Good Bye G.I. Joe

by John Ruskin

Just when you thought the anti-American, Hollywood PC crowd couldn't target any other part of our history, they go after G.I. Joe.

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[Mark Rhoads]

John, my late mother Mary Gurrie Rhoads was a free-lance writer and a reporter who researched this story and I have seen articles in good sources that agree with her version. She wrote for American Family Magazine during the war and was later Vice President of the Illinois Women's Press Association.

Her version was that the term "G.I." for "government issue" was widely used during that war by both the Army and Navy as well as the Marines. Somehow the phrase "G.I Joe" became popular to describe enlisted ranks in the Army and Marines who fought on land but not so much for sailors even though Marines are part of the Navy Dept.

As far as anyone knows, the national media picked up on this phrase fairly late in the war. It was during the Republican National Convention at the Chicago Stadium during the first week of July 1944. Mayor Ed Kelly used the same building also for the Democratic National Convention just three weeks later. Congresswoman and later Ambassador to Italy Clare Booth Luce (R-Connecticut) was married to Time publisher Henry Luce. She gave a major speech to the GOP delegates in Chicago in which she referred to "G.I. Jim" who was the dead buddy of "G.I. Joe." The speech was covered on national radio and hundreds of newspapers and magazines and the phrase "G.I. Joe" that possibly first came to Rep. Luce from Europe became very popular slang in America. It was also a little more respectful for enlisted men than "dog face" that sometimes referred to infantry soldiers.

I do not know how or why Hasbro Toys specifically wanted or got the image of Marine Col. Mitchell Paige on their action figure named "G.I. Joe" but the phrase pre-dates the doll by at least 25 years.

[caldonjah]

Yeah, language, borders, culture, that is what the marxists want to destroy,there by effectively remove anything to stand or fight for.

Our country is worth fighting for to preserve it's identity we are not perfect,but we are all we have,so they try to destroy our self image and our perception ofwho we are or rewrite our history to be something it isn't.

The G.I.'s are an extension of us not some
pencil necked hiding under the desk punk that will not stand when called they are the few the strong the brave and honorable.