So I'm going to put this concept to rest...
I am 70 years old. I was raised in a household where my father was a four-year combat veteran and my mother worked for the Navy department during World War II. I watched countless movies, TV shows, panel discussions, and other historical documentaries about this war, and I did not once, not once hear the phrase “innocent German civilians” or “innocent Japanese civilians“ and all I ever did hear about was how my father’s platoon was nearly wiped out four separate times, and completely destroyed once and he would’ve been among the dead except that he was kept behind the type the battalion list of dead and wounded. After the war, I heard all these lying German bastards who lived around the concentration camps who loudly proclaimed that they had absolutely no idea what was going on inside. And then it turned out that they did know, of course they did. In those days, nobody was buying that bullshit. People in the neighborhood work there, and the overwhelming smell of the charred flesh was unmistakable.
And one more thing: I remember my father telling me that the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan was certainly debatable from a moral standpoint, but he said that he and his company were being prepared for the invasion of Japan, and were told that, almost certainly they would all be killed as the older troops were going to be sacrificed for the beach head landing. If not for the atomic bombs, he said, he wouldn’t be here. So the rule of war is that some must die in order that others may live.
Israel didn’t start this, OK? They did not cross the border and massacre women and children and babies and civilian males. it was done to them, and the miscreants who did this need to be rooted out and destroyed, utterly and totally. 6 million Jews died in those camps and in the surrounding countryside, and it just is not, repeat not going to happen again, while the world watches, and tut, tut and cluck cluck’s about every other issue under the sun.
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I'm only a few years behind you. My father spent his WWII time in the US Navy and before that the British Merchant Marine. Sounds like the old guys would have gotten along famously. Maybe they're somewhere playing cards as we speak.
When we say Never Again...so many folks today have no real appreciation for what that means. The statistic that always shocks me is that there are fewer Jews globally today than in 1940 at the start of Hitler's final solution. And still - that ain't good enough for Hamas. Amazing that a group that openly promotes genocide in their charter with a stated goal to eradicate all Jews - globally - still finds support. 
Anyway I digress.
To our fathers...
You are talking to me. And find it truly offensive for you to equate me with bibi.
How appalling.
Do not interact with me again.
If you do, I'll only reply with
You'll know what it means.
