Posted on 11/24/2004 9:25:17 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
The tattoo on Gurovic's left arm is not covered by his basketball jersey and has angered Croats who perceive General Mihailovic as a villain whose fighters killed Croatian soldiers and civilians in the conflict. The controversial Second World War figure was honoured in 1944 by U.S. President Harry S. Truman with the Legion of Merit award for helping save the lives of dozens of U.S. airman who had been downed by Nazis over the Balkans.
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Dragoljub Mihailovich organized the first armed resistance in Yugoslavia and had a price on his head, 100,000 gold Marks, courtesy of the Nazis. After the war he was caught by the communists, executed, and buried in an unmarked grave. He was awarded the Legion of Merit by Truman for the rescue, by the resistance, of 500 American airmen. Sounds like a hero to me.
Did you ever find out what Vlade Divac has on his left arm? Just wonderin' . . .
He certainly sounds like a hero
I found this on www.Wikipedia.com:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragoljub_Mihailovic
You would think the guy had a Hitler tatoo on his forehead.
BTTT
Balkan politics! What a tangled web with the same themes endlessly repeated.
"...in Foèa where a large number of Bosnian Muslims (est. over 2,000) were executed by the Chetnik forces. The Chetniks on the other hand claimed that this was nothing more than a reprisal and a retaliation for the Muslim participation in Ustaše war crimes in eastern Bosnia under the régime of the Independent State of Croatia..."
Guess it's a tattoo honoring Gen. Mihailovic. He was the first resistance leader in Yugoslavia and was a pro-Western royalist. Churchill sold him out because he preferred Tito's more aggressive tactics (which lead to many more reprisals against Yugoslavian civilians). The communists caught him after the war and executed him after a show trial.
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