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Posted on 9/19/19 at 4:43 pm to GreyWhiskers
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I grew up hearing ww2 stories from my stepfather who served in the army air corps. He was 86 yrs old when he died and that was 23 years ago.
My Dad was 87 when he passed in 2008. Born in 1921, lived through the depression as a child. Also a Wingnut in the AAC in WWII. Didn’t talk a lot about it but, when he did, he had my undivided attention.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 4:43 pm to AndyJ
Ww2 was fought to free the Jews from slavery
Posted on 9/19/19 at 4:44 pm to Dandy Lion
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FACT:
In the 243 years since the Declaration of Independence, the United States has been involved in some form of war for 227 years. That leaves 16 years of peace.
That figure includes every dinky Indian "war" in the 18th and 19th century as well as every minor police action during the Cold War and 90s.
A misleading figure used by the ignorant or for the ignorant.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 4:47 pm to momentoftruth87
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Good, they need to start praising OIF/OEF vets and forget about those old geezers.
frick you, you piece of shite!
Posted on 9/19/19 at 4:47 pm to 777Tiger
quote:Younger people probably associate Vietnam more closely with pho than they do with the war.
yep, lots of young'n's have the same view of Vietnam, if they know of it at all
Posted on 9/19/19 at 4:51 pm to AndyJ
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They will grow up viewing WW2 how a lot of us view the Civil War
The 75th anniversary D-Day celebration in Normandy this past June is to us as the following video was to Americans in 1938:
Gettysburg 75th Anniversary Highlights
The crazy thing is there are still Americans alive today who personally knew Civil War veterans. They are all in their 80s and 90s now, but they are still around. Crazier still, just to show how young a nation we are, some of those Civil War veterans likely knew Revolutionary War veterans.
This post was edited on 9/19/19 at 4:56 pm
Posted on 9/19/19 at 4:55 pm to BobLeeDagger
quote:If they’re really smart they’ll find the glitch upstairs with the Nazi Zambees.
They will sadly learn through Call of Duty.
Pew-Pew-Pew
Posted on 9/19/19 at 4:58 pm to AndyJ
We're going to be telling youngsters all about 9/11 the same way our grandparents and some parents told us about Pearl Harbor and the JFK assassination.
Hell, my niece was only born a couple years ago and sometime before or after the year 2030 for a history paper, she will be asking her parents and me why Donald Trump's presidential run was so insane and controversial.
A realization like that makes you feel old and stare at your mortality in the face.
Hell, my niece was only born a couple years ago and sometime before or after the year 2030 for a history paper, she will be asking her parents and me why Donald Trump's presidential run was so insane and controversial.
A realization like that makes you feel old and stare at your mortality in the face.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 5:29 pm to The Boat
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WWII was the greatest conflict ever fought.
No wars are great, but I think I understand the point you’re trying to make.
We forgot about WWII a long time ago. If we had remembered, we wouldn’t have all the stupidity we have. People wouldn’t be so goddamn soft and weak. People care about self indulgence and this warped idea of the American dream. Making sacrifices for the greater good is an antiquated concept for a lot of people.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 5:39 pm to AndyJ
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Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
We are in this cycle right now.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 5:43 pm to Scoop
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weak men
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We are in this cycle right now.
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Posted on 9/19/19 at 5:48 pm to tigahbruh
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That figure includes every dinky Indian "war" in the 18th and 19th century as well as every minor police action during the Cold War and 90s.
so the people that died during those dinky wars, police actions, Cold War don't count? should they get a do over?
Posted on 9/19/19 at 5:51 pm to momentoftruth87
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Good, they need to start praising OIF/OEF vets and forget about those old geezers.
Without us millennials you boomers would all be speaking Iraqi
Posted on 9/19/19 at 5:53 pm to el Gaucho
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Without us millennials you boomers would all be speaking Iraqi
without our boomer air supremacy you bawnks would still be out there wallowing around in the sand
Posted on 9/19/19 at 5:56 pm to 777Tiger
You can’t win hearts and minds from a plane
Posted on 9/19/19 at 5:59 pm to el Gaucho
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You can’t win hearts and minds from a plane
maybe not, but you can blow their camel fricking asses all the way to wherever it is they think they're going and still be back at the O-Club in time for happy hour
Posted on 9/19/19 at 5:59 pm to LsuFan_1955
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frick you, you piece of shite!
Lol did you serve?
Posted on 9/19/19 at 6:03 pm to Klark Kent
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doesn't help the schools across this country are brainwashing children with an altered reality of history.
Go on...
Posted on 9/19/19 at 6:06 pm to AndyJ
Tbh that's how WW2 is for me. Ww2 has already been a remote time. I was born in 93, I never knew a relative who fought in thr war. My oldest living uncle who is considered the patriarch in our family fought in either Vietnam or Korea ( dont remember which)
The big deal for me growing up was the civil righrs era (the 60s). I grew up asking every older relative I had stories they had from when they were younger. It was surreal as a child hearing the shite that happened only 30 years earlier when I couldnt even imagine based off of my life, which I would consider very privileged as opposed to my grandparents.
Hell, now my nieces and nephews look at the 90s as being ancient. The world is changing, rather that be a good thint or bad thing. Idk
The big deal for me growing up was the civil righrs era (the 60s). I grew up asking every older relative I had stories they had from when they were younger. It was surreal as a child hearing the shite that happened only 30 years earlier when I couldnt even imagine based off of my life, which I would consider very privileged as opposed to my grandparents.
Hell, now my nieces and nephews look at the 90s as being ancient. The world is changing, rather that be a good thint or bad thing. Idk
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