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Last World War II veteran leaves Congress
Sno Valley Star ^ | January 3, 2015

Posted on 01/03/2015 9:10:36 AM PST by Dave346

For the first time in 70 years, no World War II veteran will be sitting in the House of Representatives or in the Senate when 114th Congress convenes Jan. 3, according to the Association of Mature American Citizens.

Michigan’s John Dingell, 88, and 91-year-old Ralph Hall, of Texas, were the last of what’s known as the Greatest Generation to serve.

Dingell, a Democrat, enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1944, when he turned 18, and rose to the rank of second lieutenant. He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1955 and holds the distinction of being the longest-serving member of Congress.

Navy Lieutenant Hall, a Republican, joined in 1942 and was an aircraft carrier pilot. He was elected to the House in 1980 and has held his seat for 17 terms.

“World War II, as awful as it was, broke down tons of barriers,” veterans’ advocate Seth Lynn, director of the independent Veterans Campaign, told the association. Those who served, developed a “camaraderie that lasted for the rest of their lives.”

Hall said the bond held firm among members of Congress who served in the Great War.

“When we differed on the issues, we respected each other and chose to respectfully disagree,” he told the association. “That was part of our military training and experience.”


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 113th; dingell; veterans; wwii
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To: exnavy

“Thank God Dingle - berry has retired.”

But his “much younger (@59) wife” has succeeded him, so Michigan has just refilled the toilet with a younger turd.


21 posted on 01/03/2015 10:16:05 AM PST by vette6387
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To: BenLurkin

There was a civility to that generation that its successors have not inherited. Unfortunately. It’s not just Congress, either. Civility in our society has deteriorated (almost) to the point of no return. Hopefully things will be better for our grandkids.


22 posted on 01/03/2015 10:18:35 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: Tupelo

McCain, The Hanoian Candidate.


23 posted on 01/03/2015 10:20:22 AM PST by onedoug
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To: vette6387

There is no fixing stupid. Shame on the voters of Michigan.


24 posted on 01/03/2015 10:29:18 AM PST by exnavy (Got ammo, Godspeed.)
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To: exnavy

“There is no fixing stupid. Shame on the voters of Michigan.”

Two words: Stupid, self-Centered Union Goons and Goonettes


25 posted on 01/03/2015 10:39:44 AM PST by vette6387
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To: Dave346
The one bright and shining contribution to the public discourse was when Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) and NRA board member called members of the ATF “jackbooted thugs” after their shooting of Ken Ballew in a botched June 7, 1971, raid on his apartment. Since then, Dingell’s integrity has gone to zero and he's now just an elder scumbag ‘Rat.
26 posted on 01/03/2015 10:45:28 AM PST by MasterGunner01
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To: vette6387
so Michigan has just refilled the toilet with a younger turd.

Very well said......

27 posted on 01/03/2015 10:49:24 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (I'm a man of no-color and proud of it.)
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To: equaviator

Dingleberry is a disgrace to the “greatest generation”.


28 posted on 01/03/2015 12:32:12 PM PST by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: BenLurkin

You’re right and it’s sad. While the men and woman of today carrying on traditions of our great military, the life these young men and woman is a world away from that that most of the WW2 generation lived. If was just a very different America. My late father-in-law, 4th. Marine Division once sent to an orphanage because his parents just really couldn’t afford to feed him and his six other siblings so he joined the Marine Corps after pearl harbor. He didn’t have much in the way of education but he became a Gunnery Sargent and survived Saipan( where he was first wounded) Tinian and Iwo Jima where he was seriously wounded but that got him the hell out of there. My dad was 13 when the war broke but he had older cousins who served in the Navy, one on the cruiser USS Santa Fe and I’ve spoken before many times of the last of my uncles who passed away two years ago, my Uncle Fred, the son of Polish immigrants who served with the 84th. Inf. Div. during the Battle Of The Bugle and was also severely wounded but made it home. I think those men had the fortitude they did because they just didn’t have so much of the materialism, wealth and opportunity so many kids have today.Doesn’t make todays generation bad, per se, probably just more of a feeling of entitlement as opposed to earning respect and advancement thorough merit and hard work. But I think over all the majority of young Americans are good kids.


29 posted on 01/03/2015 2:16:49 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: null and void

“And why not? The current generation doesn’t seem to want to have much of anything to do with it.”

Well, can’t blame them. They were left with a tyrannical mess that does not respond to the people anymore.


30 posted on 01/03/2015 2:46:04 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Dave346

GOODBYE SOCIALIST!


31 posted on 01/04/2015 6:27:25 AM PST by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: Dave346

The “Great War” was World War I, but I suppose anyone can be a journalist these days.


32 posted on 01/05/2015 3:14:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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