Posted on 07/03/2022 4:45:16 PM PDT by Angelino97
Much of what American soldiers fought for in World War II has “gone down the drain,” according to U.S. Marine Carl Spurlin Dekel, who celebrated his 100th birthday last week.
Dekel says serving his country in WWII was the most important thing he ever did, according to Fox 13. The veteran and Silver Star holder says he wouldn’t hesitate to put his life on the line again, but regrets that the U.S. has slipped away from what he remembers.
“People don’t realize what they have,” Dekel told the outlet. “The things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for it, it’s all gone down the drain.”
“We haven’t got the country we had when I was raised, not at all,” he says. “Nobody will have the fun I had. Nobody will have the opportunity I had. It’s just not the same and that’s not what our boys, that’s not what they died for.”
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“We haven’t got the country we had when I was raised, not at all,”
Plenty of us vets are sick at heart over the same thing.
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Yes, we are.
My WW II veteran Dad would also be 104 (1918) and I feel the same as you. He would be sick at heart to see his beloved country in this shape.
Yes.
This WWII hero is 100. He has a mind both to remember his service in the 1940s, and to know what is going on now.
biden is only 79, and doesn’t know which way is up. Nor can he find his way into the White House without assistance. Yet he is the President!!!!
Help!!!!
Agree.
If GI Joe and Rosie the Riveter had put the effort into child-rearing that they did in fighting the Axis powers, our collapse may have been slowed somewhat.
Now we're left with trying to put the whole thing back together.
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We lost the peace because guys like this marine voted for democrats for years while democrats paved the way for today’s society.
He is directly responsible for the state of society yet I bet he adamently thinks he had no part in its making and his crying is enough proof of that.
Mr. Deal, the fight continues and in the next skirmish’s victory will be ours.
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I’ve been posting the video all night
If they had their way at the time, they wouldn’t have fought at all, it wasn’t till the Japanese attacked at Pearl Harbor that finally got the U.S. into the war. Otherwise if neither Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan had bothered them, they would have let the rest of the world burn.
100-year-old WWII vet breaks down, says this isn’t the ‘country we fought for’
Unfortunately, he is right on the money. So called liberals have changed so much, becoming radical socialists. If John F. Kennedy a liberal, who I thought was a fairly decent guy would show up today, they would run him out of town in a heartbeat.
The founder of the John Birch Society?
To which of his thousands of statements are you referring?
Regards,
I want to give this man a hug and tell him some of us are doing all we can to make things right.
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Stalin would have stopped Hitler, with both of them burning themselves out by the end.
Pat Buchanan said as much.
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The one on top is the Silver Star. The man is a bone fide hero.
Awarded for valor in combat against the enemy.
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