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Post by TRTerror on Mar 30, 2024 19:31:53 GMT -5
I just ordered 2 stickers online for my new pocket travel pack thing. Yellow background and a black symbol. Should look nice ..I know it will be controversial, but I don't see a problem with celebrating the US Army 45 Infantry Division that Grand dad belonged too..
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Post by mackeralsnatcher on Mar 30, 2024 19:52:01 GMT -5
How about a tat?
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Post by PolarsStepdad on Mar 30, 2024 20:25:09 GMT -5
All Nahtzees must die
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Post by Stumpy on Mar 30, 2024 21:36:44 GMT -5
45th inf swastika was yellow with a red diamond back ground. The swastika perpendicular arms are on a 180 and 90 degree plane. 1n 1940 the 45 inf patch changed to a thunderbird... old grandaddy would have worn that into Europe.
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Post by tonyroma on Mar 30, 2024 23:09:20 GMT -5
Was once a symbol for prosperity. Tiny mustache man ruined it. 6 million dead Jews will do that to a symbol.
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Post by gardawg on Mar 31, 2024 13:52:25 GMT -5
plus the 8 million who were not Jewish
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Mar 31, 2024 14:21:23 GMT -5
Bought a house lock stock and barrel from a WW2 veterans surviving family.
We found vintage little flags with swastikas on them. There were white and blue. Anyone know what they might have been. They were located in a hoard of real WW2 items so I have no doubt that they were genuine. Thanks for any info
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Post by walkerdog on Mar 31, 2024 18:28:59 GMT -5
Was once a symbol for prosperity. Tiny mustache man ruined it. 6 million dead Jews will do that to a symbol. It’s also a traditional Native American symbol that some tribes are known to have used for the past few hundred years at least.
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Post by ferris1248 on Mar 31, 2024 18:42:39 GMT -5
Doesn't matter what it once was.
It's soiled forever now.
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Post by TRTerror on Mar 31, 2024 18:48:44 GMT -5
Only in Your Mind.... Bet there's a few WW 1 and Korea Vets that would be proud of that symbol...
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Post by ferris1248 on Mar 31, 2024 19:03:20 GMT -5
Probably only in your mind and a few others.
Very few WW II or Korean warriors left.
You probably to check your history books for when they changed the swastika to a thunderbird.
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Post by TRTerror on Mar 31, 2024 19:52:54 GMT -5
Bout 1933 as I recall..maybe a few years later as Hitler Co Opted it. Seems the Native tribes used it as a symbol of good luck and the Boy Scouts issued a Coin with the Swastika on the back side. Funny you know so much and are so uniformed.
I just had to throw that last line in there to piss you off..
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Post by ferris1248 on Mar 31, 2024 20:00:15 GMT -5
You've only pissed me off once in our association.
That was the night Big Candy arrived.
The next morning life was good.
By the way it was 1939. 😀
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Post by stc1993 on Mar 31, 2024 20:05:39 GMT -5
Big Candy wore you out.
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Post by PolarsStepdad on Mar 31, 2024 20:29:08 GMT -5
The far east Apaches "Indians" used it 6000 years ago. So I'm pretty sure their culture trumps everyone else's use of it. But the nazis pretty muxh ruined it for everyone. Nazis and nazism were prominent in the U.S. throughout the 30s and up until 1941. When their popularity virtually disappeared overnight after Peatl Harbor. Noted amongst them was Charles Lindbergh. His involvement and proNazi stance hurt his effort to join the war effort later. A lot of interesting history about the U.S. in the 20s and 30s really isn't taught or at least it's very white washed and glossed over
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