Posted on 07/03/2022 4:45:16 PM PDT by Angelino97
Much of what American soldiers fought for in World War II has “gone down the drain,” according to U.S. Marine Carl Spurlin Dekel, who celebrated his 100th birthday last week.
Dekel says serving his country in WWII was the most important thing he ever did, according to Fox 13. The veteran and Silver Star holder says he wouldn’t hesitate to put his life on the line again, but regrets that the U.S. has slipped away from what he remembers.
“People don’t realize what they have,” Dekel told the outlet. “The things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for it, it’s all gone down the drain.”
“We haven’t got the country we had when I was raised, not at all,” he says. “Nobody will have the fun I had. Nobody will have the opportunity I had. It’s just not the same and that’s not what our boys, that’s not what they died for.”
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I read this story on the daily mail. Read some of the comments...your blood will boil.
Robert Welch Jr was right.
The destruction of the USA was intentional and bipartisan.
It couldn’t happen here until it did.
dear mr. dekel, im 69, and a Vietnam/Cold War vet, and i too, say this ain’t the country i went and fought for, neither!
Hand Salute
I concur completely and I’m only 57 years old.
I cannot watch it. Without even watching it, I know exactly what he will say.
I just can’t bring myself to.
It’s been declared that abortion was never a constitutional right. Now we can hope to receive the grace of God again. Let fox this.
As a fellow Marine, that’s only 78 I share his dismay. Yuri Bezmenov laid it all out fifty years ago and no one listened or believed it could happen to the U.S.A. and here we are today.
I know I wouldn’t fight for that nonsense.
My dad was a WW2 US Marine in the south Pacific -
Guadalcanal, etc. If he were still with us, he would be 96.
Even though I very much miss him, part of me is glad that
he is not here to see what the US is turning into -
because I think it would quite literally kill him.
Heart rending
I figured someone would post it
My blood is boiling each and every day.
Sarge said it perfectly well.
Saddest picture/story I’ve read in a long time.
I don’t think I can stomach reading them. I would likely weep.
My father-in-law went over as a 17-year-old First Lieutenant. He went through North Africa and Sicily. He would hardly ever talk about the war and the atrocities he saw. He told us we would never be able to handle it. (My children wanted to know when they were in HS and thought he would like to tell his story to them. That wasn’t happening.)
My own father was involved in the Berlin Airlift, and suffered from survivor’s guilt. He didn’t talk about his time much either, except for one conversation I had with him when he was 67.
No, this isn’t the country they fought for. Not by a long shot.
Putin is waging a war of aggression and conquest in Eastern Europe and NATO decides to go to war against . . . climate change. At least Neville Chamberlain knew who his enemy was.
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