Memorial Day Card From Reilly

 Thank you to all of those whom gave their lives in the service of the USA

Reflecting on this somber day

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#WoofWednesday and #ThrowbackThursday: Meeting “Great Mom-Mom”

 PS “Great Mom-Mom” (z’l) would have been 94 today on the Gregorian calendar.

#SweetSunday & #SentimentalSunday: Happy Gotcha Day, Reilly! (Part One)

 

#SillySaturday: Mushyface!

 

Commentary: Indeed, Joe Biden Can’t Keep His Lies Straight!

 As a person on Facebook succinctly put it, Joe Biden got caught in another lie that he just could not keep straight. I replied with a shorter version of the following, though I will certainly hash it out here (including because of Joe Biden’s vile Anti Semitism, partially because the actual coal miners who I am about the explicitly mention may still have been in shtetlach—or at least not Crypto Jews gone from bad to worse positions in the United States—if they didn’t have to deal with Anti Semitism like his in their own day): 

Indeed, Joe Biden can’t keep his lies straight—and this one (that is, that his salesman father was a coalminer) is really bad, as many actual coalminers either died partially due to conditions exacerbated by Black Lung or even Black Lung itself, or died in the mines. Among those miners were of my relatives, including two of my great-great-grandfathers whom left children under the age of 20–and one’s children were all under 18 at the time. One of those children would sadly eventually succumb to Depression that caused him to have a suicide attempt from which he may have been saved had his lungs not been compromised.

The first great-great-grandfather was Michael Gaydos, and his son Michael (my father’s maternal grandfather) was only 16 (and the youngest child was not even a teenager) when his 44-year-old father died in a “mine accident”. He had to pass as a Hungarian and then a Slovakian, and he came here alone at 14 years old in hopes that he might join a brother whom immigrated here—being far from home (the shtetl that he secularly called “Galszecs”) away from home (Israel), having to pass as gentile, and then having to work as a day laborer and then a coal miner was not what he wanted to do in life—and he certainly had no plans to die in a mine accident and not be buried among his own people (He was buried in a predominantly-gentile Catholic cemetery). 

The second was my great-great-grandfather Julian John Felix Czarnecki (originally Czerniecki). I have written about him extensively, including how he had to leave Lipsk for Shumeve (which he gave as “Someve” or “Sumeve”) after he became a Crypto Jew (his doing so severing ties with his parents whom had returned to traditional Judaism). He never planned for the Farber-Kogan Incident to be exploited by the perpetrators of the Belostok Pogrom, let alone for himself to have to join his brother in a small town called Sugar Notch (where both would eventually die and not be buried among their own people) as a result. He eventually became a Lipsker-farmer-turned-Pennsylvanian coal miner whom died when a “sudden fall of rock” killed him in the Sugar Notch mines. 

The oldest of Julian’s children was my father’s parental grandfather, a first- and second-generation pogrom survivor (He was born shortly after the Farber-Kogan Incident and had to be in Sumeve, not far from Belostok, until he was three). He turned 18 a month after his father died, and his surviving siblings—some of whom would go on to work in the coal mines, as would he—were the following ages: 13, 12, 10 (and 11 just under two months after his father died), nine (just having turned so weeks before his father died), seven, five, two, and just over eight months. He had already been working in the silk mills to help his parents provide for his family overall; and now he’d have to help his widowed mother provide for quite a few children whom were still in elementary school (Some, including he himself, had either only reached or just graduated middle school before they had to drop out of school altogether.). He eventually would move on to becoming a coalminer and getting Black Lung as a result—and that in addition to the mining industry being severely affected, a lawnmowing occupational accident in New York, and Depression and PTSD caused him to have an unfortunately-successful suicide attempt from drowning that he actually attempted to abort—and he’s buried in a cemetery in which one can’t even leave stones on matzevot (as you may have guessed, a predominantly-gentile Catholic cemetery—never mind that Jesus was, and I believe Is, Jewish; right, St. Mary’s 🙄?).

He, his father, and his son Jack’s in-law grandfather—as far as I can tell—would therefore all have been upset to hear that a privileged gentile salesman’s son lied about his father’s background—and claimed that he’s Philosemitic when he’s actually Anti Semitic while he’s at it (and they would’ve been unthrilled to hear that he demanded that Israel initiate a ceasefire with a group whom is trying to Anti-Semitically murder the entire House of Jacob, both in the Land of Israel and in the Diaspora. They would have strongly supported Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas; and I have reason to believe that at least two of them would in the first place not have voted for a guy whom touted the U.S.’ “good relationship with ****** until he invaded Poland”—they would have been disgusted that he touted that relationship as if it was supposed to be a good thing at all, not to mention that he’s never apologized for doing so.).

(PS A word to St. Mary’s Cemetery in Hanover Township: Mary was Jewish, too—at least allow the people whom brought what became the Catholic Church the Gospel to leave stones on matzevot .)

#ThrowbackThursday: Reilly’s “Mlem” Check

 

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#MaltipooMonday: “ I won’t wear my leash, though she can’t wear it!”

 

#FlashbackFriday and #FluffyFriday: Jealous and Sneezy

 

Update On the Roobear