My step father Burt stormed the beach in Normandy carrying the radio equipment in his backpack. A fellow soldier had been shot in water and he carried him to safety too. He would not want this to be happening to our country. And he was a lifelong conservative.
Americans have voted in the Kremlin, and as Putin is a fascist Americans have voted that in.
The movie Civil War now looks like a prophesy rather than fiction
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I don't believe in confusing people; Many do not know NAZI's were fascists.. they don't now that much history. DOE says 54% people semi-literate.. 2 terms confuses them. I try to keep the terms as understandable as possible. one is a specific political party, the other a broader political movement
My dad served in WWII in Merchant Marines. His ship was under fire. His job was to keep engines going full speed to survive, not knowing if/when weaponry would breach the thin hull between him, the crew, & the vast ocean on the other side. He only spoke of it once.
Please then volunteeer your sons and daughters to serve as soldier in the Ukrainian Army. We should never put an American soldier in Europes war but since you insist, yours not mine.
My grandfather was a decorated US Army veteran who escaped anti-Jewish pogroms in Belarus, fled to the US, and later earned a Purple Heart in the South Pacific. His two sisters were US Army nurses, one of whom attained the rank of Sergeant. #notinourname
Only 6% of adult Americans have ever served in the military. We're accustomed to sitting back and letting a few others do our fighting and dying for us. We're not used to fighting for anything.
My father fought as a 20yr old in the Pacific in Battles of Peleliu and Okinawa. I had one uncle in the Phillipines, one of only a few to survive from his unit that infiltrated behind the lines, another uncle in Europe that witnessed Holocaust victims at Gardelegen, another in the Navy.
Yup.
My Grandfather was on the front line, he helped operate anti aircraft guns as they came across the channel.
He was one of 4 Jamaican brothers, the British took 3.
They all survived and did kill a ton of Nazis!
Thank you for saying what’s very hard to say. My father served in Italy in the Army Air Corp in WW 2. I watched him cry over Obama winning on election night. It was as if America became the nation he fought for.
Now I feel old 😱🥺
My Pop started “his walk across Europe” 7 June ‘44
My wife’s father liberated a concentration camp
I miss them but I’m glad they’re not here to see what’s become of their country 💙🇺🇦💙
Donald Trump and Elon Musk rigged and fixed the 2024 election by entering the postal services computers. Just like he did our Social Security computers and internal revenue service computers and NASA computers and Noah computers. He’s real crafty. We need to arrest him.
My grandfather fought in the Pacific and that memorial is from the Pacific (Iwo Jima) so I think we should modify the caption to say fascists rather than Nazis. I’d do it today but I’m traveling.
Yeah I used it because I have a personal connection to the Pacific Islands Battle
My Grandfather fought there in WWII and in hand to hand combat
He brought Home a Nazi pin he took off a Japanese Soldier
It was a fight for his life so it’s personal to me
He is on the far right left is his brother
It was, and I am happy they both came Home and I have this Brett, all the letters he sent from the War covering the whole time frame
From Basic to returning Home
Exactly they kicked Nazi and fascists' asses .
Destroyed their hate with weapons of war and it was justifiable.
Not only on the war fronts in Europe and in the Pacific but Americans sacrificed and suffered at home going w/o so that soldiers could do with.
today ?
meh
PINO Trump & Fuhrer Musk are attempting to replicate the events leading to Hitler's rise. Just like Germany, this will not end well for the US. The rest of the world knows the 1930s history & the US is Nazi Germany ver2. Hitler didn't have nukes. Will the US Nazis use them?
My father, uncles, grandfather and great uncle fought in WWII and WWI. This is the first time I’ve ever been happy they are no longer alive to see their personal sacrifices treated as meaningless.
We should bring back the draft and require basic training for all able bodied citizens. Basic training teaches how to defend yourself, your country if necessary, how to be organized, how to follow legal orders.
If Trump was a better business genius like he pretends and didn’t go bankrupt so many times and didn’t need Russian Cash maybe just maybe things might be a little better or maybe this is just me wishful thinking…
Now it’s Ukraine that’s fighting against fascism and protecting the international rules based order.
And it seems as if the US is now on the wrong side of history.
The world now is exactly like the comic book episodes I hated in the '70s, with Bizarro worlds and everything was reverse.
"What an unbelievable load of crap" I would say.
Just to be clear my Grandfather took a Nazi Pin off a Japanese Soldier after hand to hand combat in the Pacific Islands Battle during WWII so I am not quite sure what you are getting at
Not only did Americans raise the American flag against Nazis in Europe (and Mussolini's fascists), but also in North Africa and the Mediterranean. There were four theaters of operation (not only the Pacific Theater) and you are sorely mistaken. 🙄
Correction: the African Theater of Operations was only WWI. In WWII African operations were placed under the Mediterranean and Middle East Theater and all combat was considered the "African Campaign". American forces fought in Africa.
As for Europe, etc... many World War II Generals earned their fame in European and other theaters, including George S. Patton, Omar Bradley, Dwight D. Eisenhower and British General "Monty" Montgomery.
Just to be clear, my father was in a foxhole at the Battle of the Bulge, liberated Dachau and drank Hitler's booze at Bertchesgaden (he lifted a serving spoon off the dining room table that we used to use to serve Mashed Potatoes when I was a child.)
Not only did American forces engage in combat in Europe, but in the early 1980's I lived in Nuremberg (Nurnberg) as a military spouse. My then husband (now deceased) was attached to a military post (kaserne) that was captured in WWII by American forces.
My dad died in August of 1980.
I was 17 years old. I was literally a retirement baby. I was born the day before he retired with 30 odd years in the Army. He would be so disappointed and fecking angry that vets are losing services. The US promised these services to vets and their families
My Great Grandfather never really liked to talk about the war, which is fair since he had to help clean one of the camps. He never wanted to be remembered as the WW2 vet, more the local craftsman who’d help with anything and everything. He’d be livid if he saw all of this.
My dad and his friends never told the harrowing stories. My father showed me photos his buddy took after cleaning of one of the camps. He also had photos of the bombed out buildings that they sheltered in. I heard about the fights my Dad and junior officers had to break up in the French brothels
Let me put it this way. My father refused, I mean, refused to go camping. He didn't enjoy picnicking either. He said, "I camped for 4 god damned years. That's enough." I was a girl scout. I later understood his eversion. I like room service more
I have a photo of my dad on the ship going over to France. My dad used to say, "He was DDay to Berlin". He had a truck unit chasing the tanks with fuel. He had an extra junior officer too.
My father was a white lieutenant with the Quartermaster Corps’ “Red Ball Express,” the folks who kept Patton’s fast-moving Third Army in France supplied. His enlisted troops were largely Black, and he led a company of them back across the Atlantic for discharge in Sept. 1945.
My Dad had a segregated truck unit in the Quartermaster Corps. He had soldiers who had never worn shoes before. He spoke up that the Army needed to desegregate. Dad couldn't stand Patton. They might have known each other.
Jesus overturned the tables in the temple when the leaders got out of hand. We can hate the actions and love the people. For those that repented he offered forgiveness. Others, well there have always been consequences for bad actors. Challenges come every day so we can grow. 😳👍
We are on the same page. Consequences are necessary for many in power today. 😳 I’m not a lawyer. I am a right fighter who has been to court many times so others get consequences. I love a good lawyer with deep pockets as it always helps in the fight. I don’t like to see injustice win ever. 👍
My grandfather gave the ultimate sacrifice fighting against Nazis. Dump would call him a loser.
I would love to stab dump in the eye with Muskrat’s Nazi salute.
My father (RCAF) and his three brothers (US Army) served during WWII. I don't have to imagine how they'd feel about Nazi loving Trump and his followers.
My Father fought at Dunkirk to keep them off the beaches, they fired every shell till all they had to use is smoke shells, when they where gone, they where told to go, the guy beside him dropped dead. 6 years in POW Camp Poland. He liked Germans but hated the Nazi's. I stand on a giants shoulders.
From Europe, when can we witness the same bravery from the American democrates since talking about the lies and the fascist republican ruling did not get you out of this trouble. You need to take drastic actions from now on, time for talks are over. You have to #overtrow #Trump if you love freedom.
both of my maternal great grandparents fought and served, she a nurse, in ww1, my paternal grandad had been blinded by a metalworking so he didn't go, tho' I have some of his tools, we tell our stories
I posted this question to Facebook. I love this memorial. Every time I look at it. It reminds me of the fake assassination attempt and the way the CIA held him up above their heads for a photo op tell me if you see the same or if I’m just crazy
My grandmother was a German war bride who married my grandfather who was a US soldier. He forced her to leave her child behind and she was never able to get him back. I only exist because of Hitler and yet I'd wipe my existence from the universe to kill him and everybody like him.
that's really sad
your gm lost a child bc her husband didn't want him or her?
awful.
lots of the same happened in Vietnam.
and it wasn't right then.
did you ever try to track down that person lost to your family history?
My grandfather was a POS he lied to her. She didn't speak any English when she got here she was basically SOL. my grandfather ripped the two children he had with her over here away from her so she moved down the hall with the man she had the affair with who was less of a bastard than my grandfather.
Maybe these kind of dysfunctional relationships were some kind of the"norm" for those who experienced war .
Women had it bad pre women's rights . Working class GI's who brought brides back from any war arena were often pressured as to why they would marry the "enemy";the woman was often outcast.
My grandfather watched the Nazis murder both his brothers, as they escaped a concentration camp. He fled to the UK. Where he immediately signed up for military service and returned to Europe to fight.
I'm glad he isn't alive to see what has become of the world.
“Brave men didn't die face down
In the Vietnam muck
so I could not style on you
I didn't walk uphill both ways to the booth and back to not wile on you
You think baby Jesus killed Hitler just so I'd whisper?”
That was the start of this fucked reality we are living
a long range plan put in place under Reagan ,cobbled together by the Heritage Foundation The Federalist Society & other right wing well funded anti democracy pro-oligarchy groups Along the way they co-opted right movements like the Tea Party
Now is not the time for civility. Now is the time to be loud, active and punk as fuck. The possibility of having no future is very real. This is unacceptable and we need to fight accordingly.
My dad was a WWII veteran and fought in the Battle of the Bulge, where he received a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. I can't even begin to imagine the pain it would cause him if he were alive to see what's becoming of the country he believed in and loved so much.
Yes. My Dad was the only one of his siblings who went, farmers. He went at age 17 in 1940. Older brothers already farming, younger stayed home. Two of his cousins and my Mom's brother served. Mom's older sister was a photographer in the war, too. Their father served in WWl.
Forgot parents. Parents fought nazis too.
But you are absolutely right. Parents, and grandparents, and all of the generations of Americans who fought tyranny and totalitarianism would be appalled, disbelieving, at what this country is becoming, at who we CHOSE to destroy the democracy.
Unreal.
My dad was in the 1st wave, crewman in the 68 LVT(A)s that led the assault. He landed on Green beach right below Suribachi. He opened up to me after I left Vietnam. He was in the battles on the Atolls and Guam. He got tears in his eyes and said “none of them were like Iwo”. Sucker and loser.
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dead ones still suck too
Boycott as many right wing business as possible. Don’t buy products made in right wing states.
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The movie Civil War now looks like a prophesy rather than fiction
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He'd def say, f*ck Trump.
My Grandfather was on the front line, he helped operate anti aircraft guns as they came across the channel.
He was one of 4 Jamaican brothers, the British took 3.
They all survived and did kill a ton of Nazis!
My Pop started “his walk across Europe” 7 June ‘44
My wife’s father liberated a concentration camp
I miss them but I’m glad they’re not here to see what’s become of their country 💙🇺🇦💙
My Grandfather fought there in WWII and in hand to hand combat
He brought Home a Nazi pin he took off a Japanese Soldier
It was a fight for his life so it’s personal to me
He is on the far right left is his brother
From Basic to returning Home
Destroyed their hate with weapons of war and it was justifiable.
Not only on the war fronts in Europe and in the Pacific but Americans sacrificed and suffered at home going w/o so that soldiers could do with.
today ?
meh
The French Resistance was seminal in defeating these fuckers. So will be the American Resistance.
Long live the Resistance.
By any means necessary.
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When I think of how my WWII veteran grandfather would have reacted … words can’t express it.
And it seems as if the US is now on the wrong side of history.
🫡🇺🇦
Fuck Trump, Fuck Vance, Fuck Musk and Fuck MAGA.
Complacency will lead to the end of DEMOCRACY, for you and your children, and grandchildren.
The herd protects its youth, and everyone in herd's future.
STAND UP! in LARGE numbers and show your RESISTANCE!
Just sayin'
"What an unbelievable load of crap" I would say.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Theater_of_Operations,_United_States_Army
I was 17 years old. I was literally a retirement baby. I was born the day before he retired with 30 odd years in the Army. He would be so disappointed and fecking angry that vets are losing services. The US promised these services to vets and their families
Thank you for sharing his heroism with us Rod 💕
We seem so small in comparison these days.
Although we should love everyone, we must also fight against evil.
I would love to stab dump in the eye with Muskrat’s Nazi salute.
https://imgur.com/YZ0hYVs
Complacency will lead to the end of DEMOCRACY, for you and your children, and grandchildren.
The herd protects its youth, and everyone in herd's future.
STAND UP! in LARGE numbers and show your RESISTANCE!
Just sayin'
How proud they would be to see you now.
I appreciate that so much
Thank you for sharing 💕
B O O M
The rest of the world needs the United States to stand up for your democracy.
Make America Better Again!
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/merchant-marine-world-war-ii
Nothing can give you the resolve to make sure Fascism never happens again like seeing Normandy yourself.
your gm lost a child bc her husband didn't want him or her?
awful.
lots of the same happened in Vietnam.
and it wasn't right then.
did you ever try to track down that person lost to your family history?
Women had it bad pre women's rights . Working class GI's who brought brides back from any war arena were often pressured as to why they would marry the "enemy";the woman was often outcast.
I'm glad he isn't alive to see what has become of the world.
“Brave men didn't die face down
In the Vietnam muck
so I could not style on you
I didn't walk uphill both ways to the booth and back to not wile on you
You think baby Jesus killed Hitler just so I'd whisper?”
https://youtu.be/1b9n0Amr9RI?si=p9oR4PFXon0KkJSa
a long range plan put in place under Reagan ,cobbled together by the Heritage Foundation The Federalist Society & other right wing well funded anti democracy pro-oligarchy groups Along the way they co-opted right movements like the Tea Party
THATS WHY TRUMP HATE EUROPEANS!
SLAVA UCRAINA FROM SWEDEN,
But you are absolutely right. Parents, and grandparents, and all of the generations of Americans who fought tyranny and totalitarianism would be appalled, disbelieving, at what this country is becoming, at who we CHOSE to destroy the democracy.
Unreal.
POPS!
He's 95 and
HATES
MANGO
MUSSOLINI !
I wholeheartedly agree.