Next week, we received some depressing information. One of my best pals ‘ mother passed away. As a fellow of a certain age ( child of the’ 80s ), parents passing, unfortunately, is becoming a regular occurrence.
Karen was 82, with brain abscesses and additional health problems. Her physicians had informed her that she actually had a ticking time bomb inside of her mind. So, we were n’t always surprised to learn that she had died suddenly, but we were greatly saddened.
When nice, kind people check out of Hotel Humanity, it always seems like the sun shines a little less beautifully. Unjustly, it appears that the sun is even dimmer when we lose a real hero in our life. And Karen fought tirelessly for the Kittle reason for reasons that were not completely clear to me.  ,
Karen talked extensively about the parents she previously knew and how she was looking forward to meeting him in heaven in recent years. One of the bloodiest wars of World War II’s European campaign resulted in the death of her father, a staff sergeant in the Army’s renowned 88th Infantry Division, the Blue Devils.
The Army- typed victim list is longer and amazing. Harry O. Wells, from the rolling hills of west Wisconsin, was a pretty young gentleman when he died fighting on a hill in Italy known as Monte Battaglia, or Battle Mountain. His 350th Infantry Regiment was given the honor of unusual fortitude.  ,
Seven Bloody Days:
Like so many of the Greatest Generation’s younger men who served in World War II, Wells had a promising future in store for him. Before entering the company in December 1942, Wells had attended aerodynamic school in Lincoln, Nebraska, and worked at an aeroplane plant in Cleveland. His appealing life was severned a long way from home.  ,
The team soldier’s last week on world was spent holding off German soldiers in northeastern Italy’s Tuscan–Emilian Apennines mountain chain.  ,
” For seven times, amidst powerful attacks, the people of the battalion repulsed each attack with fighting ability and teamwork, consequently, their aim was accomplished”, an entry in American War Memorials Overseas sums up the brutal battle in military term. However, there was a horrible price for the Allied victory.  ,
The 88th” had feeling it was once again going into combat,” according to the Army Historical Foundation, which describes the anxious days leading up to the great battle. The Blue Devils attacked on Sept. 10, 1944, enduring army fire and “rainy, warm and unpleasant” conditions at the front. In” some of the heaviest battle that fall,” they marched through dense mud and water.
” While studying the Allies to figure out where to start his principal attacks, Field Marshall Albert Kesselring, the German captain, held his reserves in preparing for a shock counter- attack”, the foundation records. The 350th Infantry was attacked on top of Mount Battaglia on September 28 by members of four European groups. The Blue Devils held the crucial position for seven terrible days while reversing every rape.
” They had won the battle, but not without great cost — nearly fifty percent of the 350th were killed, wounded, or missing. For its noble element in the fierce battle at Mount Battaglia, the 2d Battalion, 350th Infantry, earned a Distinguished System Citation”.
Karen’s parents, with a partner and 2- year- older daughter waiting for him, was among the some who had come home in a casket.  ,
A’ New Birth’ in Greed
We come to mind the many tales of dedication that the men and women who thus devoted their lives to their region during its most difficult times on Memorial Day weekend. We mainly pay tribute to active service people, like Staff Sergeant. Harry Wells, who “gave the next whole measure of passion,” as President Abraham Lincoln so beautifully stated in his Gettysburg Address.
Lincoln addressed the importance that the life had in order to maintain that” these dead may not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, may have a new conception of independence,” and that “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not suffer from earth.” In his brief but ever-resonant remarks, we must remember that.
In my mind are the millions of American freedom fighters who have fought for democracy, despots, and totalitarianism in almost every corner of the world over the past century and a half. I ca n’t help but think about how much of what the union soldiers worked for, for which Harry Wells and many other Blue Devils died, is disappearing or gone in contemporary America.
Our government of the people, by the people, for the people, is perishing before our eyes thanks to leaders who put power before individual liberty. The founding principles that made this God-bred nation deserving of fighting and dying for have been replaced by personal identity and selfishness.  ,
The United States faces a crisis in military recruiting. There are many reasons for that, but the most important one is a lack of confidence in the country’s leaders. When the Pentagon is more interested in pushing an LGBT agenda than in preparing soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen to fight, confidence is a diminishing commodity. When a commander in chief regularly denigrates the country he is supposed to be serving, it’s difficult to ask young men and women to risk their lives to defend it.  ,
And how do you fight off an army of defenders of democracy when many of your young people have been falsely taught that the powerful and “privileged” are the prisoners of the oppressed? The self-taught campus brats who are incredibly defending terrorists, tyrants, and genocide have taken the place of the freedom fighters of the Wells generation.  ,
How confident do you think the younger leftist-indoctrinated Americans will or will support America in the face of another world war?  ,
We must face the selfishness of the present as we recall the brave soldiers who gave their lives during conflicts in the past. We’re stocked with DEI- fed social warriors, we’re dangerously short on USA- centered citizens like Harry Wells. We should accept that fact sooner rather than let this world be destroyed because we have valued it and many people have given their lives to protect it.  ,
Matt Kittle covers The Federalist’s senior elections coverage. An award- winning investigative reporter and 30- year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
