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Post# 1003665 , Reply# 1 8/14/2018 at 11:56 (2,080 days old) by ea56  (Cotati, Calif.) |
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And now we are being endangered by emminent Fascism all over again!
This WH administration is not what my father served in the Submarine Service during WWll for, he would be appalled with the current state of our union. We should never forget why we fought the Axis, or history will successfully repeat its self, to the detriment of us all. Eddie | ||
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Post# 1003703 , Reply# 3 8/14/2018 at 17:14 (2,080 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.) |
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Thanks for the post, Tom.
On August 14, 1945 my dad was in San Francisco about to be sent to the Pacific Theater to participate in the invasion of the Japanese mainland. He was a radio operator on B-29s. Happily, he never had to go. Instead, he spent the next few months ferrying brand new B-29s from the assembly line in Seattle to the Mohave Desert, where they were parked. Almost all of my uncles were in the war, too — one did 25 missions as a bombardier over Germany, another was in the invasion of North Africa, another was on the USS Intrepid when it was hit by a kamikaze. They were all happy the war was over! | ||
| Post# 1003709 , Reply# 4 8/14/2018 at 18:05 (2,080 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan) | ||
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My uncles were in WW2 also, in both theatres. My grandfather was in WW1, in the trneches in France. I have his purple heart. The Germans gassed his company with mustard gas. | ||
| Post# 1003724 , Reply# 6 8/14/2018 at 21:42 (2,079 days old) by Norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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My Dad Joined the Marines in 42 and went on to fight in the South Pacific Bougainville The Solomon Islands Fiji. He never said much about it except to say NewZeland was the most beautiful place he ever saw he had it pretty rough I think | ||
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Post# 1003748 , Reply# 7 8/15/2018 at 04:34 (2,079 days old) by mrboilwash (Munich,Germany) |
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"You don`t want to know"
One of my grandfathers gave his life in Russia. I`m not sure he stood behind the regime, because he wasn`t formally killed in action or missing. He just did not come back. Most of those where the widow wasn`t informed were killed by their own people, but I`ll never know for sure.
My mother`s aunt got brutally raped by five Americans in her own home. She almost died, but she finally made it. Turned out they were after her neighbor who`s husband was an SS officer. Well, she had her turn a few days later after they`ve realized their mistake. Her husband by the way was so full of "you don`t wanna knows" he wetted his bed every single night until the day he died. Whatever he may have done or whatever he was made to do doesn`t justify something horrible like this happening to his wife and my mom`s aunt, the random victim. After all the guys who did this were supposed to be the saviours, the good guys, the heros who freed us from Hitler weren`t they ? War is always about a lot of wrongs and sufferings on both sides. It doesn`t make much of a difference who wrongfully started a war if you own family is affected. I wish this thread wouldn`t exist. All it does is reopen old sores that should have healed a long time ago. This post was last edited 08/15/2018 at 06:32 | ||
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Post# 1003752 , Reply# 9 8/15/2018 at 07:17 (2,079 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Well, War is Hell!
My grandpa seems to be the last-connected w/ WWII that I knew of, other than whatever other relatives of his & my grandma's that I wouldn't be nearly as close to, 'cept for the going over there fighting & hoping they weren't killing their own kin (& I hope that none o' their kin were killing any of my dad's relatives still living there, escaping the holocaust) & their wives going over there to visit them on the bases...
In which case my late-who-would-be-110-years-old gramps suffered the worst abonomation for Pearl Harbor for it to fall on his 34th birthday, and from working at Kelsey Hayes making auto parts to suddenly making war munitions and parts for planes... -- Dave | ||
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