[2ndDivisionVet]

My late father helped take, among other places, the island of Okinawa and the port of Inchon. So you can guess how I feel about the implied comparison.

[Robert Teesdale]

I appreciate that people can be passionate about their beliefs, especially politically insurgent beliefs, and most of all when they scent total power on an exponential arc.

But still. It displays, among other things, appallingly bad taste. One should be more graceful when making comparative declarations of human sacrifice in support of one's ideology.

It just came across as a little too flamboyant.

Wait, what?

[left that other site]

Indeed. My dad was wounded at Iwo Jima, got stitched up, and went back onto the beach.

He was 17.

He had a big scar on his back and when I was a little girl, I asked him about it.

“Oh,” he said casually, “That was from the War. You know...the Big One.”

I can’t tell you how disgusted this alleged person’s rhetoric makes me!