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This is a link, an article on US Army general who won the US Medal of Honor for serious bravery. 

https://www.cmohs.org/news-events/medal-of-honor-recipient-profile/charles-calvin-rogers/

Long story short, his firebase in Vietnam was attacked, several waves of soldiers and howitzer fire. Then Lt Colonel Rogers rallied his troops through all of it, at one point manning the guns himself and suffering nasty wounds as he moved throughout the base. 

Frankly, the only reason he got that medal is because this country has nothing higher to give. No ultimate bad ass clusters or knighthood with property.

So. 

Quite properly, the government and the military are proud of these people. You can find information about MOH winners all over the place. 

Including the Department of Defense website.

Here's a link showing many pages devoted to them. 

And here's what you get when you try to find General Rogers. 

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/

The url leads to a page not found error. 

Look at the url again. Rather than /medal-of-honor etc?

/deimedal-of-honor etc. A page that doesn't exist. 

Trump's administration has knocked him off the site by labelling this medal of honor winner a diversity equality and inclusion winner. 

Or, to be as clear as possible, he's been cut because he's a nigger. 

Doesn't matter what sambo does, y'all. We can't have people setting them up as equal, let alone better than whites. 

Deny it if you want, realllly. Offer a better explanation. This is real, this is something this administration is doing.

I've said it before, I'll say it again. This is a bunch of racist autocrats, for whom the electorate is eagerly turning back time. 

I'm in a frothing rage. Lots of people are over this, and there are many other similar examples... Of this government actively erasing the multicultural, multi national history of this nation.

I've thought that this administration would end in blood. I'm sure of it, now. They're trying to push too many people back into the shadows and their closets. Trying to take their health and their savings. Trying to take their parks and freedom of speech and movement. 

Gunfire is coming. Bombs are coming. It's going to be violent and ugly. And as was the case in the 1960's and the 1860's, all the wrong people will get the blame. And no one will learn shit. 

A Yellow Melamine Dansk Mixing Bowl

My mother likely bought the bowl in the early 1970's. Fairly certain we've had it since we lived in Sioux Falls.

Extremely useful bowl, in the then popular Danish modern style. In the fifty years its been in the family, it mixed innumerable cake batters and doughs, dips and crusts. Lots of bowls of buttered popcorn, and played utility for cleaning messes. 

It's held floor mop water, animal wastes and a fair amount of vomit. 

It's done sponge baths and cleaning water and, most recently, drinking water for dogs. 

Took it all in cheerful stride. Always available for a job. Always under the sink or up in a cupboard. 

Cleaning out my dead parent's house, the family home since 1973, it's one of the very few things that I sought out. 

That first year I made everyone fruitcake. Staying up for a couple of days straight to bake and mix and wrap the little bastards in cheese cloth before their month long brandy soak... They were mixed there. The cheese cakes mom baked, lots of chex mix. All my memories of cooking, really, are part of the goddamned bowl.

Which, today, started to leak. 

It's gone utility senile. Not at all fit for what it was designed and made for. Or for any of the thousands of things that it has done, for so long, for my family. 

Throw it out? It's just a broken tool, a bowl that cannot be used. 

I'll drink your favourite child's blood before that happens. 

I'll use it to hold my kitchen tools, I think. Replacing the various cannisters. I'll probably do it tonight, a suitable retirement. 

Not yet. For a little while, it can just rest. With the gratitude of a lifetime's use embodied.