Quote:
Originally Posted by jrg908369
As a southerner born and raised I always wondered why we named military bases after losing generals. And why we put up statutes to losers. Made no sense to me. I was a history major in college and a history buff and I don't see statutes of Hitler in Germany or Mussolini in Italy. They are embarrassed and did something about it. I guess you are also upset that NASCAR has banned the confederate flag and all confederate stuff from their race tracks?
|
When I was in Germany in 1977 at a bazaar at an Army Base, I was shocked
to see framed pictures of Hitler being sold. I asked my sister, her husband was in the military, and she told me that people buy them ‘lest we forget’. Don’t know if or where they hung them. I was shocked.