No COVID restrictions this holiday season, but we have come up with a different way to slow things down.
Welcome Home Troops.
In The News
In a real War on Terror, real newspeople would ask:
What keeps the terrorists of the GWOT from creating a disruption at the back end of the airport security screening line?
TSA – Newspeople Refuse To Ask
Armed Forces Recruiting – 1980s
Part of what made it work:
In past decades, people could do time in uniform, then return to the US with a feeling that they were living in the best country on the planet.
They believed it and their parents and grandparents believed it.
Those who did may have wished to hand down a better version of the modern American society to their kids and grandkids.
Today-
Standards have deteriorated. The troops return to an ongoing breakdown of society.
Both major parties have taken turns in power over the past 40 years or so. For sure, there is a chunk of public policy that has become worse, not better.
Emergency/crisis/chaos mode is what we get now.
Free chow for Armistice Day will make it all good.
Ask A Recruiter
Army closes only dining facility on Kansas base due to government shutdown
Patty Nieberg – Task & Purpose
Nov 5, 2025
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Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays