It’s getting to the point now where I have to talk about it as I truly believe it’s gone too far. When the latest Superman movie removed the words “the American way” from the original slogan, “protecting peace, justice and the American way,” I cringed but blew it off. That’s Hollywood, and everything from there is a product of those people living in a fake and false world.
But as things have continued: California outlawing textbooks from using “mother and father” as it is offensive to some, for example. And of course all the other crap. We are becoming a culture of “victims” and political correctness has gone too far.
Now, no longer is G.I. Joe action figure a U.S. Marine who fights the enemies of the United States. That’s offensive to SOME. So now according to the toymaker Hasbro,G.I. Joe will become an acronym for “Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity”
Big deal, it’s just a stupid doll. No, it’s a part of our heritage, culture, and mythology… actually, not all myth.
The G.I. Doll’s likeness was based on a real marine, a genuine Medal of Honor hero of Guadalcanal.
As Platoon Sgt. Mitchell Paige and his 33 riflemen set about carefully emplacing their four water-cooled .30-caliber Brownings on that hillside, 65 years ago this week — manning their section of the thin khaki line that was expected to defend Henderson Field against the assault of the night of Oct. 25, 1942 — it’s unlikely anyone thought they were about to provide the definitive answer to that most desperate of questions: How many able-bodied U.S. Marines does it take to hold a hill against 2,000 armed and motivated attackers?
But by the time the night was over, “The 29th (Japanese) Infantry Regiment has lost 553 killed or missing and 479 wounded among its 2,554 men,” historian Lippman reports. “The 16th (Japanese) Regiment’s losses are uncounted, but the 164th’s burial parties handled 975 Japanese bodies. … The American estimate of 2,200 Japanese dead is probably too low.”
You’ve already figured out where the Japanese focused their attack, haven’t you? Among the 90 American dead and seriously wounded that night were all the men in Mitchell Paige’s platoon. Every one. As the night of endless attacks wore on, Paige moved up and down his line, pulling his dead and wounded comrades back into their foxholes and firing a few bursts from each of the four Brownings in turn, convincing the Japanese forces down the hill that the positions were still manned.
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In the end, Sgt. Paige picked up the last of the 40-pound, belt-fed Brownings and did something for which the weapon was never designed. Sgt. Paige walked down the hill toward the place where he could hear the last Japanese survivors rallying to move around his flank, the belt-fed gun cradled under his arm, firing as he went.
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When the Hasbro Toy Co. called some years back, asking permission to put the retired colonel’s face on some kid’s doll, Mitchell Paige thought they must be joking.
But they weren’t. That’s his mug, on the little Marine they call “G.I. Joe.” At least, it has been up till now.
Mitchell Paige’s only condition? That G.I. Joe must always remain a United States Marine.
If that is not enough, the new Hollywood G.I. Joe movie has lost the American hero, but instead he is an “Action Man,” or a member of an “international operations team” run by the U.N., of course.
And the villain? Remember, can’t offend anyone. I suspect if Hollywood had its way, the Villain would be some American conservative or something. Arabs, Muslims, or foreign dictators of any stripe these days are OFF LIMITS. Instead, we get a villain who is a double-crossing arms dealer!
Exciting. I say this movie flops big time. But that’s the usual for Hollywood these days.
