How many people knew it was there a week ago? Now it's more important than everything that should be in focus.
Yes, yes unfortunately this is the new thing.
How many people knew it was there a week ago? Now it's more important than everything that should be in focus.
I could be wrong but I think this maybe the labels which were discussed which might not be helpful.
Lilly?
White?
Liberal?
Guilt???
Which one?????
He asked a question and I answered with nary an asterick, name calling or foul language...
I could be wrong but I think this maybe the labels which were discussed which might not be helpful.
I think the common foot soldier dies to defend the guy next to him, the people he loves at home, and his homeland. Wonder if there are any studies on this from the Nazi period? Sure there are the true believers, but I would believe the heart of the bell curve is an average joe doing the above.
Lilly?
White?
Liberal?
Guilt???
Which one?????
He asked a question and I answered with nary an asterick, name calling or foul language...
Okay, so let's describe it rather than label it. Leftism is the most violent ideology in the history of humanity, and you push it here in this forum with the most vile, smug assuredness of your moral superiority. You believe in a set of ideas that has resulted in the death of nearly 262 million people in the past century, yet somehow have convinced yourself, or were deceived into believing, that this is the path we should take. Don't run away this time, DDDDDDDreeees, because we would all like to discuss this and watch you attempt to defend your beliefs before we tear them down right in front of you again.
Many of these memorials and statues stem from a time when there was much pain, division and anger over the war. They were memorials, sure, but an effort at unity, realizing that there was tremendous loss everywhere.
Even Germany, with anti-Nazi laws so strict that they don't have a freedom of speech even close to what we have here, remembers their war dead.
German military cemetery in Normandy:
This is a German U-Boat memorial, originally constructed for WWI, but with addition of WWII names.
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There are loads more.
Average Joes are capable of horrendous things, I think is the lesson to be taken from the nazi period. Ordinary men could be made into executioners of the final solution. It showed that they didn't have to be nazi zealots to be made to do the worst work for the nazi zealots.
But as noted none of these memorials celebrate any of their generals.
I think I said as much in the post you quoted
Um....so? What thread are we in?
Ah I thought it sounded like they were just soldiers in the trenches trying to survive, which I would argue is different from executing innocent people.
Well if the Nazis and their generals and how we hold them accountable versus how we don't hold the Southern Generals accountable wasn't discussed in this thread I appolozize. I have been going back and forth a bit. But I swore it was brought up in this thread.