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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere should be WWII soldiers in protests with signs that say...
... "I can't believe I still have to fight this shit."
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lapfog_1
(29,239 posts)would be 90 or 91 today.
The "greatest generation" is almost all gone now.
Beartracks
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Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)All but the youngest one are gone now (he is 92 I think). While they were more conservative than liberal on many issues, they would be livid with some of the shit Trump is doing. They damn sure would be against anyone defending Nazis and the fucking KKK.
Nay
(12,051 posts)protesting these Nazis!!"
I said, "Dude, the few that are left are in their 90s. They are in nursing homes."
Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)Beartracks
(12,827 posts)Would've been an incredible visual.
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Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)are sending their strength to us from their present duty stations...we really, really need it!!!
Hekate
(90,978 posts)...not upwards of 90. So I carry it for all the stuff we truly hoped we could fix, back when we were young.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)TexasProgresive
(12,164 posts)It was very moving. One was a Tuskegee airman.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-war-ii-vets-weigh-in-on-trump-and-charlottesville/
NEW YORK -- William Johnson, Henry Beckam Jr. and Edward Field fought in World War II on the side of history that believed in freedom for all.
"I am a Tuskeege Airman," Johnson said.
"I went into the Army believing that we had to defeat the Nazis," Field said.
"I can still tell you my Army serial number," Beckam said.
Field flew on planes that dropped bombs. "I flew 27 missions and on all of them we were shot at," he told CBS News' Jericka Duncan.
MineralMan
(146,345 posts)At least the ones who are still alive, like my father, who will be 93 in October. Their children, who are the Baby Boomers, should do the job of protesting for them.
Beartracks
(12,827 posts)... in the picket lines. Rather, I was entertaining the notion of them doing so, much like when boomers are marching for the same rights and freedoms that they did 40 years ago with signs that read, "I can't believe I still have to protest this shit!" but with a military twist.
A big thank you to your father, MM.
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