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orangecrush

(19,665 posts)
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 08:57 AM Nov 2017

Getting discouraged? Democrat Sergeant York says SUCK IT UP!

"A consistent Democrat – "I'm a Democrat first, last, and all the time", he said – in January 1941 he praised FDR's support for Great Britain and in an address at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Memorial Day of that year he ATTACKED ISOLATIONISTS (caps mine) and said that veterans understood that "liberty and freedom are so very precious that you do not fight and win them once and stop." They are "prizes awarded only to those peoples who fight to win them and then keep fighting eternally to hold them!" At times he was blunt: "I THINK ANY MAN WHO TALKS AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF HIS COUNTRY OUGHT TO BE ARRESTED AND PUT IN JAIL, (caps mine) not excepting senators and colonels." Everyone knew that the colonel in question was Charles Lindbergh."

-Wikipedia

In case you didn't hear that clearly -

"liberty and freedom are so very precious that you do not fight and win them once and stop." They are "prizes awarded only to those peoples who fight to win them and then keep fighting eternally to hold them!"

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Getting discouraged? Democrat Sergeant York says SUCK IT UP! (Original Post) orangecrush Nov 2017 OP
Gary Cooper did such a fine job playing Sgt. York. Watch it whenever on..nt monmouth4 Nov 2017 #1
Will do as well! orangecrush Nov 2017 #2
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