Shrine to Hitler unnerves community

[im10ashus]

"Unnerves?" Midwesterners are SO reserved.

Sugar Creek - Ted Junker seems like an ordinary, 87-year-old retired farmer until he starts to talk about his passion: Adolf Hitler.

Junker, who says was an SS officer during World War II, believes Hitler was a great leader who was just misunderstood, so he built a memorial to the Führer next to Junker's home near Millard in Walworth County.

It's a beautiful location for a memorial to a man who most believe started World War II, in which 50 million people died, including more than 6 million Jewish people in the Holocaust - that's all part of what Junker disputes as bunk.

The memorial is a concrete structure tucked into the side of a tree-lined hill that overlooks a pond filled with geese and swans. Junker said he paid $200,000 to build the memorial.

cont'd...

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=435393

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Yeah, right.

There's a million Americans just like Ted Junker scattered around the country.

[Bobbieo]

6. And that is the problem

They will be attracted to the site like flies to a dead body. Jeez - Get rid of the thing, somehow!!!!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. No, they won't.

They'll say how shocked they are that such a monster lives in their community, meanwhile buying Nazi paraphenalia on E-bay, and voting Republican.

[SmokingJacket]

2. If he tried that in New Jersey...

He'd be wearing some concrete sneakers.

[im10ashus]

3. Oh yes he would.

He'd be swimming in the East River with them too.

[Book Lover]

4. I'm with the historian/priest

"I'm sure he looks back and wants to say that he was not serving a super evil man, the most evil man in (the 20th century)," Donnelly said. "He's looking for some kind of personal sense of redemption, and I don't think he can be taken seriously at all."

[bleedingheart]

5. it is very hard to admit you were duped or flat out wrong about something

that is why I think a lot of republicans continue to cling to the hope that Bush is just fine because to acknowledge that a war without end and for no reason, a shitty economy and debts rising is more than they can bear....it is hard to look in the mirror and say..." I was wrong"...

[israelzolli]

12. Bush is being manipulated

The reason so little is heard of anti war protestors is becasue the media has silenced debate on the issue.

15 dead americans each week from a worthless war, and 45 wounded for life, each week.

The morale of american troops in extremely low and the number of these young kids that are suffering from tramatic stress disorders is off the charts.

but that is ugly and the media hides it.

[paparush]

7. AKA - The Bush Presidential Library

[pschoeb]

9. On the plus side, at least this scary bigot wasted $200,000

also "(he) ran a summer camp for German children living in Chicago"

that part sounds more scary than the memorial.

[TechBear_Seattle]

10. And in 60 years...

How many people will be building similar shrines to George W. Bush and calling him the greatest President ever, still terrified that they were duped?

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