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The WWII generation will be completely gone in a couple years. I often think we are still living their legacy 80 years later.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertain...others-officer-edward-shames-dies-at-99/

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We all gotta go one day. He left a good mark in history.


I am..........disturbed.

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain


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I liked how he used Hitler's cognac from the Eagle's Nest for his oldest son's Bar Mitzvah.

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R.I.P.


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RIP Col Shames. Job well done.
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"Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is." � Wesley Pruden


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RIP, Colonel.


Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want.

Rehabilitation is way overrated.

Orwell wasn't wrong.

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Watched the series again when I was down with the Chinese virus back in June. I recall that Dick Winters slipped away without much being reported. We forget too quickly.

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RIP Colonel


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If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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The world will be an empty place when the last WW II veteran passes. We will not see the likes of them again.

My late father-in-law was a late war replacement in that unit. That man was as tough as nails, but never spoke of his wartime experiences.


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God Bless the Great Warrior.


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