>"Panzerfaust" <utahraptor88@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Panzerfaust wrote:
> Take it in context. If you see a guy with one in a red circle on a
> flag marching in a brown uniform, get upset.
Yes. A few weeks ago my local paper featured a young man dressed and
groomed as a Neo-Nazi and s****ting a Hitler mustache. He was
participating
in a Rememberance ceremony for the fallen soldiers. I couldn't help but
wish I had a time-machine so I could launch this young man to the Russian
Front in the middle of winter. "See what your Hitler adoration has
wrought?
Millions of young German men, their fathers, plus civilian folks died
under
his dictator****p!" Damnit! I have an aunt who has since died. But,
during WWII she lost her husband plus all of her three sons, conscripts in
Hitler's army, fighting against the Russians. Every single male member of
her family was completely and utterly wiped out! <sigh>
I've recently discovered that on my husband's side of the family,
civilians,
Germans, were murdered in Mramorak, Banat (now Serbia). The Croatians had
had their age old battles with the Serbs. Germans had settled in that
area
during the reign of Em****er Josef and his wife Maria Teresa. During WWII,
the Croats and Nazis had made an unholy alliance against the Serbs. In
retaliation, the Serbs engaged in ethnic cleansing of all Germans in that
territory. 43 members of my husband's family were ethnically
cleansed...they were all second and third cousins, civilians, humble
farmers...people that my husband's family had long forgotten existed.
<sigh>
Do a google on Mramorak and Banat if interested. The stories are really
quite gruesome.
>If you see it on a
> ornament, chill out. People today have skin like tissue paper,
> getting upset over more than nothing.
North Americans, in general, have had it pretty soft in comparison to some
other countries. A push and a shove is now considered assault. If 3
members of a family are murdered it's described as a massacre. A bully at
school is now deemed a future mass murderer. Killing flies with mallets
is
the norm. There's no such thing as a reasonable response to benign
actions.
Everything has to be overreacted to, overdone, overexaggerated to the
extreme. That seems to be the only way to jolt people out of their
complacency. When life is good, people focus on the little things and
exaggerate those to be a major threat. It's seems that that the only way
they can put some excitement into their lives. <sigh>
Heidi
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