20 thoughts on “QotD: Lt ST to Parents”

      1. No, but that’s ok. I am a cafeteria Catholic: whatever I say, goes, and what the Church says is irrelevant. I say that your mother is a Saint, so she is. That is my religious belief 🙂

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      4. Catholic Church and culture says, via Chaps: Your mother is a *living* saint/saintly – that’s how you got to be our ST…Easy-peasy. 🙂

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  3. So Simon, you were telling your mom you would evade capture? Or that you would never let yourself be taken ALIVE?
    I hafta say I cant imagine having such physical courage. I’ve always been kinda protective of my Sister Jenny (that’s what I call my body, Y’know, like St Francis called his body “Brother Ass”, which in his case woulda been Jack, in my case, Jenny..) and I think that’s one of the big male-female issues. After all our female bodies are the cradle of the species. God bless the warriors!

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    1. “Or that you would never let yourself be taken ALIVE?”

      This because of II article of the military code of conduct: I will never surrender of my own free will. If in command, I will never surrender the members of my command while they still have the means to resist.

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  4. Mindful of two events today: the 77th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, and the celebration of the gift of the Eucharist/Lord’s Supper (the Solemnity of Corpus Christi) to sustain/empower/uphold Christians in living out their faith in daily life. Both events are for me sources of hope, strength, and resolve: Semper Fi!

    (P.S. The JBP post should drop in the next day or two. Stay tuned.)

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  5. Re-reading this post, I must add that if I were your mother, I’d believe you! Even I wouldn’t want to mess with you and I usually shy away from no one. 🙂

    That’s why you attract the Ettes and others don’t.

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      1. God Bless tough old school country girls! How insane do young modern women have to be to think that they are stronger and tougher than older women?

        Like most men, my father tread carefully around the issue of feminism, but he never for one second allowed me to entertain any delusions about being tougher than older women. He spoke of his mother with awe. Once, when he was talking about her and others of her generation, he shook his head, and he said “Those old Irish girls were so tough.” Then he looked at me with love, and he said “They had to be.”

        Even the wealthiest, most pampered women of past ages faced the very real possibility of death with each pregnancy, and they gave birth with no pain killers. Even the most spoiled women of the past were so much tougher and so much stronger than we are today.

        My Dad never criticized or condemned me for not being as tough as older women: there is no way to replicate the circumstances that made them as tough as they were, and we wouldn’t want to even if we could. It’s ok to not be the toughest woman who has ever existed. Why do so many younger women want to be something that they can never be? Why do their parents allow them to entertain these insane fantasies about being tough?

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      2. Even the wealthiest, most pampered women of past ages faced the very real possibility of death with each pregnancy, and they gave birth with no pain killers.

        Interesting that you mention this. I’m reading a biography on Jefferson right now and it was a wonder the human race managed to survive. In the 18th century, women had a 50/50 chance of surviving labor and the odds that their infants would live to their first birthday were even worse. Doctors didn’t correlate the lack of sterile conditions with death.

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      3. I took classes at UMass 20 years ago, before they became totally woke. Even then, they were very liberal, but I was surprised by how humane they were at that time with the people of the past. Our professors acknowledged that men were often-not always, but often, possibly, not as sensitive with women as men are today, and adults were often not as sensitive with children. But while acknowledging this, the professors never let us forget that by middle age, lots of men were on their third wives because the first two died in childbirth-and if wife number one or two was lucky enough to still be around, chances were, they had lost at least one and probably more than one child. Nowadays, we think it’s normal for women to live longer, but it wasn’t normal back then.

        How are you supposed to feel about a wife whom you know could very probably die young? How are you supposed to feel about a child that you could very possibly lose? Yeah, ok, in lots of instances, the people of the past were not as nice as we are, but their lives were so tough. Liberals used to know this, not so long ago. They used to actually teach it in their schools.

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      4. Sorry to go on like this, but one more thing 🙂 It’s bad enough when feminists denigrate their own female ancestors, but it becomes even more of a problem when rich, spoiled feminists in places like America start claiming that they are the strongest women on earth, living today. They seriously believe that they are stronger than women in places like Saudi Arabia. They believe that they can teach women in third world countries how to be strong. And for reasons I will never understand, men who ought to know better go along with this insane idea, and feminism ends up having a huge influence on foreign policy.

        This insanity has to stop.

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