This past Saturday was the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings in World War II, to mark the occasion the Sharp Objects Bridge Brigade was back in action with a message of "Honor Vets, Tax Billionaires."
Back during the Great Depression, my grandfather joined the National Guard for 'eating money' while he was going to college to be a doctor. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, his unit was one of the first ones called up to active duty and his eating money eventually took him to see the world, including Omaha Beach on D-Day.
He would end the war the head surgical nurse of what was described to me as the predecessor to a MASH unit, likely one of the Auxiliary Surgical Groups, and after his discharge in 1946 would never again practice medicine.
When the supreme allied commander who'd been in charge of D-Day, old Ike, got hisself elected president, he presided over an administration that built the interstate highway system that this country is still incredibly dependent upon. Eisenhower also taxed those in the top income bracket at a rate of 91%.
You had to be making $200,000 (~2.5 million in today's USD) a year in 1953 to qualify for the honor of giving Uncle Sugar most of it, but with today's billionaires like the current leader of the regime regularly paying nothing (and boasting about it), it suddenly becomes much more clear why all our infrastructure is crumbling.
Judging by the responses of passersby to the brigade's message, I was far from the only one to make that connection.
This coming Sunday is Flag Day, so if the scuttlebutt is remotely accurate, the brigade will be back in action again. Until then, y'all try not to get too arrested.
