Who Has the World’s Largest Army?

Just in case you haven't seen this before. True story and most people will never know it.

Here's an interesting side bar. After the Japanese decimated our fleet in Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941, they could have sent their troop ships and carriers directly to California to finish what they started. The prediction from our Chief of Staff was we would not be able to stop a massive invasion until they reached the Mississippi River . Remember, we had a 2 million man army and war ships....all fighting the Germans. So, why did they not invade?

After the war, the remaining Japanese generals and admirals were asked that question. Their answer....they know that almost every home had guns and the Americans knew how to use them.
The world's largest army...

America 's hunters!

I had never thought about this....
A blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of states and arrived at a striking conclusion:
There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin .

Allow me to restate that number.
Over the last several months, Wisconsin 's hunters became the eighth largest army in the world. More men under arms than in Iran .
More than in France and Germany combined. These men deployed to the woods of a single American state to hunt with firearms, and no one was killed.

That number pales in comparison to the 750,000 who hunted the woods of Pennsylvania and Michigan 's 700,000 hunters,
All of whom have now returned home.

Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia and it literally establishes the fact that The hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world.

The point?

America will forever be safe from foreign invasion with that kind of home-grown firepower. Hunting -- it's not just a way to fill the freezer. It's a matter of national security.
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That's why all enemies, foreign and domestic, want to see us disarmed.

Food for thought when next we consider gun control.

Today, I traveled from my brother’s in Lawrenceville, GA, to Conway, SC for my friend Carolyn’s granddaughter’s wedding. For the most part, the trip was uneventful, except for the rainstorm when I was about 25 miles from my destination. At times, I could barely see the road because of the rain and the water bein sprayed up on the windshield.

It’s always nostalgic for me to go to South Carolina. I drove on I-20 right past Camden, SC, where my family used to go to visit my uncle Paul and aunt Lillian and their family. After we were married, Mark and I stopped by their house whenever we could. They’ve been gone for years, but I still have vivid memories of my aunt Lillian frying chicken and bacon. Her bacon was the best. She always got it sliced thick with the rind on. I’ve not been able to find any like that anywhere. And my uncle Paul had more fish stories and deer-hunting stories than you can imagine.

My cousin Jones and his wife Nel still live in Camden and I’ll get to see them when I attend their younger daughter Paula’s wedding next month.

I finally finished The Rembrandt Affair and am looking forward to reading my next book.

Well, I think it’s time for a much deserved nap.

Until next time…