Posted on 06/02/2020 10:08:48 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The process to remove grave headstones of German prisoners of war that display swastikas and markings related to the Nazi regime at cemeteries in Texas and Utah will begin later this month, Veterans Affairs announced.
The VA said Monday in a statement that it has decided to replace the headstones on gravesites of three German POWs. Two are located at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas, and one is at Fort Douglas Post Cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah.
“Americans must always remember the horror of the Nazi regime and why so many Americans sacrificed so much to free the world from its reign of terror,” VA Secretary Robert Wilkie said in a statement. “It is understandably upsetting to our veterans and their families to see Nazi inscriptions near those who gave their lives for this nation.” […]
One of the headstones shows that a prisoner was awarded the Iron Cross, a German military decoration for valor. The other two show a modified Iron Cross, which depicts a swastika within a cross. Also carved on two headstones is the inscription, “He died far from his home for the Führer, people and fatherland.” …
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Sounds about right, rewriting history so as not to offend.
Veddy interestink.
What war? There was no war.
We have always been at war with Oceana.
//sarcasm
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of monuments” . . . to paraphrase Syme.
There is something not right about this.
I would have thought the easiest way to remind Americans of what we fought for against the Nazi was to leave reminders like this so that we do not forget.
Out of sight is Out of mind - i believe is the alternative.
Funny since that name is actually Czech; it means “jackdaw”.
Grave desecration.
Last I heard they were standing firm on not erasing history.
This is sad.
“Americans must always remember the horror of the Nazi regime and why so many Americans sacrificed so much to free the world from its reign of terror.”
Okay.
Then why remove the headstones.
Am I missing something?
What nonsense. They people were Nazis.
Why are they even buried here? Send their remains back to Germany.
They've been buried for over 75 years with that identification. WHY remove it now? That's HISTORY. That's THEIR personal history. On their final resting place.
Why not just rip them out of the ground and hand the plot over to a pal of the next Democrat president. (Anyone remember the fraud M Larry Lawrence?)
My mother never wanted to be buried because she grew up watching old cemeteries torn up in the name of progress in her city. Where my father's parents were buried was paved over years ago.
But these folks are in national cemeteries. Why are we pretending they weren't Nazis but we're going to leave them there? It makes no sense. It should all stay or all GO. Period.
Spare me the limpid screed.
If we agree to erase all of our history can we then dispense with
reparations, victimhood cults, SJWs and all the incessant whining?
After all, if the evidence is gone none of it ever happened.
That’s why I’m against it. History is history and shouldn’t be erased.
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