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In reply to the discussion: An-tee-fa? MY Dad in 1945: [View all]DrDan
(20,411 posts)33. my Father got there sometime after 12/7 - not sure exactly when
That accident sounds frightening. I don't blame him for giving up flying. Are you still flying? I have quite a few hours in a 172 as I was in flight school during the Viet Nam years - Reese AFB. We had 3 student accidents while I was there - the most frightening was student who got inverted in a cloud bank - panicked and punched out at about 1,000 ft. The funniest (if there is such a thing with respect to flying accidents) involved a marine - we had about a dozen in our class. He ran off the end of the runway in a 172 - nosed over - uninjured except for his pride. They were an arrogant bunch - I had no sympathy for him.
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This is a nation, and government, with a history of convicting people of "premature antifascism"...
Journeyman
Sep 2017
#1
I think "premature antifascist" references the period between mid-1939 and mid-1941,
struggle4progress
Sep 2017
#10
Dalton Trumbo related an interesting brush with being labelled 'prematurely antifascist'
Mc Mike
Sep 2017
#20
The term seems to have a persistent connection to the Spanish civil war volunteers:
struggle4progress
Sep 2017
#21
This stuff is very interesting, considering the current Von Ribbentrop Molotov pact we have
Mc Mike
Sep 2017
#44
I just re-read his 1959 and 1979 introductions: the FBI story is not in the 1970 introduction but
struggle4progress
Sep 2017
#41
I am sorry to not have the edition I referenced, anymore. Gave it to a young relative years ago.
Mc Mike
Sep 2017
#43
Before I went there myself, they were just names on Christmas cards we got ever year
DFW
Sep 2017
#24
great picture . . .My Father was in the Pacific at Pearl Harbor during WWII - not pro-Fascist either
DrDan
Sep 2017
#8