Was Uncle Bosie eaten by cannibals?
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Give me Liberty
Rodger Williamson
Was President Joesph Biden’s uncle eaten by cannibals? That is what he suggested − twice − this week when he said the remains of his uncle, who died during World War II in a plane crash off the New Guinea coast, were not recovered. But the official account of the 1944 incident from military records makes no mention of the plane being shot down or of possible cannibalism.
Biden’s story differed from an account published by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), which says Biden’s uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, and two other men “failed to emerge from the sinking wreck and were lost in the crash.”
Biden discussed the 1944 death of Finnegan, a U.S. Army Air Forces second lieutenant, after visiting a war memorial where Finnegan is honored in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He recounted the same story during remarks at the United Steelworkers Union’s Headquarters in Pittsburgh later that afternoon.
Specifically, Biden stated in a weak and mumbling tone: “My uncle − they called him Ambrose. Instead of ‘Brosie,’ they called him ‘Bosie.’ My Uncle Bosie was a hell of an athlete. They tell me, when he was a kid, and he became an Army Air Corps, before the Air Force came along. He flew those single-engine planes as reconnaissance over war zones. And he got shot down in New Guinea, and they never found the body because there used to be − there were a lot of cannibals − for real − in that part of New Guinea.”
The account from the DPAA says on May 14, 1944, a crew of three men and one passenger, Finnegan, left on a twin-engine A-20 Havoc from Momote Airfield, Los Negros Island, en route to Nadzab Airfield, New Guinea. The plane was forced to ditch in the ocean off the north coast of New Guinea when both engines failed at low altitude, and the aircraft’s nose hit the water hard.
In addition to the three men lost in the crash, one crew member survived and was saved by a passing barge, the DPPA report says, adding that, “An aerial search the next day found no trace of the missing aircraft or the lost crew members. Finnegan has not been associated with any remains recovered from the area after the war and is still unaccounted-for,” according to the DPPA.
Biden’s comments offended a key strategic ally as China moves to increase its influence in the region. Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape accused Joe Biden of disparaging the South Pacific island nation by implying that an uncle of the U.S. president had been eaten by “cannibals” there.
Biden has a long history of embellishing stories on a number of subjects − whether it’s being arrested during civil rights protests, which the “New York Times” reported there’s no evidence of; the scale of a past kitchen fire at his Delaware home; or an oft-told exchange he had with an Amtrak conductor, who CNN reported was dead when Biden said the conversation occurred. Not a single Biden event can pass without at least one memorable, and typically cringeworthy, takeaway.
In the end, there is no doubt that Joseph Biden, when he was 78 years old, was the oldest person to ever be elected to the Office of President of these United States. And now, at 81 years of age, he has declined substantially.
Let us not forget that before Biden was even elected, psychiatrist Tanveer Ahmed publicly noted on Biden’s cognitive condition, stating that Biden was able to get through the debates, “…he just sort of hung in there. So you get the feeling he’s almost just holding on, which can be a feature of dementia, where as long as you’ve got enough people supporting you, you can sort of just hold on. And I think there’s a bit of that going on with Joe Biden.”
So, we the people find ourselves with the oldest president ever, 19 years past normal retirement age, and showing obvious signs of dementia. We can either accept that an old man with cognitive disabilities is responsible for the nuclear weapons held by these United States, or we can demand change.
In the short term, that would mean enacting the 25th Amendment to our Constitution, which like it or not, would elevate Kamala Harris from vice president to president of the United States.
Come this November, it is up to you, the individual, to vote competent people into public office, preferably someone who is younger and with actual attributes other than that person is a lesser evil than the other candidate.