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1 posted on 07/29/2023 12:56:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Happy for his family. This brings home to me how many people, around the world, have died for f’ing worthless POS politicians - of all stripes. F them. All of them. Little people whose major talent is manipulation.
2 posted on 07/29/2023 12:59:37 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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Thank you.


3 posted on 07/29/2023 1:02:16 PM PDT by null and void (Intelligence has limits, while gullibility doesn't. ~ SunkenCiv)
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Touching.


4 posted on 07/29/2023 1:13:41 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)
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That good luck flag worked real good 😏


6 posted on 07/29/2023 1:55:13 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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How would you

Like a lucky flag

From bidend - obama - the Ukraine

Diversity war crusader


7 posted on 07/29/2023 2:00:04 PM PDT by Firehath
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I was in my late teens when my HS history class was covering WWII in the SPT, my father told me about the day he shot and killed a Japanese soldier.

His unit was going from building to building in Manila as the city was in the final stages of being liberated, searching for any remaining enemy holdouts.

He was alone on the second floor of a partially bombed out building when he heard a noise. He shouted out in English – “Identify yourself!” (in case it was another GI) then quickly, after no answer “Surrender - Hands up!”

Although he also told me that in many cases, they did not take prisoners as it wasn’t always logistically possible to do so in battle, and yes, while he didn’t participate, he saw some captured Japanese soldiers lined up and shot. But my father having heard of the atrocities committed by Japan and anger over Pearl Harbor, didn’t exactly shed any tears at the time.

A disheveled and confused looking uniformed Japanese soldier came around the corner. My father wasn’t sure if he had his hands up or not as he was partially in shadow, so in a life or death split second decision, my father shot him - a single bullet to the man’s head.

My dad said they were under orders to search the bodies of those they killed, if possible, in case they had anything on them useful for intelligence; maps, codes, etc., especially if they appeared to have any rank.

My dad searched the dead soldier’s pockets and found he had no weapons on him what so ever, but did find Rosary Beads in one pocket and in the other pocket he found a wallet and in it found many pictures of the man’s wife and children and an older couple he presumed were his parents, Catholic Prayer cards and what appeared to be a hospital ID card, partially in English indicating as my father later remembered was in Nagasaki, over ten years old leading my father to believe the man was probably a medic and perhaps had been a doctor before the war. Probably like my father, drafted into service.

He placed the Rosary Beads on the man’s chest and put the wallet back in his pocket and walked away.

My father believed he was right to kill the man as he didn’t know if he was armed, had a grenade, etc., and that some Japanese would booby trap themselves in order to kill GI’s, but said the images of the pictures of the man’s wife and children, the Rosary Beads and Prayer cards never left him.

My father talked about it again not long before he died in 1996. He told me of all the “Japs” he had killed in the war, after all these years, these images still haunted his dreams.

He wondered if the man’s wife, children and parents had survived the war, the bomb and if he could meet them before he died, if they would pray the Rosary with him and forgive him.


9 posted on 07/29/2023 2:25:00 PM PDT by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
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Saipan was a bloodbath a lot of dead US marines I would rather remember instead

The japs started the war. We finished it


10 posted on 07/29/2023 2:31:17 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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Read about how Japanese soldiers and sailors acted down to the lowliest private, how they treated civilians and prisoners, before getting all teary-eyed.


12 posted on 07/29/2023 2:41:35 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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At the end of world war II, my grandfather became the commanding officer of the last Japanese battleship afloat - the Nagato.

It was being made seaworthy so that the United States could take it to
Bikini Atoll to be sunk in the atomic bomb test.

When my grandfather died, we opened up his foot locker and found a huge Japanese Battle flag. It obviously came from the Nagato.

We contacted the Japanese embassy in Washington and ended up repatriating the flag to the Japanese people.


13 posted on 07/29/2023 2:44:25 PM PDT by Lmo56 (If y ...a wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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The battle at Saipan also had the largest banzai attack the pacific war with 4000 crazed japs fighting to the death

Spare me about this poor little jap luck flag IDGAF


16 posted on 07/29/2023 3:11:34 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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And 3000 marines died with 13000 wounded to take that sorry ass little island from those crazed suicidal japs so take that lucky jap flag and shove it up your ass


19 posted on 07/29/2023 3:38:08 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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I knew a WWII vet who was stationed on Tinian and when he was alone in the jungle, he fought a Japanese soldier and in so doing, he won by bayonetting him to death. He told me that even though he had to do it, it still haunted him until he died in his late 90's.

HE told me another story, he watched them load Little Boy aboard the Enola Gay. He did not know what was going on but he knew it was something very big. When Colonial Tibbets came back, he also served him in the officer's club and Tibbets kept saying over and over, "my God, what have we done?"
24 posted on 07/29/2023 4:03:05 PM PDT by MrLucky1966 (GOVT.SYS CORRUPTED! RUN GUN.COM? (Y/Y) GUN.COM NOT FOUND, EXECUTE BASEBALL.BAT? (Y/Y))
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