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US Veterans won’t strike swastikas from graves of German POWs
Times of Israel ^
| May 13, 2020
| Staff
Posted on 05/13/2020 2:58:05 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020
Oddly enough it was a Nazi that helped save thousands of Chinese lives during the Japanese rape of Nanking.
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posted on
05/13/2020 4:10:48 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
To: Trailerpark Badass
Or, I should say, “WE” won’t eradicate leftism. HE will. But I think you already know that.
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posted on
05/13/2020 4:10:56 PM PDT
by
Trailerpark Badass
(There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
To: yarddog
The Germans were much more civil to POWs, at least to the non-Russian POWs, than either the Russians or Japanese were.
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posted on
05/13/2020 4:11:16 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Tyrants don't just give you your freedoms back. You have to take them.)
To: dsc
So, you dont think well ever be able to eradicate leftism once and for all? My thinking is that leftism is an echo of prosperity. Usually it is led by spoiled rotten brats of prosperous families. If you look at historical leftists, you learn this is the general rule, not the exception.
Mao, Marx, Lenin, Castro, and so forth were spoiled rotten rich kids.
Right thinking creates prosperity, and the second generation often turns to the left because they have no idea how things were before right thinking made things better.
I would like to claim this idea as my own, but it's a lot older than me.

So no, I don't think we will ever get rid of Leftism. It comes from human instinct modified by circumstances of prosperity.
Hardship keeps it at bay for awhile, but it returns when prosperity returns.
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posted on
05/13/2020 4:13:03 PM PDT
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: dfwgator
Interesting question. But then a lot of our men are buried in Europe.
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posted on
05/13/2020 4:14:21 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Tyrants don't just give you your freedoms back. You have to take them.)
To: Shadow44
The police fortunately didnt do anything since its not illegal, but its a pretty sad testament of how things are over there. It's like the German government just can't suppress it's inner Nazi. They simply have to have control of people's thoughts.
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posted on
05/13/2020 4:14:40 PM PDT
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: Trump20162020
They are in marked graves. Let them rest in peace.
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posted on
05/13/2020 4:16:20 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Tyrants don't just give you your freedoms back. You have to take them.)
To: DiogenesLamp
There is a difference between an evil political movement and those working for them.
Who would condemn U.S. military serving under Øbola?
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posted on
05/13/2020 4:21:47 PM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
To: Trump20162020
WE took in a lot of the Afrika Korps boys. They like most of the American boys were conscripts. They weren’t there voluntarily, and they had no Canada to run to. They answered the call just like our guys did. They served proudly, they weren’t there to kill Jews, they were fighting for their buddies, just like our guys, and just as proud of their country. Right or wrong it was their country. If there was a Maltese cross on their graves, it may not have ever been noticed.
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posted on
05/13/2020 4:28:40 PM PDT
by
Bringbackthedraft
( #ReasonableDemocratsforTrump. Where are you?)
To: Bringbackthedraft
WE took in a lot of the Afrika Korps boys. A lot of them joined the French Foreign Legion after the war.
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posted on
05/13/2020 4:30:36 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Trump20162020
History wiped out is history forgotten.
History forgotten is history repeated.
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posted on
05/13/2020 4:37:58 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Leave it to me to be holdin' the matches when the fire truck shows up & there's nobody else to blame)
To: PIF
Actually he was beamed up between frames to the NCC-1701 were he assumed duty as ships pilot, then later moved on to work as a Class 10 telepath for the Psi Corp.I don't mean to be picky, but....he assumed the position of navigator, not pilot of the Naval Construction Contract 1701. Later, he worked as a P12 (not P10) for Psi Corp.
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posted on
05/13/2020 4:39:58 PM PDT
by
NurdlyPeon
(It is the nature of liberals to pervert whatever they touch.)
To: DiogenesLamp; Trailerpark Badass
It really makes my butt tired to look at it that way. I really want evil to admit it lost and stop bothering people, but I guess that won’t happen until Our Lord comes again in glory.
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posted on
05/13/2020 4:45:18 PM PDT
by
dsc
(As for the foundations of the Catholic faith, this pontificate is an outrage to reason.)
To: DiogenesLamp
I may be mistaken but I think Nazi swastikas point in a clockwise direction while others, such as some American Indian tribes had the same kind of decoration only pointing counter-clockwise. Anyone know?
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posted on
05/13/2020 4:52:17 PM PDT
by
beelzepug
(OCD and proud of it!)
To: Trump20162020
Its a swastika in an Iron Cross. Remake the tomb stones with just the iron cross(iron cross was a military award for the German Armed Forces before Hitler). No way should a Nazi Swastika be displayed anywhere in the US except for museums.
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posted on
05/13/2020 4:54:46 PM PDT
by
OIFVeteran
( "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!" Daniel Webster)
To: DiogenesLamp
The left can’t get over the fact that the right to not be offended is not in the constitution.
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posted on
05/13/2020 4:55:03 PM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
To: dsc
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posted on
05/13/2020 5:02:41 PM PDT
by
Trailerpark Badass
(There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
To: dfwgator
I enjoy reading thriller novels about French foreign legionnaires, Nazi scum, and American deserters trying to redeem their honor. 😊
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posted on
05/13/2020 5:06:47 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
(Prayers for America.)
To: Trailerpark Badass
“Hang in there, brother.”
When I die, I want to fall facing the enemy. That will be good enough for me.
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posted on
05/13/2020 5:11:05 PM PDT
by
dsc
(As for the foundations of the Catholic faith, this pontificate is an outrage to reason.)
To: Shadow44
the complainer might have been a Bavarian with a long memory
of Friedrich der Grosse wailing on the Imperials in a battle.
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posted on
05/13/2020 5:11:31 PM PDT
by
RitchieAprile
(available monkeys looking for the change..)
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