Jerry Miskulin – 6/9/2019

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Who would you want in a foxhole with you?; Jerome Francis Miskulin (JM); Beaver County Times; June 9, 2019.

I encourage you to review Mr. Miskulin’s body of work in the archives. Mr. Miskulin has written at least 100 letters since 2004 (I didn’t critique all of them.). Most (all?) are illogical and full of falsehoods (not just wrong).

Mr. Miskulin expressed displeasure with the tea parties (here and here), proclaimed “Rush Limbaugh is a propaganda minister,” and told us “Tariff is the best way to reduce deficit.” Mr. Miskulin’s most recent letter I critiqued was “Labor becoming less valued.”

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“You got drafted into the Vietnam War. You are thousands of miles away from home. The only friends you have are the members of your platoon. Then the Tet Offensive breaks out and the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong are overrunning position after position. You happen to wind up in a foxhole and you start praying to God that your life be spared.”

[RWC] Contrary to JM’s version of history, the 1968 Tet Offensive was the largest military defeat of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) during the Vietnam War. Even Marxist.org concedes, “the Tet offensive ended in the destruction of much of the NLF infrastructure in the South. This was a heavy blow. After the Tet offensive, the regular North Vietnamese army did most of the fighting against the U.S.”

Thanks to fake news of the day, however, you would have thought U.S. forces lost big. I don’t mean to say we should have stayed the course in Vietnam, only that we need to be careful when consuming “news.”

“Who would you rather have jump into the foxhole next to you: John McCain or Donald Trump? I don’t know about you, but I surely would pick John McCain. It would be an indication that God was looking out for me.

“In war there is no time for silly games. One false move and you’re dead. Yes, John McCain is a war hero.

“He fought in a war that we couldn’t win. His whole story will never be told. In my world, we never speak ill of the dead. In President Trump’s life there runs a common thread in some things he just can’t get is through his head.”

[RWC] JM’s memory could be failing. From 2006 to 2014, JM wrote at least 13 letters bashing President Reagan. How many letters did JM write about John McCain? Zero, as far as I can tell.