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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBoth my father and my father-in-law were antifa.
Both were marines in WWII.
They are both gone, but I would have loved to see some Trumpie whack-job call either of them "unAmerican" (or worse) to their face.
Siwsan
(26,260 posts)He fought in the Battle of the Bulge.
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)All he would say about what he saw there was:
Im no hero. The first on Normandy were the heroes. All those that managed to live through it. But more especially the ones that did not.
malaise
(268,969 posts)and proud
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)Submariner
(12,503 posts)at the Kasserine Pass and Sicily invasion.
I bet they would be horrified to see today's domestic terrorist republican party preparing to abandon Democracy For Fascism, and thus take a giant dump on the graves of our WWII dead buried in Arlington National Cemetery, and on the bluff overlooking Omaha Beach in Normandy.
Because if we let them take over in 2024, Democracy will be over as they drop trousers and shit on all our war dead and wounded from WWII and after who fought for that Democracy.
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)He received the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1944 for "conspicuous gallantry in aerial combat, resulting in the destruction of three enemy aircraft" during the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" (AKA the Battle of the Philippine Sea).
He rests at Arlington National.
Dad was a staunch Eisenhower Republican, but I can guarantee that Donnie Bonespurs would have turned his stomach.
Crunchy Frog
(26,579 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,191 posts)true s
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)mine was in Germany the whole damn war & my mom was full British ! she came over threw Ellis Island & whole nine yards. I served in the damn jungles in V.N. for 3 yrs . & have to listen to anti -American shit every day about " TFG" patriot crap when he is a fucking draft dodger from hell. so is moscow mitch !. "TFG " whole damn family is nothing ! " THE BOY'S SAID WE GET ALL THE MONEY WE NEED FROM RUSSIA ". LET THAT SAOK IN " !
AverageOldGuy
(1,523 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,788 posts)Flags proudly flown together
FailureToCommunicate
(14,013 posts)Cross.
They knew Trump was a failed business hack and playboy from living near NYC. Theyd have been horrified to learn he became president
SharonAnn
(13,772 posts)WarGamer
(12,440 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,788 posts)All these WWll antifa we're so proud of are losers and suckers acc to Trump.