Outside the roadtrip capsule, they are remembering D-Day. Not only does the destruction of Nazism pose a problem for anyone basically opposed to war, but, on a much more personal level, I have to wonder if I would have had what it took to do what these guys did?
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I often wonder that. I also wonder how I would have fitted into pre-War Germany. The choice seems fairly limited...fascist, communist or shut up.
As for D-Day I think I'd have tried to get on the photographic team.
My father went to war to fight fascism ..not Germans..there is a difference
I think the modern dilemma is that such a black and white, right or wrong scenario doesn't exist . If we had the same predicament now that our father's faced, our personal responses would probably be very similar. We have had more than half a century of national and international ambiguity and the result has been almost total polarization of the societies.
If D-day had happened in the '60s, conscription and all, it would have been a battle fought, on both sides, by soldiers on acid. You would have done alright. You may not be here now, but you would have done alright.
Good point, Mr,BNH - such a battle fought by AcidHeads would have consisted of five shots fired into the air and then a general consensus on both sides that this was stupid whereupon every body would have gone home to change clothes.
I think most of us who were not born yet for WWII and managed to dodge Nam (I spent my Nam years in college and then in the Navy in the North Atlantic...followed by a brief stint as laundry officer at Quonset Point...one of the best 3 months of my life)wonder how we would have measured up. Chances are, in the world of the early 40's,we'd have done fine. I am forever grateful, and somewhat disappointed, that I never found out.
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