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| Thread ID: 99251 | 2009-04-25 00:54:00 | Lest We Forget | --Wolf-- (128) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 768324 | 2009-04-26 23:51:00 | Its a sad fact the human race will never get along. We are a bunch of cowards who over compensate when given a rifle. There will always be war. You can whine about it or try and do something about it. Watch the hippies whine when someone attacks their home etc |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 768325 | 2009-04-27 05:32:00 | OK, fair enough, although loads of them in the 1st one went off thinking it was some great adventure. More fool them. Absolute bullshit. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 768326 | 2009-04-27 05:34:00 | Absolute bullshit. Care to expand on that? I think that alot of the soldiers would have been excited about the prospect of going and fighting for their country. It wouldnt be until they are there they realise how harsh and brutal it is |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 768327 | 2009-04-27 05:46:00 | My grandfather was forced to fight for the Germans, then put in a Gulag by the Russians for doing so. I bet no-one would have made him welcome at one of these parades. Wrong again. My father was a POW for three years or so and had no really bad feelings for the Germans, even respected some and did respect their engineering. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 768328 | 2009-04-27 05:57:00 | He obviously wasnt shot by any of them? | hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 768329 | 2009-04-27 05:59:00 | You know, I know quite a number of European people who were in Europe during WWII. Not one of them wants to talk about it or remember. You would have found that anyone that saw the real action were not interested in talking about it. I only ever heard about the good times my father had and I'm sure he had plenty of bad ones. He positively hated doors being slamed which I am sure had something to do with his experiance. One time I mentioned to him about this guy who was always talking about the war and he said straight away that the guy hadn't seen much of it and later I learnt that the guy had spent most of it in Canada. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 768330 | 2009-04-27 06:06:00 | Care to expand on that? I think that alot of the soldiers would have been excited about the prospect of going and fighting for their country. It wouldnt be until they are there they realise how harsh and brutal it is The same thing was said about those going to WW2 and my mother knows that wasn't the case at all although there may have been some stupid enough to think that way. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 768331 | 2009-04-27 06:11:00 | He obviously wasnt shot dead by any of them? I didn't say he absolutely loved them. He just realised the average German soldier was only doing what the average Kiwi soldier was doing. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 768332 | 2009-04-27 06:56:00 | Wrong again. My father was a POW for three years or so and had no really bad feelings for the Germans, even respected some and did respect their engineering. Well I have an uncle who spent some rather nasty times at the hands of both the Germans and the Japanese - and till this day hates them with every fibre of his being. You can hardly imagine his disgust when last year his neighbours moved out and a German couple moved in - he talks about them (and to their face) with a string of rather nasty names. And no, I don't think we can ever even hope to imagine what people like him went through - to see your own friends brutally tortured and killed in front of you, and the many many other hardships they had to endure. |
Bozo (8540) | ||
| 768333 | 2009-04-27 07:35:00 | Well I have an uncle who spent some rather nasty times at the hands of both the Germans and the Japanese - and till this day hates them with every fibre of his being. You can hardly imagine his disgust when last year his neighbours moved out and a German couple moved in - he talks about them (and to their face) with a string of rather nasty names. And no, I don't think we can ever even hope to imagine what people like him went through - to see your own friends brutally tortured and killed in front of you, and the many many other hardships they had to endure. My Grandad on my Mums side the same, he hated the Japs, Germans and their eastern european henchmen with vengeance till he died. He was a machine gunner in France WW1. In WW2 he was an officer in the Army Engineers designing bridges, airfields and stuff. He didn't hate the Italians because he said they were a joke and didn't fight properly. |
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