While the article is a sales pitch for donations, it does contain some stark statistics.
For those who still can, I urge you to reach out to anyone of that generation who contributed to the cause. Make record of what you learn so that generation's collective wisdom is not lost to the future.
Yes,they’re just about gone.
Both of grandfathers were WW2 combat vets. The last one passed in ‘18 at 97 yes old. I’m glad they’re not here to see our total descent into faggotry and Marxism.
When I was a kid (mid-1960s) I went to see a doctor. I always was the talkative type, so I asked him where he went to college.
Doctor: I went to the University of Pittsburgh. That was after my time in the army.
Me: My father was also in WW II.
Doctor: I was in WW I.
A mere 80 years ago. Some folks have ZERO friggin’ clue about how blessed we are because of the sacrifice made by so many. 😳🙏
All three of my uncles served in WWII. All have since passed away. My dad wanted to serve, but kept flunking the physical due to a duodinal ulcer. He was a scoutmaster, and he set the scouts to work selling $70,000 in war bonds, planting victory gardens, and collecting materials needed in the war effort, such as scrap metals, etc.
He passed away in 1995.
My dad was in a Jap concentration camp with my grandmother, grandfather and uncle in the interior of China because they were Belgian living in China when the Japanese invaded. He was there three years. Starving. Saw people beaten to death as a ten year old kid.
My mom passed 13 months later in 2016 at age 82.
My uncle (WW2 US Army, survived the Bataan death march, Philippines) passed at age 92.
not to mention Pearl Harbor, the TET offensive, the assassination of JFK and RFK.....
and, they are not teaching any of that in the schools....
But they will still be on the voting rolls
I had two uncles who were pilots in the USAAF in WWII and one of them flew his P-51 on very long range escort missions from Iwo Jima - he had three kills in the air a six on the ground. My dad was deaf in one ear from a childhood accident but they took him in the army anyway to illustrate training manuals.
When I was in the Marines in Vietnam, our Sergeant Major served on Iwo and had been wounded in his first minutes after landing.
I miss all of them.
My dad went off to the wild blue yonder back in 2004 a couple months before ronald reagan. He didn’t care to be buried in arlington national cemetary—though he had the right to do that. rather he’s laid to rest near his parents in a cemetary in Juniata County Pennsylvania. His wife joined him ten years later.
They had a good life together.
We don’t put up our home’s outside flag everyday. We put it up on days like this one, with so much history and sacrifice.
My wife and I are 83 and 84, and we remember Pearl Harbor and other key dates like this one.
We do not know a single WWII vet, who is still alive and only one surviving wife of that era/time.
My wife comes from a small midwest township. Her younger brother and cousin her age did tours in Nam. Her brother said that there are only 4 vets still alive in that town.
That town used to have parades, and other celebrations for vets.
Her Sibling donated his Nam Uniform which is on display at the local historical society. He will go there with his 3 buddies and stand by an exhibit of uniforms going back to the Civil War. Most visitors have no idea of where Nam is and the long war. Most are not aware of the long and bloody Nam war.
I do not agree that future generations in America will not know freedom.
I believe the yearning to be free is a God-given gift for all people.
Who is born to cling to and be content with enslavement?
Show me a society where those oppressed do not want to be free of their chains.
My Mom died two years ago at 94 years of age, my Dad a few years earlier. There are not to many people left who participated in that War and Era. He was Army air corp. Both grew up in the depression. They truly were The ‘Greatest Generation.’
God bless then all. My dad passed in 1990 at 71. WWII, Korea, and advisor in Vietnam. Then Civil Service in Vietnam
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My grandfather was in Operation Market Garden, and wounded at Arnhem.
He’d be appalled by a lot of things - the erosion of Christian faith, the collapse of marriage, the offshoring of jobs, the War on Terror.
But he would also turn in his grave if he could see the growing hero worship for Putin, and the near complete loathing for NATO.
You know the meme of Batman slapping Robin for talking bollocks? Gramps would’ve captioned Robin with “Don’t poke the bear!” and had Batman quoting Patton.
My Father, His 2 Brothers all suddenly turned 18 at the same time and Enlisted. Dad in the Army Air Corps and was a Flight Engineer on C-47’s, not sure what My Uncle’s did. Their Mother worked at a Bomb Factory.
None of them would talk much about it.
It’s a mercy. This isn’t the country they thought they were fighting for.
My father died June 3 2022 at the age of 99.
He was a semaphore signaler - on a barge anchored just off the beach - for the invasion. He was in the SeaBees