dezii
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Post by dezii on Jan 12, 2020 2:30:33 GMT -5
experiences as a Jewish POW, captured battle of the bulge as so many Americans were...we lost 60,000 in that battle before beating the Germans last gasp... his thoughts of todays happening..I found interesting...thought some here might feel the same way.. =================================== "But every day I read the papers and watch the news. I see American citizens who, astonishingly, seem bent on pulling us toward becoming the kind of brutal, prejudiced society we went to war against in 1941. The war led to tremendous social and global changes, from the end of Jim Crow to the creation of modern Europe and Japan and the progress of the women’s movement. By and large, American soldiers set an example for the world: We won without resorting to torture or rape or subjugation, then, with the Marshall Plan, showed that the U.S. valued functioning societies over national punishment. The global admiration for democracy, and for the United States, soared in the decades after the war. The America I love and risked my life for is one where Blue Caldwell and I could recognize each other as friends and not stereotypes, where we could have each other’s backs through every kind of adversity. It’s one where immigrants like my parents can make a life they could not have hoped for in their native country. It’s a country built on laws and morality, where we recognize right and wrong, that ends don’t always justify means. It’s one for which people from countries all over the world might, like my Dutch friend Ben ter Beck, consider risking their freedom to bake a cake that says, “CHEERS FOR USA!” ==================================== www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/264679/fighting-for-the-americans-captured-by-the-germans-freed-by-the-soviets
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