A FRIENDLY ENCOUNTER AT SEA

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[Robert Drobot]

And here's a picture of what that scene looked like:

"We Stand By You."

[Robert Drobot]

What a difference sixty years makes!!!

God bless the German crew aboard the German Destroyer "Lutjens", and our own seamen aboard the "USS Winston Churchill" !!!

[konaice]

Too bad their Crap Weasle government didn't feel the same way.

[Xenophobic Alien]

They stood by us for what 2-3 weeks?

[Robert Drobot]

Seems to me the German military have the same problem our own politicians here - being made to 'fight' ( if you can call it that ) with one hand tied behind our back.

[Robert Drobot]

Too bad their Too bad their Crap Weasle government didn't feel the same way.government didn't feel the same way.

Are they any different from the 'Crap Weasle' Congress we have?

[mazda77]

Don't get too excited everyone. This is from the week after 911 when the whole world said it stood behind us. Silly us, we attacked our attackers and the whole world went away.

[TexConfederate1861]

Unfortunately, the ship is named for that rabid Nazi Admiral that was in command on the Bismarck.

[Robert Drobot]

The bottom line here is the respect the German Navy displayed to the American Navy on the open sea. It's entirely possible the German brass on board caught hell for that display. Politics sucks, when it comes to support for the military. In the wimp world surrounding us, every country's military is experiencing the same lefty/socialist/commie disdain.

Remember the Billery White House, and their eight year demeaning insult of military personnel? The same attitude exist in every Western nation today.

[R. Scott]

They stood by us for what 2-3 weeks?

"They had made a sign that was displayed on her side that read, "We Stand By You."
I would interpret this to be a message from the crew of the ship, not from the German government. The German skipper took a chance doing this. It might not be good for his career.

[CasearianDaoist]

Yes, but we cannot tar the German Military with this blackness not German honour. They had nothing at all to do with it.

[StoneGiant]

Thank you.

A great post, and fitting for Memorial Day.

[ASA Vet]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/557103/posts

[ASA Vet]

Ping

[ExpatGator]

Now for a little perspective: In the year 1942, at the height of the U-Boat war, which saw millions of tons of Allied shipping sent to the bottom by U-boats, American maritime attack/patrol aircraft attacked and sunk two German U-Boats that were involved in a post-sinking search for survivors who might be of intellingence value.

These two subs could not take on more than a handful of men. If left to operate, these subs would have sunk tens of thousands of more tons of ships, each. As tragic as events such as this are, it was regrettably necessary, regardless of what Nazi apologists say. If this qualifies as a killing frenzy then I am Mahatma Frickin' Ghandi.

[Capt. Tom]

Don't get too excited everyone. This is from the week after 911 when the whole world said it stood behind us. Silly us, we attacked our attackers and the whole world went away.

Yo got that right.

We are all Americans now was the sentiment then. As long as we stayed victims we had the world's sympathy. Once we fought back and there was a prospect that those other countries might be asked to pay more than lip service they dropped us like a hot potato. - Tom

[ScreamingFist]

Thanks R.D., I remember this being posted right after 9/11, with quit a different reaction from FReepers at the time. The Germans are good, industrious people. Unfortunately many FReepers buy into the MSM propaganda that "All" Germans are leftist pinkos that hate America. Looking at some of the remarks on this thread, I wouldn't blame the Germans if they were.

[hinckley buzzard]

These two subs could not take on more than a handful of men.

Your point is exactly right. Anyone who has ever been on a WW II era submarine could tell that there was no possibility of a survivor rescue, as you say, of more than a couple people, maybe an officer with intel value, but that would be it.

[Admin Moderator]

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