What would our WWII vets think of Charlottesville?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

I come late to this one, but the the matter at hand has been (and will be) around for a long time.

That said, one has to wonder what they’d think of what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this month. “They” being the men and women who fought and died in the European Theater of World War II.

If you’re not familiar with the cost in lives of that war, do even a cursory search and your mind will boggle at the millions of innocent deaths directly caused by those whose brains were stewed in the repugnant idea that one race is superior to others.

Unfortunately for the world at large, after simmering their brains in that fetid stew, those who believed in a superior race then decided that “something” had to be done to those who didn’t fit into that race or bend to the ideas it represented.

More specifically and, as regards that “something,” if you did not accept such an idea as being the be all and end all of racial theory and, then, had the temerity to dissent, you became a “problem.”

Spreading a much wider net, if you were mentally handicapped or a homosexual, same thing. If you were a Catholic, a Freemason, a Jehovah’s Witness, a Gypsy, a Slav or some other version of an “inferior person,” you could join the aforementioned groups. If you were a Jew, you were especially targeted for something known as “The Final Solution”: a program aimed at the methodical extermination of an entire people. There were even special groups (Einsatzgruppen) that were nothing more than “mobile killing units” charged with liquidating all political enemies of the German Reich.

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[jberryhill]

1. I'm sure they would have a range of opinions

It's not as if the white ones had to fight alongside African Americans. The US Army remained segregated until 1948.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Nazi flags

I doubt any would have supported that.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I was thinking about that this weekend

at my uncle's memorial service. He was in the Battle of the Bulge and the liberation of Paris - and, unknown to anybody but his wife and maybe a few other people (even his kids didn't know the whole story until after he died), he was awarded a Bronze Star with oakleaf cluster for heroism in battle. The descriptions on the citations of what he did were just hair-raising. But he never, ever talked about the war.

My uncle was a guy who risked his life to actually kill Nazis. He was a life-long Republican, but I have to wonder what he would have thought about Charlottesville and what Trump said about it.