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1. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 07:33:45 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

   I understand the sentiment at its core, the need to respect the guys who came before you, but this is excessive, isn't it? If I were this guy I'd be pissed, it's a ton of hullabaloo for one run of the mill guy.

   This procession isn't even respecting grandpa's service (ostensibly aimed at protecting you & yours), this is religious worship of the american GI as an avatar of righteousness, the antifascist vanquisher of evil whiteness. This is a ceremony of the American Faith, the pop culture expression of people wanting to indulge in something sacred and elevated in a country where they're allowed very few things to feel reverence for.

   The guy being taken here is "one of the last survivors of pearl harbor", as in....not a Medal of Honor winner, not a Star holder, just some teenager who was on base during the attacks.

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 07:35:16 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     Oh that's why she's there. This guy was one of THOSE types of boomers, the really loud n' proud "hey I LOVE seeing women in the cockpit, it's great! THey had to FIGHT to get there, that's how you know they're better than most of the boys!!!"

     "The flight was flown by Alaska Captain Adrienne Grechman. Captain Grechman was requested by the family to fly Chief Higgins to LAX after the two connected and stayed in touch after Captain Grechman flew him to Honolulu for the 80th anniversary of the attacks, as part of an Honor Flight."

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 07:37:41 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     It just seems hollow and fake, even if they have the right expressions and all, it feels wrong. This is their grandpa and they're tearing up watching the box get loaded onto the belt? Guys, you're going to his funeral, right? RIGHT?!?!

     I think I agree with the little dude there. This is going to be a core memory for him: "hell, these dicks didn't even pay attention to him when he was alive, we called him once a year....why am I here pretending we were close? Dad used to say he didn't want to "waste my days off seeing your grandfather, listening to him blather about his crazy MAGA nonsense"....now they're getting photographed sobbing for the camera? THis seems fake....and gay"

   • Oghan (irishblackpilled@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 07:42:35 JST Oghan

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot America will finally die so anyway.
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   • ☢️ :jhg_s: :jhg_n: :jhg_e: :jhg_e: :jhg_d: :denton_laugh: (nitrodubs@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 07:42:36 JST ☢️ :jhg_s: :jhg_n: :jhg_e: :jhg_e: :jhg_d: :denton_laugh:

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     @Irishblackpilled @WashedOutGundamPilot World War Two is rapidly disappearing from living memory and it's coinciding with the unraveling of America itself. I find this incredibly fitting as WW2 replaced 1776 as America's creation myth.
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   • brimshae - now 90% less rambling, like going on about that one time that this guy.... (brimshae@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 07:45:27 JST brimshae - now 90% less rambling, like going on about that one time that this guy....

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     Little side note: The Medal of Honor isn't a prize in the bottom of a cereal box to be won. It's either earned or awarded.
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 07:45:27 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • brimshae - now 90% less rambling, like going on about that one time that this guy....

     @brimshae Yeah, but uh./....... I'll excuse my error by pretending it's commentary on the inflation of citations given over the years, a deep cut about the apparent inconsistency in what they give it out for.

     I recall reading a silver star one that was offensive for not being 'worthy' of an MOH. Lots of politickin' goes into those

   • ☢️ :jhg_s: :jhg_n: :jhg_e: :jhg_e: :jhg_d: :denton_laugh: (nitrodubs@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 07:45:36 JST ☢️ :jhg_s: :jhg_n: :jhg_e: :jhg_e: :jhg_d: :denton_laugh:

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     @caekislove @Irishblackpilled @WashedOutGundamPilot We supplied weapons and energy to the USSR and Britain, but wasn't involved until two years had past. One of my biggest redpills about WW2 was finding out that we didn't so much as out fight the Axis, we out built them, and this makes the hollowing out of the working class in 21st Century America that much harder to take.
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   • Caek Islove 🍰 ❤️ (caekislove@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 07:45:37 JST Caek Islove 🍰 ❤️

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     @NitroDubs @Irishblackpilled @WashedOutGundamPilot Which is funny since the USA didn't even join the war in Europe until it was mostly already over.

   • Kenny Blankenship (dw2@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 07:46:45 JST Kenny Blankenship

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     @NitroDubs @Irishblackpilled @WashedOutGundamPilot Someone on Twitter pointed out years ago how no one celebrates the battles of Lexington and Concord anymore (aka Patriots Day). Zoomers probably know nothing about them
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 07:47:23 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @NitroDubs @caekislove @Irishblackpilled I really, really hate that. Boomers will shit on russia and china for being FRICKIN COMMUNISTS but they never acknowledge the fact their mom and grandma were pressed into 12 hour days building free B-25s for those ungrateful assholes

     All so they could shake up the kayfabe 3 years later and tell everyone "actually we've always hated communism, let us progressively liberalize everything in america to spite 'our' enemies and keep your eyes outward"

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 07:50:52 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @DW2 @NitroDubs @Irishblackpilled I only ever heard about the cheesy Xmas throat-slitting thing when podcast fans want to seem well read

   • ☢️ :jhg_s: :jhg_n: :jhg_e: :jhg_e: :jhg_d: :denton_laugh: (nitrodubs@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 07:51:36 JST ☢️ :jhg_s: :jhg_n: :jhg_e: :jhg_e: :jhg_d: :denton_laugh:

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @caekislove @Irishblackpilled America was a command economy from 1941 to 1945. This has been almost completely erased from history.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 07:52:26 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @NitroDubs @caekislove @Irishblackpilled Now I hear "uh actually lend lease didn't really do anything for them, they didn't need us to win that bad anyways"

     Oh cool so you sent the girls into the mines to be raped by niggers and didn't even get a "thanks man" out of them? Radical

   • Christmas Coon (mebigbrain@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 07:52:42 JST Christmas Coon

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot >"One ress American piggeru"
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   • ☢️ :jhg_s: :jhg_n: :jhg_e: :jhg_e: :jhg_d: :denton_laugh: (nitrodubs@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 07:53:12 JST ☢️ :jhg_s: :jhg_n: :jhg_e: :jhg_e: :jhg_d: :denton_laugh:

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     @DW2 @Irishblackpilled @WashedOutGundamPilot Zoomers probably not only don't know about Lexington and Concord, they probably don't know about any foreign war America fought before 1941. The ones actually interested in history will read and watch online content about specific campaigns and battles.
     
     How history is taught in 2020's America is a crime and beyond the scope of this thread. Suffice to say America will be history on this trajectory.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 08:13:15 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @monsterislandcolonizer I'd feel that more if they'd EVER JUST TALKED ABOUT OLD AMERICA WHEN THEY WERE ALIVE

     It gets so old listening to these men in positions where they can actively make a difference get in private and start bitching about how terrible everything is, but when you even hint at them using a little bit of their power to move the needle back even 10 years they balk like you're crazy. They buy into the idea that it was all worse back then, they don't see the discontent: They only see the television and at best some official newspapers.

     They don't understand the real psych landscape of the company, to the point they doubt themselves and hang caveats when they reminisce like "well things back then were great, but I guess they only LOOKED that way to me, sounds like the blacks weren't having a good time back then....."

     Drawing out their lessons, thoughts is like pulling out a dead tooth, they just don't want to yield anything.

   • Hollyjollytailspike (monsterislandcolonizer@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 08:13:16 JST Hollyjollytailspike

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot Whenever one of these guys dies, a piece of old America goes with him.
   • KnifeEar (knifeear@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 09:40:23 JST KnifeEar

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     @NitroDubs @DW2 @Irishblackpilled @WashedOutGundamPilot To summarize the focus of the history classes I attended in the 2010s, the center piece was always a revolving door between the civil rights movement and the holocaust.
     
     WW1 was the door mat to WWII and the holocaust. Korea might as well been a footnote. We (my class) did not discuss the Vietnam War except for the causes, and it's domestic effects. We did not discuss the First Gulf War. Some international things like the Berlin wall, trade with China, and the space race, and other cold war details thrown in.
     
     Actions against the Tripoli states were not discussed. The Spanish American war was not touched on, nor the Mexican war. The War of 1812 was not scoped properly in the backdrop in the Wars of Napoleon. The American Civil War itself was put side by side, then overshadowed by slavery. The French and Indian wars were briefly touched on.
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   • Rudolf_von_Goldenbaum (rudolf_von_goldenbaum@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 09:42:57 JST Rudolf_von_Goldenbaum

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     @KnifeEar @NitroDubs @DW2 @Irishblackpilled @WashedOutGundamPilot
   • Kenny Blankenship (dw2@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 09:43:12 JST Kenny Blankenship

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     @Rudolf_von_Goldenbaum @KnifeEar @NitroDubs @Irishblackpilled @WashedOutGundamPilot Was gonna post that myself lol
   • Jean_Philippe_Micheaux (jean_philippe_micheaux@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 09:58:03 JST Jean_Philippe_Micheaux

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     @Floydian_Psychology @KnifeEar @NitroDubs @DW2 @Irishblackpilled @WashedOutGundamPilot I had to watch Schindler’s list 3 times within a 6 month window once. I took the same quiz on different sides of the nation. fml I hate that film I kept wishing the good guys won in the end
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   • Floydian_Psychology :sonnenrad: :windmill_of_friendship: :sonnenrad: (floydian_psychology@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 09:58:04 JST Floydian_Psychology :sonnenrad: :windmill_of_friendship: :sonnenrad:

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     @KnifeEar @NitroDubs @DW2 @Irishblackpilled @WashedOutGundamPilot the peak of my history lessons was getting to watch kingdom of heaven, which i still appreciate as a movie despite being a pagan now, the pit of my history lessons was reading night, which was english class actually come to think of it but i'll count it as history for this discussion, these 2 things overlap when you get to middle and high school , night was basically oh no my dad almost died X100000 , oh no now he died for real, this is sad, very underwhelming awful piece of fiction
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 09:58:45 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @Jean_Philippe_Micheaux @Floydian_Psychology @KnifeEar @NitroDubs @DW2 @Irishblackpilled I saw schindler's list 2x in school? I think I saw finding nemo upwards of 60 times, shrek more than 20....did get to watch through all that WWII series though, that was cool.

   • Jean_Philippe_Micheaux (jean_philippe_micheaux@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 10:04:41 JST Jean_Philippe_Micheaux

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @Floydian_Psychology @KnifeEar @NitroDubs @DW2 @Irishblackpilled one school I went too just said fuck it a lot and we watched ben-her that was cool.
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