[CW] OT: Heartbreaking VOA Sterba Curtain Destruction

Mon Apr 11 22:40:25 EDT 2016

What does this thread have to do with CW???

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:17 PM, James Hull (NEW) <
james.hull at va.metrocast.net> wrote:

> ... kinda in EagleTracker’s corner.  Judging by his one-liner, either he
> has my six or I have his.
>
> I am an American.  Period.  No hyphen required, so no need to bring race
> into the discussion.
>
> My professional studies have taught me that the usage of “globalist”
> themes, similar to the below, are a subtle segue towards a totalitarian,
> one-world government.  No thank you.
>
> Sure… we are all on one planet called Earth.  But it is still
> us-versus-them when it comes to life, liberty, and the pursuit of
> happiness.  Competition is still the greatest innovator and ensurer of a
> better life.
>
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> On Apr 11, 2016, at 7:59 PM, Radio K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For "Eagletracker" (whoever that is)
>
> 73, de Hans KØHB
> ----
> Sailor
> American
> Citizen of "the Pale Blue Dot"
>
> From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any
> particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot.
> That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you
> know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out
> their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident
> religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager,
> every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every
> king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father,
> hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every
> corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint
> and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust
> suspended in a sunbeam.
> The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the
> rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory
> and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
> Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of
> this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other
> corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill
> one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined
> self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the
> universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a
> lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all
> this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save
> us from ourselves.
> The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is
> nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could
> migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the
> Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a
> humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better
> demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our
> tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly
> with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only
> home we've ever known.
>
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 08:32 <eagletracker at reagan.com> wrote:
>
>> *"American World Citizen"???>>Screw your damn Satanic Globalism!!!!*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, April 9, 2016 16:25, "Radio K0HB" <kzerohb at gmail.com> said:
>>
>> I don't accept the notion that the USA has withdrawn from presenting
>> ideas, nor that our culture is in need of redemption.
>>
>> The idea that oppressed people far away are huddled around a clandestine
>> radio with the curtains drawn against observation, listening for news from
>> America, is no longer valid (if it ever was). The towers at VOA had no more
>> audience.
>>
>> My father emigrated from Russia as a child with my grandparents, grew up
>> on a 80 acre farm, married, worked that same crappy 80 acres and raised a
>> big family, died young (57). Four of his sons spent a collective 56 years
>> in uniform, most of it induced by mandatory conscription, otherwise known
>> as "the draft". I wasn't a professional Sailor, but I played around at it
>> for 21 years, and a did good enough job to earn the rank of Master Chief
>> Radioman (E9). Got me off that crappy rocky farm.
>>
>> Now I'm an old man, and my great-grand-kids (yes, I have 4 of those)live
>> in a culture so rich and advanced that my grandfather growing up could not
>> have imagined it even in his grandest dreams.
>>
>> My grandkids distant cousins in Russia can communicate instantly with
>> their counterparts here via handheld devices that would seem magic to even
>> my father and mother. The need for a national propaganda engine like the
>> VOA has faded, as American ideas and German ideas and Chinese ideas and
>> Bolivian ideas and Micronesian ideas flow across cultures, not from
>> government propaganda offices, but from the personal experiences of free
>> citizens sharing their real-life dreams, triumphs, and yes, disappointments
>> and setbacks.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> H Hans Brakob
>> American
>> World Citizen
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 10:15 Michael Zolno <luv.myipad3 at me.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Very true; I don't think anyone here would argue that point. All of us
>>> are moving to a state of entropy. At least the materials can be reused in
>>> this case.
>>>
>>> My take was more of how I mourn the reasons behind VOA's (and
>>> ostensively America's) withdrawal from presenting the ideas and concepts
>>> that made us both good and great. Dropping these towers/antennas are but a
>>> symbol. If there were ever a time when the world needed a standard bearer,
>>> one only needs to look at how much the various nefarious forces have grown;
>>> now would be a good time. I can't speak to how we have gone about that in
>>> the last few decades because I have been a part (albeit a small part) as a
>>> professional soldier. So I long for some renewal and possibly some
>>> redemption, unfortunately do not see these returning anytime soon. I cannot
>>> fathom how those here whom are older than me (49 shortly) experienced the
>>> change of our complete culture.
>>>
>>> Completely agree with your statement though.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>> > On Apr 9, 2016, at 12:13 PM, Radio K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Old worn our cars are recycled, old worn out ships are scrapped and
>>> recycled, old useless radio towers are scrapped and recycled.
>>> >
>>> > I can't find any heartbreak in that.
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