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edward w pritchard
As they are clever and have a saying for everything, that is every conceivable situation I am sure that the Frenchmen Rochefoucauld or Voltaire must have coined the terms le chanson de la guerre hundreds of years ago to designate a time when the sitting government and the armaments industries
collude to manufacture a war with imaginary evil enemies oceans away. Le Chanson de la guerre implying with a wink a fake tune patriotically sung to rally hatred toward another culture.
Such seems to be the case now with our leaders as they bad mouth the North Koreans and Iranians
in the song of the times "tweets" designed in the end to promote growth in the armament industries and hence the stock markets and general prosperity.
Those of you who still do- 'please pray for wisdom for our Country's leaders:
Here's what I wrote before on the subject-EWP
Syrian War August 2012, The death of chief Big Foot; Symbolic victim of America's rise to world power/ draft 2
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edward w pritchard
As reported elsewhere of this blog American soldiers of the seventh cavalry carried Chief Big Foot from his sickbed onto the field and shot him when he was suffering with pneumonia at the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890.
Pneumonia is debilitating. Burning deep in the chest and lungs the victim is helplessly weak. Unable to much move. The will collapses in an attempt to buy the system time for miraculous recovery. Meanwhile the body retreats into itself racked with pain and fearing death. A slow demise destroys.
First to the hunt as a boy, honored in battle as a brave and revered as a Chief far and wide Chief Big Foot overcame his environment seeing himself as capable of miraculous accomplishments. Known as an excellent diplomat and negotiator Big foot realistically faced the Native Americans pre-ordained lost causes against the advancing American civilization and urged a defensive strategy based on the sorry facts.
By shooting Chief Big Foot, soldiers merely ended his life a few days or weeks early. A day earlier, unable to walk Big Foot as the White's called him, or Spotted Elk, his Indian name, was dragged by dogs on an Indian travois to the soldiers hospital to surrender. Sadly days later he lay dead, on the battle field, grotesquely frozen. Someone took his picture and history preserved his last picture; un-regal in death.
Mourn Chief Big Foot, a victim of America's Manifest Destiny; it was no way for a warrior to die.
fiction
edward w pritchard
As reported elsewhere of this blog American soldiers of the seventh cavalry carried Chief Big Foot from his sickbed onto the field and shot him when he was suffering with pneumonia at the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890.
Pneumonia is debilitating. Burning deep in the chest and lungs the victim is helplessly weak. Unable to much move. The will collapses in an attempt to buy the system time for miraculous recovery. Meanwhile the body retreats into itself racked with pain and fearing death. A slow demise destroys.
First to the hunt as a boy, honored in battle as a brave and revered as a Chief far and wide Chief Big Foot overcame his environment seeing himself as capable of miraculous accomplishments. Known as an excellent diplomat and negotiator Big foot realistically faced the Native Americans pre-ordained lost causes against the advancing American civilization and urged a defensive strategy based on the sorry facts.
By shooting Chief Big Foot, soldiers merely ended his life a few days or weeks early. A day earlier, unable to walk Big Foot as the White's called him, or Spotted Elk, his Indian name, was dragged by dogs on an Indian travois to the soldiers hospital to surrender. Sadly days later he lay dead, on the battle field, grotesquely frozen. Someone took his picture and history preserved his last picture; un-regal in death.
Mourn Chief Big Foot, a victim of America's Manifest Destiny; it was no way for a warrior to die.
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