"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
09/12/2020 at 11:59 • Filed to: Happy birthday
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
09/12/2020 at 11:59 • Filed to: Happy birthday | 14
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America’s oldest living WWII veteran. And he said that if he had to do it all over again, he would.
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PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120
> ttyymmnn
09/12/2020 at 12:24 |
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Thanks for po sting this. A s a society we were very fortunate to have soldiers like this, who were willing to say no to the oppression of the axis powers.
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ttyymmnn
> PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120
09/12/2020 at 12:37 |
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During WWII, many German POWs were sent back to the US to work on the farms since so many American boys were fighting overseas. The Germans lived with the American families, and when they went to restaurants, the German POWs were allowed to eat in the dining room while the Black US soldiers were forced to eat from the back door of the kitchen. So yes, the soldiers went to fight Fascism, racism and oppression in Europe, only to come home to the same thing here in America.
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PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120
> ttyymmnn
09/12/2020 at 12:50 |
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Yes, for sure we had (read: have) our own terrible problems here, no doubt. I was not trying to indicate otherwise.
415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
> ttyymmnn
09/12/2020 at 14:28 |
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415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
> ttyymmnn
09/12/2020 at 14:29 |
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And even Vietnam was not a hell of a lot better. I went into a historical rabbit hole when I got my truck, looking through Korea and Nam. So many things I didn’t know about, my dad was a carrier pilot and doesn’t really talk about the rest of it on shore.
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ttyymmnn
> 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
09/12/2020 at 15:20 |
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Black kids and poor white kids, while the more affluent, connected white kids got to stay home. Even those who claimed deferments for college were in a position to go to college in the first place.
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415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
> ttyymmnn
09/12/2020 at 15:24 |
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True, or they were officers in much more favorable locations.
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ttyymmnn
> 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
09/12/2020 at 15:26 |
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The officers were all college ROTC grads or West Point grads. Therefore, overwhelmingly white. (I have no actual data to support this claim, but I’m pretty sure I’m right.)
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415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
> ttyymmnn
09/12/2020 at 15:31 |
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Oh for sure, they had experienced people in key positions, but you know how it is, butter bar is in charge of something but the E7s and up are making things actually work.
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> ttyymmnn
09/13/2020 at 08:09 |
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The expression on his face shows the difference between 18 and 111.
Much respect. Pretty soon all the War 2 vets will be gone, and that’s a big loss.
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ttyymmnn
> old-busted-hotness-still-cant-comment
09/13/2020 at 14:44 |
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I took this at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans back in 2017. It’s a great museum.