Off-Topic Forum

Good call AnalogKid!

Thanks for the removal.

There is nothing wrong with submitting the card images. In a way, you're right; you are a historian. And even Manson, Hitler, and bin Laden need historians. It's part of history, and for a lot of people a part of their lives. I was born well after the Manson crimes that got him locked away but was still aware of them.

No reason to feel regret or remorse for doing a job, even if it's a volunteer job!

The term "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it" is so very, very true. People are already trying to discount the numbers killed in WWII, for example, and there are still people alive who actually saw it first hand. Documenting history accurately is the best and only proper thing to do.

Billy well said. The world we live in today is going places and doing things that will remind ALL of us of the late 30s and 40s if we are not careful. It is scary and true. As for the Manson thing what vrooomed did is perfectly understandable and right. There might be a few whack jobs that might memoralize that waste of skin but its not needed here.

Seems like total agreement for the second time this week.

Billy, I couldn't agree with you more. I would make a little change to that "those who forget history accurately, are doomed to repeat it". Let us not forget, the people who write history many times are the "winners". And those winners do not necessarily record it correctly all the time, whether their intesions mean well or not.

A huge reader of history and especially of WW II, I can atest to your words.  Best to read with an open mind and consider the writer's view point on the matter.  We all like to think we can offer an unbiased opinion but that is not the case.

A case to emphasize this matterwas during the Nuremburg trials specifically on Admiral Doenitz (the successor to Hitler albeit for a very short time).  When the Allied tribunal was trying to find him guilty of some of the things he did with the u-boats against allied shipping, it was Admiral Nimitz who testified that he would have done the same as what Admiral Doenitz did. He ended up with ten years in Spandau (even though over 100 other allied officers also wrote to the tribunal expressing their thoughts on the unfairness of the trial). In this case, I think we military are more able to understand that we are all just soldiers and the pawns of governments, doing as they ask to the best of our ability.

But in the matter of the likes of Hitler and Manson, no question about their history.