Posted on May 12, 2020
Nazi swastikas at veterans cemeteries prompt outrage, but VA calls them protected history
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WTF? Really. Craziness reigns. I don't know why they allowed that in the first place but I am not sure replacing those stones is the right thing to do. We owe our children an education in what that was all about and why it was so wrong.
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I am truly ticked by those that find every little thing in life to be triggered by, these are grave markers of a former enemy that fought in the German Army, the swastika belonged to many different cultures long before Hitler and his minions appropriated it. This whole erase history movement is as flawed as its followers. We have been erasing history for years and as that old saying goes “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)" Let it be and deal with important things like homeless veterans, a VA system in chaos and throw away warriors left to fend for themselves.
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It is difficult to accept that these graves are marked, in the way they are.
It is also a fact that this is who these enemy soldiers were at that time. We can not continue to try and filter history to sanitize it from everything historically offensive to us. Segregating the graves from American veterans would make sense. Remaking the grave markers opens up the possibility of having any graves we have in what was once enemy lands, being altered in a way we may take offense too.
It is also a fact that this is who these enemy soldiers were at that time. We can not continue to try and filter history to sanitize it from everything historically offensive to us. Segregating the graves from American veterans would make sense. Remaking the grave markers opens up the possibility of having any graves we have in what was once enemy lands, being altered in a way we may take offense too.
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