WWII Veteran and Purple Heart recipient Robert Hilliard: "Next week I'll be 101 years old. In February 1944 when I was

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Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen
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WWII Veteran and Purple Heart recipient Robert Hilliard:

"Next week I'll be 101 years old. In February 1944 when I was 18 years old I was inducted into the army and what they taught me to do there was to kill people who set up detention camps. Can you imagine how I felt earlier this year when they announced that one of the future detention camps would be at that same camp landing in Florida? We have a fascist, a fascist government, that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated."

Source: @tomaskenn

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[sop]

1. I think he meant Camp Blanding, in Starke, Florida, about 45 miles southeast of Jacksonville.

"Florida is actively preparing the Camp Blanding Joint Training Center in Clay County to serve as a major immigrant detention and deportation facility. Backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, the site is designed to hold up to 2,000 detainees awaiting deportation, operating as part of a broader state immigration enforcement and mass-removal blueprint."

[Dawson Leery]

2. kick

[Whip-poor-will]

3. 3 step process

I carcerate

C oncentrate

E xterminate

We're past step one , working on step two and starting step three.

[relogic]

4. When a WWII centenarian +

speaks truth regarding detention camps-I listen.

[Grim Chieftain]

5. Sir, I am so sorry your country has let you down.

This is not what you fought for.

[not fooled]

6. So, is krasnov gonna have this guy arrested

for being "antifa"?

How stupid do people have to be to not see the parallel between what this hero fought against and what krasnov is doing now?

[Beartracks]

7. Republicans be like "It can't be fascism if Americans are doing it!"

[Warpy]

8. Powerful. Glad to see he's in good shape

able to stand unbent and walk and soeak loudly and distinctly.

I'm glad my own father didn't live long enough to see fascism come to the US, although he had an inkling of what was happening during Dubya's first term and voted for Kerry as his last presidential vote.

I can imagine his disgust at the current administration.