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They call us The Greatest Generation. Well, I don't know how many of the Greatest Generation really had any idea of the impact their actions would have on the world. None of them, really.
In the fox hole next to me was a young farm boy from Mississippi who had no idea of what he was fighting for. He didn't even know where the hell he was. He was never out of Mississippi. Never off the farm. Never on a train before the Army. Nothing great about him - just a simple farm boy. Suddenly, out of the mist, a bullet comes out of nowhere and hits him in the head, killing him instantly.
Was he great? Yes. But, he was really just a boy . . .
* Jack Warner, WWII Veteran, 7th Infantry Division
So many lost to the beast. MUST it be????????????????
* Jack Warner was an Austrian Jew who emigrated to this Country from his native land at the age of 19. He saw the horrors caused by the hate of the Nazis firsthand before he came to this Country and decided to do something about it by joining the Army. He knew the great evil had to be stopped. Ironically, he fought against the Japanese in the Pacific as a combat engineer rather than the Nazis in Europe. He did his duty and never regretted doing what had to be done. But, he never forgot the HORROR that is war.
If only those entrusted to be our government took off their special-interest cloaks, rolled up their sleeves and fought the real war: against the loss of the middle class, and so democracy; against poverty and ill health that enrich the few and enslave so many; against lost opportunity that is the breeding ground for crime; against prejudice, that sleeping beast in all of us that is awakened and twisted by monsters like Trump.
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