I like to see this as a sign of changing times. A very, very good sign.
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May 29th, 2008 3:20 pm · 2 comments
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| dragonrider 5/29/08 5:08 PM | QUOTE(Lancaster Online @ May 29 2008, 03:25 PM) [snapback]395161[/snapback] Post your thoughts and comments about this blog post. |
| Rural Conservative 5/29/08 6:53 PM | This whole thing is ludicrous. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't really care for Obama (he's kinda rubbed me the wrong way), but going after him about a slip up as to which camp his uncle/great uncle helped liberate is way beyond silly. As I've related in another post, the whole topic of German death camps/labor camps is a sore spot for me since my great grandfather's second wife lost her first husband and children in one of the death camps (I don't remember which one). And yes, so I don't have to address the issue again, She was in her 30's when my great grandfather married her and he was in his 60's or 70's (yeah, my family has its share of dirty old men). I believe, from what my father told me, that she was actually a little younger than my grandfather and it was a bit of a contention in my family, but that's beside the point. The issue here is that we should be thankful to, and for our veterans. Whether we get all the info about them exactly correct does not matter. Both of my wife's grandfathers were in Europe on D-day. Her father's father was one of the first ones accross a certain bridge (I don't remember the name), because he was an electrician who had parachuted in. Her mother's father was on the Q.E. 2 when it was torpedoed and later he was on Omaha beach on D-day as a medic. Both of these men served their country well and do not deserve to be maligned, any more than the gentleman in the article deserves to be. The only issue I have here is this, when people malign the troops fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan, it is just as reprehensible as this man's attack upon a WW II vet. Yes, the war we are involved in in Iraq was ill concieved (I've thought so since the beginning), but our troops deserve our support, not our derision, regardless of their generation. |
