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MEMORIAL DAY
Happy Antifa Day, Dad!
Things have sure changed since you left us
Hi Dad:
I hope you’re doing well in the heavenly realms. It’s been a long time since I’ve written to you. Life gets heavy, as you know, and sometimes I even blame you for my mistakes and foibles. You know how it is. I’ll try to do better.
Today is Memorial Day here in the United States. It’s a day we celebrate people like you and the fight you took to the fascists who were responsible for the deaths of 80 million people, including six million Jews in Europe.
On one of the rare occasions you talked about that awful war, you described how you drove a PT boat in the Pacific against the shores of jungle islands torn apart by battle as you and your crew escorted marines to take one island after another, step by bloody step, with the eventual goal to land in Japan itself.
You watched in horror as Japanese soldiers jumped from cliffs to their deaths to avoid surrender. On another island, you said, it was all hands on deck as everyone was ordered onto shore to clear out foxholes.
These days, it’s hard to imagine being at war with Japan and its lovely people. But many other things are imaginable that weren’t when you were alive. The current regime has abandoned a…
