{"id":102262,"date":"2020-07-14T13:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=102262"},"modified":"2020-07-14T11:58:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T15:58:46","slug":"if-war-was-so-terrible-why-do-we-sometimes-miss-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=102262","title":{"rendered":"If war was so terrible, why do we sometimes miss it?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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B-17 Loss 3 – from TOW’s family<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This comes from We Are The Mighty’s history section.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.wearethemighty.com\/history\/red-army-veterans<\/a><\/p>\n

The subject is why freedom is always worth fighting for.<\/p>\n

The author went to visit in-laws in Ukraine in the post-Soviet era, some of whom had been in the “Red” Army, and at the time, were our enemy. Imagine, if you can, what it may have been like earlier, during World War I.<\/p>\n

From the article:\u00a0\u00a0At this spot on the western side of the Dnieper River in central Ukraine, some 30,000 Soviet soldiers died under Nazi artillery during World War II. Yet, on this hot June day, there’s nothing to suggest that this particular place was once on the deadliest front of the deadliest war in human history.<\/p>\n

“What horrors happened here,” says my 55-year-old Ukrainian father-in-law, Valeriy Deriy, who is a Red Army veteran of the Cold War. “Can you imagine?”<\/p>\n

I cannot.<\/p>\n

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We’ve hired a zodiac boat for the day, embarking from a yacht club in the riverside town of Horishni Plavni. To get to the so-called Island of Death, our captain weaves through narrow, overgrown channels that branch off the main course of the Dnieper River.<\/p>\n

Tucked away in a dense forest on the island, there’s an old Soviet war memorial. You’d hardly notice it from the water, unless you knew what to look for. Valeriy explains that one can still find evidence of war in the surrounding woods. Old artillery pieces, bullets, rifles, and boots. That sort of stuff.<\/p>\n

“Some people want to forget the past. But it’s impossible,” he tells me. “It’s always there.” – article<\/p>\n

The entire article is worth your time, so get a snack and a favorite beverage, and take at look at the other side of those wars. The Ukraininas were all under Stalin’s thumb, but during World War II, the USSR was our ally against Germany’s war machine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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