Bangor Daily News - Graham Platner knew his tattoo of a Nazi symbol was a problem weeks ago, former staffer says

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“If I thought that I had a very obvious Nazi tattoo, I would not have taken my shirt off and serenaded my Jewish sister-in-law in front of her extended family at my brother’s [wedding],” In Platner said in a separate BDN interview. Platner still has the tattoo but said he is planning to get it covered up. He said he got the tattoo in 2007 during his third deployment as a Marine. While on short-term leave, he and other Marines went to Croatia, where they got “very inebriated” and decided to get tattoos, picking a “terrifying” design off the wall.

This is exactly how I got my skull and bones tattoo, while on leave in Da Nang, me and a few of my Marine buddies got stinking drunk and, on a dare, we all got tattoos, so I can sympathize with the guy.
We did stupid shit in our younger years, I still regret the tattoo, but I keep it as a reminder of why I quit drinking.