Comments on: Memories of My Father-In-Law and Freedom

By: Kappa TA

Kappa TA — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:59:52 +0000

To all my family and friends — especially my late father, late father-in-law, brother-in-law, late nephew, great-nephew and my son’s father, who are either active duty or veterans — Happy Veterans Day. Bring home our troops and provide them with jobs and the respect they are due.

Thank you.

KTA

By: Zippo

Zippo — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:29:28 +0000

Perspective that many Americans don’t seem to have anymore

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/US_military_personnel_and_expenditures.png

By: cyclops

cyclops — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 06:05:24 +0000

They were certainly the “greatest generation”! My grandfather was captured on Corregidor and made the Bataan death march and subsequently the next 4 plus years as a pow. I have spent my life trying to be as good of a man as he and my father were. Victor, I would wager that your family was as close as mine. I was taught very early what was “expected” of the men in my family. To be respectful in order to get respect. Defend your family first and your country second. Always try to do the right thing. I wonder why so many families today have lost that cohesiveness that was so pervasive in prior generations.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 03:32:28 +0000

Anyone interested in just what was laid on the line by American troops in WW2 needs to read D-Day by Stephen Ambrose Eisenhower put all the chips on the table for that invasion and there was no Plan-B. The body count and equipment losses were staggering. It must have been as close to HELL as a living person can experience.

The sacrafice and bloodshed in WW2 is hard to comphrehend. We have a backdoor draft fighting our wars today with people at the bottom of our economic stata doing the heavy lifting.

By: Zippo

Zippo — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:38:20 +0000

Lucky for him (and you) the president did not feel compelled to apologize to Hitler.