You betrayed us:

[applegrove]

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— Sheryl with an S (@beachblond52.bsky.social) 2025-05-24T19:42:14.372Z

My grandfather fought in WW2. He didn't have to go. He was 44 when he saw action. He was artillery. He got runover by a Polish tank and left for dead (friendly fire it is called). They found him walking around the Netherlands the next day. He went back to his men when he was healed. He came home and worked his but off in his job as a lawyer and in charities, especially the Grenfell Mission in Labrador fighting poverty and for healthcare there. That generation learnt what was important. No surprise that generation that witnessed the war had to die off before we would be looking at fascism again.

[Irish_Dem]

1. I imagine all the dead WWII soldiers staring down from heaven, looking at us.

Looking at Trump, looking at the MAGAs, congress, the judges, the media.
The other citizens too busy to vote or pay attention.

I won't tell you what I imagine the soldiers saying.

[JMCKUSICK]

2. Just think about how many

Fucking children of these heroes, raised with first hand knowledge of the atrocities these men and women witnessed, voting for this monster.
Imagine the transformation that must have taken place. From honoring "The greatest generation" their own parents mind you, to ignoring their sacrifices and heroism within about a twenty years span.
Yet another stain on "This Great Country, America".

[Irish_Dem]

3. Yes they have betrayed their parents, the sacrifices made by their own family.

Yes the greatest moral collapse in US history.

[JMCKUSICK]

4. Indeed.

[Javaman]

5. My uncle liberated two concentration camps

I’ve have(had) aunts (family friends) who survived, lost family and eventually freed from camps in Poland.

I have met people who still had the serial number tattoos on their arms from the camps.

I’ve seen the newsreels, I have heard first person accounts, I have read extensively on the topic of the camps

I have less than zero patience for fucking nazis and fascists

What ever happens, I will die on my feet rather that serve in my knees

[homegirl]

15. My uncle also

liberated a concentration camp. In 1949, my then 11 year old sister came home from school and demanded the photos he had taken. Why? The teacher told the class it didn't happen! She took the photos to school, stood up and demanded to pass them around the room. And she did. And told who had taken them!

In my early twenties I had a friend who had come to the USA at the age of three. She showed me a photo of her arrival in the USA. A lovely photo of her handsome, beautiful parents and her three year old self. All were beautifully dressed, I commented on how well dressed they were. She told me, "that was all we had, we left with the clothes on our backs, nothing more."

I also had neighbors who survived and had the numbers tattooed on their arms.

Am I the only one who remembers the blue, silver and gold starred banners hanging in neighbors windows?

[czarjak]

6. My Daddy and six Uncles served during WWII.

Suckers & Losers according to President POS.

[Doodles]

16. Sounds like my dad.

He went in at 17 and was on Iwo 30 days after the invasion. He had 5 uncles who were also in the Navy at the same time. Later as a small farmer, he found out eventually that Republicans were not friends to farmers. Became a strong Dem. He despised Trump and passed in 2019 at 93. But…he had no idea how much more horrible T would become and how he and the Republicans disparage their sacrifices. It makes me ill to think about it.

[slightlv]

19. My dad was about the same age as yours when he enlisted.

He'd lost his family (including a twin brother) in a house fire when they were both very young. He was passed around from one family to another until he went out on his own... then joined the Army as soon as he could. He was a Great Depression victim, in my mind. I know he was stationed in Italy and North Africa... the places he had pictures and stories he'd tell me. And he learned how to speak Italian pretty well. In fact, when Mom and Dad would fight, he'd often lapse into Italian, and it totally infuriated my mother. I remember her yelling one night, if you're gonna cuss me out do in English so I can understand what you're saying! (LOL)

There were other places he'd been to...pictures he'd taken and postcards he'd collected, but he wouldn't talk about those. Not where they were taken, nor what he'd done there.

He was a medic, and saw way too much to be able to talk about most of it, to my mind. But when I enlisted in the Air Force and took the oath of service, you should have seen him beam! He was so proud someone in the family had followed his footsteps for this country.

He died nearly 20+ years ago, and I still miss him to this day. Badly. In fact, I just lost my Mom this past Jan. Sis and I are going to the National Cemetery to see the new headstone, now that they're buried next to each other.

As badly as I miss him, I still SO glad to he's not here to see how this country has honored his and brothers in arms sacrifices. As a veteran, I'm so ashamed of my country. And angry.

[ananda]

7. I'm going to tell you a harsh truth.

I think that every damm soldier from
a confederate state would have been
a Trumper today.

One example is my dad. He was a
WWII hero but always, at core, a
white male supremacist.

When he got older, after my mom
died, he remarried a racist woman
from Arkansaas.

They watched Fox news daily, and
expressed their racism openly.

Truth is that men and women in the
South are raised to take on certain
roles.

Men work and bring home the bread,
and women have kids and bake.

I have lived among these people for
years, and that's just how it is.

[GB_RN]

8. I Had Several Relatives In WW2...

First and foremost, my maternal grandfather, who was a B-25 pilot (USAAF, 12th AF), but also my great uncles (USMC and US Navy - South Pacific campaign, and two USAAF officers) and several cousins (USMC on Iwo Jima, US Navy S. Pacific, and US Merchant Marines, Murmansk supply run convoys). And these are just the family I know of who served.

A few other people I know of: My next door neighbor (from when I was growing up), was an officer in the 82nd Airborne. One of the faculty members in my dad’s department at the local medical school was a B-17 crew member. The grandfather of my sister-in-law was a B-17 ball turret gunner, and ended up a German POW.

Anyone who voted for Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent betrayed the sacrifices of every single person I just listed, all 13 million other Americans who served, and especially the 420k who didn’t come home.

Fuck these MAGAty assholes. Fuck ‘em all.

[slightlv]

20. Besides my dad, who I wrote about in another reply here,

my hubby's mother and father were *both* in WWII. Father was in intelligence and his mother was a WAC Hubby says they hated Germans with a passion borne only of what they'd seen during their war years... tho they kept most of it from the kids. His father kept the military secrets clear into death, although he paid the price in his later years.

I wish my mother-in-law were still alive and vital enough to see what was going on today. Such a spitfire! She'd grab hold of one of these magats and make sure they'd wish never to have been born! (LOL) She was a force to be reckoned with. Spent her entire life fighting the male patriarchy system. First, as a WAC, then as a oil wildcatter. Finally settled in teaching Geology and ran the water board and environmental protection for her area in Texas. She could be so scary to guys that the leader of the band at my wedding never played... he ran into her first! (LOL)

[republianmushroom]

9. Agree.

[sdfernando]

10. I really do not understand

how ANY Veteran could vote for that orange piece of shit after the way he disrespected our fallen WWI heros during his 1st term! Every VET that voted for him has done the exact same disrespecting! They are pieces of shit just like trump!

[Blue Owl]

11. K&R

WTF is wrong with these MAGA Nazi-loving assholes?

[Cha]

13. Unamerican and Unending Greed.

And, Unending Stupid. They should all be on a Military Tribunal for Treason.

[Cha]

12. Chilling Graphic that depics just exactly

What Is Going On NOW!

TY apple

[ihaveaquestion]

14. I'm a boomer who was raised on reverence for the ideals fought for in WWII.

I have watched with shame as many of my generation betray those ideals by supporting this blasphemous, bigoted bastard. It's beyond disgusting and I will fight against this destruction of my country with my every breath!

[Number9Dream]

17. General Patton dispised and distrusted the Russians... Trump kisses their asses

[Starbeach]

18. Did They Fight and Die

So this cheap fraud could whip the country into a trance while he smashed our national achievements and destroyed our democracy?