"For Country and Glory"
No keffiyeh-wearing scum can efface the nobility of the American soldier
On 29 September 1918, American soldiers of the 27th Division, II Corps, First Army, American Expeditionary Force, spearheaded an attack on the German Hindenburg Line. The US troops were under British command for this operation, and it was hoped that their freshness and elan would break open the German defenses, clearing the way for British and Australian forces to exploit the breach.
The attack, though successful, was costly. In two days, the 27th Division suffered 3,076 men killed and wounded in action. The division’s 107th Infantry Regiment, 1,662 men strong at the beginning of the battle, lost 396 men killed and 753 wounded.
The 27th Division was formed with units of the New York National Guard. Its 107th Infantry Regiment originated as the 7th Regiment of the New York Militia, nicknamed the Silk Stocking Regiment on account of its socially exclusive membership. As a militia regiment it served during the Civil War, though not in combat. When called into federal service in 1917, it received a 100-series designation as the 107th Infantry Regiment. After arduous combat service in France during the First World War, it reverted to reserve status in 1919.
On the eve of America’s entry into the Second World War, the regiment was converted and redesignated as the 207th Coast Artillery (Antiaircraft) Regiment, serving in the Pacific theater. Postwar, it was reorganized as an infantry regiment, serving as such in the New York Army National Guard until it was inactivated in 1993.
The 107th’s heroic First World War service is commemorated by a memorial in New York City at the intersection of East 67th Street and Sixth Avenue in Central Park. A bronze sculpture group by Karl Morningstar Illava, who’d served as a sergeant in the 107th in France, depicts a group of American Doughboys, as soldiers of that war were nicknamed. The memorial was dedicated on 29 September 1927, the tenth anniversary of the battle in which the 107th offered their country so costly a sacrifice.
On Monday, May 6, 2024, a mob of “anti-Zionist,” i.e. antisemitic, terrorist-supporting po-mo fascists, desecrated the 107th Infantry Regiment memorial as a display of their solidarity with the Palestinian cause. They disfigured the memorial with despicable graffiti and that Nazi rag, the Palestinian flag. And just to make sure that we all got the point, they burned an American flag on the pavement in front of the memorial.
Well, yes, we got the point all right. If the rat bastards who pulled this crap are at all representative of the Palestinian cause—then screw that cause, for the last thing our troubled world needs is an independent Palestinian state full of genocidal lunatics.
My father, who served with a B-17 flight crew in WWII, passed away in 2019 at 95. He would’ve celebrated his 100th birthday last month.
I still deeply miss him. But there are times when I’m thankful that he didn’t live to see this stuff. This is no longer the country for which he risked his life.
Thank you for the history lesson—those brave soldiers should never be forgotten. The desecration of their memorial is despicable. It’s representative of the evil of the Hamas supporters.