81-year-old Ukrainian prepares to take on Russian army

[True Dough]

I'll take this guy over Clint Eastwood any day.

Link to tweet

[SheltieLover]

1. He & they recall what living under Russia's thumb is like.

They would rather risk dying to defend their country, understandably!

I hope people are seeing this!

[gab13by13]

2. He is planning on an up close fight with a shotgun.

[fromVT]

3. Reminds me of Samuel Whittemore

Monument in Arlington, Massachusetts:
"Near this spot, Samuel Whittemore, then 80 years old, killed three British soldiers, April 19, 1775. He was shot, bayoneted, beaten and left for dead, but recovered and lived to be 98 years of age."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Whittemore

[FailureToCommunicate]

5. Yes! I am very familiar with that place where Whittamore defended his town...

which at that time Arlington was called Menotomy. The British troops were returning from Concord, under constant fire from Minutemen. Some of the fiercest fighting of that day happened in Menotomy.

[tavernier]

4. My dad died of cancer at 93

but up until the last year of his life he was strong and robust and very active. I guarantee he would have been on a plane to go over there and fight. He was Latvian and his family was destroyed by communism in WWII. He hated Putin with a purple passion.
And he was pretty good with a gun.

[True Dough]

6. Sounds like your dad

and Pjotr in the OP would have been allies and friends.

[tavernier]

7. Absolutely.

He belonged to Daugavas Vanagi (Hawks of Daugava), an organization for Latvian patriots and old soldiers.

[wnylib]

8. One of the surprising things that I discovered

in genealogy was an ancestor who commanded a ship during England's battle with the Spanish Armada. He was 80 years old at the time.