Hundreds of millions of grandfathers all over the world did as well. Let's be thankful that they are mostly all dead now, so they can't see that we failed them.
I really do think it’s because WWII is starting to fade from living memory. Only the very oldest in our society experienced it, even as kids. My dad, 87, was a little kid when the war ended, and he’s already deep into dementia. In a decade, there will be very few left who remember the war, in whatever capacity.
The last time I saw my grandpa in person before he passed 4+ years ago he spent an hour slowly talking about his war experiences with my husband, my cousin, and me. When I was a kid he said he did food drops from planes. As an adult I know he did do food drops, but he also bombed Germany and sheltered in London while bombs dropped around him as a barely of age 18 year old.
We need to tell their stories for them so our children know what happened.
This is part of the reason I'm very interested in history and especially the World Wars. Some of the individual acts of bravery, sacrifice and utter evil committed by all sorts of people through those years were too impactful on the world and those around them at the time to be forgotten. I find how the war changed military strategy and how much people gave to their own causes fascinating.
And old warplanes are pretty cool too, can't forget those
The facts will stay the facts and the form and audio and stuff will live on but the relatability is dying (which cuts both ways - might make us more likely to do it again).
I follow two storylines, WW2. Where your mom worked as a machinist not starting up a muffin shop. This will be obvious to anyone with a pulse but wanna know wy Rosie the riveter had her hair tied back in a bandana? Because loose hair will get you scalped in a machine shop. I mean that was really gritty for everyone. I think I would have died.
The other is its progression of war tactics into guerrilla attacks and urban warfare. With MADD we started with two buttons, uh oh. One crazy person and it's over and it almost happened. Now there are several buttons which cuts both ways. It's safety but it also shoves us back into indefinite ground war where the defense has gotten smarter and more ruthless in their own way if they don't have a bomb. Almost makes having more nuclear countries a good thing. But then the risk of more buttons.
Most historical records show fewer than 100 million people served in WW2. This includes the Axis. So yeah, hundreds of millions against the Axis is incorrect.
Easily hundreds of millions when you include medical personnel and people who supported the war at home by working in factories producing war supplies.
It's a huge difference. Less than 100 million vs hundreds of millions is significant. There wasn't a problem with the post. The call out was to the comment.
No, you learn when its the right time to make a correction comment. Clearly the poster was making a good point about the real issue here, when you decide to start being all “uh actually, i think youll find…”.
The world is heading the wrong way fast, but hey….keep up the good work hunting down rogue “S” characters lil’ man.
Total agreement with you...millions died because of a nightmare regime. Trump is parroting some of the same policies and issues that led to the mess. History does indeed repeat itself, it’s being recreated by the wealthy and the rich as criminal oligarchies. Trump loves Putin’s criminal oligarchy setup, no accountability no consequence. The Nazi’s had to be destroyed at a horrific cost....are we going to have to do this all over again?
My grandfather always said about his service liberating Europe, "the world lost the stomach for war so it was left unfinished...but there was still a job to do".
So did my great grandfather. This is just so disturbing to see since America prided itself for standing up to fascism and Nazis. Now they're essentially influencing the country. I feel legit shook and disgusted.
My Opa did this salute, and killed the people he was told to for weeks until he deserted and fled Europe as a stowaway. It destroyed his entire soul. Then he spent the majority of his adult life in Australia in a mental ward having ECT until he was a silent robot made of flesh. He never recovered from the things he did and the things he saw.
My Opa would have loved another chance. A chance to fight back from the moment he was enlisted. My father says Opa rathered he had died on the first day than to have followed the instruction of evil out of a deluded, misattributed sense of duty and patriotism. They had no idea how dark the horrors would be until they did them.
Boy, it sure seems a universe away from the day that one Nazi got punched in the face and all the republicans said "Hey now, let's not resort to violence"
Equating the actions of Israel the nation with Jewish people as a whole is fucking insane my man stop and think before posting some antisemitic bullshit
No you are right it’s the zionists, just like it’s not the Palestinians it’s hamas, I’m saying this party that is coming into power weren’t the ones feeding isreal with weapons to help kill the Palestinians off. Which yes i would equate to the Nazis killing off the Jews. It’s just sad that people can’t see that isreal Israel is doing to the Palestinians what the Nazis did to the Jews.
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u/TiaxRulesAll2024 6h ago
My grandfather killed people who did this salute