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Hubie King: An Arlington Story

 

It is one of the most awe inspiring sites you’ll ever see. As you cross the hill all you see in front of you is a sea of white grave markers going up down to the bottom of the hill and up the next hill as far as the eye can see. This is Arlington National Cemetery. Among those grave markers you will find presidents, generals, astronauts, and other famous VIPs from our nations history. Those graves represent a small percentage because the vast majority are just ordinary soldiers. Men and women who went to war to defend our country and the freedoms it represents. We have all witnessed a military honors funeral. They are all moving and all are patriotic and richly deserved by those who receive them. To experience the same ceremony in our nations cemetery is truly all inspiring and humbling.

 It starts at the family center at the top of the hill. An honor guard, in this case the Air Force honor guard, carries the coffin out of the family center building.  The American flag draped casket is placed on a horse drawn gun carriage. If the veteran was cremated there is a coffin that the urn fits inside. 

The color guard form up and take position at the head of the column. Behind the color guard is the Air Force band. Marching orders are given and the color guard and band lead the procession through a small section of left and right turns as you circle the family center and begin to start down hill.

Air Force officers ride on the horses pulling the carriage. Riding behind the carriage in the first car is my sister, her brother and sister in law, and her grandkids. I was in the second car. 

As you leave the family center the road curves to the right and you go around a small patch of grass that has some graves inside of it.  Standing at the head of one of the graves was a gentleman in a VFW hat that had Korean War on it. He was holding his hands and head bowed in prayer and when he saw the flag draped coffin go past he turned to face the coffin and did the sign of the cross in a prayer. He did not know my brother-in-law, but said a prayer for him all the same.

 

 Leaving that little traffic circle at the top of the hill you go start to go down a beautiful winding road through the trees. During the spring, summer, and fall this drive is splendid with colors. This ceremony took place in March so there were not the colors but the beauty of the wood
and the sun and sky shining through them more than made up for the lack of color.
 

You go up a small rise, and then drop over the crest of the hill. As you go down the crest of the hill your vision is full of this field of white grave markers. It covers your perspective from every angle, even your peripheral vision. It is hard not to get a lump in your throat when you see the vastness of these grave markers stretched before you. As you drive down the hill the band in front is playing a selection of patriotic songs and those celebrating the Air Force.

As we drive down the road there is a family of four that is visiting one of the graves. The parents are clearly standing and paying their respects while the two younger children are running around and playing as kids do. The kids could not be more than six or seven years old. As our caravan approached, the parents gathered the little boy and little girl in front of them and when the gun carriage with the casket approached the parents covered their hearts with their hand the two little kids did the same. Then the little boy took his hand and saluted the coffin. Much the same as John F. Kennedy Junior did when his dad's casket passed him during the funeral for the president. They did not know my brother-in-law, however they honored him just the same.

Towards the bottom of the hill you have to turn to the right and go up a small rise to get to the gravesite. We turned right for the procession to stop at the gravesite. Standing on the road  at the corner there were two men, probably about the age of Desert Storm veterans, wearing "chocolate chip" desert camo  and their service hats. They moved to the side so as to not block the procession and snapped to attention and gave the casket a salute as it passed in front of them. They did not know my brother-in-law, but they honored him all the same. 

Arriving at the gravesite the honor guard and band go to the left while the family heads to the right. Behind the family cars game the dignitaries and people who are speaking. An honor guard removes the box/urn of my brother-in-law's ashes from the carriage while fellow officers salute. They then joined the rest of the honor guard that acted as pallbearers and they proceeded to the gravesite. 

 

The urn (or casket if not cremated) is placed on a stand above the grave and the honor guard unfold and stretch an American flag over the deceased. 

 

 When everyone was assembled the band played a short song, I’m sorry I don’t remember what it was, and a list of my brother-in-law‘s accomplishments were read. This included several combat missions over Vietnam and winning the Distinguished Flying Cross. There were some kind words spoken by members of the Air Force and friends and family. When they were finished the 21 gun salute shots echoed across the hills and graves.

 

The Air Force band played one more time. There were some closing remarks and the honor guard folded the flag over my brother-in-laws grave. They presented the flag to my sister in honor of a grateful nation. The presenting officer gave the flag and my sister a final salute. The military dignitaries and guests came over to my sister and her family and offered their condolences. 

 

 

 

Arlington lies in the flight path of one of the Washington DC airports. During the whole service airliners were flying over. Some of us thought that was a nice touch since my brother-in-law was a pilot. My sister joked that he would have made some joke about why couldn't they bury him under the flight line for the fighter jets since that is what he flew.   

As the dignitaries moved on to their cars, the band and honor guard began to march away in formation to go back to their bus that was waiting for them down the road.

After the honor guard filed out and people were leaving the gravesite I noticed that one member of the honor guard stepped forward and saluted the casket. He stood there and held at salute for five minutes. 

I don’t know how many other people paid attention to him however it was what I felt was an extremely significant symbol of respect.

He was not distracted by anything or anybody and no one approached him. At the end of that five minutes he ended his salute did a sharp about face and quietly walked off down the road by himself. He did not remove his cap or act in anyway like his job was finished. He just silently marched down the road. I watched him go. The road was empty of people. The other band members and honor guard were already on the bus. He was the last one to the bus. At the doorway he paused. Turned and looked back at were we were gathered, removed his hat and got on the bus. He didn't know my brother-in-law. I don't know if he was ordered to perform the final salute, volunteered to do it, or that was the role he was chosen to play in the ceremony. No matter the answer, it was the final look he gave towards my brother-in-law that I felt honored him all the same.

Arlington National Cemetery is a powerful and humbling place. It melts the hardest of hearts and makes the most stoic shed tears. Thanking these ordinary men and women that gave their all to defend our nation and the freedoms we enjoy seems like not enough of an action when you stand among them. Yet a simple thank you is more than what many of these individuals ever expected. To have a member of my family among lying among them is an honor I can't quite find words for.

To all the veterans that served. All those that came home, and those that didn't; I just want to say THANK YOU.

Ev

Hubert G. King, Jr. Obituary

Hubert Graham King, Jr. (Age 79)

Of Annandale, VA passed away December 8, 2012, peacefully, at home. He is survived by his wife, sister; three children; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

  

 

 

Install PayRange on Huebsch, Primus, IPSO, Speed Queen Small Chassis Washers

If you have a small chassis washer from Huebsch specificially, or Speed Queen, IPSO, Primus in general; here is how you can install a PayRange blue key device.
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A Heck of A Nice Guy 

Andrew W.K. is a singer for those who have not heard of him.
He wrote this article in 2014 and it has made its way around social media over the years.
I've written articles about not talking politics at work, but he frames it in a way that covers our life outside of work. You may have had situations like this with your family or friends.
Remember they are people too on this election day.
Thanks Andrew W.K.
Ev

Ask Andrew W.K.:
My Dad Is a Right-Wing A**hole

by Andrew W.K.
August 6, 2014

Hi Andrew,
I’m writing because I just can’t deal with my father anymore. He’s a 65-year-old super right-wing conservative who has basically turned into a total asshole intent on ruining our relationship and our planet with his politics. I’m more or less a liberal democrat with very progressive values and I know that people like my dad are going to destroy us all. I don’t have any good times with him anymore. All we do is argue. When I try to spend time with him without talking politics or discussing any current events, there’s still an underlying tension that makes it really uncomfortable. Don’t get me wrong, I love him no matter what, but how do I explain to him that his politics are turning him into a monster, destroying the environment, and pushing away the people who care about him?

Thanks for your help,
Son of A Right-Winger

Dear Son of A Right-Winger,
Go back and read the opening sentences of your letter. Read them again. Then read the rest of your letter. Then read it again. Try to find a single instance where you referred to your dad as a human being, a person, or a man. There isn’t one. You’ve reduced your father — the person who created you — to a set of beliefs and political views and how it relates to you. And you don’t consider your dad a person of his own standing — he’s just “your dad.” You’ve also reduced yourself to a set of opposing views, and reduced your relationship with him to a fight between the two. The humanity has been reduced to nothingness and all that’s left in its place is an argument that can never really be won. And even if one side did win, it probably wouldn’t satisfy the deeper desire to be in a state of inflamed passionate conflict.

The world isn’t being destroyed by democrats or republicans, red or blue, liberal or conservative, religious or atheist — the world is being destroyed by one side believing the other side is destroying the world. The world is being hurt and damaged by one group of people believing they’re truly better people than the others who think differently. The world officially ends when we let our beliefs conquer love. We must not let this happen.

When we lump people into groups, quickly label them, and assume we know everything about them and their life based on a perceived world view, how they look, where they come from, etc., we are not behaving as full human beings. When we truly believe that some people are monsters, that they fundamentally are less human than we are, and that they deserve to have less than we do, we ourselves become the monsters. When we allow our emotions to be hypnotized by the excitement of petty bickering about seemingly important topics, we drift further and further away from the fragile and crucial human bond holding everything together. When we anticipate with ferocious glee the next chance we have to prove someone “wrong” and ourselves “right,” all the while disregarding the vast complexity of almost every subject — not to mention the universe as a whole — we are reducing the beauty and magic of life to a “side” or a “type,” or worst of all, an “answer.” This is the power of politics at it’s most sinister.

At its best, politics is able to organize extremely complex world views into manageable and communicable systems so they can be grappled with and studied abstractly. But even the most noble efforts to organize the world are essentially futile. The best we can usually achieve is a crude and messy map of life from one particular vantage point, featuring a few grids, bullet points, and sketches of its various aspects and landmarks. Anything as infinitely complex as life, reality, and the human experience can never be summed up or organized in a definitive system, especially one based on “left or right,” “A or B,” “us or them.” This is the fatal flaw of binary thinking in general. However, this flaw isn’t just ignored, it’s also embraced, amplified, and deliberately used as a weapon on the very people who think it’s benefiting their way of thinking.

Human beings crave order and simplicity. We cling to the hope that some day, if we really refine our world view and beliefs, we can actually find the fully correct way to think — the absolute truth and final side to stand on. People and systems craving power take advantage of this desire and pit us against each other using a “this or that” mentality. The point is to create unrest, disagreement, resentment, and anger — a population constantly at war with itself, each side deeply believing that the other is not just wrong, but also a sincere threat to their very way of life and survival. This creates constant anxiety and distraction — the perfect conditions for oppression. The goal of this sort of politics is to keep people held down and mesmerized by a persistent parade of seemingly life-or-death debates, each one worth all of our emotional energy and primal passion.

But the truth is, the world has always been and always will be on the brink of destruction. And what keeps it from actually imploding is our love for life and our deep-seeded desire not to die. Our love for our own life is inextricably connected to our love of all life and the miracle of this phenomenon we call “the world.” We must give all of ourselves credit every day for keeping things going. It’s an incredible achievement to exist at all.

So we must protect and respect each other, no matter how hard it feels. No matter how wrong someone else may seem to us, they are still human. No matter how bad someone may appear, they are truly no worse than us. Our beliefs and behavior don’t make us fundamentally better than others, no matter how satisfying it is to believe otherwise. We must be tireless in our efforts to see things from the point of view we most disagree with. We must make endless efforts to try and understand the people we least relate to. And we must at all times force ourselves to love the people we dislike the most. Not because it’s nice or because they deserve it, but because our own sanity and survival depends on it. And if we do find ourselves pushed into a corner where we must kill others in order to survive, we must fully accept that we are killing people just as fully human as ourselves, and not some evil abstract creatures.

Love your dad because he’s your father, because he made you, because he thinks for himself, and most of all because he is a person. Have the strength to doubt and question what you believe as easily as you’re so quick to doubt his beliefs. Live with a truly open mind — the kind of open mind that even questions the idea of an open mind. Don’t feel the need to always pick a side. And if you do pick a side, pick the side of love. It remains our only real hope for survival and has more power to save us than any other belief we could ever cling to.

Your friend,
Andrew W.K.

Everet's September 2024 Laundry Newsletter

 

Everet's September 2024 Laundry Newsletter Wisconsin usually has nice fall seasons. Lets hope for the same this year!

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A Heck of A Nice Guy

Politics Does Matter in Business

I know that I've written before that politics is something you don't want to talk about with clients.

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Having said that please understand that elections still have a huge impact on businesses and hiring.

September and October is the time of the election year when job recs get put on hold, sales contracts are held up, and things kind of halt for a few weeks.

The points below are lessons I've learned over the last 25 years meeting with thousands of companies of all sizes and shapes and run by people of all backgrounds and beliefs. They all have the following in common when it comes to hiring and politics. These findings apply no matter who is running, who wins, when the election day is, and if the race is local, statewide, or national.

1. All companies have operation plans set up deal with whoever wins

In an election year all of the above slows to a crawl once September starts. Decisions are put off until after the election. Everyone gets gun shy about who might win. People panic and think the world will end immediately if person X or Y gets elected. They hedge their bets and wait to see who wins. Smart companies have plans on how they will operate if the plans of elected official X or Y get implemented. There is also a matter of actually seeing if a person will govern on the same promises they ran on. Remember candidates run in primaries to attract the extreme of their parties. Once they are the nominee they run to the middle in order to appeal to the most voters. Companies know this and shouldn't get too excited about the hype in the commercials played by the candidates or their opponents.

How they govern once elected is what makes the uncertainty for the company.

It's logical. Companies don't want to commit to package A that will benefit them if the polices of official X gets elected but will not benefit if official Y gets elected. So they have to wait and see who wins and how they will govern so they will not have wasted a lot of time and money.

2. New hiring usually gets put on hold

Every November of every even numbered year we have an election for 1/2 of the congress and every fourth November for president.

Hiring and buying decisions always start to go on hold in September or October.

Companies don't want to hire people only to see the policies of candidate X or Y causing them to fire those people a few months down the road.

September is usually a good month for hiring because everyone is back from summer vacation, school starts, college kids leave their summer jobs, the Christmas retail season starts reving up. In odd numbered years these good times usually last through October and sometimes later as retail hiring picks up as other hiring slows down. Companies will still hire to replace key positions but during this time the process usually takes a little loner even for essential positions.

3. Companies might play it safe and hold the rest of the budget to see what happens so they don't spend as freely

Companies still usually have a chunk of budget available and can commit to a package for equipment or a person before the end of October or even up to Thanksgiving and through December if it is an annual contract or something that is required for business. In an election year they might decide to wait a little longer for anything else before making the decision. See point one.

4. Companies hate uncertainty

Regular elections cause enough uncertainty.

Recall elections, special elections, elections held outside of their normal times confuse and frustrate businesses and hiring because of the uncertainty of what is going to happen. 

In Wisconsin during 2011-2012 we went though two years of recalling every elected official and judge possible because one party or the other was ticked off.

Companies didn't know what to do because as soon as one election was over and companies thought they knew what was going to happen, another group of recall elections were scheduled for another group of politicians and that brought uncertainty back immediately into the market. Instead of signing contracts or hiring people, decisions were put off until after the elections again.

5. Decisions by activist judges impact companies create confusion

According to what I learned about the branches of government in social studies back in grade school, the judges of the judicial branch interpret the law (congress makes them, the executive branch enforces them). Judges do not make the laws and are supposed to be impartial.

Unfortunately we live in a world where judges are now biased toward one political party or another and that colors their interpretation of laws. 

As an example look at Act 10 passed in Wisconsin (I'm not going to recount what the bill was about except to say the debate about it caused a lot of turmoil for everyone in Wisconsin but in the end benefited greatly the organizations that used it). The bill was passed and there were protests. A Madison judge struck the law down. There was a period of uncertainty while the bill made its way through the courts. When the bill was declared constitutional by the Wisconsin Supreme Court and then the US Supreme Court and made legal, businesses acted based on that law. A year later another Madison judge struck down the law again. Employers and businesses who acted under that law while it was legal suddenly don't know if they have to reverse what they did during the time the bill was legal. In 2025 the law is back in front of the Wisconsin Supreme Court because elections swung the political balance of the court opposite of what it was 13 years ago. It's a confusing mess. 

Companies execute their business plans by these rules. Lawsuits are filed by people against the rules. Judges suspended those rules. Now companies don't know if they should continue to play by those rules or go back to the old rules. 

What do they have to do about employees hired under new rules? If the new rules are found to be legal, then what does a company have to do about people hired under the old laws that they had to revert to following the invalidation of the new laws but before the new laws were declared legal again? Confused? 

So are the companies because now companies don't know if they should still follow the rule of law as it is currently or do they wait until the court rules. In the meantime contracts are held up and people aren't put to work.

6. Confusion reigns again and slows down hiring and buying decisions

As salespeople and recruiters we have to plan for uncertainty in election years and understand that they will effect our sales and hiring no matter what you do.
That there will be uncertainty during election times is the only certainty you can count on. You will get frustrated waiting for people to make decisions. Count on it.

The above thoughts are those of mine and are only observations and not meant to be an endorsement or implication of any political party, leaders, candidates, or anything else so don't imply that they are.

Wow. What does it say about our political climate that I even have to write that?

Go Vote!

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