It’s a shame he turned hard left in his old age. That ruined things for me.
Ditto...he said ‘the US deserved what happened on 9/11’.
When most of your life has been receiving praise and adulation from celebrities and personalities who are anti-Christian liberals, it's no wonder that you embrace their beliefs.
Bennett was always a democrat. He didn’t enlist right after WW2 started. He turned 17 in 1942 and with parents permission he could have went in. He was drafted in Nov 1944 and was still sent overseas and engaged in heavy combat. Turned him pacifist.
Benedetto was drafted into the United States Army in November 1944, during the final stages of World War II.[9][22] He did basic training at Fort Dix and Fort Robinson as part of becoming an infantry rifleman.[23] Benedetto ran afoul of a sergeant from the South who disliked the Italian from New York City; heavy doses of KP duty or BAR cleaning resulted.[23] Processed through the huge Le Havre replacement depot, in January 1945, he was assigned as a replacement infantryman to the 255th Infantry Regiment of the 63rd Infantry Division, a unit filling in for the heavy losses suffered in the Battle of the Bulge.[24] He moved across France and later into Germany.[9] As March 1945 began, he joined the front line and what he would later describe as a “front-row seat in hell”.[24]
As the German Army was pushed back to its homeland, Benedetto and his company saw bitter fighting in cold winter conditions, often hunkering down in foxholes as German 88 mm guns fired on them.[25] At the end of March, they crossed the Rhine and entered Germany, engaging in dangerous house-to-house, town-after-town fighting to clean out German soldiers;[25] during the first week of April, they crossed the Kocher River, and by the end of the month reached the Danube.[26] During his time in combat, Benedetto narrowly escaped death several times.[9] The experience made him a pacifist;[9] he would later write, “Anybody who thinks that war is romantic obviously hasn’t gone through one,”[24] and later say, “It was a nightmare that’s permanent. I just said, ‘This is not life. This is not life.’”[27] At the war’s conclusion he was involved in the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp near Landsberg,[9] where some American prisoners of war from the 63rd Division had also been held.[26]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Bennett
Bennett wasn’t your typical pampered liberal. I posted what’s below on another thread.
It’s worth consideration, I think.
Tony Bennett was a WW II combat infantryman. He saw brutal house-to-house fighting as the Allies pushed into Germany in 1945. He wasn’t some guy serving in an entertainment unit (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
Bennett later said that his combat experience influenced him to become a liberal. Quite understandable.
ditto