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On Fascism and Veterans' Day

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On Veterans Day I'm appreciating my dad and all the other WWII veterans for their inspiring contributions toward disempowering the evils of fascism, and I am hoping we continue to honor their legacy. Here's the Veteran's Day article I published a little over a decade ago about Dad's story: How a WW2 Twist of Fate Saved my Dad.

Ralph Butler, age 21, in Italy 1944.

Ralph Butler, age 21, in Italy 1944.
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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)

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Everyone knew about Dachau. Its opening was announced in the German newspapers.

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My father was the only survivor of the bombed children's camp on June 22, 1941. He was 11. My mother was under the machine -gun fire from the German plane on the refugee road and saw the face of the pilot. She was 10. My MiL was 21 in Stalingrad and was a captain in medical . Both my grandfathers were military engineers. I am an immigrant myself, my former country does not exist and my new country had just become fascist. Enough said?

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