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re: 72 years ago today
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:19 pm to Lacour
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:19 pm to Lacour
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Then why are you people freaking out so much on me?
Because you're discounting what those men did to try and build yourself up when you'd fold up like a cheap chair if you had to go through anything like that. You have shown how ignorant and unpatriotic you are.
This post was edited on 2/19/17 at 7:21 pm
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Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:20 pm to Lacour
Do you actually think that this bunch of 17-25 year olds could do what they did? Fool if you do. Isolated individuals yes, but the vast majority of are scarred to death of somone just disagreeing with them. Safe spaces.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:20 pm to Lacour
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Go back and read my posts peej. I know you are piss drunk on natty, but try to comprehend in that little rice sized brain of yours
Let me tell you something PUNK.....
Stars and stripes are all about my brass...
Say anything else and I will shoot A rocket up your arse.....
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:21 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
quote:
Because you're discounting what those men did. You have shown how ignorant and unpatriotic you are.
By saying ALL SOLDIERS ARE BRAVE?
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:23 pm to GenghisKhan
quote:
Do you actually think that this bunch of 17-25 year olds could do what they did? Fool if you do. Isolated individuals yes, but the vast majority of are scarred to death of somone just disagreeing with them. Safe spaces.
Sorry if I choose to look at the good in people rather than be a negative disparager of the human spirit
You don't know what people are capable of until the time arrives.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:24 pm to Lacour
Lacour, I'm with you. I would like to think my generation would have been just as brave.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:26 pm to Lacour
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I'd fight if the world was on the line.
This oversimplified and cliched statement that the greatest generation is better than all of us is tiring.
Blows my mind that some of you have twisted this post into what you have. Jesus Christ. The chips on your shoulders are making you miserable people.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:30 pm to Jim Rockford
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Better men than we are.
Why? Because we have smartphones and no global war to fight?
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:40 pm to Lacour
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Thank you.
Don't mention it.
The worse is them saying you made it about yourself. You only defended your statement with what appears to be the briefest replies possible. That's you trying not to derail the thread.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 8:26 pm to Lacour
quote:
I'm the snowflake?
Yes. Put your little pink hat on and go sit in your neutral safe space. It'll be okay.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 8:28 pm to Superior Pariah
I just have to ask, what makes the so-called "Greatest Generation" any greater than those that fought in World War I or the Civil War? Or hell, what about the generation of 1776? Those men were pretty damn fantastic.
This post was edited on 2/19/17 at 8:31 pm
Posted on 2/19/17 at 8:30 pm to RollTide1987
The Greatest Generation >>> Tom Brady
Posted on 2/19/17 at 8:34 pm to Jim Rockford
Kuribayashi turned Iwo into a fortified hellhole for our GIs. Those who fought there took on the Japanese defensive magnum opus. Very very brave men.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 8:36 pm to rmnldr
quote:This isn't a thread about Iwo Jima. This is a thread about Lacour. Try to keep alert -- er, I mean, stay woke.
Kuribayashi turned Iwo into a fortified hellhole for our GIs. Those who fought there took on the Japanese defensive magnum opus. Very very brave men.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 8:50 pm to Kafka
To those brave SOBs 
Also, this thread makes me appreciate the OT.
Also, this thread makes me appreciate the OT.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 8:51 pm to Kafka
This is just a general phrase complimenting the U.S. service men & women of that time. I have read it several 10000's of times over the years, heard it as many, too, and not once ever did I consider it a negative about anyone else in any sense of the phrase. It is simply a very positive, complimentary phrase. That you choose to make it a negative is your take. I fought in Nam & never once, on hearing this phrase,did I take it as a knock on me or the 1000's who fought there as well. Giving compliments & being positive just drives some nuts these days."America, land of the free & the brave". Guess you got issues with that, too.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 8:53 pm to Kafka
Right.
Lacour does have a point though. The "greatest generation" wasn't the greatest by choice but of happenstance.
The same great people that fought in Europe and the Pacific were in the same mold of the American Revolutionaries or any great spirited people in the history of the world.
ETA: embracing that spirit, especially the spirit of our great Americans before us should inspire us, not be used as a slight towards current and future generations.
Lacour does have a point though. The "greatest generation" wasn't the greatest by choice but of happenstance.
The same great people that fought in Europe and the Pacific were in the same mold of the American Revolutionaries or any great spirited people in the history of the world.
ETA: embracing that spirit, especially the spirit of our great Americans before us should inspire us, not be used as a slight towards current and future generations.
This post was edited on 2/19/17 at 8:57 pm
Posted on 2/19/17 at 8:54 pm to Jim Rockford
My grandpa was in WWII. He passed away 9 years ago. He was not himself for the last 4 or 5 years of his life, but he talked about the war all the time. He had a lot of great stories. He talked about it as if that was what he was suppose to do. Never heard him complain about having to go to go overseas and fight, he was just fortunate to be able to come back, raise a family and enjoyed sharing his stories because he thought it was part of his duty, as someone who was able to come back to do so.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 9:02 pm to RollTide1987
quote:
I just have to ask, what makes the so-called "Greatest Generation" any greater than those that fought in World War I or the Civil War? Or hell, what about the generation of 1776? Those men were pretty damn fantastic.
Comparisons like this leave me uneasy. For one who cherishes freedom, I don't think I can esteem one soldier's sacrifice in 1945 from one in 1776. I live in freedom today because of them. I am grateful.
When I hear of the "greatest generation" (of which my dad was one - joined the USN as a 16 yr old in WWII), I don't think of them as better soldiers, just the sheer magnitude of what they faced.
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