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42. "...they don't defeat Nazis by becoming Nazis," Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

Sun Jan 18, 2015, 09:51 AM

Jan 2015

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And in our case, apparently, sometimes when we don't forget it.

My neighbor, died recently at 90 something, was a paratrooper, several drops into Europe, fought in several battles. Broke his ankle and snuck out a window of the hospital when they tried to admit him, so he wouldn't have to leave his unit behind to fight. The battle he went to from there was the Bulge.

I remember him telling me that a fair number of enemy soldiers, and more than a few townspeople were shot in the highly emotional aftermath of those discoveries.

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And many, many of them live in the United States. Hissyspit Jan 2015 #30

That is just a fact. Enthusiast Jan 2015 #37

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