Having seen Hitler’s rise to power firsthand while growing up in Berlin, Germany, my mom - now 99 years old - vowed to do all she could to fight fascism. She arrived in America in February,1940. As a teenager, she took an arduous job working in a Boston area factory stamping out ammunition boxes for our troops. She has voted in every election since becoming eligible. It’s almost a relief that her cognition is diminishing as fascism takes root here. It would be unbearable for her to watch.
My MIL was born in Germany in 1932. Fled to czechoslovakia when Hitler rose to power. Fled there after WWII when USSR took control of their country. Married FIL and immigrated to US. Now a Trump supporter.
Someone wasn't paying attention growing up.
Likewise my dad who fought Nazis hand to hand in Battle of the Bulge. I swear I can hear him raging in his military grave.
No suckers & losers buried in military cemeteries. 🇺🇸
@cassandra17lina did a high school project where I interviewed my paternal grandparents about WW2 and conspiracy theories. They had a solid belief that FDR wanted in the war so that's why Pearl Harbor happened and it was kind of an inside job. Meanwhile my maternal grandpa was gathering Nazi regalia off of dead Nazis...