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Posted: 5/26/2016 6:34:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Is there any chance that her dad saw U.S. POW's left behind after America exited Viet Nam? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: My wife didn't get out of Vietnam until 1993 when she got here she weighed 85 lbs, her father spent 10 years in a North Vietnam shit hole prison camp and her brother spent 13 years. One of these days I'm going to write down some of the stories. My wife hates any commie, anywhere, at all times. Hates China, Cuba, FBHO,FHRC- you know the Vietnamese police Chief that popped the cong spy live on camera - that's her. Rules http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i342/wsrhkv1/10192009015_zps50e059e8.jpg Notice no rounds in her 442 so don't be that guy. Is there any chance that her dad saw U.S. POW's left behind after America exited Viet Nam? Jim she says her father never mentioned seeing Americans and since he has passed it's impossible to ask him. I wish I had thought about that years ago but to be honest she says both him and her older brother spoke very little about their time in captivity. They were out in the bush along the Chinese border and lived on rats and bugs basically. |
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Posted: 5/26/2016 11:06:42 PM EDT
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Polish on my mothers side. My Grandmother hated the Russians with a passion(They come from around Dresden). You couldn't mention Russia without her spitting. I've heard little tidbits but it says a lot when you hate the Germans just slightly less than the Russians. All four granparents are from Poland. J- |
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Posted: 5/26/2016 11:15:22 PM EDT
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Grandfather got a free trip to Korea once. My father was in Korea as well |
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Posted: 5/28/2016 2:16:07 PM EDT
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Bit of a change up from the usual here.
My father went to Vietnam as a navy yeoman. What he saw there left him so disillusioned that he became a communist. Spent most of the 70s identifying as such. Though by the time I was born he had mellowed to just being a really hardcore socialist with a hint of Maoist. A couple years ago I read him the communist manifesto. Crazy bipolar bastard had never read it before in his life. He was stunned by what was in there. Growing up in Eugene Oregon I was surrounded by Trotskyites. Of all the flavors of communism I hate that the most. Stalinists and Maoists aren't housebroken. They can't be reasoned with. Trotskyism has an intellectual tinge that appeals to certain liberals and more conservatives than you can imagine. But it's still the same old religion of bending, hen breaking the human animal to ideas that are just plane wrong. |
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Posted: 5/28/2016 4:48:14 PM EDT
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Great grand-uncle murdered by Bolshevik revolutionaries in 1918.
Grandfather died fighting the Soviet army in 1943. My feels were hurt in the USSR in the late 80s. |
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Posted: 5/28/2016 4:58:59 PM EDT
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My grandfather met my grandmother while installing Thor missles for Project Emily.
So, yeah, I wouldn't be here if not for those fucking Commies. |
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Posted: 5/28/2016 5:11:22 PM EDT
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My grandmother took my 5 year old father and fled Yugoslavia at the end of the war, since commies everyone claims were 'moderate' and all happy killed one uncle and arrested my grandfather. He never quite forgave commies for that one, and equated communists to democrats the moment he was freed and joined the family in America. Helluva guy.
If I could push a button and just stop the hearts of commies everywhere, I would. They are AIDS, cancer, and ebola, all mixed together. |
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Posted: 5/28/2016 5:12:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My family was slaughtered by the Nazis then the Communists. I have been inoculated against Communism and would die to put an end to it. No Family on my side directly affected aside from Nuke drills and the like, but Ronald Reagan built up the Army and I was one of them and our enemy was the Communists. In laws lived in Gimpo and lost everything at the time when the communists invaded. Mother inlaw carried her brother on her back walking all the way to Pusan. Like you I will still fight them with all my heart. |
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Posted: 5/28/2016 9:49:51 PM EDT
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My dad drove an M67 flame tank in Vietnam, and got blown up a few times, one AT mine, one RPG and one mortar attack. Each time, the tank saved the crew, and they lived to roast commies another day.
He said that if they were suppressing a woodline, you could see the tracers from both sides going back and forth, but when they cut loose with the flamethrower, all the green tracers (and everything else the commies had) would converge on the flame tank. Nobody wanted to be roasted alive, I guess... I despise communists, I reserve my hottest hate for American communists, who would turn our country into the Soviet Union if they could. |
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Posted: 5/28/2016 10:01:21 PM EDT
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My mom's mom was Czech. So, yes.
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Posted: 5/28/2016 10:21:52 PM EDT
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Was born in Germany and before the wall came down we had family that was stuck in East Germany. Family used to smuggle coffee, smokes and jeans over to them. The way most people survived in the East was eye opening and made a huge impression on me as a kid. We as a nation are headed down that road unless things change. To hell with communism !!!
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Posted: 5/28/2016 10:25:23 PM EDT
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Polish on my mothers side. My Grandmother hated the Russians with a passion(They come from around Dresden). You couldn't mention Russia without her spitting. I've heard little tidbits but it says a lot when you hate the Germans just slightly less than the Russians. No but Mussolini/fascism ran my great-grandparents/grandparents out of Italy. |
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Posted: 5/28/2016 10:31:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My wife didn't get out of Vietnam until 1993 when she got here she weighed 85 lbs, her father spent 10 years in a North Vietnam shit hole prison camp and her brother spent 13 years. One of these days I'm going to write down some of the stories. My wife hates any commie, anywhere, at all times. Hates China, Cuba, FBHO,FHRC- you know the Vietnamese police Chief that popped the cong spy live on camera - that's her. Rules http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i342/wsrhkv1/10192009015_zps50e059e8.jpg Notice no rounds in her 442 so don't be that guy. |
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Posted: 5/28/2016 10:38:55 PM EDT
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Niece's family were Estonian. They weren't having much fun after the war.
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Posted: 5/28/2016 10:45:40 PM EDT
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Wife's grandfather was taken from his home by russians and shot. She played a small part in resisting the soviets as they were collapsing in 1991. She used to jam Russian kids' heads in elevators growing up.
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Posted: 5/28/2016 10:52:27 PM EDT
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Yeah. My dad spent ten years in SAC making sure the bastards didn't get out of line.
Before that he had to bomb the hell out of them in Korea. |
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Posted: 5/30/2016 8:43:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: my wife's story is similar, she got out of Vietnam in '93 as well, her father spent 7 years in "re-education" getting the shit beat out of him on a regular basis to the point where he had detached retinas. He also lost several feet of intestine because of his time in the camp. My wife was not allowed to complete her education there, got her GED when she got here, then an AS in radiology as an xray tech and has been an MRI tech for the last 14 years. Not bad for someone who came here with $10 in her pocket and no english who still managed to find a job the 2nd day she was here. With OT and shift differentials she'll probably out earn me this year and she votes a straight republican ticket. So fuck commies and all the entitled parasites I'm surrounded by here in CT. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: My wife didn't get out of Vietnam until 1993 when she got here she weighed 85 lbs, her father spent 10 years in a North Vietnam shit hole prison camp and her brother spent 13 years. One of these days I'm going to write down some of the stories. My wife hates any commie, anywhere, at all times. Hates China, Cuba, FBHO,FHRC- you know the Vietnamese police Chief that popped the cong spy live on camera - that's her. Rules http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i342/wsrhkv1/10192009015_zps50e059e8.jpg Notice no rounds in her 442 so don't be that guy. brother we are damn lucky men you know they are angels |
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Posted: 6/8/2016 11:46:08 AM EDT
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Now that Hillary has got the nomination in the bag, and the Republicans are eating each other to help her win, I'm guessing it won't be long before we start seeing some of the same things here that people ran away from Europe, Asia and South America to escape.
So historic! |
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Posted: 6/8/2016 11:53:36 AM EDT
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Wife's family is Ukrainian. Russia is very much hated.
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Posted: 6/8/2016 11:54:18 AM EDT
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Good, because I have an Uncle that fought in Korea and Vietnam. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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My older brother fought in Viet Nam, does that count? Good, because I have an Uncle that fought in Korea and Vietnam. My father fought in Korea |
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Posted: 6/8/2016 11:56:29 AM EDT
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My grandfather had to flee the Ukraine under death sentence and ended up on a government farm in Germany. When the Nazi's invaded the Soviet Union they captured my grandmother and forced her to go to Germany and work on one of the government farms feeding their armies. She was on the farm neighboring the farm my Grandfather was forced to work on. It's how they met. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Yeah When my great grandparents got the fuck out of the Ukraine in 1932 My grandfather had to flee the Ukraine under death sentence and ended up on a government farm in Germany. When the Nazi's invaded the Soviet Union they captured my grandmother and forced her to go to Germany and work on one of the government farms feeding their armies. She was on the farm neighboring the farm my Grandfather was forced to work on. It's how they met. This sounds like my Wife's family, except it was in '41 |
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Posted: 6/8/2016 11:57:26 AM EDT
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Vietnamese commie fucks damn near killed my dad in '68... that count?
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Posted: 6/8/2016 11:57:46 AM EDT
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Ever hear of Vietnam and the Cold War?
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Posted: 6/8/2016 11:58:25 AM EDT
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The story goes that my great grandfather was a timber exporter. He sold a load of timber to a company in Cuba that was nationalized by Fidel. Apparently he got on a plane and flew down there and came back with a check.
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Posted: 6/8/2016 12:11:47 PM EDT
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Post WW2 reconstruction in Greece .. during the Greek Civil War, my grandmothers brother was shot and killed by Communist insurgents/ sympathizers. His crime came down to the fact that he would join up with them.
They tried to kill my Grandfathers brother in Greece as well , they held him in a jail which was effectively a castle a but he was able to pull a Shawshank Redemption/ Andy Dufresne and crawl out via their sewer system |
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Posted: 6/8/2016 12:14:08 PM EDT
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Two of my matrelinial uncles are over weight diabetic union pensioners suffering from a general malaise brought on by 25 years of retirement with no anxiety over where the next check was coming from and never traveling beyond their rust belt mill town except to go fishing half way across the state Their bother was a plant manager who retired 15 years ago to costal South Carolina, does some consulting work and golfs three days a week, weighs the same as when he graduated high school and requires minimal resources from the medical pool I guess I could say Communism has had an effect on two thirds of my mother's siblings |
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Posted: 6/8/2016 12:19:26 PM EDT
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My parents came from Cuba in '59.
I would say, yes. |
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Posted: 6/8/2016 7:18:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Now that Hillary has got the nomination in the bag, and the Republicans are eating each other to help her win, I'm guessing it won't be long before we start seeing some of the same things here that people ran away from Europe, Asia and South America to escape. So historic! |
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Posted: 6/8/2016 7:20:22 PM EDT
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Uhh, yeah.
It's been affecting everyone in my family since January of 2009. |
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Posted: 6/8/2016 7:22:10 PM EDT
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My grandfather arrested the Russian spy Rudolf Able in 1957.
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Posted: 6/8/2016 7:35:09 PM EDT
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My grandparents fled Germany during the war, lots of family got shafted in East Germany afterwards...
I am glad they came here |
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Posted: 6/8/2016 7:45:40 PM EDT
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yup, in 1917 the Bolsheviks were fucking shit up making my great grandfather leave his post as a cavalry officer for the czar, he left Lithuania to come to America with his wife and 6 month old son. (Grandfather) That is how I came to be an commie hating American.
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Posted: 6/8/2016 7:48:11 PM EDT
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Quoted: Polish on my mothers side. My Grandmother hated the Russians with a passion(They come from around Dresden). You couldn't mention Russia without her spitting. I've heard little tidbits but it says a lot when you hate the Germans just slightly less than the Russians. Yes of course it did. I grew up in Italy, which was and still is, largely, a 'lefty' country. |
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