My Dad was part of the Normandy invasion

[Sugarmaggie]

And I’m seeing fascism play out in front of me by spineless cowards. What I also see are 80 mil people who want justice for all. Those who are on the front line not on a beach but all those on the new front line keeping us alive and our country moving forward. Thanks to all those who are fighting this new enemy!

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Welcome to DU

[TexasProgresive]

2. Mine as well, he would be ranting and raving most vehemently with imaginative curse words.

But I don't think he would've survived the last 4 years with out bursting a blood vessel in his brain.

[True Blue American]

3. My future Husband was

Wounded on Omaha Beach. He would despise this bunch of crooks today! My Dad was all through Europe.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Our fathers who fought in WWII would be cursing with words we never heard before.

My father would not have survived the Trump era.

One look at the Nazi/Confederate/American flags paraded on American streets
would have killed him.

[TexasProgresive]

13. Same for mine

[Irish_Dem]

14. My uncle, my father's brother, was KIA on the USS Meredith during WWII.

And my father flew combat. If he had seen Nazi flags on the streets of America,
I fear he would have been on the streets grabbing the flags and burning them.
You would not want to hear his language.

[TEB]

4. Your father was a stud

All of them were they saved the world

[mitch96]

5. mine too. Welcome aboard

[Wicked Blue]

8. Excellent! nt

[mitch96]

9. these guys were the real deal ANTIFA. My old man hated the Nazi. He lost almost all of his family in

the Holocaust. Actually he did not like Germans period. He was a bit upset with me when I married a second generation German American.... Strange twist of fate was the mother of my best friend was a German war bride. She was in the Hitler youth also. Changed sides quick and loves America to this day.
Minority's not so much and I'll leave it at that. She has dementia real bad so when you ask her questions she just blurts out what she is thinking...
Then again I worked with a guy who fought against the Japanese. He hated them to the point where he would not buy anything made in Japan... Hate runs deep..
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[Wicked Blue]

11. My father was captured and was going to be executed by Nazis

The reason he survived was that the Allies were moving in, and his captors fled.
Not sure what he was doing because he never talked about it. He wasn't military or Jewish.
I only learned about this a couple of years ago from my brother.

[mitch96]

12. Lots of untold stories that are too painful to remember.. They relive the trauma they tried to bury.

[Irish_Dem]

15. Right, people who lived it didn't talk about it.

We only learned about some of what happened years later.

[CRK7376]

6. My Grandfather

was a WWI Vet, my dad's uncle was a Ranger at Normandy, my Father-in-Law, a spry 96year old gentleman was a B-17 Navigator, Dad was a Korean War Vet and me retired after 38 years of service in Germany, Japan, Korea, Afghanistan and elsewhere.....We despise all that Republican's have allowed to happen, that they support Trumpism, that they have any political power. Now we defeat them and move our nation to a better place. My entire adult life has been service to our nation, whether it was Soldiering or teaching in rural and urban high schools. Sixteen days and a wakeup.....Biden takes charge and we will start our return to normalcy. The 20th will not get here fast enough for me and my family!

[Irish_Dem]

16. If our grandfathers and fathers who fought were still alive, Trump would have had a

very different experience. We can only imagine what it would have been like.

[edhopper]

10. My Dad's family fled Germany in the 30s

and he went to fight in the European theater 2 weeks after Normandy.

He would recognize Trump for what he is.

[CTyankee]

17. My cousin was a paratrooper in WW2 and jumped into occupied France.

What I don't know is whether he jumped on D Day or before. He did return from the war with a little mongrel dog he named toute suite. I was very little and was more interested in the little dog than anything else. His hometown of Brownwood, Texas might have some records since his family was pretty well known (his Dad, my uncle, was a state senator and local judge).

I can't imagine jumping out of an airplane in the dark into a country where you didn't speak the language, with enemies everywhere. He was lost for days and days. My uncle got a telegram saying he was lost in action.

When I feel self pity I remind myself that my own family members fought for me and my family so we would not suffer the scourge of Nazism.

Yesterday, my husband and I celebrated our 35th year of marriage. He is one year younger but remembers his father telling stories about being in the occupation forces in Japan.

Much to be grateful for this new year.

[MurrayDelph]

18. My dad treaded water off the coast of France during Normandy

He was in the tank patrol (Vitamin Charley). His brand-new tank had a defective floating collar and sunk like a rock. Other boats came by and offered him and his crew a lift to shore, but with no rifles it would have been pointless.

[EndlessWire]

19. My Dad was a guard at the Nuremberg trials.

He watched one of the Nazis get hanged, but I don't know which one.

My Mother was also a member of the Occupation Army in Germany. She was one of, if not the youngest, women in the Army at that time, having joined when she was late thirteen, early 14 years old. She was an E5, hard-striped Sgt. at the age of 15.

At that time, before you could get on a ship headed out to Europe, you had to take a course in how to get off the ship if you were torpedoed by climbing down cargo nets. My mother taught that course. Because they had to combine officers and enlisted in this course, my Mom was a 15-year-old giving orders to officers. Haha!

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

20. My father was a B24 pilot. A wing was blown off, he was captured and spent a year as a POW.

He never talked about it. It took hours searching through the attic and on the internet to piece together what his life was like from when he enlisted the day after Pearl Harbor until he was liberated. Even though I'm 20 years older than he was when he died, he is still my hero.