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In reply to the discussion: Punching Nazis feels good, but it's a selfish act, not something that leads to victory [View all]Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Here's a true story.... I've replicated this another source, but this is about me.
I thought the time when this story was relevant to be long passed. But apparently not, so here goes.
In October 1979, I was in 8th grade and my sister was in the high school marching band. We were in Baltimore because my sister and her band were in a Columbus Day parade. During the parade, a neo-Nazi was coming through the crowd and passing out fliers. I can still picture him. Shaved head, with a flat cap, and a big, waxed handlebar mustache. As he passed out the fliers, most people just crumpled them up and tossed them on the ground. But not my mom.
Ya see, my mom was born in Berlin, Germany in 1938. I still have her "little brown book." It's a sort of birth certificate/official papers. It's naturally covered with the eagle of the Third Reich and swastikas. Her childhood was hell, to put it mildly. And she harbored a deep and abiding hatred of Nazis.
So as this guy handed her a flier, my mom began to see red. Her face turned red from the neck up. Her eyes went wide. And she turned her 5' 2" frame around and popped this guy right in the nose. This guy grabs his now-bleeding nose and begins to draw himself up, but my dad, and several other folks in the crowd came up next to my mom and this Nazi asshole decides to leave.
My mom had many faults. But that day she made me proud. I saw my mom punch a Nazi in the nose.