This "small world" exchange on DU brings tears to my eyes:

[rateyes]

In another thread I started, I ended up having this exchange with. It is a small world. Just thought you might find it interesting.

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rateyes (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-06-07 04:16 PM
Response to Reply #20

24. I've got an uncle buried at Normandy Cemetery
in France. He was 19 years old, killed about a week after D-Day.

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flyarm (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-06-07 04:48 PM
Response to Reply #24

52. my uncle did the burying there as a 17 yr old and then ended up in a institution!
my father in law fought on the Normandy beaches..and my father died young from his wounds he got fighting in the south pacific in WWII...

my brothers fought in Nam..and my grandfather served on the USS ARIZONA in WWI...

they did not fight to have this congress or any other destroy the constitution!

since saturday..i keep having this run through my mind...

when johnny comes marching home again...he will have no rights left!

fly

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rateyes (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-06-07 04:53 PM
Response to Reply #52

55. WOW. Perhaps your uncle actually buried my uncle.
I am overwhelmed. I will NEVER forget this post.

:cry:

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. My dad was a foot soldier in the Battle of the Bulge

He didn't freeze his ass off in the middle of a European winter so our Congress could ignore our constitution.

After the war, my dad became a US History teacher. He knew the constitution better than anyone I have ever known. I am so glad he is no longer alive. He would be so upset over this.

[rateyes]

2. Great Father you had...

you should be proud. The thought of fly's uncle burying my uncle just overwhelmed me. I really do think the older folk get it. My father was Air Force Sargeant, getting ready to go to Korea when the war ended. Good Democrat who also knows his history.

:hi:

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. My dad was one of the first of his Greatest Generation

to oppose the war in Vietnam. He hated war and saw through Vietnam pretty early into it.

[rateyes]

4. We should all be so lucky.

I, too, am proud to be a liberal! The greatest generation is quickly dying out.

[truedelphi]

6. My Daddy also was in the Battle of the Bulge.

On election day November 2000, he went and voted for Al Gore - the first time he had ever EVER voted for anyone who was not a Republican or an Independent!

I also muse on the notion of just how upset he would be over not only the Constitution being torn apart at the seams, but also how poorly the war is handled - and the awful lack of the tactical support for the Troops in battle.

[WinkyDink]

16. Mine, also. Silver Star. Cannons. He went from Stevenson Democrat to Nixon Republican. Ah,well.

[jgraz]

7. So was my Uncle Tony

He never said a word about it to any of us as long as he lived. We only learned at his funeral that he was a decorated veteran who was wounded twice in battle.

[puebloknot]

11. My dad was at Normandy for D-Day Plus One, and then in the Ardennes...

... for the Battle of the Bulge. Do you know what outfit your father was in? Mine was in the Second Infantry Division, 9th Infantry Regiment (the famous Manchu Regiment), Cannon Company. The Empress of China gave a gift of a silver punchbowl to that regiment for their service to her in the Boxer Rebellion, and I remember seeing it at a party when I was five. After this famous day in 1945 (Hiroshima), my father was in training to go to the Pacific Theater, but the bomb stopped all that. The 9th later fought in the Korean War, but my father had been transferred to another company. He was later transferred to Korea (and I went with him), but we were evacuated from there as things were heating up, before the war started!

But I digress. Indeed, all our fathers who gave so much to secure our liberty would be completely undone by what is happening now. *I* am almost completely undone, some days!

My father stayed in the army because there were no jobs available when he came home from the war. But he was an avid armchair historian.

Here ... let's lift a glass to them! I wonder how many of us here at DU have these tales to tell.

[rateyes]

17. I lift the glass to them!

:toast:

[TahitiNut]

15. My uncle fought alongside your dad in the Battle of the Bulge!

Army infantry. Unreal.

[KoKo]

5. All of our Relatives who Fought in WWI, WWII and KOREA/ VIETNAM are HORRIFIED!

at what the Bushies have done........

[Elwood P Dowd]

8. Yet many veteran's groups support everything the chimp does.

Even though both Bush and Cheney are draft dodgers, these groups support the bastards. Even though Bush and Cheny wipe their ass with the constitution these vets fought to defend, they continue their support. They treat the War in Iraq like a football game we cannot afford to lose. One of the reasons I left the American Legion in 1973 was because of that same mentality. The place was full of Archie Bunker types telling old war stories and praising Nixon.

[The Vinyl Ripper]

9. This may seem OT but I don't think it really is..

I recently learned that before WWII the great majority of colleges and universities in the US were very conservative.

What changed them into becoming the liberal institutions that they have mostly been for the last sixty years or so was the influx of war weary veterans going to school on the GI bill.

The vets saw through the conservative bs and after being at war were not afraid to speak their minds.

Their commitment was so powerful that it changed the world for the better.

To an extent the same thing happened after Vietnam, the vets came home sick of war and helped change the country.

I hope that happens again after Iraq, that hope is all that's keeping me going these days.

[John Q. Citizen]

10. It wasn't so much that they were conservative, it was that they were reserved for the wealthy.

The GI bill allowed the lower and upper lower classes to actually go to college en masse for the first time ever in this country. It built the middle class.

[The Vinyl Ripper]

13. Wealthy = Conservative

No es verdad?

[lonestarnot]

18. I hope so.

I hope they see what has been done to them.

[puebloknot]

12. Pass the Kleenex and see my post below! nt

[puebloknot]

14. Above, not below! nt