USA 2020 Elections: Thread

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America fought Socialism Communism Dictats and all sorts of Authoritarians,
now those have risen internally in form of Democrats Progs Left Libs etc,
and their form of growing mandated colossal Government in general.
Unless the US radically downsizes its Govt breadth and depth,
and ends its authoritarian force, renews within its whole people
the notion of Independence and outright Freedom from such Govt,
taxation, regulation, politic and politicians, it's doomed to join
the set of all failed countries in history.



100-year-old WWII vet breaks down, says this isn’t the ‘country we fought for’

https://nypost.com/2022/07/03/100-year-old-wwii-vet-breaks-down-says-this-isnt-the-country-we-fought-for/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcnQJd_XRQQ

The silver star holder says serving his country in WWII was the most
important thing he ever did.	The silver star holder says serving his
country in WWII was the most important thing he ever did.

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Much of what American soldiers fought for in World War II has “gone
down the drain,” according to U.S. Marine Carl Spurlin Dekel, who
celebrated his 100th birthday last week.

Dekel says serving his country in WWII was the most important thing he
ever did, according to Fox 13. The veteran and Silver Star holder says
he wouldn’t hesitate to put his life on the line again, but regrets
that the U.S. has slipped away from what he remembers.

“People don’t realize what they have,” Dekel told the outlet. “The
things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for
it, it’s all gone down the drain.”

“We haven’t got the country we had when I was raised, not at all,” he
says. “Nobody will have the fun I had. Nobody will have the
opportunity I had. It’s just not the same and that’s not what our
boys, that’s not what they died for.”

Dekel’s statements came the same day the U.S. lost the last surviving
Medal of Honor recipient from WWII. Hershel “Woody” Williams died
Wednesday at 98 years old, surrounded by his family at a hospital
named after him in his home state of West Virginia.
The silver star holderThe silver star holder says serving his country
in WWII was the most important thing he ever did. FOX 13

Williams, also a U.S. Marine, received his medal for heroism from
former President Harry Truman during the battle of Iwo Jima in 1945.

America’s 63 living Medal of Honor recipients honored Williams in a
statement to Fox News Digital.

“Friends and family of Woody Williams knew him as a West Virginia
farmer’s son and the youngest of 11 children who dutifully supported
his family after his father died,” they wrote in a statement through
the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. “Fellow Marines knew him as
the corporal who volunteered for a mission on Iwo Jima to clear a lane
through enemy pillboxes that were destroying American tanks.”

“Veterans in West Virginia knew him as their advocate through his work
as a Veterans Service Representative. Gold Star families knew Woody
through his work raising money for scholarships and other programs
through the Woody Williams Foundation,” they continued. “We, his
fellow Medal of Honor Recipients, knew him as our friend and one of
our heroes. We will miss him greatly.”

Williams echoed Dekel’s sentiment of loss during an interview on
Memorial Day, remarking to local media that he hoped to see a
resurgence of patriotism in the U.S.

“I’ve been at this probably 25 to 30 times, but I believe today we had
more honor wreaths than we’ve ever had before, and that’s
encouraging,” Williams told WSAZ during a veterans’ event. “It gives
me encouragement that we’re coming back and that we will again be that
United States of America that had so much patriotism and love of
country.”