{"id":157601,"date":"2024-06-09T09:05:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T13:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=157601"},"modified":"2024-06-08T18:06:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T22:06:13","slug":"world-war-ii-veteran-feels-like-a-foreigner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=157601","title":{"rendered":"World War II veteran feels like a foreigner"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ronald ‘Rondo’ Scharfe is 96 years old and served during World War II. After being turned down for enlistment due to his age, he later stole baptismal certificates and changed his age. Months later, he was fighting in the battle of Iwo Jima. When asked what he thought of the U.S. today, he said that he felt like a foreigner in his own country.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Asked to share his thoughts on what he thinks of the state of America today, the 96-year-old veteran did not mince words.<\/p>\n

“The real truth? I feel like a foreigner in my own country lots of times and I don’t like it, it makes my heart real heavy,” he said. “I just hope we can pull out of this, there’s too much Hollywood going on in Washington all the time — the important subjects they don’t cover. So I hope all the guys rally up and go back and straighten it all out.”<\/p>\n

Scharfe said he finds it unlikely that most 16-year-olds today would go through the lengths he did to risk their lives for their country. He called it a symptom of a “lazy” generation.<\/p>\n

“It was a different generation. Each generation is a little bit different,” he said. “And I think that all the generations are great, but I think some of the ones they got now are a little lazy, and I think they’ve got to show more pride in their country than they do.”<\/p>\n

Scharfe recalled how he was initially turned away from enlisting at 16 years old, but he was determined to fight. He ultimately stole baptismal certificates during his sister’s wedding and falsified his age. Only months later, he found himself fighting in the battle of Iwo Jima.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Halon, Y. (2024, June 8). WWII veteran on state of America today: ‘I feel like a foreigner in my own country and I don’t like it’. Fox News<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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