hotel3alpha
Command Sergeant Major
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Please DO NOT shut down ZB Lang's collection thread that all members here are envious of and who secretly wish ZB puts them in his will...including me...HK Fire brigade ZB...wink, wink.
You see ZB thats why I like you man, your response is exactly what I though you would say. I had a contractor (hill billy type) blow up on me one time about protestors burning the American Flag. I don't know how the debate came up, but he was "you would not do anything about it? You who is a vet would not whoop some butt over it?" I was like "yeah, I would just keep walking". He was flabbergasted and somewhat disappointed that I would not go in to detail how I would torture some protester at a college (or where ever) who was burning the American Flag. I told him that the guy has rights, freedoms and if he wants to spend his afternoon with gasoline, a lighter and some clothe go ahead, but uh I'm hungry and there is some fajitas somewhere with my name on it. He did not like the answer, but I really did not care as I too would fight (and have) fight for his rights that he is entitled to as an American...protestor or not or hill billy or not.
Yeah, this book I am reading now Hitlers Children that was a Phd dissertation turned book is killing me. But, now I am finally getting a clear understanding of how the SS (separate from the Army) kept their ranks full of young, brainwashed knuckleheads. It is an exhausting read that has a table with all the different organizations of the who and what that funneled the kids into the ranks of the SS. But make no mistake there huge factions of Army that knew what was going on. I also just finished a study on the German POW camps here in Texas. There were ALOT of them and the majority of POW's came out of the Africa campaigns early in the war. They became migrant workers and helped Texas farmers pick and plant crops here in Texas due to the labor drain. After the war, they showed newsreels to the POW's of the concentration camps and those soldiers cried at the shocking images. Soon after they shipped all those guys back to Germany and the majority of them did not want to go back.
Oh yeah, there are ALOT of Hans Landa's out there and I got no sympathy for them and what I am finding out is there are even MORE Hitler Youth still around. Ugh, creepy.
John from Texas
You see ZB thats why I like you man, your response is exactly what I though you would say. I had a contractor (hill billy type) blow up on me one time about protestors burning the American Flag. I don't know how the debate came up, but he was "you would not do anything about it? You who is a vet would not whoop some butt over it?" I was like "yeah, I would just keep walking". He was flabbergasted and somewhat disappointed that I would not go in to detail how I would torture some protester at a college (or where ever) who was burning the American Flag. I told him that the guy has rights, freedoms and if he wants to spend his afternoon with gasoline, a lighter and some clothe go ahead, but uh I'm hungry and there is some fajitas somewhere with my name on it. He did not like the answer, but I really did not care as I too would fight (and have) fight for his rights that he is entitled to as an American...protestor or not or hill billy or not.
Yeah, this book I am reading now Hitlers Children that was a Phd dissertation turned book is killing me. But, now I am finally getting a clear understanding of how the SS (separate from the Army) kept their ranks full of young, brainwashed knuckleheads. It is an exhausting read that has a table with all the different organizations of the who and what that funneled the kids into the ranks of the SS. But make no mistake there huge factions of Army that knew what was going on. I also just finished a study on the German POW camps here in Texas. There were ALOT of them and the majority of POW's came out of the Africa campaigns early in the war. They became migrant workers and helped Texas farmers pick and plant crops here in Texas due to the labor drain. After the war, they showed newsreels to the POW's of the concentration camps and those soldiers cried at the shocking images. Soon after they shipped all those guys back to Germany and the majority of them did not want to go back.
Oh yeah, there are ALOT of Hans Landa's out there and I got no sympathy for them and what I am finding out is there are even MORE Hitler Youth still around. Ugh, creepy.
John from Texas
