There should be WWII soldiers in protests with signs that say...

[Beartracks]

... "I can't believe I still have to fight this shit."

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[lapfog_1]

1. yeah, anyone that was even 18 in 1944

would be 90 or 91 today.

The "greatest generation" is almost all gone now.

[Beartracks]

4. I know, hard to believe there's so few of them left.

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[Elwood P Dowd]

6. My father and 4 uncles served during WWII.

All but the youngest one are gone now (he is 92 I think). While they were more conservative than liberal on many issues, they would be livid with some of the shit Trump is doing. They damn sure would be against anyone defending Nazis and the fucking KKK.

[Nay]

10. I actually heard someone say, "If I was a WWII soldier, I'd be out here

protesting these Nazis!!"

I said, "Dude, the few that are left are in their 90s. They are in nursing homes."

[Leghorn21]

2. That would be such a beautiful sight, Bear! But, like my father, so many are gone now...sigh. nt

[Beartracks]

3. I know. :( It was just a passing thought I was having.

Would've been an incredible visual.



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[Leghorn21]

7. A beautiful thought, my friend. Surely our vets who were at Hurtgen Forest and Iwo Jima

are sending their strength to us from their present duty stations...we really, really need it!!!

[Hekate]

5. They're ancient by now, the few that are left. I carry that sign myself, but I'm only almost 70...

...not upwards of 90. So I carry it for all the stuff we truly hoped we could fix, back when we were young.

[uppityperson]

8. here's and article about one

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-dingell-congress-world-war-ii-fight-nazis-again_us_59910f5be4b08a24727558d6

[TexasProgresive]

9. I saw a piece-maybe CBS evening news with 3 WWII vets

It was very moving. One was a Tuskegee airman.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-war-ii-vets-weigh-in-on-trump-and-charlottesville/
NEW YORK -- William Johnson, Henry Beckam Jr. and Edward Field fought in World War II on the side of history that believed in freedom for all.

"I am a Tuskeege Airman," Johnson said.

"I went into the Army believing that we had to defeat the Nazis," Field said.

"I can still tell you my Army serial number," Beckam said.

Field flew on planes that dropped bombs. "I flew 27 missions and on all of them we were shot at," he told CBS News' Jericka Duncan.

[MineralMan]

11. That's a tough job, since they're all in their 90s.

At least the ones who are still alive, like my father, who will be 93 in October. Their children, who are the Baby Boomers, should do the job of protesting for them.

[Beartracks]

12. I wasn't actually thinking they SHOULD be out there....

... in the picket lines. Rather, I was entertaining the notion of them doing so, much like when boomers are marching for the same rights and freedoms that they did 40 years ago with signs that read, "I can't believe I still have to protest this shit!" but with a military twist.

A big thank you to your father, MM.

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