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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/82nd-airborne-nazi-salute-charlottesville_us_5992ad61e4b08a247276f35e?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009POLITICS 08/15/2017 06:16 am ET
Nazi In Charlottesville Wearing 82nd Airborne Hat Gets Called Out... By 82nd Airborne
The elite paratrooper unit continues to battle fascism but now on American soil.
By Dominique Mosbergen
U really think that guy is an active member of the 82nd just because he has that hat? My mom has that same hat. Shes 78 & has never served, said the operator of the 82nd Airborne Divisions Twitter account in response to this viral image.
The 82nd Airborne Division fought several campaigns against Nazi Germany during World War II. So after a man in a hat bearing the elite Army paratrooper units insignia was pictured throwing a Nazi salute during the weekends Charlottesville protests, the division delivered a pointed message.
Anyone can purchase that hat, 82nd Airborne wrote on its official Twitter page. Valor is earned.
The infantry unit, nicknamed the All American Division, was reacting to a photograph that Brandon Friedman, a former Obama administration official, shared of the demonstrator on Twitter. The image was retweeted more than 20,000 times Monday.
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The 82nd Airborne, which played a critical role in the Allied win at Normandy, northern France, on D-Day in 1944, was swift and scathing in its response to the image.
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riversedge
(70,242 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)Too bad they don't see themselves as the rest of the world does.
USN 65 - 69
3catwoman3
(24,006 posts)...are for children and Halloween. These morans have no idea how ridiculous and pathetic they look.
jmbar2
(4,890 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)Stolen valor.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)Timothy McVeigh comes to mind.
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)yes, sad.
dchill
(38,502 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)they really have no respect for the honorable Americans who sacrificed and fought against the scumbucket, lowlife Nazis. Republicans continue their wretched, evil betrayal of America.
Captain_New_York
(161 posts)I am very proud of my 3 years service as a medic with the 82nd airborne and subsequent service as an armor officer. My West Point grad son also served as an Infantry officer for 4 years.
Only if you come to my home office in a remote part of upstate NY would you see any of my paratrooper paraphernalia. It there to let me remember when "We Were Soldiers Once
and Young"
http://imgur.com/hJxGLxl
byronius
(7,395 posts)So, that guy -- no. Doesn't deserve to wear that hat.
gordianot
(15,238 posts)Rush Limbaugh is as close to a Nazi or Klan as you can get without directly wearing the label. Wonder if that child molester still gets on Armed Forces radio?
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Mostly because they find talk radio boring.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)JonLP24
(29,322 posts)I doubt he is active because of the beard and the hair and he could easily buy ACUs at an army surplus store but it wouldn't surprise me if he actually did serve. I'm a veteran myself and come across many older veterans who are wing nuts and were happy with Donald Trump being elected though I'm not sure how they feel these days.
malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)They can't even get their own racist/bullshit symbolism correct--fucking morans [sic]!!
From wikipedia:
"The salute was performed by extending the right arm to the neck and straightening the hand so that it is parallel to the arm. Usually, an utterance of "Heil Hitler!", or "Heil!" accompanied the gesture... If physical disability prevented raising the right arm, it was acceptable to raise the left."
The article cites Kershaw, Ian (2001). The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich. Oxford University Press.
TomSlick
(11,098 posts)While the Army has its dim wits too, respect for others is a basic core value of the Army.
[link:https://www.army.mil/values/