Posted on 05/08/2015 7:40:30 AM PDT by SandRat
SIERRA VISTA — It was 70 years ago today — May 8, 1945 — when World War II ended in Europe.
That day, Army buck private Sam Rumore was heading south in battle-ravaged Germany heading for a “repo depot,” after landing at Bremerhaven.
I didn’t see any combat,” Rumore told the Herald/Review.
But what he saw was what Hitler and his Nazi henchmen ended up doing to Germany, causing the allied powers to lay waste to the Third Reich, which Hitler had once boasted would last a thousand years.
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Exactly the example that the free West needs to make again.
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