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KISS rocker Gene Simmons visits Pentagon on a different mission
McClatchy DC ^
| 5/16/19
| BY TARA COPP
Posted on 05/16/2019 2:09:11 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
KISS lead singer Gene Simmons visited the Pentagon Thursday for a very different mission from entertaining fans since the 1970s in a band famous for wild pyrotechnic displays on stage.
Instead, Simmons spoke emotionally about what the country means to him.
“I’m a proud son of a concentration camp survivor of Nazi Germany. My mother was 14 when she was in the camps,” he said. She died recently at the age of 93.
(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: genesimmons; germany; holocaust; kiss; mother; pentagon; taracopp; theholocaust
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(Trump is a bionic, 1-man band. Time for all Repubs to jump on his band-wagon & circle the wagons.)
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beaversmom
(Trump is a bionic, 1-man band. Time for all Repubs to jump on his band-wagon & circle the wagons.)
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