Wannabe

 Unfortunately I am not privy to the facts of Ground Forces Command located at Fort Bragg, NC.  What I know is this.  There are flurries of activity which include a multi-million dollar charter jet often which flies into Grannis Field.  Often it flies directly over my house, and in the last week it had been watching me.  That sounds absurd and insane.  Delusional comes to mine.  Who could suggest such a thing, that they would be of interest enough to merit aerial surveillance by some group?  There are many aircraft, and as a high profile military base this is to be expected.  Before Base Realignment and Closure, BRAC for short, decided to close other bases and combine them here at Fort Bragg, the aerial activity seemed normal.  82nd Airborne drops, deployments of heavily loaded planes, and now the practicing of drone pilots.  One lives right next door to me.  A few years ago during the Obama era, drones came to the forefront.  They need to practice somewhere, so why not Fayettenam?  Now I am being surveyed and ostensibly intimidated.  I have written unkind words about the railroads before in many Letters to the Editor of the Fayetteville Observer.  I do not like the railroads one bit, and I am a model railroader.  More succinctly I am not a fan of AC traction of which no one knows a thing.  AC what?  A red wave almost re-elected Donald Trump the the presidency without understanding what he is about.  He is a skilled front man.  Fronting is what he does best.  He fronts the Trump Organization, and this bullshit is what has built his business.  Anyone who has taken the time to read, listen, and understand his tactics understands he is dishonest.  That may not bother the red wave.  Honestly in life in my mind is the most important thing for humanity.  It is the ultimate responsibility, one we are implored to adhere to each and every day.  I may sound delusional, but I am honest.  I tell the truth, because even in a pitted and painful way the truth ultimately will set you free.  It now seems like that may be in a different life, one after life on earth.  Damn.  I am not ready to throw in the towel, kick the bucket, or give up.  I have things still to do, mainly because I am not doing much of anything now.  That isn't true, but what I am doing is not in my chosen field of interest.  I would like to continue producing music like I have my entire life.  This past year I had to stop making music for a large portion of my life.  It was spent keeping tabs on the presidential election ensuring potty mouthed Donald Trump would not again be re-elected the leader of the free world.  My prayers were answered, and I do feel a bit of relief, but it is not over yet.  When Mr. Trump became President the quality of life of my town declined.  There was a direct relationship between the election of Donald Trump and the military industrial complex which exists in close proximity to my home.  Never did it seem an issue before.  We get rocked by the Marines when they bring their big guns.  We witness and feel every deployment, because the families of deploying soldiers surround us.  How can we now pay attention to the military?  We do, because like honestly it is a requirement to live here.  Often I wish it weren't required.  I myself did not chose to be a military man, although I have no bias or animosity against those who do.  My grandfather was a full bird Colonel in the United States Army and served in World War l.  (That was the first world war, on horseback)  My father also was a corporal in the army band in Germany.  What is going on at Fort Bragg to me is suspect, and certainly they have buttoned up their activity like a finely sewed gunnery jacket.  They have built a billion dollar access road and put railroad tracks underneath the soil.  They hauled so much dirt out of there, you could have built a mountain in the Sand Hills.  A look at any Google map will show you most of it, except for the underground mechanisms.  Who knows what goes on out there?  In the last week or so, the machine has been raging.  Even in the midst of a deadly pandemic killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, the trains have begun running again and the military industrial complex is hard at work doing something?  What would it be?  Whatever it is it is tangible enough to merit the firing of our Secretary of Defense and a quick rebuke from the Chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff, General Mark Milley.  It was on the front page yesterday this covert operation involving the Pentagon and Department of Defense.  It has been reported in the news that Trump is selling arms to Saudi Arabia to the tune of three billion dollars.  This package includes drones, F-16 fighter jets, and other munitions.  The red wave ignorant of most things would never have payed attention enough to have learned that while Osama Bin Laden may have propagated the 9/11 attacks on the twin towers in lower Manhattan, it was the lower Saudi royals who were responsible.  This is the United Arab Emirates of which I am speaking, the same country to whom our president is selling arms.  This is transpiring in his last ten weeks of the presidency while his only public duty has been saluting a wreath in memory of fallen soldiers.  This gesture so highly is inappropriate, because Donald Trump never served in the United States military.  Instead he dodged the draft.  Saluting now, although inexplicably he has become the Commander on Chief, is not appropriate.  He does not deserve to salute anyone, and his gestures are a mockery of all Americans.  He is a child in front of the television set, and his complacence, narcissism, and irreverence to his presidential duties is an abomination.  Now he is trying to make a quick buck on his trip out the door.  Donald Trump should have been forcibly removed from office months ago, because he successfully was impeached by the United States Congress.   The seediest corrupt contingency in existence led by Mitch McConnell allowed him to stay, and the lives of Americans, their blood, is on their hands.  Period.  Let's watch Trump stick his hand in the cookie jar the same way Hank Paulson did through George W. Bush.  We could not be much more gullible lead by an ignorant red wave of maverick, cavalier, Trump wannabe's.  Where are the Spice Girls when you need them?