"Nazis, I hate those guys..."

[surfered]

Most of my family served in World War II. My father served in the Army building airstrips as U. S. forces "island hopped” across the Pacific on their way to Japan. My mother packed parachutes at Tinker Air Force Base.

All my uncles served in Europe, one of them piloting an infantry-loaded glider into the pre-dawn darkness on D-Day. Hours later, my father-in-law waded ashore at Omaha Beach and would later participate in the Battle of the Bulge. By war’s end, after a long slog, they marched into Nazi Germany.

They fought against those who believed their racial superiority gave them the right to enslave other, inferior races. Over 60 million people worldwide died because of that ideology and yet, we can’t seem to rid ourselves of it for good, just like cockroaches.


But we continue our opposition because, despite what the President Trump said, white supremacists and Neo-Nazis are not "fine people." Equating them with those who resisted them is morally repugnant and an insult to the memories of The Greatest Generation.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Your family was present for some of the most crucial WWII events.

They faced great danger and adversity.

Yet they did their job to save democracy.
They gave it their all.

Yes those who support a fascist Trump are derelict in their duty as American citizens.
And have no moral compass whatsoever.

[BOSSHOG]

2. My FIL also

Waded ashore at Omaha Beach. He quietly told me a harrowing tale. Two months after D Day he suffered serious injuries on his March to Paris. The injuries ended his Army Career.

There is zero difference between Hitler and trump. And to think millions of Americans don’t care.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. My uncles died in WWII. MAGA insults their memory.

[surfered]

8. I'm sorry. My relatives all made it.

[meow2u3]

17. The Nazis EXECUTED my uncle in WWII

MAGAts disgrace the memories of true American patriots by trying to call themselves patriots. In my parents' time, they'd be hauled off and facing trial and execution for treason.

[usonian]

4. All my uncles fought nazis.

Hate nazis





Illinois nazis, too.

[MustLoveBeagles]

14. Loved the Illinois Nazis reference

[JoseBalow]

5. Killing Nazis is fun!

It's a shame that it's gone out of fashion...



As my high school history teacher so often told us, "the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi."

[surfered]

7. Careful. I made an almost similar remark and my post was removed

For violating some rule about violence

[Tansy_Gold]

6. My family, too

My dad landed in Europe just after V-E day. He was with some of the first US army troops into the extermination camps in Germany. He never spoke of what he saw there.

Both of my uncles served in the Navy.

My father-in-law was a bomber pilot over Europe.

My grandmother was a commissioned USN officer as an aircraft assembly inspector.

I have never shied away from calling 💩 and his supporters nazis and/or fascists . That's what they are. They and their ideology are the vermin infesting our country.

[Jedi Guy]

11. "He never spoke of what he saw there."

My maternal grandfather was a tank mechanic in the 11th Armored Tank Division. Of his five grandchildren, I was the only one who cared to listen to his war stories. He told me how his best friend was killed by a sniper while they were sitting on the turret of their tank. He told me how he earned his Bronze Star.

His division took part in the liberation of the Mauthausen extermination camp, but like your father, he refused to speak of the things he saw there. When he mentioned the name, I could see the haunted look in his eyes. My grandmother told me that he frequently had nightmares about what he saw there and would sometimes weep in his sleep or wake up screaming.

He passed away in November 2015. As much as I miss him, I'm glad he didn't live to see Trump sullying the White House and the devolution of so many of his fellow Americans. It would have turned his stomach.

Respect to your father, your uncles, your father-in-law, and your grandmother. There will never be another generation like the Greatest Generation.

[MustLoveBeagles]

15. I'm also glad

That my grandparents and parents didn't live to see this.

[liberalla]

16. Was your grandmother stationed at Norman Naval Air Station?

After college, my Mom joined the Navy and was stationed there from '43 to '45. Worked on aircraft, but I don't know exactly what it was she did. My Dad was in the Navy in the Pacific, and they met in Norman.

[Tansy_Gold]

18. I honestly don't know where for certain

But they lived in NW Chicago at the time, so I assume it was probably the Douglas Chicago Aircraft Assembly Plant at what after the war became O'Hare Airport.

https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/thousands-descended-on-area-in-1942-43-to-build-douglas-plane-factory-at-what-is-now-ohare/#google_vignette

[liberalla]

20. Thank you for your reply. There's just so many stories and I wish I knew more.

[surfered]

19. Both parents were from Oklahoma. Mom just worked at Tinker.

They met at Oklahoma A&M after the war

[MomInTheCrowd]

9. Go to Normandy if you need clarification....

Unbelievable gratitude to the Brits, Canadians, and US troops who landed on June 6 1944 to confront the madness

[Danmel]

10. My father survived Auschwitz

His parents, sister, sister in law, nephew and countless cousins, friends and neighbors did not.
He was liberated from the Plattling concentration camp by Patton's Third Army on April 28th 1945.
I owe my existence to WW II vets.
I'm grateful he did not live to see TSF.
At least when he died he didn't fear for our safety

[DFW]

12. My dad and father-in-law both were Nazi-hating soldiers in WWII

And my father-in-law was German. He was drafted off his farm at age 17. He was sent to Stalingrad at age 18, and returned minus a leg (Soviet artillery shell) at age 19. An anti-militarist, he wouldn’t let his son play with toy tanks as a kid, and always hoped all his grandchildren would be girls, so that they were not subject to compulsory military service. I remember how his face would grow cold and his jaw would ripple in silent anger whenever a documentary showing Hitler would come on TV. Indiana Jones wasn’t the only one who hated Nazis.

[czarjak]

13. My Dad and six Uncles seved all over.

Not fond of anything German, Japanese or Italian.