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Terry Hilldale's avatar

Americans all over the country have grandfathers who will not talk about world War II because of the horrors of war. Do those grandchildren ever really ponder that?

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Lillian Wallace's avatar

I do ponder it all. Not even my Grandfather in this case. My father -- half American, half European -- worked for the military in London during the blitz. He had tears in his eyes when he spoke of seeing a child's hand severed in death lying outside a bombed house. The rest of the stories he told me through the years are equally horrendous. I was in London on 9/11 with two small children. The news and images of New York were everywhere, and I could not protect them from seeing these images. They were really scared. My father told them he understood how bad Americans must feel about the loss of life and the two building, but he saw buildings blown up, and death in London night after night after night. They would be okay in the end, he reassured them. One had to carry on. From the stories both my parents told me I think not only are many Americans unaware, but they are spoilt in so many ways. Look at the 51% who now have a lack of willingness to sacrifice -- even a little -- for Ukraine.

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Terry Hilldale's avatar

I too had a wider view of things, and I found it very odd that the US turned everything upside down over 3000 dead on 9/11, while countries all over the world suffer much greater terrorist casualties on a regular basis. While 9/11 was unique in that planes were used as weapons, right-wing terrorists are the current scourge of the US in terms of the sheer number of incidents, but the right insists that the left is overwhelmingly behind US domestic terrorism.

"The minority that is rock solid for keeping things the way they are [is] clustered efficiently in certain voting districts that then put a lock into the legislative process. ItтАЩs not like theyтАЩre spread out throughout fifty states: This is a particular regional and political problem that then creates a structural lock on doing anything about it in the legislature. Everything comes back to minority rule." --Tom Nichols

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