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Another WWII Veteran Salutes Mihailovich in 2008
Beaver County Times and Allegheny Times ^ | March 8, 2008 | Bob Bauder

Posted on 03/09/2008 8:42:14 AM PDT by Ravnagora

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1 posted on 03/09/2008 8:42:15 AM PDT by Ravnagora
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To: Ravnagora
I've known older Serbian men that were there during the war.
Many have told stories about those times. Never giving too
much information, just enough to keep us young guys wanting
more every time we would gather around at picnics or holiday gatherings.

Great article, thanks from a life long Serb supporter and friend.

2 posted on 03/09/2008 8:57:32 AM PDT by ThreePuttinDude ()... Cevapi & Slivovitz for everyone....()
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To: Ravnagora

Clinton and NATO REPAID the enormous DEBT to the SERBIAN people by ganging up on a small nation of 10 million people bombing them for 79 days days dropping 23000 bombs killing thousands..

The injustices - the lies - the Orwellian propaganda disseminated——have destroyed the credibility of both organizations.


3 posted on 03/09/2008 9:01:49 AM PDT by eleni121 (Solzhenitsyn on the bombing of Serbia: "no difference whatsoever between NATO and the Nazis")
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To: Ravnagora
I've heard that there was a code: "I see you travel in the East."

Mihailovich was a Mason.

4 posted on 03/09/2008 9:14:38 AM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: Ravnagora

BUMP for hero remembrance


5 posted on 03/09/2008 9:15:14 AM PDT by eleni121 (Solzhenitsyn on the bombing of Serbia: "no difference whatsoever between NATO and the Nazis")
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To: metesky

There are so many myths out there about Mihailovich that it’s mind boggling. This is one of them. Mihailovich wasn’t a Mason. He was a Christian Orthodox Serb. And believe me, it cost him.

Had he truly been a Mason or whatever else he’s been accused of being, he would have met a very different fate.


6 posted on 03/09/2008 9:23:32 AM PDT by Ravnagora
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To: ThreePuttinDude

The stories are amazing. These guys lived war when war was still somehow noble in all of its destruction.

They were truly the Greatest Generation and I’m priviliged and honored to have known many of them in my lifetime. I wish they would live forever.


7 posted on 03/09/2008 9:26:00 AM PDT by Ravnagora
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To: kronos77; Bokababe

Ping


8 posted on 03/09/2008 9:29:36 AM PDT by Ravnagora
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To: Ravnagora
Well it sounded fishy to me, but I was told this by a now deceased WWII flyboy, not one of the rescued but a guy who claimed to be friends with some of the rescued.

I certainly have no direct knowledge as I was one year old at the time.
;O)

9 posted on 03/09/2008 9:44:05 AM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: metesky

No worries, mate ! (I’ve always wanted to say that - ever since I saw “Crocodile Dundee” :)

There is a TON of disinformation out there about General Mihailovich, the primary of which is the whole “Collaboration” charge. People must never underestimate the power of propaganda and smear campaigns to get integrated into “history” and pass for “real” historical documentation. Nobody knows that better than the Serbs, both then and especially now.

Just pay attention to how often the same “buzz words” are used when the media or politicians and policymakers discuss the Serbs. Whenever you start hearing the same “buzz words” you know the “information” is suspect. Same applies for General Mihailovich and his Chetniks.

By the way,you being one year old at the time means you were alive when it was all happening which I cannot claim !


10 posted on 03/09/2008 10:09:06 AM PDT by Ravnagora
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To: Ravnagora; Bokababe; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; ...

And it is shameful how the US has repaid the Serbs by betraying them to the Jihadists in Kosovo.


11 posted on 03/09/2008 10:29:19 AM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: FormerLib

Things have never been made right. Imagine how the American veterans who were saved by the Mihailovich Serbs have felt all these years.

The U.S. policymakers throughout the 1990s and even today condemn Slobodan Milosevic (now deceased) and used Milosevic as the pretense for attacking the Serbs in Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo.

HOWEVER, and this is a big HOWEVER, U.S. policymakers had no problem appeasing Josip Broz Tito after WWII until his death in 1980. Tito made Milosevic look like a pussycat.

This is one of those “Ironies” of foreign policy that is going to be difficult to reconcile.


12 posted on 03/09/2008 10:54:30 AM PDT by Ravnagora
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To: FormerLib
They slept in farmhouses and small villages. Walpusk said people who barely had enough to feed their families went without food to feed the Americans. They let the airmen sleep in their beds while they slept on dirt floors and in barns.

The Serbian nation, in a nutshell.

13 posted on 03/09/2008 12:50:00 PM PDT by Banat (DEO + REGI + PATRIAE | Basileia Romaion)
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To: Banat

Meanwhile, the Bosnians and the Albanians joined in the hunt for the American flyers.

And those are the people are government has chosen to support against the Serbian people.

Pure idiocy in a nutshell.


14 posted on 03/09/2008 1:31:25 PM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: Ravnagora; Tailgunner Joe; Kolokotronis; eleni121

Well, TGJ, you’ve been squawking all over the place that those of us who support or are Serbs, Orthodox Christians, or Greeks are “treasonous” and not “loyal Americans”.

Do you say that about the WWII veterans (including the Serb-American OSS agents) in this article?

What is REALLY treasonous is handing our country over to the Muhammadans, their fifth columnists, and their shills, and helping them in their evil plots to conquer more and more Christian lands such as Kosovo !!!!

I know all about this, because we have a large fifth-columnist mosque in our area that spews anti-Serb and Russian, anti-Christian, and antisemitic hatred, and funds jihad all over the world. Yet the dhimmi and Dhimmwit politicians and “mainline” clergy cozy up to it.

It’s time to cut out the islamist and Dhimmwit cancer, and to support our Christian civilization, especially the Orthodox!!!!


15 posted on 03/09/2008 2:18:39 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Ravnagora; All

BUMP for the greatest generation and how we have BETRAYED those who helped them survive.


16 posted on 03/09/2008 2:52:27 PM PDT by eleni121 (Solzhenitsyn on the bombing of Serbia: "no difference whatsoever between NATO and the Nazis")
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To: Honorary Serb; Ravnagora; Tailgunner Joe; kosta50; kronos77; FormerLib; Bokababe; eleni121

17 posted on 03/09/2008 2:52:44 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: eleni121; Honorary Serb; Ravnagora; Tailgunner Joe; kosta50; kronos77; FormerLib; Bokababe

Here’s something I hadn’t seen yet. It appears to be a mob of Mohammedan Bush/McCain supporters burning a Serbian Orthodox Church... a part of Bush’s legacy which Orthodox Christians will not soon forget. Notice them ripping down the crosses. This is what we are supporting with our money and what our troops are under orders from the Christian hating, Mohammedan dhimmi Bush to protect.

http://natapoume.pblogs.gr/2008/03/205798.html

TGJ, what precisely is the American interest being furthered here? What is your “loyal American” justification for this? Is it still your position that refusal to zombie-like salute the Bush policy which makes this possible is treason?


18 posted on 03/09/2008 4:31:14 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis

The Soviet Union was also America’s ally during World War II. The Soviets were well known for destroying Christian churches. Was it wrong to be an ally of the Soviet church-burners in World War II?


19 posted on 03/09/2008 4:36:40 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

You really don’t see the difference? The greater enemy was German national socialism on the march in alliance with fascist movements all over Europe.

Now we stab our allies in the back—the same Serbian allies who are the staunchest defenders against Islamofascism. We prop up what Josef Broz fabricated.

Makes a lot of sense -— God help us.


20 posted on 03/09/2008 4:54:15 PM PDT by eleni121 (Solzhenitsyn on the bombing of Serbia: "no difference whatsoever between NATO and the Nazis")
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