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re: The World War II generation is almost gone...
Posted on 4/2/23 at 8:09 am to USMCguy121
Posted on 4/2/23 at 8:09 am to USMCguy121
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Those emotional creatures are gullible as frick and completely vulnerable to propaganda.
Men are just as emotional and irrational, redpill bro.
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Posted on 4/2/23 at 8:11 am to RollTide1987
now little kids have boomer grandparents to look up to. That will end well!
Posted on 4/2/23 at 8:14 am to RollTide1987
Their fight to make the world safe for trans rights, drag Queen story hour, and DEI initiatives will never be forgotten. God bless them.
Posted on 4/2/23 at 8:16 am to chalmetteowl
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Works the same way the other way around… almost all the Nazis are gone… oh wait
absolutely tone deaf reply. congrats
Posted on 4/2/23 at 8:25 am to RollTide1987
The National WWII Museum has many oral histories available in their digital collections. It's searchable by topic, such as branch of service, theater, pre-war life, etc. It is very well done.
LINK
LINK
Posted on 4/2/23 at 8:28 am to Klark Kent
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absolutely tone deaf reply. congrats
Oh in his mind, he burned all the "righties" here with that childlike response.
This is what happens when you think a man can get pregnant and kids are sexually attractive.
Posted on 4/2/23 at 8:37 am to RollTide1987
Lost my aunt this week. Born in 1931. Can’t imagine being a teen during WWII.
Posted on 4/2/23 at 8:47 am to RollTide1987
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If you know anyone from this period of history who is still around, talk to these men and women, and learn from them
I wish I had talked more to my six uncles who served during the war. To be fair, most of them didn’t say much about it. One in particular suffered from PTSD over it and refused to talk about until just before he died in an auto accident.
Posted on 4/2/23 at 9:09 am to jlovel7
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No doubt an untellable wealth of knowledge that just never got passed on will vanish.
Which is why I am so appreciative of the WWII museum and their efforts to get as much artifacts, knowledge, and interviews before they all pass. I love when they have the veterans as guests or a meet and greet.
Posted on 4/2/23 at 9:17 am to RollTide1987
My grandfather died three years ago this month and was 93. He told me that they had orders to come invade Japan but instead we dropped 2 on them and that was it
Posted on 4/2/23 at 9:30 am to RollTide1987
My grandmother died in July of 2020 at 97 she was the last connection in my family to WWII and The Great Depression. My grandfather (her husband) flew 56 missions in WWII in European Theater as a fighter pilot. He died back in 2010.
Posted on 4/2/23 at 9:32 am to chalmetteowl
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chalmetteowl
I see you don’t follow the boil water advisories.
Posted on 4/2/23 at 9:35 am to GEAUXT
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What's crazy to me is that all of the Vietnam vets are in their mid 80's now.
Mid 70's.
Posted on 4/2/23 at 9:50 am to SWCBonfire
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Mid 70's.
just got back from a freedom flyers reunion (Vietnam ex-POWs,) the youngest of those guys is in his mid 70s
Posted on 4/2/23 at 9:56 am to RollTide1987
But think of all the great stories you can tell your grandchildren of women with dicks in lingerie parading through the streets throwing dildos at kids.
Posted on 4/2/23 at 10:01 am to RollTide1987
My great grandmother and her daughter (my grandmother) were born in 1899 and 1924. The former died in 2001, the latter is still alive, and I visit her frequently. To say their lives and my life are different is an understatement.
A few high points:
Great grandmother’s name was Rose and did quite legitimately weld bombs or missiles/rockets in California that got shipped over The Pacific.
She told stories about The Depression. But in particular was how excited they were on Christmas morning as kids to get oranges in their stockings. They were a delicacy to them.
She had a home in the middle of nowhere in Arkansas. It’s now been swallowed up by the sprawl of Little Rock. She went from a home on a couple of acres with nothing around to having an AutoZone, McDonald’s, and a motel surrounding her property.
She spent her whole life living half the year up there and half the year in Louisiana to spend time with both her daughters.
They used to keep their milk in glass bottles in a stream behind their house that they carved steps in the riverbank to get to. They would fish with a paper clip on a string and grab the fish by hand or bop them on the head with a stick when they would nibble on the hook, since the hook wasn’t actually functional.
Her older sister wanted to go to the picture show. It cost a dime. She didn’t want to go, and she walked so slowly and her sister kept pushing her to make her speed up so they wouldn’t miss it. To be a brat, she swallowed her dime so she wouldn’t have to go.
They had to cross a stream on a stick to get to school - it was a shortcut. One day she fell in and got to skip school. When she repeated the feat, her mother wouldn’t stand for it and sent her to school wet.
This, of course, barely broaches the fascinating stories she could tell and just how goofy the world was. And I got to know her during the perfect time in life- mid/late 90s, so I had no real distractions as they didn’t have cable in the house (which wasn’t weird then), and there were no real portable games to speak of, so I would go there and just listen to her stories.
I actually have a ~1h video of an “interview” with her that her granddaughter (an aunt of mine) did. I still listen to it every now and then. Reminds me that I should probably sit down on camera with my grandmother and do the same soon.
A few high points:
Great grandmother’s name was Rose and did quite legitimately weld bombs or missiles/rockets in California that got shipped over The Pacific.
She told stories about The Depression. But in particular was how excited they were on Christmas morning as kids to get oranges in their stockings. They were a delicacy to them.
She had a home in the middle of nowhere in Arkansas. It’s now been swallowed up by the sprawl of Little Rock. She went from a home on a couple of acres with nothing around to having an AutoZone, McDonald’s, and a motel surrounding her property.
She spent her whole life living half the year up there and half the year in Louisiana to spend time with both her daughters.
They used to keep their milk in glass bottles in a stream behind their house that they carved steps in the riverbank to get to. They would fish with a paper clip on a string and grab the fish by hand or bop them on the head with a stick when they would nibble on the hook, since the hook wasn’t actually functional.
Her older sister wanted to go to the picture show. It cost a dime. She didn’t want to go, and she walked so slowly and her sister kept pushing her to make her speed up so they wouldn’t miss it. To be a brat, she swallowed her dime so she wouldn’t have to go.
They had to cross a stream on a stick to get to school - it was a shortcut. One day she fell in and got to skip school. When she repeated the feat, her mother wouldn’t stand for it and sent her to school wet.
This, of course, barely broaches the fascinating stories she could tell and just how goofy the world was. And I got to know her during the perfect time in life- mid/late 90s, so I had no real distractions as they didn’t have cable in the house (which wasn’t weird then), and there were no real portable games to speak of, so I would go there and just listen to her stories.
I actually have a ~1h video of an “interview” with her that her granddaughter (an aunt of mine) did. I still listen to it every now and then. Reminds me that I should probably sit down on camera with my grandmother and do the same soon.
Posted on 4/2/23 at 10:04 am to Hopeful Doc
My wife’s 101 y/o great grandma passed away like two weeks after I met her a couple years ago. Got to talk to her for 2 hours. Was one of the greatest conversations of my life. She remembered being scared the first time a car drove through their small Kansas town. 
Posted on 4/2/23 at 10:23 am to Hopeful Doc
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Christmas morning as kids to get oranges in their stockings. They were a delicacy to them.
She had a home in the middle of nowhere in Arkansas
My grandfather told me the same thing
He was born and raised in rural Southeast Georgia which to this day is still one of the poorest areas of the state. He also told me poor black people and poor white people were treated the same. Like shite. It didn’t matter what color you were in a rural area if you were poor. Cities were a bit different.
Posted on 4/2/23 at 10:56 am to RollTide1987
It's really sad. Growing up, I always loved listening to stories from the elderly about the 30s, 40s, and 50s.
Have zero interest in hearing anymore bullshite about Woodstock and Watergate from the current generation that makes up that group.
Have zero interest in hearing anymore bullshite about Woodstock and Watergate from the current generation that makes up that group.
Posted on 4/2/23 at 11:05 am to RollTide1987
As they sit back and watch the current shiat show, i bet they can't wait to depart.
I just hope they're comfortable and understand some of us appreciate what they did.
I just hope they're comfortable and understand some of us appreciate what they did.
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