Posted on 01/16/2022 4:37:56 AM PST by MtnClimber
And especially those who served and risked their lives to topple racist regimes abroad.
Speaking in Atlanta last week, President Joe Biden made a startling declaration: those who disagree with him about how best to ensure the integrity of the American electoral process, he told Americans, are modern-day Confederates, racist traitors who are supporters of slave-holding rebel president Jefferson Davis.
If I could, I would tell President Biden about the history of my family — a family of Americans who disagree with him, and whom he now condemns as racist traitors.
My father served in the United States Army from 1942 to 1945. A grandchild of immigrants, and the only child of an aged widow, he answered the call gladly when his nation needed him. Raised in extreme poverty, he saw Army life as a step up — he actually thought Army food seemed decent, and there was usually plenty of it — and he was happy to do what his nation asked, willingly risking his life to fight Hitler's racist legions and to stop the spread of the racist ideology of Nazism.
The Nazis had lots of opportunities to kill him. He was shot at, strafed, and bombed in North Africa, on the island of Sicily, later at Anzio, and then in France. Four times he was decorated for bravery in combat. To the extent that he ever had a "safe space" in those years, it was usually right behind a dual 40 mm anti-aircraft mounting.
Like so many of his generation of citizen-soldiers, he was a humble man. He rarely talked, and never boasted, about his military service or his awards. No bumper stickers for him. He simply took it for granted that every healthy young man defended the nation in a time of need.
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The Democrats would support Holocausting anyone who opposes them.
Astute observation.
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