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Remember those who fought, died in WWII
Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009 | 2:01 a.m.
World War II began 70 years ago today — Sept. 1, 1939 — with the ruthless Nazi invasion of Poland. Poland was the first to fight Nazi aggression. Not long after, on Sept. 17, Russia stabbed Poland in the back by invading from the east.
During the conflagration, 6 million Polish citizens perished — half were Jewish. Adolf Hitler launched his “Final Solution” to eradicate Jews both in Poland and throughout Europe; death camps were established in Poland for that purpose. It is estimated that a total of 6 million Jews were killed by Nazi oppression during the Holocaust, which should never, never be forgotten.
The 70th anniversary of this day deserves solemn homage to the innocent people who suffered indescribably, who were maimed or who were killed by the Nazis and others during World War II.
As the war spread throughout the world, those who perished or fought in victoriously defeating those fanatics from spreading their poisonous attempts at enslaving and annihilating others should also be honored. This includes our own troops who played the decisive roles in the eastern and western campaigns. Many survivors, still alive today, deserve our gratitude.
Unfortunately, from time to time, various oppressors and fanatics who arise must be suppressed each time before they can ruin nations and people, as is being done even today in several parts of the world. Again, our troops are in the fray, as is our custom of assuring the rights of those being subjugated.
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you know what the world needs...
more nazi movies...
more holocaust movies...
i don't think 10 a year is enough!!!
What's your point there, birdie?
I had a friend who passed away a couple of years ago who was a member of the legendary Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, the Band of Brothers. He parachuted into France on the night before D-Day and fought his way across Europe all the way until the end of the war. Along the way he had two tanks shot out from under him and saw some simply horrific things.
The one thing he could never bring himself to talk about was what he saw when he liberated a concentration camp. He always went deathly silent when the subject came up.
The 70th anniversary of Hitler's invasion of Poland is something that should be marked. It should never be forgotten.
In a time when there are lunatics and morons out there comparing our President to Hitler we need to remember what Hitler was truly like. We need to be reminded of the evil that people can perpetrate on one another. We need to remember how bad things can get - and are still getting - around the world.
We have to be reminded constantly of how the world looked on while a systematic attempt was made to wipe out an entire people; the people who gave us Maimonides, Spinoza, Akiva, Meyerbeer, Modigliani, Horowitz, and Einstein.
We need to be reminded constantly of the people like Roy Pickel, Bill Guarnere, Babe Heffron, Don Malarkey, and Dick Winters - members of Easy Company all - and the many friends they left behind who gave the last full measure of devotion to save the world from the genocidal maniacs.
How much remembering is too much, birdie?
Thank you for your letter, Mr. Potsiadlo.
If the brave American's who fought in World WarII could have seen seventy years into the future and seen the socialist welfare state we have become and the diminished freedoms we have now, they might have laid down their arms and came home. A pathetic incompetent little social worker in the White House. A greedy lazy bunch of citizens who vote for which crook will give them the most free stuff without earning it. The same bunch of citizens who's biggest concerns are getting their mortgages written off and their credit card balances reduced so they don't have to pay for them. Screw their word and signature. Brave Soldiers you died in vain. The enemy has won.
What was it we fought in WWII? Fascist governments that took control of their countries and it's means of commerce and production. Governments that controlled peoples entire lives and put government ahead of the people and their desires for a free life.
Amazing how history repeats itself time after time.
Are politicians today are nothing but a bunch of ball-less p#ssys! (REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS)
More movies???
"Bye Bye Birdie" was on TV Sunday. Kinda reminded me of someone else, but I am not sure who at the moment.
I hear the Audubon Society is making a movie about wayward birds and is looking for a stunt bird to be used in the skeet scene.
jlb101......
Take two aspirin and go straight to bed....Hopefully your condition is not terminal!
The Prosecutor: Never, never in the history of jurisprudence have such terrifying deeds been brought to light. Gentlemen of the jury, you have before you a cruel and cynical monster. Look at him!
[all heads turn to face Verdoux, who turns around himself to look behind.]
The Prosecutor: Observe him, gentlemen. This man, who has brains, if he had decent instincts, could have made an honest living. And yet, he preferred to rob and murder unsuspecting women. In fact, he made a business of it. I do not ask for vengeance, but for the protection of society. For this mass killer, I demand the extreme penalty: that he be put to death on the guillotine. The State rests its case.
Judge: Monsieur Verdoux, you have been found guilty. Have you anything to say before sentence is passed upon you?
Henri Verdoux: Oui, monsieur, I have. However remiss the prosecutor has been in complimenting me, he at least admits that I have brains. Thank you, Monsieur, I have. And for thirty-five years I used them honestly. After that, nobody wanted them. So I was forced to go into business for myself. As for being a mass killer, does not the world encourage it? Is it not building weapons of destruction for the sole purpose of mass killing? Has it not blown unsuspecting women and little children to pieces? And done it very scientifically? As a mass killer, I am an amateur by comparison. However, I do not wish to lose my temper, because very shortly, I shall lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all...very soon...very soon.
Henri Verdoux: Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Henri Verdoux: Wars, conflict - it's all business. One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow!
-Monsieur Verdoux 1947
jlb101,
You demean these people with your comments. Shame on you.
You belittle their sacrifices over questions of politics.
The people who fought that war are the ones who came home and shaped the society we have today. The Greatest Generation isn't called that simply because they fought the war. They are called that because they came home and remade our nation into a more just society.
The Greatest Generation came home and ended Jim Crow, both within the military and without. The greatest Generation came home and gave us the presidencies of Eisenhower and Kennedy. They are the ones who brought us Medicare and VA benefits; they brought us the GI Bill and the national highway system. They brought us the single greatest period of prosperity our nation has ever known. They have much to be proud of, and the WWII veterans I know are just as proud of the nation they built as the war they fought.
How dare you belittle them over your petty politics.
Just? What the hell is fair and just about a little subhuman government piece of crap taking half your check you worked for? What is just about a medical system that is going to bankrupt the country? They fought so we could be free. That is the right to do with your life and the fruits of your labor as you please within constraints of letting the others do the same. Eisenhower and Kennedy were fine but what about the little pathetic, near illiterate social worker in the White House now? A disgrace to those who died for this country and all of humanity. The problem with liberals is they think freedom means freestuff. I'm not belittling those who fought for this country, but those in power since that time who have turned this country into a bunch of disgraceful parasites who demand that honest people take care of them because they are not good enough to take care of themselves. I have no sympathy or compassion for them. If you would study a little history you would understand how closely Obama parallel's Hitler. The are cut from the same piece of cloth.
jlb101,
Again, you dare to speak for these people! How do you know what they wanted for this country? Have you talked to any WWII veterans? All you're doing is projecting your political prejudices onto them. There are liberal WWII veterans just as there are conservative WWII veterans, and many of them voted for the man you demean as the "pathetic, near illiterate social worker."
By the way, you ought to check your grammar, syntax, punctuation, and usage before you call the President illiterate. He edited the Harvard Law Review and got himself elected President; what have either of us done?
The President's story is a tribute to all who died for this country, from Concord to Gettysburg, from Normandy to Inchon and beyond. You need to get over yourself. President Obama was freely elected by the majority of your countrymen. The people who fought and died in our wars did so that we might have free elections. The election didn't turn out how you wanted. Too damned bad.
You let your hatred take you places that no reasonable person would go. Hitler and Obama cut from the same piece of cloth? Tell that to my ancestors who died in Hitler's concentration camps. Tell that to other of my ancestors who fought and died trying to stop Hitler. Tell that to my WWII veteran friends who voted for Obama.
Your gall knows no bounds. I don't know how you stand yourself.
True Obama got elected but the country has been taken over by the parasite class which it appears you are a member of.
Obama is still gutter trash from Chicago running aroung getting these Acorn types to extort money from honest Americans. I don't buy into it. Some 400 lb welfare pig with 12 kids, 11 of whom she doesn't even have an idea who the father is, does not deserve anything. Obama looks up to her, which brings him down to her level.
History will put Obama in with some of the nicer gentlemen for example, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Castro, Mao, just give it time.
As for my writing, even though I went to a gubberment skool end taut bye an uniun teecher eye did quitte weal. Professionally I wrote many complicated financial documents which went to judges and other legal professionals. No complaints from any of them. In fact my peers regarded me as the best and I was paid quite well for it. I put little effort in these postings other than my thoughts.
I have numerous friends who were in the military and I cannot repeat what their opinions of Obamba is or they would kick me off of here.
I am a man. I take care of my family. I take care of my animals. I don't beg the government to take care of me with someone elses money. If I cannot afford the healthcare I require, I am intelligent enough to figure out a solution without parasiting.
I don't know how people who grovel for the government to take care of them can stand themselves. They are not real men. Where do you fit?
I would die a thousand deaths rather than take any of your precious money, jlb.
I, too, get paid rather well for what I do. I will never, ever, receive in my life benefits from the government equal to what I pay in taxes. I am not groveling for the government to take care of me; I am asking the goverment to do what it is supposed to do: solve problems the private sector can't.
While I do that I won't stoop to comparing my political opponents to Hitler, Stalin, or Mao. I won't presume to speak for people with whom I am not acquainted. I won't try and make my point by heaping insults on the "parasites" and the "400 lb welfare pigs" of the world.
You see, I know what makes a man, too. I understand a man has a resposibility to more than just his family and his animals. A man understands that when Cain asked "am I my brother's keeper?" the Lord didn't answer because the answer is self-evident. A man understands that the love of money is, indeed, the root of all evil. A man is thankful for his own prosperity and doesn't believe that those who aren't prosperous are poor because they deserve to be, or that he is wealthy because he necessarily deserves to be. A man doesn't dehumanize others by calling them parasites and pigs; that's how Hitler managed to convince people that it was perfecty acceptable to slaughter Gypsies and Jews.
That's where I fit, jlb. I won't ever fit with you and the other "real men" of the world, and for that I will be eternally grateful.
JohnF,
Thank you for saying what I would not.Most times I feel the urge, yet as my Dad says "you got to consider the source" Change is not easy for people for the most part and facing fear is not either.At least this attempt at change is front page instead of back room.8 yrs.of fear was enough. Wish I could have been as eloquent.