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🎹 here we go again 🇵🇭 filipino american from new jersey 🇺🇸 based in england 🇬🇧 no justice, just us 🇵🇸 spooky action at a distance ✍🏽 writes between the us & uk: https://monaraewrites.substack.com
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Would they be proud of us, repeating never forget, whilst the people around them are being rounded up for being immigrants, or for having ‘antifa’ sentiments (as if the takeaway of WWII was we should all be pro-fascism)?
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And I also wonder, what would they say today? Would they be proud of us, wearing our poppies during a genocide we have yet to oppose? Wearing our poppies, condemning the refugees of the military industrial complex?
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That they could be called woke as if we should all lack empathy - like giving up your life vest and coming together as different faiths in prayer, or swimming after someone suddenly swept overboard, even though that person is a superior and you were always confined to the lowest rank due to race.
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It has gotten to such a bleak point that these same people who risked, who lost their lives could be called domestic t3rr0r1sts today. That they could be called antifa/anti-fascists as if we should all be rallying around the concept of being proud of fascists and disgusted at its opposition.
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I wanted to share this story on this day because it is an insult to the lives of those who lost theirs, who risked theirs, to erase stories such as this. Black American stories. Immigrant stories. 'DEI' stories.
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Fifty-four days later, on March 23, 1943, he succumbed to the illness in a hospital in Greenland.
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Although the Comanche and other ships rescued a total of 230 men from the Dorchester, nearly 700 others lost their lives. Shortly after David’s heroics, he contracted pneumonia from his time in the water.
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Swanson recalled that David was a “tower of strength” who shouted encouragement to his fellow sailors during the harrowing ordeal. In addition to the two men whom David single-handedly saved, he and his shipmates successfully rescued 93 survivors from the Dorchester.
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David then helped lift a second shipmate, David Swanson, back onto the Comanche when Swanson had grown too weak from helping other men.
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During the precarious operation, the Comanche’s executive officer, Lieutenant Langford Anderson, fell overboard. Without hesitation, David dived into the deadly waters to save Anderson.
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Even though David was one of the lowest ranking men on his ship and his own nation considered him a second-class citizen, he willingly put his life at risk to save his fellow Americans.
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Witnessing the crisis, David and several other men voluntarily climbed down into the lifeboats where they helped lift the shivering men up onto the Comanche’s deck.
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The Comanche’s crew lowered rope climbing nets to the lifeboats, but many of the Dorchester’s survivors were too weak from the cold to climb to safety. Ten foot waves also threatened to toss soldiers into the icy water if they slipped or if their lifeboats capsized.
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Even so, hundreds of men from the Dorchester died within minutes from exposure in the cold water. The men aboard lifeboats faced a similar fate if they could not be quickly hauled aboard the Comanche.
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According to this article by Tyler Bamford: www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...
"The captain of the Comanche chose to ignore the obvious danger of another torpedo attack and maneuvered his ship to pick up survivors.
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Coast Guardsman Charles Walter David Jr. , who was assigned the responsibility of maintaining officers' quarters aboard the Comanche in the segregated American military, volunteered to rescue sailors from the doomed USAT Dorchester and also saved the lives of two of his own shipmates.
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In 'The Sea Is My Brother', he wrote about the Dorchester and those aboard (up until his departure). He wrote of an African-American cook named "Old Glory," whom he befriended but died when the ship sank after the torpedo attack.
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Writer Jack Kerouac of Massachusetts would have been on the SS Dorchester were it not for a telegram he received from football coach Lou Little, asking him to return to Columbia University to play.
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They were Roman Catholic priest, John P. Washington of New Jersey, rabbi Alexander D. Goode of Washington DC, Methodist George L. Fox of Pennsylvania, and Clark V. Poling, of Ohio, minister of the Reformed Church.
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Four interfaith chaplains gave up their life vests to others. As the ship sank, they remained linking hands in prayer.
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The son of immigrants displaced from Poland, and the husband of a Czechslovakian immigrant who arrived at Ellis Island with only some of her family in 1937, my grandfather was, by some miracle, able to survive over 9 hours in the icy waters that claimed the lives of his frozen and drowned comrades.
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www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
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MO is about a Palestinian refugee in the US with his widowed mother and autistic brother. The show conveys both its inhumane immigration system and the humanity of those who are so often demonised by white supremacy. The laughs and cries leave you with a renewed sense of hope.
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Lakehurst - 02/15/25
Lakewood - 02/16/25
Toms River - 02/18/25
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P.S. The soundtrack is also 👌 with Nine Inch Nails, Pye Corner Audio, Aphex Twin, Brian Eno and Clint Mansell.
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Call CASA's raid hotline to report any ICE encounters
1-888-214-6016
Llame a la linea directa de CASA para redadas para informar cualquier encuentro con ICE
1-888-214-6016
wearecasa.org
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"There are many nonprofit immigration attorneys that do not charge their clients".
www.immigrationadvocates.org/nonprofit/legaldirectory/