May 9, 2011, - 1:49 pm
EXCLUSIVE MUST-SEE PHOTO: Wounded US WWII Vets Celebrate Israel’s Independence
Today (well actually, tomorrow, May 10th, but it’s nightfall in Israel, so the next day on the Hebrew calendar has officially started) is Israel Independence Day (“Yom Ha’Atzmaut”) as celebrated in Israel. The official date on the Christian calendar is May 16th because Israel was officially recognized as a state on that date. But, in Israel, it is celebrated according to the Hebrew/Jewish calendar, thus the discrepancy. Regardless, I’ve chosen to post this photo, below, today. You won’t see it anywhere else because it’s from my personal collection. It’s a photo of Jewish U.S. World War II veterans, including one who lost his leg in the war, marching in a parade in New York City on May 16, 1948 to mark the country’s independence. I believe that some of these soldiers were still serving in 1948 when this photo was taken and were marching in full, official uniform. I wonder if (and doubt that) the U.S. Army would allow something like this, today, as our military now bows to the will and mandates of Islam (including in the burial of a Muslim mass murderer of thousands of Americans). This is my favorite photo because it says so much, and goes back to an era in which America truly was at war with and successfully defeated its enemies, rather than pandering to them. An era in which members of the U.S. Armed Forces celebrated what was good and right and decent in a parade. Those who sacrificed for our country against the Nazis supported Israel’s independence amidst Muslim Nazis. By the way, there is a reason the sign says, “The Jewish Nation REBORN.” It was always the Jewish State–for thousands of years. That was only the date the world recognized it.
Check out this terrific photo . . .
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The mandates of Islam have nothing to do with it. A serving member of the United States armed forces is never supposed to take part in any kind of demonstration, ever, by any kind of interest group while in uniform.
Period.
I sympathize with their cause as I am a Zionist myself, but serving members of the armed forces must never demonstrate in uniform. Retired and discharged members, most of whom were in this photo, are another matter altogether.
S9: The US Armed Forces has no problem, today, allowing men in uniform to fete Muslims and Muslim countries at Muslim events and even Muslim parades in Dearbornistan. That’s the problem–like feting the Nazis and Third Reich, not this parade. DS
section9 on May 9, 2011 at 2:04 pm