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(20,849 posts)That is simply not true. Neither of my WWII parents and WWII relatives (one is left) voted for Ronnie.
That is a disgusting thing to say IMO.
My late father had been on a trip abroad and they were having and anti-RR protest. I still have that flyer today that he picked up while at the protest (yes my father was at an anti-RR protest overseas!) and he was reamed over good. My father liked that A LOT because he disliked Raygun with an intense passion. He never voted for a puke, never!
I'm sure that my WWII relations were not the only ones that did not vote for him! Your statement is plain cruel to this "Greatest Generation" as they are now known.
Maybe they were the "Greatest Generation" and maybe they were not.
I could care less about this definition of who the WWII generation is/was.
I know what I saw and what I heard growing up and FYI my grandfather born in 1890 was also a Democrat and he too never voted for pukes. He was one of the first teamster's in America and if it weren't for the likes of him and other early union folks, the union movement may have never gotten off the ground and been as successful as it became. However, thanks to brave men like my grandfather, it became a reality.
My late mother recalled upon meeting my grandfather that he had a huge framed picture of FDR over their dining room table. He was truly a patriot, a veteran of WWI, and a Democrat without a doubt.
That picture of FDR was there hanging on the wall of his house the day he died. He worshiped President Roosevelt for if it weren't for FDR and what he did, America would not even resemble anything close to what it now is.