed the Americans to exit.
They did not want bombs raining down on them and made the rational decision to allow the American's to go.

In the CCP view, the Americans the Taliban and other jihadi's kill is one less for them to eliminate when they dominate the world.

The Fallout of the Afghanistan Defeat

When the Soviet Union military was fighting in Afghanistan, many Russian boys coffins were shipped home. 
All were sealed shut, even though Russian Orthodox Christian burial protocol uses an open coffin until burial, but no grieving Russian mother was ever allowed to see her son's dead body.
Why?
Because the jihadi's had so mutilated every Russian body as a warning to the Soviet military knew that if the Russian public saw those mutilated bodies they would have had to end that war far sooner. 
The old Soviet Union-level of lying is now present in our military and civilian leadership.

The full faith and confidence of the American public in their politicians has collapsed.
The American's still left behind in Afghanistan will be killed, tortured, and brutalized.
See Sharia law and educate yourself.
The Taliban will not follow the discipline of the Communist North Vietnamese divisions who took Saigon in 1975.
They will be far more brutal.
Similarly, in my MIA Uncle Frank's case, his last bombing mission was to prevent the Japanese Imperial Army and Navy from eating the flesh of American pilots.
I know. It sounds crazy.
But they were as crazy as the Taliban.
They thought the American pilots were the greatest American warriors and if they ate them they would gain that same warrior spirit.
Frank's mission was kept classified for 60 years because the American political and military leadership knew that fact would inflame the American public and so kept it from them.
James Bradley's book Flyboys provides great background on these missions.
Especially powerful, but unknown to most, is that the Imperial Japanese officer's were eating the body parts of American flyers (see pages 222 -236). I kid you not. The U.S. Government at the time and until today has kept it quiet. 
Such horrors are now happening in Afghanistan.
The Taliban want a propaganda victory with their military victory.
They want to demonstrate to worldwide Islam they are the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, better than ISIS or any other jihadi organizations.
They just demonstrated they were able to defeat the most powerful military force in the world.
That now puts them at the top of the world's terrorists who must now fall in line with fighters and money to support their goals.
To prove it, they will kill lots of Americans overseas and in the United States, and their "collaborators."
Already, the Taliban has executed all "collaborators" in their drive to Kabul.
They have told the women to go back inside the house and make future warriors.

And they have ordered that each village, town and city provide lists of female residents from 14 to 45.
They will be raped repeatedly and provide more babies for the battles.
And many of them will be child brides for the Taliban fighters.
We are in for a wild time.
Count on it.
And the CCP will provide the Taliban the means, cover, and ability using their American and worldwide network.

My Background with Jihadi's

I have studied jihadi's from when I was assaulted by four of them, one with a knife, in an alley in Paris in 1975 to the volunteer surveillance work I did as an auxiliary when the American law enforcement community was overwhelmed after 9/11...to today.
(They were taking troopers off the highway and reassigning them to intel surveillance, a task for which most of them were completely unprepared. I was able to gather the intel they needed to assist their efforts.) 

Sadly, I learned then about careerocrats. These are extremely highly paid government bureaucrats who put themselves and accumulating power, prestige, and wealth over the mission of protecting American lives and property. 
For example, when I identified Dr. Germ being at a mosque in Gaithersburg, they waited so long to arrest her she had returned to Iraq by the time they were still filling out paperwork to get her.
There are jihadi's in the mob being brought in from Kabul right now . 
There are also many jihadi's crossing the Southern U.S. border.
These are facts.

When you go to Jihadi websites, they are very clear that they have not forgotten their 1,400 year old war with Christians, even if Christian's have.
If you want you and your family to live, you will take advantage of visible and invisible weapons to defeat them for the sake of yourself, your families, and your nation.
We are vulnerable now because the CCP, the jihadi's, and the globalists, including the American ones, know we have a hologram for a leader who will parrot whatever words they put in front of him and sound sincere enough that normies will believe what he says.
The CCP now has it's one road through Afghanistan to the rest of the world. 
This is just beginning.

But remember you have invisible weapons with which we can crush their visible weapons.
Trust me.
The 7 sacraments, grace, The Blessed Trinity, will keep you safe as they have for 2,000 years.
Never forget it was a Roman Centurion soldier who said to Christ and gave us this payer:
"Lord, I am not worthy
that You should enter under my roof,
but only say the Word
and my Soul shall be healed."

Special Note: Poetry can heal the soul. I offer my poems below relevant to this subject in hopes they provide solace to all Veterans, but especially those who served in Afghanistan.

The first one I wrote for a friend who served two tours with the Army Special Forces in Vietnam. His niece's SEAL husband, after 20 years of duty most of which was in Afghanistan, and with three children, decided to end the pain by killing himself. Pete asked me to write a poem to read at the burial at Arlington. 

It was one of the hardest poems I have ever written. I pray it provided some solace to his wife, three children, my friend, and their friends and family. It is below.

Soft Feet Walk the Wet Green Grass at Arlington

 

Soft feet walk the wet green grass at Arlington,

Where a young mother cradles her baby and sons

Weeping softly in death-caused grief and pain

As her warrior husband is interred and remembered.

 

Many sing praises of his courage, bravery and strength

Under enemy fire in fierce battles in foreign lands.

She feels the baby move at her neck and cry out,

Hungry for food but unaware of the greater hunger.

 

The mother hears more words of praise from the chaplain,

She tries to maintain, but the knot of grief grabs her throat.

She sees the two boys fidgeting and looking about

And wonders how she will explain their father to them one day.

 

Her pain is now to a degree she knows as few do

The sword that has pierced her heart can never be removed

In this lifetime, and will stay with her until her own death:

Until then there are three children who must be raised.

 

As Christ hung on a Cross and Mary saw her son taken

So the Holy Spirit could be revealed to the human race,

This mother must protect, nourish, love and kindle

The spirit of these children co-created with her husband.

 

The wind blows and she looks up to see a man and a flag

Telling her how grateful the nation is for her husband’s sacrifice.

She knows now what every warrior’s widow must know,

The truth of his life work that became his mission:

 

His love for her was the reason he was willing to die,

That sacrificial love the reason these children live.

She cradles the baby and flag, takes the boys hands,

Stands and walks, despite the grief, to her destiny and duty.

 

 

November 14, 2017

Arlington, VA



The Female Imperative

 

And this I know

And wanted to say to you

Before I die.

 

Please hear me out

My Dear, Sweet Wife,

Mother of my seven children.

This is my final testimony.

 

With death calling

More times than I can recall or count

I saw your face, your image, your spirit

Before me briefly before each terror

And found then the strength,

The courage, sometimes the very breath

To strike back at the evil, the terror,

That came from the desert.

 

I took up my cross, saddled my horse,

Sharpened my sword and dagger

Reinforced my shield

And joined my soldiers

In the Holy Christian Crusade.

 

Through all the heat, bones, and disease

I saw our flag raised above Jerusalem.

 

Back now in the land of water and crops,

I know I have done my duty with honor

And thought you should know:

 

It is the female imperative that saved us,

That the enemy never knew.








Carrying Stones

 

One by one

Day after day after day

These stones must be carried


Until a wall is built

Against the hordes of jihadists

Beyond the deep sea

And now in the neighboring village.

 

Just as my ancestors carried stone

To secure a few acres to grow

Wheat, barley, vegetables, potatoes

Because everyday life continues

Even when the invasions

And mid-night massacres happen

More frequently

Than God would allow

In a just world.

 

But here,

There is no justice,

Only fanatical jihadists,

And stones must be carried

And walls must be built.

 


We Have a New Life Now

 

We are 9/11

But we are more than 9/11.

We had a physical and spiritual life

Before that day.

And we have a New Life now.

 

As with the innocent 9/11 civilians,

We were murdered that day

By Jihadi’s who sucker-punched

Us with flesh melting jet fuel

And granite stone projectiles

That many think ended our lives.

 

But Americans leave no Americans behind.

Not their wounded or dead bodies,

Nor their memories, nor their stories.

This is why, children, we honor

Chief Army Warrant Officer William Ruth

And  Navy Lt. Commander Ronald J. Vauk

And all who went to work on 9/11

Only to be taken from us due to

Vicious, cunning, murdering Jihadi’s

Who know well their 1400-year legacy

Killing Christians, Jews, Hindus,

Pagans, atheists, or anyone else

Who does not submit, convert, or die

When they strike in Mohammad’s name

To arbitrarily decide who lives and who dies

According to their craven ideology.

 

CWO Ruth, Marine Corps Pilot

Who in Vietnam evacuated the dead

And wounded under heavy enemy fire

Went on to earn a Master’s degree

When he returned from the war.

He taught social studies and history

For 30 years to middle school students

But was pulled from the classroom

In the best tradition of the citizen soldier

To fight in Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

He presided one time as Commander

Of the Mt. Airy American Legion

Before God called him home,

Serving to the last minute

After a life of non-stop service.

 

Lt. Vauk graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy,

Served on the submarines U.S.S. Lipscomb

And U.S.S. Oklahoma City,

Was a supervisor in submarine technology

At the Johns Hopkins University

Applied Physics Laboratory,

And was the Watch Commander

At the Pentagon Command Center

On the phone trying to get jets to scramble

When the Jihadi-hijacked plane

Hit the Pentagon like a cruise missile,

As he served to the last minute

After a life of non-stop service.

 

Hear, children, we both left children behind

But we now preside with millions

Of Saints guarding the Gates of Heaven.

When your faith is weak

Know we stand post guarding

The gates of earth against the onslaught

Of the Jihadi’s who even today

Burn down Christian churches

And continue to rape, oppress and murder

Wherever they can find an opening

To slaughter the Holy Innocents.

Remember always, children,

To cry out to these Heavenly Saints,

Chief Army Warrant Officer William Ruth

Navy Lt. Commander Ronald J. Vauk

And all who have been martyred

In this 1400 year old war, and pray:

“Jesus, help us to know how

To defeat them and their ideology

And be worthy of Your sacrifice.”

 

We are 9/11.

But we are more than 9/11.

We had a physical and spiritual life

Before that day.

And we have a New Life now.

Let us celebrate our New Life together.


Future Dust

"I'll never look like that!"
I said to myself when we were offloaded
from the Lakeland Air Force Base
Officer Training School bus
and heard the upperclassmen
bark orders at us, the arriving class,
and saw the triple rings under their eyes.

Six weeks later, I looked like that
as I stood at the attention outside my room
on Saturday Morning Inspection

(as one upperclassman stood
outside my room looking at every detail
of my appearance for deviations
"Details will save your life!"
repeated by my teachers so often
it is forever burned into my mind,
and another ran over every detail in my room
from the folds in the mattress
to the spacing between my socks).

I broke after they left
to scan my demerits book
aware that so much depended
on my finally bringing those demerits down:
my graduation, the cohesion of my flight, honor,
the future of the United States of America.

And there it sat, like a turd
the inspector left behind
from his white-gloved hand:
"Future dust."

When the inspector returned
for questioning, I fired it right at him,
"What's 'future dust', Sir!?"
"I'd have had a perfect inspection
but for that demerit."

"Come over here, son."
he said in a thick Southern drawl.
He opened the blinds to let in the sun
and pointed at the air.

"What's that?" he said,
a thin grin opening on his face,
all the muscles in his future fighter pilot's body
preparing to press the red button on the joystick.

"Dust, Sir." I stated.
"Wrong, Officer Candidate Curley!
That's future dust!
In a few minutes it will land
on your desk and you failed to prevent it!
Therefore, you Sir, are guilty!
Guilty of letting down your flight!
Guilty of failing to prevent future dust!"
Three demerits. Good-bye!

As our teachers told us so many times,
they were preparing us for war.
Waging war has rules and surprises,
and surprises repeated often enough
become the rules of warfare.

Like future dust,
Or the future dust of a company
that fails to plan for the next bear market,
or the future dust of a family death,
or the future dust of the lack of preparation
for the next war and the deaths that will result,
or the dust of skyscrapers brought down

by fanatical jihadists,

or the future dust we will find

clogging the oxygen filters

of our interplanetary space ships.


So many years later,
I now know they were right.
We all must be eternally vigilant
to prevent future dust from landing,
if we are to have any chance at all
of a life in the space dust of the future.


Lament for American Hands and Hearts

 

A father will not be coming home tonight, or ever.

He was among 45 passengers

On a routine American commercial flight, Flight 93

When terrorists, Satan’s gift to the forces of evil,

Unjust war, pestilence, anger, murder, envy, and all mortal sin,

Slit the throats of some mothers who were stewardesses,

Bound them, sprayed mace at the men, who tried to help,

Herded them into the back of the plane,

Rushed the pilots, murdered them, and hijacked the plane.

 

Nevertheless, this Father Thomas Burnett

Calmly phoned his wife to say,

“I know we’re all going to die.

There’s three of us who are going to do something about it.”

As Mark Bingham phoned his mother to say,

“I just want you to know I love you.”

 

They organized and planned in nanoseconds,

And acted with fearlessness in minutes.

They overpowered the murders before them,

Charged down the 33 rows and 290 feet of 767 aisle,

Kicked down the locked cockpit door,

And 3 unarmed average Americans

Subdued 4 armed, vile, and unclean Bin Laden terrorists

Because they overheard the terrorists plans to turn

The civilian airliner into a war missile

To kill more innocent civilians

In a new kind of war, the terrorists

Decided and stated for decades ago, had no rules.

 

The unarmed Americans fought bravely and well.

They pulverized the puny terrorists who,

Now stripped of their most advanced weapon…surprise…

Cowered beneath the first and fierce counterstrikes

Of many future ones from average Americans

Until we drive these terrorists back to the caves

From which they emerged,

As their caves become their tombs,

As we carry forth the spirit of those who fought and died

Above the Amish Pennsylvania countryside

Who put into practice the ancient Amish saying,

“Hands to work and hearts to God.”


 

Top Secret Clearance

 

Dedicated to John O’Neill

The FBI agent who identified the Al-Queda network

                             And was drummed out of the FBI for making it an issue

And died in the World Trade Center on 9/11

Rescuing others after he got out safely.

 

“They denied

Your top-secret security clearance.

I wanted to tell you before anyone else.

Can you think of anything?

Mental health, arrest record, alcohol?”

My friend who had tried to hire me

On a government contract tells me.

 

“Sure. All three.”

I answer. “I told them all of it,

But it was so many years ago

I thought it wouldn’t matter to them.”

 

It’s a shame.

I could have done a great job for them

Rewriting their horrible

Defense Security Service website

And Employee Personnel Security Questionnaire

So human beings could have actually used it.

 

That’s all history now.

The hollow men still rule.

They don’t believe in redemption

Or that America is the land of second chances.

They have their rules and their rationale

I think to myself, aware my friend is still on the phone.

“I’m grateful for your help. It’s them, not you.” I say.

And put a phone weighing 500 pounds

From the past back in its cradle.

 

Listen well, all you GS4’s and GS5’s

Sitting self-satisfied, taking 2 hour lunches

And dreaming of that fat government pension:

When I attempted to fill out your

Employee Personnel Security Questionnaire

 And clicked the Help button,

The link was broken.

When I sent you an e-mail

Telling you it was broken,

Despite your auto-response that

“I am forwarding your concern

To the EPSQ Subject Matter Expert

To address your concern.”

No one ever responded to my request.

 

Listen well.

When I visit Jihad Unspun

The Jihadi’s gold-plated website,

All their links work fine.

They don’t even have a Help tab.

Their website works so smoothly

They don’t need one.

Some of the $500 million

The House of Saud gave them

Must have gone into their Website

Because it achieves the seamless

Integration your website never does.

 

Even though you hollow men

May set the standards

And rules and regulations

Which keep me and mine

Out of your very select,

Very narrow minded,

And very secret society of mutual approval,

Have never asked me and never will,

I’m going to clue you in.

 

It’s not me you need fear.

I bought into the American system

So deeply I will take the rejection and eat it.

 

Not so the Jihadi’s.

They don’t go through

Two year background checks.

They can know each other

Through a mosque anywhere in the world

And they can join a worldwide network

Of money, passports, safe houses, drivers,

Employers, governments, and cells.


As they demonstrated

On September 11th, 2001,

They are unconventional, creative,

And unlike the U.S. government people

Who oppose them and claim to think

In the cliché “outside the box” way,

The jihadi’s actually do think that way.

Like me.

 

But I’ll never get to fight them

Because I have been judged

To not be inside the box enough

To get to be outside the box.

 

Let me put it to you this way.

If you’re most dangerous nightmare

Were to come true,

The one that causes  you

To stare at the ceiling at 4 a.m.

With bile pouring through

Your gut thinking about it,

 

And it was a matter

Of courage and creative thinking

And unconventional action

That was going to save your ass,

 

Who would YOU

Want next to you

If your next plane ride

Was high jacked by jihadi’s?

 

Who would risk his life

To keep you safe,

That government drone

You work with each day

With the top secret clearance

Who follows all the rules…

Or a high IQ, high awareness,

PTSI "victim" like me?


One of the Great Lessons

 

Because no one

is perfect,

we all learn

to get by,

cooperate,

make do,

use whatever

can be cobbled together

to get the job done

because no one

is perfect.


Songbird Euphonious

 

There’s a songbird that sings

Like a poet, early each morning

For hour after hour

From the highest branch

Of the white birch

In my summer backyard.

 

Years ago, I hung a bird house

Made of a hollow tree trunk

On the back deck that sat empty

Until a sound came from it,

A solo melody so seductive,

All daily worries retreat.

 

Small, too small for even

Fiercer birds like robins or blue jays

To battle with for territory,

It sings, always alone,

An euphonious trill

Long and rhythmic and sweet.

 

I’m not sure if it sings

In hopes of attracting a mate

In praise of a mate long gone,

Just to create beautiful sound

For the sake of beautiful sound,

Or to celebrate the act of creation.

 

But this very act of making sound

So effectively day after day

Forces me to measure myself

Against a standard of devotion

An inch and a half tall

The size of a mountain.



Women’s Work

 

“It took me eleven hours to prepare

your birthday dinner!” my wife says.

 

“Eleven hours…how’s that?”

I ask in a man’s way.

 

“Everything I made was fresh.

And then there’s the clean up.

It was eleven hours!!!”

 

Woman’s work.

Eleven hours out of twelve.

Carrying the flesh seed

To flesh for nine months.

 

Raising the child to adult

Past the rocks in the river.

Creating a man

From a child and seed

The greatest of all women’s work…a man.

 

Carrying the laundry to the washer and dryer

Sorting the whites from the colors,

Wash several loads.

Dry several loads

Iron the wrinkled cloths.

Fold everything and put it away.

 

Shop for the food order.

Load it in the car.

Carry it into the house.

Put everything away.

Vacuum the dirty rugs.

Shampoo the dirty rugs.

Replace the rugs when they’re too beat up.

 

Work a regular job full time.

Carry and bear and birth the children.

Wipe their bottoms and noses.

Feed them nutritious milk and solid food.

Make the babies smile and feel safe.

Organize the family time and destiny.

 

Cleaning the child,

Feeding the child,

Protecting the flesh from pain,

Hurt and the ones

Who would destroy

Their very life,

They save us now

From mosques and caves

Thousands of miles away

And around the corner.

8/12/2021

Masks Unmasked by Doctor Peter Weiss

 

Unmasking Masks

We upended our world with ineffective policies that have unintended consequences
By Peter Weiss
 
August 11, 2021 Updated: August 11, 2021

I admit, I was nervous. I had about 30 minutes before I was needed in the operating room. My patient had active COVID-19, but needed emergency surgery. This was back in August 2020, pre-vaccine and mid-hysteria. I pushed the button for the basement. I hate basements.

As I walked in, the nurse was ready for me. I had to be form-fitted for my N95 mask. Form-fitting is critical for preventing any viral particles from sneaking in from the sides of the mask. I put the first one on. She then had me put a plastic hood over my head and upper body. She hooked up a tube and asked me to let her know if I sensed any bad smell or had any sour taste in my mouth. Within five seconds, I was sick from the sour taste in the back of my throat. She quickly stopped and we repeated the same test with another N95. This time, it took 30 seconds. Luckily the third N95 fit, with no sour taste or smell even after three full minutes.

I was ready.

I donned a form-fitted N95 mask, a bubble suit, double gloves, and goggles. It felt like I was in a bad movie, but this was really happening.

It’s now a year later and what have we learned about masks? Everything and yet nothing.

I was a co-author of a paper on N95 masks that was published in 2007 in the American Journal of Public Health. It was written by my brothers and niece, as well as myself. Yes, we’re all physicians. Dr. Martin Weiss was the lead author. It was titled “Disrupting the Transmission of Influenza A: Face Masks and Ultraviolet Light as Control Measures.”

One takeaway message from that article, which was written during the H1N1 scare, was that N95 masks can block 95 percent of particulate aerosols from penetrating into the mask, and we need to manufacture them now. They can block particles as small as 300 nanometers in size, which could block the COVID-19 virus.

Even though COVID is small enough to slide through the N95, the mask still has dense nanofibers that can catch droplets. In the operating room, it’s the best we have unless we have a full N 100 respirator. Still, the N95 can capture the virus when expelled from an infected person, according to an article published in Nature Medicine in April, 2020.

The sad part is that our call for mass production of these masks back in 2007 went unheeded. We also stated that the goal is vaccines and therapeutics. While we have vaccines, therapeutics are lagging far behind. Even discussing therapeutics is frowned upon now.

Today, we’re constantly bombarded by recommendations and even orders to wear masks when outdoors. Los Angeles County, New York, and St. Louis all are implementing indoor mask mandates—again.

There was a time when we were told to wear them outside, even if alone. I’ve even seen people driving alone in a car wearing a mask.

The problem with the best of intentions is that they can often lead to poor judgment. What constitutes a mask in the setting of COVID-19 restrictions? It’s worth unmasking masks.

Let’s start with N95, as I described above. To be effective, it has to be form-fitted. Not all N95’s fit properly, and they can leak viral particles. They’re actually called respirators, not masks. A mask mainly keeps the wearer from ejecting droplets or spray that affect others. A respirator provides two-way protection and can keep the wearer from catching aerosol particles from others.

There is even a N100, which does what it implies. N 100 can block out the COVID, but good luck wearing it for any length of time. N95 respirators aren’t comfortable, and I have trouble wearing them for long periods of time. You really don’t want your surgeon uncomfortable. A number of colleagues and I have had to stop surgery to wipe our faces and readjust our masks.

Surgical masks are made of three plied layers of synthetic microfibers and extra-fine synthetic fibers, which block out much larger particles, but do a poor job of blocking the much smaller particles associated with COVID-19 viral transmission. The COVID-19 virus is extremely small, 60-140 nanometers, which is 1/1000th of a micron. A paper, “Filtration Performance of FDA-Cleared Surgical Masks,” stated that “The results suggest that not all FDA-cleared surgical masks will provide similar levels of protection to wearers against infectious aerosols in the size range of many viruses.” It was published in the Journal of International Society of Respiratory Protection in 2009.

Surgeons wear surgical masks for two reasons. First, we don’t want any blood or bodily fluid to hit us in the mouth, and second, we don’t want our saliva or drool to spill into the wound. We don’t wear them for viral protection. To be fair, there are a few articles that claim some surgical masks reduce viral transmission, from the person wearing the mask, but that’s assuming that droplets are the main cause of transmission when they may not be. Some believe aerosol spray is the major factor.

Those studies also assume that there’s no leakage from ill-fitting masks, since those were controlled environment studies. Aerosol spray is the extremely small viral particles that an infected person would give off when breathing. Droplets would be slightly larger, but still minuscule, and found in the kind of spray you see in a sneeze or when someone is speaking or coughing. (A side note: Masks with ties are more effective than masks with loops since they give a better seal.)

We hear a lot about “droplets.” Droplets aren’t some raindrop-size spit coming out of a person. Scientists usually mean something less than five microns (1/5,000 of an inch). The vast majority of COVID-19 is spread in much much smaller aerosol spray of 1/1,000 of a micron.

Dr. Kevin Fennely published a paper in The Lancet in 2020, stating that most viral pathogens are found in small particles. This conflicts with the view that larger droplets are responsible for most viral transmission. There have been other studies showing that very small particles (under 5 microns in size) may contain as much as nine times as much virus as larger particles (droplets). It’s also postulated that these smaller particles may be more dangerous, since they can penetrate deeper into the lungs. As a side note, when a droplet falls to the ground, it becomes aerosolized and is still a problem.

Those who believe that droplets are the main source for COVID-19 infections should also then support social distancing, but not the six feet we’re told. To be accurate, it should be anywhere from 18 to 27 feet. No one really knows where this six-foot social distancing “rule” came from. It most likely arose from the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends social distancing at one meter (39 inches). This was based on work by a researcher from 1930 who studied the spread of tuberculosis. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently changed the social distance requirements in schools from 6 feet to 3 feet (slightly less than 1 meter).

So, in effect, we’ve upended our entire world to enact policies with limited impact, meaning that the cost associated with implementing them isn’t offset by the proposed gains.

COVID-19 is bad. It’s absolutely horrible, especially if you’re older and have underlying medical conditions that make you more vulnerable. The good news is that, for most of us, it will only be a mild infection, such as the flu. The chance for a young person under 40 to die from COVID-19 can be as low as 0.01 percent and even lower if vaccinated.

The unintended consequences of the draconian measures from this pandemic are tragic. A recent report by The Well Being Trust says there could be 75,000 more deaths by what is called “death by despair” (suicide, drugs) because of COVID-19. Those 75,000 will be young people, not the elderly. In other words, people who aren’t really at risk from COVID-19.

We’re beset by misinformation and confusing recommendations from our government. Vaccines are amazing, I’m a believer, yet some politicians, such as President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, publicly stated that they wouldn’t trust any vaccine coming out under former President Donald Trump, until they were in charge. Don’t wear masks, now wear masks. Wear two masks, since two is better than one. Vaccines will set you free, until they don’t. Therapeutics that can treat COVID-19 are frowned upon, and you must be evil if you even suggest the possibility. This isn’t a reliable information environment.

How we tell a medical story is critical for success. It’s the way we tell a cancer patient or a surgical patient how we’ll treat them that sets up a plan for success.

And that plan should be based on a rational balance of cost, reward, and freedom. We don’t force a cancer patient to get a treatment that will make them suffer and a similar argument could be made for the vaccine.

Even though I’m a believer in the vaccine, I understand those who aren’t and respect the right of a healthy 18-year-old woman to decline receiving it. For the 36 million people who have had COVID, there’s no need for them to get the vaccine, since they have natural immunity. For how long, we don’t know, but research suggests durable immunity. It’s simple to test and find out if you still have antibodies against COVID-19.

Back in 2007, we suggested that the nation stockpile N95 masks. No one listened. We’re now incapable of manufacturing those masks. They’re all made in China. So now, we can wear a cheesecloth mask, and we’re told that we’re saving our nation.

I personally have no problem with wearing a mask if and when it’s truly needed. It just has to be the right mask, an N95 or greater. And yet, these masks are distinctly uncomfortable and add an additional strain on your system. They make it harder to breathe, or in research terms, impede gaseous exchange. I often have to stop surgery to adjust my mask and “catch my breath,” I’ve been wearing masks for all of my professional life, so it’s easier for me. I’m not everyone, though.

The issue we have is defining when is mask-wearing warranted? Forcing vaccinated people, or those who have recovered from COVID-19 to wear a mask, makes little sense, other than making some people feel more secure. Forcing a 2-year-old to wear a mask is asinine, to say the least.

On top of that, mandates don’t work. The implied new goal of reducing the COVID-19 death rate to zero is unrealistic and will never happen. This is now endemic. If we mandate mask-wearing to “save” lives, then we might as well mandate prohibition, since there are an estimated 95,000 deaths per year from alcohol-related incidents. Many of those are from drunk drivers killing innocent bystanders or passengers. The same argument can be made here. Solutions need to be realistic, not ridiculous.

Our nation should be able to mass-produce something as simple as N95 respirators and distribute them to the nation when and if needed for some future catastrophe. There will surely be more pandemics coming. My point is, if we need a mask, make it something that works.

Cloth masks, or even surgical masks, are like tying a rope around your waist while driving and claiming it’s a seat belt.

It also isn’t too much of an exaggeration to say wearing a Gucci style face-covering, such as Nancy Pelosi has, is like asking an X-ray technician to wear their grandmother’s kitchen apron when taking X-rays.

Dr. Peter Weiss has been a frequent guest on local and national TV, newspapers, and radio. He was an assistant clinical professor of OB/GYN at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA for 30 years, stepping down so he could provide his clinical services to those in need when the COVID pandemic hit. He was also a national health care adviser for Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign.

Peter Weiss 
Peter Weiss
MD

8/08/2021

Prepare: Read the TACDA Journal of Civil Defense

The next issue of the TACDA Journal of Civil Defense will be the 50th Anniversary Issue.
My article The Positives of the Pandemic will be in it.
The TACDA Journal of Civil Defense is an excellent way for you to learn about how to reach and teach your family civil defense.
I made it easy for you because you are Americans.
Go to TACDA.ORG.
Click the Journal tab.
Search.
I spent days loading in search engine optimization terms to make it easy for you.
I spent months identifying old copies of the Journal and uploading them.
Natural and manmade disasters happen daily.
Unlike 99% of Americans, be prepared.
There are patterns in disasters.
Master them, and you can master the disaster!

Bonus: Documents, like the Journal of Civil Defense, are so much more than what most people think. Here is Terence Winch reading his poem Documents that will help you see.

7/19/2021

Honor Role: Why the SEAL Eddie Gallagher's Story Matters

The Story of the Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher

Eddie's story is important because what happened to him in at the hands of a rogue government intelligence agents and their bosses is now being directed at all Americans.

He lists, describes and analyzes all the bad actors (NCIS, Naval Surface Warfare Command, legacy corporate media like National Public Radio and the New York Times, journalists, etc.) who went after him with lies to ruin his life, the life of his family, and as a warning to the war fighting community.

I first heard Eddie Gallagher tell his story on the Sean Ryan show on December 20, 2020. I highly recommend you listen to this interview. It offers great background, especially about the reality of war as Eddie Gallagher and tens of thousands of American warriors have experienced it. The interview is 5 1/2 hours long and well worth listening to.

To help other military service members and first responders who are unjustly accused as he was, he set up the Pipe Hitter Foundation. As described on their home page: "Justice for all. Our service members and first responders put their lives on the line to protect us. Too often, they find themselves in legal crosshairs simply for doing their jobs. 

The Pipe Hitter Foundation is dedicated to supporting these brave men and women, helping them find justice, and reforming a system that too often second guesses our heroes."

For example, in the interview and the book he speaks of a village in Iraq he entered to find children's heads on pikes as a warning to what they would do to captured American soldiers. These are the real combat stresses to which he was subject while fighting for the American people.

His reward was to be falsely accused by young SEAL's who were basically cowards and ingrates.

Creative Innovations Used in the Man in the Arena Book

1. Describing the Events from Multiple Person's Points of View

There are 68 chapters in Man in the Arena, and Eddie's approach is highly creative. 
Rather than writing an autobiography, he shares the chapters text, commentary, observation, analysis, and lessons with his wife, brother, children, fellow SEAL's and Marines who knew and served with him, lawyers, and others.

Result? 

It is a TEAM book written by a guy who has mastered the TEAM lifestyle.

So instead of just getting his perspective, you get multiple perspectives, even including the Mean Girls, pampered Navy admirals, corrupt NCIS careerocrats, and others who sought to destroy him, his family, and independent thinking and freedom among America's top warriors.

2. Using QR Scanner Codes to Find Additional Information

Given the millions of dollars the NCIS spent to persecute, prosecute and attack Eddie Gallagher, his family, friends and SEAL colleagues, the book would have to have been thousands of pages of documentation to provide the evidence.

Rather than providing the evidence of the governments tyranny, authoritarian tactics, and evil intent, there are QR Scanner Codes you can access in various chapters that provide the additional evidence.

Hopefully you figured this out, but I only found out when I listened to an interview with Eddie where he pointed it out.

So, to do a deep dive, use the QR Scanner app on your phone to read the QR scanner codes in the book for additional information and insight.

How I Analyzed The Man in the Arena

This tome is a miracle. It provides a blueprint for how we can save the American Republic from the globalists, traitors, cheaters, careerocrats, communists, socialists, godless, CCP, legacy media and all the cabal that is seeking to destroy the American people and the United States of America. 

We are in a historic fight for the soul of this nation and this book outlines the tactics and terror used by the military, government, Silicon Valley social media giants, cultural, Maoist, academic, media and other Marxists when they have agreed that you need to be taken out. 

They are ruthless and this book exposes their game.

To successfully analyze the deep knowledge, skills, experience, wisdom, instructions, lessons, plans, timelines, receipts and the rest of the tools Eddie provides to all of us in the arena, I used short cuts to help illustrate his work.

My Legend to Analyze The Man in the Arena

There is so much in this book I created a legend (below) to help me understand all that is contained in it to better understand the depth of what he was conveying. If is one approach you may find useful. 

I have read comments on Instagram from readers saying they read it in one sitting. Not sure how they did that, but I found I had to read it in small bites to get all that is contained in it.

I hope this legend will be especially useful to nonmilitary readers. There are many acronyms, terms, sayings and nuance in it that are known to anyone who has served, but not to 99% of Americans. This legend will hopefully assist you in bridging that gap.

A = Analysis
Am = Ambition
B = Breakthrough
CAC = Careerist Coward
C = Christian Faith 
CA = Contradictory Advice
CR = Combat Reality
Def = Definition
FA = False Accusations
FH = Future Hope
FL = Family Love
Fr = Friends
Fra = Fraud
Fu = Funny
G = Grifters
H = Harassments
Hum/V = Humility as a Virtue
I = Intelligence
Int = Integrity
J = Jealousy
MH = Marine Help
Mot = Motive
MSK = Medical Staff Kindness
PR = Political Reality
Pwo = Prison Work Out
SQL = Skilled Lawyer Quoting
Str = Strategy
Sub = Subterfuge
SuST = Survival Strategy
TL = Timeline
W = Wisdom
XE = Exculpatory Evidence

Eddie Gallagher and The Magics

One more quality Eddie Gallagher has is The Magics. 

Among the Irish, someone with The Magics has an extraordinary talent. Obviously, Eddie is an extraordinary warrior. 

His underlings recognized that he had The Magics, and sought to destroy him for it. It was that very quality that caused the jealousy among his subordinate SEAL's that almost cost him life in prison. It is a story as old as the Bible.

When I refer to The Magics, I use it in the Irish sense of have a God-given talent, divine actually, to play music, write poetry, play athletics...whatever it is, that is above and beyond most mortals. 

There are multiple instances in this tale where he exhibits The Magics and they offer great lessons for how to fight Big Brother both passively (submitting when necessary) and actively (fighting against the odds over and over to victory).

Part of the Magics is the deep love Irish Catholics have for each other due to their survival skills created during their 800 years of being enslaved by The Invader. That love is evident in this book between Eddie and Andrea, Eddie's parents, and his brother Sean.

My compliments on his having The Magics.

For example, Eddie was a sniper, a breecher and a medic. He went on multiple deployments to the worst fighting, earned multiple awards for valor, earned Sailor of the Year for Group 1 on the West Coast, rated the Number One Platoon Chief, took the worst-rated platoon and turned it into the highest-rated platoon in Team 7, AND he survived solitary and the full weight of our intel community trying to take him out.

Yes, he has The Magics

The Primary NCIS Prosecutors Charge was Murder

Basically, the legacy media, government prosecutors from NCIS, accused Eddie of being a murderer, falsely, just as they accuse patriot Americans of being "fascists." I address the "fascist" charge below.

Everyone is a Fascist Myth

Those same bad actors that sought to take down Eddie Gallagher, multiplied by tens of thousands, are still out their conducting their nefarious ends. Fortunately, Eddie Gallagher has provided a primer for how to not only fight them, but how to beat them at their own game.

Look no further than the current director of the FBI. While most Americans still view the FBI as that crime fighting organization they grew up watching on TV weekly with Efram Zimbalist, Jr., in fact they are now turning their substantial money, manpower, and highly developed and sophisticated psychological weapons, in cooperation with Silicon Valley Tech billionaires and businesses, legacy corporate media and entertainment  companies to gaslight Christian Americans as "white supremacist's," "racists" and "insurrectionists."

This is a danger to the American Republic, and Eddie Gallagher experienced how horrible and powerful they are when then brought false charges made up by duplicitous underlings to spin a legal base based on lies, cover-ups, false evidence and psychological operations to destroy him, his family, anyone associated with him, and any future warmaker "troublemakers." 

Our ancestors actually fought and defeated real Nazi's, including my MIA Uncle Frank J. Curley
I am disgusted that their actual fight has been reimagined as a fake academic ideology designed to destroy America and Americans. 

Fortunately, the grift has been exposed in books like Man in the Arena and the grift is being defeated.

I grew up in West Oak Lane, Philadelphia in a Jewish neighborhood where some of my neighbors were Holocaust survivors, so I knew about that event from childhood.

Later, while I attended the American College in Paris in 1975, I wrote a paper on the reasoning strategy and techniques of Joseph Goebbels, the mastermind of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry. To do so, I visited Nanterre University outside Paris every Saturday to view original Nazi war documents such as newspapers, posters, papers and movies. 

Eventually, I wrote a Holocaust remembrance poem called This Broken Silence that was published in 1998 called Beyond Lament: Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust. Most of the poets in the collection were Holocaust survivors or the children of survivors. I was one of the few non-Jews included in the work. 

My poem, This Broken Silence, describes the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp by American GI's and the subsequent freedom of the life of the Jewish survivor in America. (I include it below this post.)

All my life, I have studied Nazi's. I know who and what they are and how they operate. I do not fall for the false gaslighting of the Marxist academics, legacy corporate media shills, the so-called Southern Poverty Law Center, CNNABCCBSETC with their gaslighting that, "in the United States of America, Nazi's are now under every bed" nonsense.

For example, read the zine You Can't Punch Every Nazi published in 2017 by a professor at John Jay University in New York City who was allegedly teaching criminal law to New York City police officers but actually gaslighting them at the time. This kind of gaslighting happens on American universities every day. It happened to Eddie in spades.

Or look up the websites this communist professor recommends. Keep in mind he is one of tens of thousands of communist professors in our colleges, universities, community colleges, and public schools these days.

News Idavox http://www.idavox.com It’s Going Down http://www.itsgoingdown.org Submedia http://www.sub.media Unicorn Riot http://www.unicornriot.ninja Crimethinc http://www.crimethinc.com Anti-Fascist News http://www.antifascistnews.net Organizations Political Research Associates One People’s Project Southern Poverty Law Center Rural Organizing Project By Any Means Necessary Redneck Revolt

I say all this because what Eddie Gallagher faced then, and what you face now, was Nazi's going after him and now Nazi's going after you...pretending that you are them.

Eddie's book is a primer on how they do it. The Man in the Arena is an expert survival manual from an expert survivor. Read it and reread it. Underline sections that explain how he survived. Use his knowledge and experience to deal with this current nonsense upside down world. Learn the FAFO philosophy. Maybe purchase a set of brass paperweights to remind you what that means.

Just as they accused him of murdering an ISIS combatant based on false evidence by lying rogue SEAL's, you are accused daily of being a "white supremacist," "racist" and "insurrectionist" based on false evidence by lying rogue journalists, college academics, public school teachers, military and intelligence leadership under the current Administration, Silicon Valley tycoons and their powerful multi-national corporations obeying the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) stated strategic goal of destroying the United States via a race war so we become their bread basket.

Here is a good analysis of how the CCP is influencing the American Mind.
To fully appreciate how far our rogue government intelligence agents and their bosses were willing to go to get him, read his new book The Man in the Arena: From Fighting ISIS to Fighting for My Freedom by he and his wife Andrea Gallagher with Andy Symonds. 

Man in the Arena is pwublished by Ballast Books, Washington, D.C, www.ballastbooks. com. 

For more information, bulk orders appearances or speaking requests, email info@balloastbooks.com.

Backstory

The way Eddie was set up, arrested, denied counsel, prosecuted, put into solitary confinement, denied his Constitutional right to being assumed innocent until proven guilty, harassed, spied upon, had his family home assaulted and his children held at gun point, and all the intel agency personnel dedicated to a war against him, are tactics now being used on the so-called "insurrectionists" of January 6th, 2021 at the U.S. Capital.

And, just as the NCIS misused the Universal Code of Military Justice to entrap Eddie, the FBI is doing the same with Americans who assembled to peacefully redress grievances against their government, mainly about their sovereign voting rights being taken from them.

It has since been reported the FBI had a unit that infiltrated the patriots who protested November 6h, encouraged them to storm the Capital, and made sure the Capital Police stood down and let them go into the Capital building.

Now, if we were not in the upside down, the FBI infiltrators would have PREVENTED the storming of the U.S. Capital rather than instigating it. 

Yet, the FBI organized a war on American citizens to run a psyop that the legacy media and social media ran a propaganda war on the American people to convince them that the patriots were terrorists. 

For evidence of this horror, see Richard Baris at the peoplespundit.locals.com.
One honest news outlet, The Epoch Times, has done and continues to do solid investigative journalism about what really happened January 6th. Do your own research by searching their archives. Here is a start.

In the CCP Hundred Year Plan, they are clear that the United States, Canada, and Australia are to be the breadbasket to satisfy the age old problem of how to feed the Chinese people. 

As the Nazi's Thousand Year Plan included the goal of using the Ukraine's rich farmland to feed the citizens of the Reich, the CCP sees the rich farmlands of the United States, Canada and Australia as a way to solve their centuries old dilemma that rulers in Chine always fall when famines occur. The CCP is buying farmland in all three countries at a frenzied pace. 

Finally, American leaders who care about the American people more than a few extra dollars are actually aware of this problem and are taking steps to mitigate it. See one here.

Just like the NCISFBIDOJCIACNNABSSPLCCBSNBCMSNBDETC has enormous power to destroy families (read Eddie Gallagher's book Man in the Arena for their tactics and power, or just look at the poor grandmothers and grandfathers held without bail in solitary for peacefully protesting on January 6th, some of whom are being beaten and showing up before judges with black eyes) but is a paper tiger, so too with the CCP. 

The young people in China are no longer willing to be slave workers giving all their talent and treasure to the CCP. The legacy media will never tell you these facts and truths, so go to the Family, Tradition, Property website to read Youth Apathy is Communist China's Achilles Heal.

The horror of the pandemic isolation the state and politicians imposed on the American people is mirrored by Eddie's isolation in solitary. As he triumphed, so too will the American people. 
The CCP and their American running dogs are losing. 
They know they are losing.
And they are lashing out.
So much so they even went before the American public and admitted illegal collusion between the Feds and the Big Tech companies to suppress the truth about the CCP virus and in all other areas.
They tried to pull off a 1984-type takeover.
They failed.
Eddie is free and so are we.
Celebrate that with your families.
Laugh.
Enjoy the joy.
Build a parallel world.
Plant a garden.
Have lots of children.
Faith, hope and charity are rising.
And so is Christ.
Always.

This Broken Silence
 
It was the silence that most terrified us.
The silence at night.
The silence at dawn.
The silence of day.

We'd lay down
Pained
At night......forbidden to cry out
Our pain to each other.
 
So.......silently, so silently.....
Each second of the night passed,
Silently, for five years.
 
Steinberg screamed once.
Screamed, "You Nazi scum!!!
Well pay you back someday!!!
Your Reich will last a few years!!!
We've been around millenniums!!!
We'll see who survives who!!!
 
Steinberg screamed this out
In the silence of night.
 
He was executed in the silence of dawn.
 
We learned the lesson quickly.
Every execution from that day on
We viewed in silence.
Cold, black-steel silence.
Cold, gray-dawn silence.
 
Sister Anne prayed once.
Prayed out loud.
Prayed, "Dear sweet, sweet Jesus!!!
Forgive them all! They don't
Know what they've doing to you!!!
 
Prayed it again and again
While a group of old Hasidim
Like a flock of battered sheep
Who were shorn of their wool locks
In frosted dead of winter
Were pushed by the dreaded overseers
Headlong into the concrete ovens.
 
The Commandant
Had the ovens opened mid-burn
And Sister Anne was told
To view the Jewish sheep
Now charred and black
Before being thrown in with them.
 
She was executed
In the silence of day.
 
We learned the lesson quickly.
Every murder we witnessed
From that day on
We prayed, those of us who still prayed,
In silence.
 
Cold, ebony-dazed silence.
 
The Pole was silent once,
But only once.
Commandant screamed, "Give me an answer, swine!
Give me an answer
Or you'll die!"
 
The Pole remained silent.
 
Stared, eagle eyed, determined and strong,
Commandant screamed into the Pole's mouth
 
"TALK!!!  WHO DID IT?!"
 
BAAAAAAAABBBBAAABBAA!!!
WWWWHIRZZBAABDACKUHH!!!
 
GI commando's carbine plug
Found the Commandant's head.
 
Silence cracked all over.
Cracked by bullets of life.
Cracked by guns of love.
Cracked by voices
Gruff with fatigue,
GI voices of Pennsylvania,
Georgia, California, Montana.
Nervously viewing our gaunt bodies
and death eyes
They tried to crack the silence
With their foreign talk.
 
"FREUND!!! AMERIKANISHER!!!
SEE!!! FREUND!!!"
 
"Howzabout a candy bar, buddy?
Hershey's chocolate!
Real good stuff!
Here, have one, man!!!
 
"Who here needs a plug a tobacco?
 
"Watcha'll doin' standin' around quiet for???
Ya'll free!!!  Free, ya hear!!???"
 
The voices spoke to us from everywhere
As the gates swung open.
 
Then these strange tongues
Of liberation, of life, of love
Asked us to state the abuses
Of our tormentors for the record.
 
But all we did
Was stare back in silence.
 
The silence of Steinberg.
The silence of Sister Anne.
The silence of the Pole.
The silence of the Commandant.
The silence of five years
Under the Commandant's rule
Who, dead and bleeding before us,
Even now made sure the nightmare continued.
 
Seven years later,
In a synagogue in Philadelphia
I took an American wife
Because she knew nothing of the silence.
 
Even today,
Here incessant American chatter
Is like life itself to me.
 
And silence,
Like loneliness and pain
Lies buried
With the Commandant.
 
But I know how to speak
With a voice bold and ecstatic
Of life and love
This moment of present
This moment of future
To my children.
 
My voice shouts
To them,
To honor Steinberg,
Sister Anne, the Pole,
and the American GI.
 
It has been resurrected
From our crucifixions,
And from the Chosen voices
Of millenniums past.

Bonus: For a complete understanding of how powerful the CCP is right now, see the most terrifying map in the world. Still, we control their food supply and are a Christian nation, so they will not win.