And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I killed 50 men who were trying to make the rest of the world slaves. Your happy life exists because I did the horrible things necessary to stop them. I have nightmares now so you can have sweet dreams.
My father was a WW2 vet as were some of my uncle's. As little kids we would listen to them talk to each other about the war. They thought we did not know what they were talking about. They never talked to us about the war. They did not brag about killing.
One of the saddest things that could happen to a veteran and to his/her family is after they put him/her in their grave and you go up to his family and ask, "What did he/she do in the military?" The unfortunate response is often, "We don't know, he/she never talked about it."
An ancient saying is: "When an old person dies a library burns to the ground."
Grandpa saved the world. God bless him and his "greatest generation."
ReplyDeleteHear you! A small, incestuous group of homicidal devil-worshippers are out to destroy all that. Up theirs. Like Grandpa, he's nobodies fool. Lets win!
DeleteIf that's 1950's, grandpa fought in WW1, and dad was of the "greatest generation" who fought the Nazis.
DeleteThe two gentlemen fought the Krauts. Twice...
DeletePatton was right - we fought the wrong enemy.
DeleteI killed 50 men who were trying to make the rest of the world slaves. Your happy life exists because I did the horrible things necessary to stop them. I have nightmares now so you can have sweet dreams.
ReplyDeleteAppreciate you.
DeleteI’m forever grateful to you as well. I thank you for my family’s freedom.
DeleteSadly, the two kids grew up to be 60s hippies and everything began to unravel
ReplyDeleteTinker v. Des Moines.
DeleteThe start of the slippery slope.
My father was a WW2 vet as were some of my uncle's. As little kids we would listen to them talk to each other about the war. They thought we did not know what they were talking about. They never talked to us about the war. They did not brag about killing.
ReplyDeleteOne of the saddest things that could happen to a veteran and to his/her family is after they put him/her in their grave and you go up to his family and ask, "What did he/she do in the military?" The unfortunate response is often, "We don't know, he/she never talked about it."
ReplyDeleteAn ancient saying is: "When an old person dies a library burns to the ground."
Back before women chose to be idiots and try to escape their roles as wives and mothers...
ReplyDeleteAnd the nutballs and idiots were given credence.
SOMEBODY has watched "King of the Hill"...Grandpa said "I killed fiddy men" about every other sentence.
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