Frank Buckles
Dread & Awful Czar,
Today flags were flown at half mast in memory of Frank Buckles, the last WWI vet.
When you ask the average man on the street of al Mikkeh the reason for the flags at half mast, they’ve said,”for all the folks in Japan?”
We need to bring civics back to the classroom.
Reporting from al Mikkeh.
Dr. J.
Ehhh. The Czar is not too harsh on this: the press did not make a very large deal about Mr. Buckles’ passing—and while the Czar usually looks for reasons to hate popular media, it seems that he wanted to pass his time quietly. In a more ironic twist, the Czar thinks that President Obama made more news of this that anyone else, ordering flags at half mast and having him lie in state at Arlington National Cemetery. And since no one pays attention to the President anymore, it should be no surprise that most Americans are unaware that we lost a very important player in our history.
Here are two interesting tidbits about Frank Buckles most folks did not know:
- He was the son of a Confederate soldier. That can happen when you are born in 1901, and your dad is still lively.
- Although he escorted prisoners of war home at the end of World War I, he himself became imprisoned throughout World War II as a civilian, by the Japanese. He was captured as a employee of a shipping company in Manila, and held for three horrific years.
It seems strange to the Czar that there are no American veterans of World War I to be found. Anywhere.
So we forgive people not knowing about this. That said, there are many other reasons to bring civics back into more classrooms. Here in Muscovy, by the way, civics and community is taught from first grade on up.
Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.