Jenny, We Hardly Knew Ye!

Ol’ JoKe has reversed Trump’s ban on people enlisting in the military with the express purpose of voluntarily undergoing maiming and amputation, at the taxpayers’ expense!

Yup, now, again, we have to pay to entice the “service” of “soldiers” who are recovering from major surgery AND who will require expensive pharmaceutical support for the rest of their days due to the effects of that surgery and the major suicidal depression to which the majority of such amputees are prone!

The line, “Johnny, we hardly knew ye” is sometimes used to evoke the pathos of a man dying too young, but there were many such songs back in the Olde Countrie, and they were ANTI -recruiting songs: DON’T take the shilling, DONT kiss the book! You’ll end up horribly maimed, crippled and disfigured. That’s why his friends “hardly know” Johnny, he’s so horribly changed by his war wounds. “ ‘Y’ haven’t an arm, y’havent a leg—/ The king is grateful to you!/But ye’ll have to go out on the streets to beg!’ Oh, Johnny what’ve they done to you? “
England didn’t introduce conscription until WW I, so its forces depended completely on recruitment.

Well, in the US Armed Forces (after a brief foray into sanity and reason under our Don). it is now, grace à Prez Joe-Bama, once again the norm for Johnny to enlist with the primary goal of having military surgeons amputate perfectly healthy body parts !

Jo- er, sorry: Jenny, we hardly knew ye!