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TSA
eh. Don't you think that's a crock of bullshit? You're a teacher, you should know better.
I like how everyone that was in WWII was at D-Day and everyone from that generation was in WWII.
In 60 years someone will post a picture of B-Rock on life support to imply he's lame, and someone else will say 'that man pull Bin Laden from his bunker'.
Worst, the US contribution to WWII was very lame and Nazi competence and ability grossly exaggerated to help gloss over our already lame, cake walky 'well I guess it's already over so why not' contribution. Odds are this guy guarded some water (if he was there) - which is a more realistic military occupation numerically - came home, sold three prong outlets and became a manager because he 'had grit'.
Don't fall of various generations self-aggrandizing depends-soaked propaganda. You already know how stupid boomers look when they try to tell everyone that world history was altered by various beetles songs.
History always has a more linear, exciting and impactful narrative structure than real life. A lot of people have decided that 'the people from history' are better than the people from real life because nobody has codified the events of real life in the format they're programmed (by movies) to digest yet. One day it will happen and you'll be like 'wtf' but you won't negate it because it'll feed your ego by proxy. The only reason 'D-day' and 'The Battle of the Buldge (no homo)' are talked about so much is because in really, that's nearly all the fighting we did in Europe.
This is why I don't fuck with people that are into history. They actually think that movie in their head was real life.
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