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US Veterans won’t strike swastikas from graves of German POWs
Times of Israel ^ | May 13, 2020 | Staff

Posted on 05/13/2020 2:58:05 PM PDT by Trump20162020

WASHINGTON — The US Veterans Administration will not replace three tombstones of soldiers who fought for Nazi Germany inscribed with swastikas in its military cemeteries, calling them “historic resources.”

A group that advocates for religious freedom in the military on Monday called on the VA to replace two World War II-era POW headstones in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas, inscribed with swastikas inside a German cross, and the phrase, “He died far from his home for the Führer, people, and fatherland.”

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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: cemetaries; cemetery; fortsamhouston; germany; grave; gravedesecration; graverobbing; graves; headstone; headstones; mikeyweinstein; sanantonio; secondworldwar; swastika; swastikas; texas; tombstone; tombstones; va; worldwar2; worldwarii; ww2; wwii
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To: DesertRhino

If they are buried in a National Cemetery, they most likely defected and brought secrets with them. Look at Werner von Braun and men like him - they contributed greatly to the US war effort and our post war efforts to control communism.

America as a whole is far too eager to apply our current morality to the past, with no historical background.


21 posted on 05/13/2020 3:27:41 PM PDT by datura
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To: Trump20162020

Leave it be.


22 posted on 05/13/2020 3:28:29 PM PDT by Altura Ct. (uNACA)
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To: datura

I thought they were POWs who was imprisoned in the States who died of natural causes in the POW camp.


23 posted on 05/13/2020 3:29:03 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: All

Confederate soldier graves, monuments, and symbols should be left alone as well.


24 posted on 05/13/2020 3:29:23 PM PDT by datura
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To: Leaning Right

Yes, Yezhov being erased is a good example.


25 posted on 05/13/2020 3:33:37 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Any man or woman who fight for their country deserves respect. They put on uniforms, and many of them died for their country. My dad hated the japs, but he respected them. The NAZIS were evil. Most Germans were not bad people.
Most individuals are sheep. We are seeing history repeating pence again. God bless you.
26 posted on 05/13/2020 3:38:12 PM PDT by Do the math (Do the math./y to)
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To: Darksheare

To the left, removing swastikas and other symbols is to make us forget who the left really is, what the believe, and most of all what they intend.


27 posted on 05/13/2020 3:38:27 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: DiogenesLamp

“The world is not right unless the left is wailing in pain.”

I like that. It is so true!


28 posted on 05/13/2020 3:43:19 PM PDT by Dennis M.
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To: Trump20162020

Traveling in South Korea in the 1950s, I often over-nighted at Buddhist monasteries where I knew I could stay for practically nothing. The monasteries’ locations were indicated on the map with swastikas.


29 posted on 05/13/2020 3:46:34 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Leaning Right

That little guy on the far right fell out of favor. So he never existed.
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Actually he was beamed up between frames to the NCC-1701 were he assumed duty as ships pilot, then later moved on to work as a Class 10 telepath for the Psi Corp.


30 posted on 05/13/2020 3:47:44 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: mass55th

But you’ll limit the placing of Confederate battle flags on the graves of Confederate soldiers buried in National Cemeteries

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The Dept of VA is not permitting the Boy Scouts to plant American flags on Vet’s graves (due to some disease).


31 posted on 05/13/2020 3:50:59 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Shadow44

Yes leave the dead alone.


32 posted on 05/13/2020 3:52:10 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #gin&tonic #Godwins)
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To: Trump20162020; All

This reminds me of what Germany has done. They barred the display of any Nazi symbols and, basically, any discussion of that part of their history. If you talk about Nazism there in front of the wrong people, you can wind up arrested. They don’t have uninhibited free speech rights there.

It happened, and no matter what, that won’t change. Those soldiers died fighting for the Reich, most likely something that believed in strongly. It should just be left alone. Removing the symbols won’t solve anything, and would only serve to dumb down the populace.


33 posted on 05/13/2020 3:52:16 PM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: Do the math

My grandfather was shot 17 times in WWI and left for dead on the battlefield. The Germans found him and saved his life, actually putting a plate in his head.

During WWII he would not allow anyone in his family to say anything bad about the German people. He would remind people that Hitler was an Austrian and was to be hated. But NOT the Germans,


34 posted on 05/13/2020 3:56:51 PM PDT by Pendergast (I'm new and I don't have one!)
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To: Hiddigeigei
Traveling in South Korea in the 1950s, I often over-nighted at Buddhist monasteries where I knew I could stay for practically nothing. The monasteries’ locations were indicated on the map with swastikas.

I think Hitler adopted it because of it's eastern mysticism connections. Hitler would fit right in with modern "new age" pseudo pagans.

35 posted on 05/13/2020 3:59:18 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

“I said years ago “The world is not right unless the left is wailing in pain.”

So, you don’t think we’ll ever be able to eradicate leftism once and for all?


36 posted on 05/13/2020 4:01:03 PM PDT by dsc (As for the foundations of the Catholic faith, this pontificate is an outrage to reason.)
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To: Trump20162020

OMFG, mofo’ing people and their need for historical revisionism.

Wish they would take all their collective sensibilities and shove them up their own arses!


37 posted on 05/13/2020 4:02:01 PM PDT by cranked
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To: dsc

Nope. That’s why I’m a Christian.


38 posted on 05/13/2020 4:06:43 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Tacrolimus1mg

It’s pretty bad in Germany. I know some Germans, one of them told me he had the police called on him because he was playing the Königgrätzer Marsch in public and offended somebody.

The police fortunately didn’t do anything since it’s not illegal, but it’s a pretty sad testament of how things are over there.


39 posted on 05/13/2020 4:08:28 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: Trump20162020
A group that advocates for religious freedom in the military

I bet that's a lie and the group is the usual evil Freedom From Religion group that makes money from donors by threatening lawsuits everywhere they can find a cross or religious art on government property.

40 posted on 05/13/2020 4:08:36 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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