I went into a public-‘ouse to get a pint o’ beer, The publican ‘e up an’ sez, “We serve no red-coats here.” The girls be’ind the bar they laughed an’ giggled fit to die, I outs into the street again an’ to myself sez I: O it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, go […]
Tommy by Rudyard Kipling — ST Unleashed!
Tommy by Rudyard Kipling — ST Unleashed!
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The perspective is much better for Pentagon’$ top brass, especially the DoD civilians (GS and contractors) but uniformed obvs also.
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“Tommy” is Everyman; perennially true in every time, place, and circumstance. Truth will out – and prevail.
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Everyman, I think, feels no responsibility whatsoever to carry any of the burden of national defense above and beyond paying taxes of which something less than a nickel of every dollar goes to ‘Tommy.’
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Everyman, in the classic sense – the one who *takes* all the hard knocks – *is* “Tommy”, to me. Not the one living in the penthouse suite. People of the Anglosphere all used to have a bit of “Tommy” in them, didn’t they?
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