Project 100,000 and the Genetic Condition
he Project 100,000 and the genetic condition gave the Army the right to draft my husband. The genetic condition did not matter despite that soldiers need to function in order to combat the enemy; on land, in the sea, or air. Project 100,000 was satisfied that men were ambulatory and could speak.
After he finally got a job with the Department of Defense at Fort Dix, a determined nurse found something in Clem’s eyes that was disturbing. She kept checking and found the already destructive levels of glaucoma that
were never diagnosed before or were intentionally ignored by army doctors after he was drafted. There was a history of glaucoma in his family. Clem’s father was directly affected. He lost an eye per the shoddy work of a doctor on St. Thomas. When Clem asked if he was going to sue the doctor, his father’s reply was, “No. I have to live here.”
I should think that vision is quite important when one is an infantryman. My thoughts were on how could I find out who examined my husband. Where were the records of the doctor’s notes per what he found during the examination. It was in the 1960s. I was certain I would not find anything that would help prove that they knew of my husband’s visual condition and they ignored it.
For some reason, I was pulling up war history websites. Typically, websites appear that are in common with one’s searches. I had no searches of this kind before. They were interesting. I saw air planes, a phenomenal range of aircraft that made the taking of Syria’s crude oil transparent. I copied and pasted a lot of articles with the addresses.
One of the articles was about Defense Secretary Robert McNamara’s idea to boost the number of soldiers during the Vietnam conflict. The article entitled “Project 100,000: The Controversial Recruiting Program of the Vietnam War”
written by Clare Fitzgerald, published on January 7, 2022, opened with: “As the war in Vietnam raged on, the United States military began to run low on men willing to enlist and serve abroad. To increase the number, the Department of Defense launched Project 100,000, a controversial program aimed at recruiting those individuals who’d previously been denied because they fell below medical and military standards.”
Several months after writing this, I had this sudden feeling that was how personnel are selected for the United State's law enforcement sector.
Spiritual elevation that included my mother; brother, and my beloved husband, Clem.
Project 100,000 was spawn during Lyndon Johnson’s administration. It took two years to convince Congress to approve it. The project was to enlist 100,000 men per year. Same article:
“By 1966, it was evident the military was desperate for new recruits, and thus leaders relented to Johnson and McNamara. In August of that year, McNamara went before the Veterans of Foreign Wars to unveil his plan –
named Project 100,000 – which aimed to recruit draft rejects and “substandard” volunteers from “poverty-encrusted backgrounds.”
This paragraph was telling. My husband was drafted for the Tet Offensive. I came across another article, “How the Tet Offensive Shocked Americans into Questioning if the Vietnam War Could be Won:" ”Turns out, the US had made one miscalculation after another.” (Written by Matthew Dallek, updated February 22, 2019, originally published January 25, 2018 at History.com.)
My husband and I spent the day in Hope, Pennsylvania in 1993.
Poverty-Encrusted Backgrounds
This was a program to accept fighters who fell “…below medical and military standards.” This program “…aimed to recruit draft rejects and “substandard” volunteers from “poverty-encrusted backgrounds.” Mentally challenged men; physically challenged men, and perhaps emotionally challenged men were put on the front line of a conflict.
Clem in his hooch in Thailand.
Within those quotes are key words. “Poverty” is a code word. New information about Johnson was that he’d get drunk, run around the residence naked and scream, “Nigger!” to Black White House employees. Prior to that, it was known, within closed doors, he would freely say the word among his cabinet. They all knew how he felt. Black men were “swept” up in the draft.
When my husband appeared at an army recruiting office, the sergeant said to his Black face, “We are doing our part to cleanse the inner cities.” It did not matter what maladies any of the men had; they were going regardless.
My husband disliked the movie “Saving Private Ryan.” Sending an officer as a messenger to carry word that other inducted siblings were killed never happened to a Black man. The Department of Defense had a sole-survivor directive so that families did not lose all of their sons. After several cases of this happening, the DOD created the sole-survivor policy.
As far as I know, all of the cases involved white men. Now, what appears as intentional was that my husband had no brother at all, but he was drafted nonetheless. Such concern was shown for families to continue their lines, however, my husband was drafted. He told me very few stories of his experiences there but he did share one. There was another Black man he knew who had a brother, also drafted. That brother was killed in action. This man was allowed to accompany the body back home and to attend the funeral, however, he was to report to duty as soon as it was over. So much for concern about all family lines across the board. It was specific. The “sole-survivor policy,” created in 1942, over twenty years before my sole-son-husband was drafted, also known as “Directive 1315.15 Special Separation Policies for Survivorship,” was selectively applied to white men.
This is the way of our life now. Clem's consciousness is here. It is him without his body.
The code word “poverty” is associated with people of color, the people those in power only want to work and not ask questions. Merriam-Webster dictionary has thirty synonyms for poverty. Mental conditioning leads the mind to “Black’ “Negro”, and “Nigger.”
From the African American Registry:
“The Vietnam War was the first American war in which black and white troops were not formally segregated, though de facto segregation still occurred. American troops arrived in 1961. “Blacks were more likely to be drafted than whites. Though 11% of the US population in 1967, African Americans comprised 16.3% of all draftees. Most African Americans drafted were not conscripted, with 70% of black draftees rejected from the Army. Project 100,000, which helped dramatically increase US troop presence in Vietnam from 23,300 in 1965 to 465,600 two years later, sharply increased the number of Blacks drafted. By lowering the education standards of the draft, an estimated 40% of the 246,000 draftees of Project 100,000 were Black. Some activists in the US speculated that the uneven application of the draft was a method of Black genocide.
“Blacks were starkly under-represented on draft boards in this era, with none on the draft boards of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, or Arkansas. In Louisiana, Jack Helms, a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, served on the draft board from 1957 until 1966. In 1966, 1.3% of the US draft board members were Black. By 1970, the number grew from 230 to 1,265, representing only 6.6% of all draft board members. Across all military branches, African Americans comprised 11% of all troops. However, a disproportionate number were made officers, with only 5% of Army officers African American and 2% across all branches. Black troops were more likely to be assigned to combat units: 23% of such troops in Vietnam were Black. Racism against Blacks was particularly pronounced in the Navy. Only 5% of
sailors were Black in 1971, with less than 1% of Navy officers African American.“
The Viet Nam conflict was the first action where soldiers were not segregated. Oppression symbols were displayed and painted by whites while simultaneously all expressions of Blackness and Black pride were discouraged or prevented. “white troops at Cam Ranh Base wore Ku Klux Klan robes and paraded around the base, continuing their celebration by cross burning. Da Nang Air Base flew the Confederate flag for three days in response.” Racial fights erupted on bases and aircraft carriers, more Black soldiers were prosecuted than white soldiers. That such activities were permitted and officers were slow to stop them says a lot about the acceptance of drafted Black men.
Cleansing the Human Race and Preventing the Births of Defective People
There are many notable persons who embraced eugenics, or genetic cleansing like Theodore Roosevelt and, before him, enslaved people owning miscreants. Woodrow Wilson hated Black people. Previous to recent knowledge, I thought he was the least notable of presidents. Subsequent to speaking with Black people to get their votes for the presidency, he ignored all campaign promises and made his mark terminating most Black people in the civil service.
Wilson publicly supported the KKK, saying they were saviors “…of the Southern country.” Winston Churchill was a supporter and, it was alleged that he took the place of a sickly, wheelchair-bound heir. It was interesting that Helen Keller also supported this concept. Had her parents supported it before her birth, she was born, would she have existed?
While white supporters desired to eliminate defective whites, considered negative elements of their race, money, according to the Nazis, went to people who would never contribute to society in the way that fully functional, intelligent people would. Project this mentality to people with darker skin and perceived genetic inferiority. In the 1980s, Bonnie Franklin starred as Margaret Sanger in a made-for-tv- movie about this woman. She was portrayed as a pioneer in fighting for the rights of women to control their bodies. I even CHEERED for this woman! That may have been true – for white women. The Sanger posters below were circulating on Facebook.
I will repeat it here again. My husband reported to the army recruiting office.
A white officer said to his face, “We are doing our part to cleanse the inner city.” My husband was selected because of what he looked like. He was also considered expendable. This, in my opinion, was another way the federal government created to devise genocide of Black people. This was to eliminate Black men, considered lazy and non-productive. This was also to affect the ability of the Black race to procreate.
Source: The African Registry
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