re: Relatives that served in World War 2

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Crazy to think how the Americans and Japanese are close allies now. I can understand older Americans still holding a grudge against the Japanese.

Hell, I'm still pissed at Bears fans for the way they treated Saints fans after Katrina.

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Close to Germany and Italy as well....and our ally Russia is now, if not an enemy, not on good terms LOL.

While we are rightfully talking about Americans who served there are a heaping pile of folks who had family members in WW2. I have a friend who is married to a German lady and her dad was a soldier in the German Army during WW2. toward the end when Russia was winning the war in Europe he was captured as a POW and shipped to a camp in what is now Belarus. He managed to escape from that camp and headed south to what is now Odesa and stowed away on a ship to Turkey. He made his way back to Bavaria. It took him almost 2 years from the time he was captured until he made it home. His family assumed he had been killed. When I knew him he despised Russians, felt about the same way about Turks and could barely tolerate Americans. He liked me though because I would bring him Jif Creamy Peanut Butter from the PX and he was a fan of Jif Peanut Butter. He was the enemy of many of our ancestors but like them it probably wasn't his first choice....he was merely doing what he was told was the right thing to do.