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babylonsister

(171,070 posts)
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 08:05 AM Aug 2017

Nazi In Charlottesville Wearing 82nd Airborne Hat Gets Called Out... By 82nd Airborne

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/82nd-airborne-nazi-salute-charlottesville_us_5992ad61e4b08a247276f35e?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009


POLITICS 08/15/2017 06:16 am ET
Nazi In Charlottesville Wearing 82nd Airborne Hat Gets Called Out... By 82nd Airborne
The elite paratrooper unit continues to battle fascism — but now on American soil.
By Dominique Mosbergen

“U really think that guy is an active member of the 82nd just because he has that hat? My mom has that same hat. She’s 78 & has never served,” said the operator of the 82nd Airborne Division’s Twitter account in response to this viral image.


The 82nd Airborne Division fought several campaigns against Nazi Germany during World War II. So after a man in a hat bearing the elite Army paratrooper unit’s insignia was pictured throwing a Nazi salute during the weekend’s Charlottesville protests, the division delivered a pointed message.

“Anyone can purchase that hat,” 82nd Airborne wrote on its official Twitter page. “Valor is earned.”

The infantry unit, nicknamed the All American Division, was reacting to a photograph that Brandon Friedman, a former Obama administration official, shared of the demonstrator on Twitter. The image was retweeted more than 20,000 times Monday.




The 82nd Airborne, which played a critical role in the Allied win at Normandy, northern France, on D-Day in 1944, was swift and scathing in its response to the image.







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lpbk2713

(42,759 posts)
3. All these clowns that like to play dress-up are silly.
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 09:50 AM
Aug 2017



Too bad they don't see themselves as the rest of the world does.


USN 65 - 69

3catwoman3

(24,006 posts)
10. Dress up and costumes...
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 10:30 AM
Aug 2017

...are for children and Halloween. These morans have no idea how ridiculous and pathetic they look.

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
14. Sadly, some American white terrorists trained in the Armed Forces, foresaking their oaths & honor
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 11:17 AM
Aug 2017

Timothy McVeigh comes to mind.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
8. republicans pissing on America's Armed Forces again
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 10:26 AM
Aug 2017

they really have no respect for the honorable Americans who sacrificed and fought against the scumbucket, lowlife Nazis. Republicans continue their wretched, evil betrayal of America.

Captain_New_York

(161 posts)
9. Real soldiers don't wear it on their sleeves
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 10:28 AM
Aug 2017

I am very proud of my 3 years service as a medic with the 82nd airborne and subsequent service as an armor officer. My West Point grad son also served as an Infantry officer for 4 years.

Only if you come to my home office in a remote part of upstate NY would you see any of my paratrooper paraphernalia. It there to let me remember when "We Were Soldiers Once… and Young"

http://imgur.com/hJxGLxl

byronius

(7,395 posts)
11. 82nd Airborne paratroopers were machine-gunned in the air by Nazis at Sainte-Mere-Eglise.
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 10:32 AM
Aug 2017

So, that guy -- no. Doesn't deserve to wear that hat.

gordianot

(15,238 posts)
12. Our soldiers have been propogandaized by armed forces radio for decades.
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 11:05 AM
Aug 2017

Rush Limbaugh is as close to a Nazi or Klan as you can get without directly wearing the label. Wonder if that child molester still gets on Armed Forces radio?

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
16. I was in the Army most people don't listen to that shit
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 11:24 AM
Aug 2017

Mostly because they find talk radio boring.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
15. The 82nd Airborne is still active
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 11:22 AM
Aug 2017

I doubt he is active because of the beard and the hair and he could easily buy ACUs at an army surplus store but it wouldn't surprise me if he actually did serve. I'm a veteran myself and come across many older veterans who are wing nuts and were happy with Donald Trump being elected though I'm not sure how they feel these days.

malchickiwick

(1,474 posts)
17. Did anyone else notice that those slobs are all "saluting" with the left arm?
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 11:29 AM
Aug 2017

They can't even get their own racist/bullshit symbolism correct--fucking morans [sic]!!

From wikipedia:
"The salute was performed by extending the right arm to the neck and straightening the hand so that it is parallel to the arm. Usually, an utterance of "Heil Hitler!", or "Heil!" accompanied the gesture... If physical disability prevented raising the right arm, it was acceptable to raise the left."

The article cites Kershaw, Ian (2001). The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich. Oxford University Press.

TomSlick

(11,098 posts)
19. This clown does NOT represent the ethics of the U.S. Army.
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 09:07 PM
Aug 2017

While the Army has its dim wits too, respect for others is a basic core value of the Army.

[link:https://www.army.mil/values/

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