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I don't mean to counter your viewpoint on that Dawg, but FWIW in contrast, I'm 56 and my father was in WWII and was captured by the Germans in the "Battle of the Bulge" and was a POW in the german prison camp for the last 6 months of the war. My dad was a little racist, but his accountant was German, and he liked him a lot. My older brother brought his black fiance to my parents' house a number of times, and my dad had no problem with that, and liked her very much and used to have a lot of laughs with her too.I'm almost 50 so I remember my grandfathers real well that fought in WW11. Those folks hated the Japanese more than you can imagine...Pearl Harbor etc...they were racist towards them something terrible. Can be a generational thing also.
I don't mean to counter your viewpoint on that Dawg, but FWIW in contrast, I'm 56 and my father was in WWII and was captured by the Germans in the "Battle of the Bulge" and was a POW in the german prison camp for the last 6 months of the war. My dad was a little racist, but his accountant was German, and he liked him a lot. My older brother brought his black fiance to my parents' house a number of times, and my dad had no problem with that, and liked her very much and used to have a lot of laughs with her too.
My point is that not all WWII vets hated entire races of people. Perhaps some did, but not all. I really think it's a person's mindset rather than his/her generation
I can honestly say that there are trends about most of the black community that I don't like, but there are exceptions to the rule, and I can also honestly say that there are trends or tendencies about the white community that I don't like as well, and also tendencies about the hispanic community too. But when I first meet someone from any racial group or of any skin color, I don't assume the best nor the worst until their character begins to show forth. Because I'm like that, I have made a number of friends over the years of various races and skin colors, and I have learned things from them that I never could have from people of my own race.
Ask me if I care about anything Rich Piana says...

