Posted on 06/15/2024 8:33:00 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
“I find it amusing you post to yourself.”
Enjoy!
Many send comments to themselves so as to accomodate and not to traumatize any Freepers that doesn’t want to see information that ruffles their agenda. :)
Thanks for the invite.
Sounds GREAT! I have heard this mentioned before...
will have to check it out :)
FYI... News reports now down to dozens of Russians surrendered vice 400.
The war started in Europe in 1939. US entered this war in December 1941. The battle started around 1936 in Spain as Germany and Russia tested their weapons of war for their future needs/plans. People from other countries took part as well. Hemingway wrote about his experiences in Spain. President Kennedy’s brother was killed helping Britain before Dec. 1941.
President Kennedy’s brother was killed helping Britain before Dec. 1941.
On August 12 1944, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. was killed when his plane, packed with explosives for a top-secret bombing raid, exploded over southeast England.
You are right, the price for relying of very old memories. His service was from England (I presume in US aircraft). See detailed link below.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/joseph-patrick-kennedy-jr-a-dream-unfulfilled.htm
After reading about his deadly mission here, and looking at what happened subsequently to the Kennedy men who were politically active, I find myself wondering if the premature explosion might have been planned. I have heard that their father who was serving diplomatically in England was not well liked by some powerful people.
Old Joe Kennedy could well be called "pro-Nazi" in the sense that given a choice between Nazism and Communism, Kennedy would choose Nazism as the lesser evil.
Kennedy believed Germany would defeat Britain and clashed with FDR over FDR's anti-Nazi policies.
So Old Joe was replaced as ambassador in November 1940 and later blamed FDR for Kennedy's son's death over the English Channel.
Old Joe's feelings toward Germany give special poignancy to Pres. Kennedy's June 1963 speech in West Berlin, whose most famous line was Kennedy saying, "Ich bin ein Berliner".
"Two thousand years ago, the proudest boast was civis romanus sum ["I am a Roman citizen"].
Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'...
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'"
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!’”
“I am a Jelly Doughnut?”
I remember the pastry argument from that time. Here is one interpretation regarding JFK’s speech.
“What is the meaning of “ich bin ein Berliner”?
To state Ich bin Berliner would have suggested being born in Berlin, whereas adding the word ein implied being a Berliner in spirit. His audience understood that he meant to show his solidarity. Emboldened by the moment and buoyed by the adoring crowd, he delivered one of the most inspiring speeches of his presidency.”
Elsewhere it was stated about this doughnut that while “ein berliner” is its name in Berlin, in other parts of Germany it has a different name.
>>>>“I am a Jelly Doughnut?”<<<<
The clueless responses to your question point out how difficult it is for zeepers to understand the American sense of humor.
Yes, you are right. 😀
Spherical doughnuts with a filling of jam (or sometimes custard or lemon curd) are also popular in Poland, where they‘re called pączki, and iirc they are very popular in the USA, too, especially among Americans with Polish roots.
In the dialect of the Palatinate, where President Trumps forefathers came from, they are called „Kreppel“ (singular and plural), though this term is now considered obsolete in Standard German 😀
A Polish friend once laughed when I told him about this, and he said that Old Polish used the exact same word, because the custom of preparing deep-fried foods on Fat Thursday, when all fat in the house had to be used up for Lenten fasting, had been introduced to 10th century Poland by German missionaries.
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