[Nuclear1]

Welcome back Lib.

I have no personal connection to WWII really - my family was part of the Jewish refugees fleeing Lithuania, thanks to Stalin's Great Purges, I believe. So when we got here we weren't even citizens during WWII AFAIK.

Lithuania, FTW!!!!!

So your Lithuanian, too? yay! My family had left in about 1904/5 to avoid the Russian draft (or so I've been told :/).

Ah, my slightly backward neighbors to the south.   Latvians FTW.

[Mefustae]

I don't appreciate you trying to speculate about what would have been, move it to your own thead for that.

My point in this thread was to ask you to stop and give thanks for the sacrifice whether you agree with it philosophically or not.

I agree! Why bother discussing the event when you can just blindly worship it?

[Flipside]

You put that stick down right now

I'd rather not see Lib's first thread in about 2 years (that I'm aware of) get locked because it turned into a political row. If people wan't to debate the morals of World War 2, feel free to start a thread, there's no law against debate now, just remember to keep it civil

[Janos]

You put that stick down right now

I'd rather not see Lib's first thread in about 2 years (that I'm aware of) get locked because it turned into a political row. If people wan't to debate the morals of World War 2, feel free to start a thread, there's no law against debate now, just remember to keep it civil

but this would be rather good thread for it because it's already going

[Black Wolf]

My great grandad was one of only enlisted personnel in Colditz castle, which was supposed to be an escape proof prison for officers who constantly escaped from other camps. He only got in because he also kept escaping from less secure camps, but he always got caught again, generally in true Australian fashion, in a bar somewhere. Champion.

On the other side of the family, my granddad and great granddad spent the war in an internment camp. Ho hum.

[Dysko]

My grandfather was lieutenant (I think) in the Royal Italian Army until Italy surrendered in 1943. Then the Nazis invaded Northern Italy, my grandfather was taken prisoner and taken in a concentration camp. Fortunately he survived and came back.

I don't know anything else, I knew about this only some years after he died.

[brozozo]

My grandfather was a lieutenant in the army. He served stateside though. I believe he was an MP at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. My other grandfather was a sailor in the Pacific.

[karajorma]

You know Churchill wanted to keep going and push Russia back? Interesting fact.

Carry on.

Churchill was also in favour of using chemical weapons like chlorine and mustard gas against the Germans as he considered them to be just another type of weapon. Of course that would have been a really disastrous decision as the only thing that was preventing the Germans from using their far superior nerve gas weapons was fear of reprisals.

[NGTM-1R]

Holycrapit'syou.

I'd worried you had offed yourself or something when you disappeared from everywhere including your EVE account.