DIFFERENT SOLDIERS? HOW DIFFERENT

The men in uniform during WWII were different soldiers, different kind of people.

The Axis powers carried an extreme devotion to duty, an extreme devotion to their emperor, and an extreme devotion to cruelty over helpless victims.

By the way, this isn’t new, not breaking news, but a reminder for short-memoried morons who ought to know better.

All of the extreme devotion of the German and Japanese armies ended with their defeat?

What exactly ended?

For one, the Japanese collection of islands and women ended.

From Google AI:

 

“Comfort women” is a euphemism for tens of thousands to over 200,000 girls and women—mostly from Korea, China, and occupied Pacific territories—trafficked into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.

These women, some in their early teens, were forced to work in brutal military “comfort stations”, leading to long-term physical, emotional, and social trauma. The issue remains a severe diplomatic issue, with victims seeking full compensation and formal apologies. 

 

Eighty years later they all remember.

History doesn’t go away. The story is unchanged.

The Japanese soldiers were up to no good in their mission during WWII.

But that ended after the unconditional surrender of August 15, 1945?

 

What Ended In Germany?

What ended in Germany? The holocaust ended in Germany, in Poland, with the surrender on May 8, 1945.

Everyone calmed down and went home.

That’s the official story, but there’s more.

Nations invaded by the German army were occupied by a German police force.

 

Major Wilhelm Trapp, a 53-year-old career police officer who had come up through the ranks, headed the battalion.

With choking voice and tears in his eyes, he visibly fought to control himself as he informed his men that they had received orders to perform a very unpleasant task. These orders were not to his liking either, but they came from above.

Trapp then explained to the men that the Jews in Jozefow would have to be rounded up, whereupon the young males were to be selected out for labor and the others shot.

 

After 1945 everyone calmed down and went home?

Nooooo.

 

Tying The Knot Of Peace With American Rope

Some will say America has no moral clarity given past actions and current direction.

I like moral superiority, of feeling like I’m in a better country than Germany and Japan in the 30’s and 40’s.

With all of the dirt swept under the historical rug, and the high IQ shit working to show history in a light they approve of, I’m glad to think of no crowded gas chambers here.

We do it one at a time.

I’m glad to think no one has such an extreme devotion to duty, an extreme devotion to the emperor, and an extreme devotion to cruelty over helpless victims, to lose control of what we like to call civilized behavior.

 

 

This old PFC, the old medic, wants to remind readers of the recent retirements, dismissals, and firing, going on in the ranks.

Show too much interest in the oath of office? Gone.

Not following illegal orders? Gone.

When did being a professional soldier and role model in the community become a career liability?

Things change when you bring a hype-man forward as a leader.

The question will always be, ‘Is it hype or leadership?’

Google AI:

As of early May 2026, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has executed a major purge of senior military leadership, firing over a dozen high-ranking officers since taking office in January 2025. The most prominent recent firing is Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George in April 2026, amid the U.S.-Iran war

 

Young Americans in the audience see a forty or fifty year old man as old.

When an old man of 40 or 50 years old tries to show a youthful spirit with snide behavior in congress, pointless bravado on stage, and extreme devotion to the emperor, the kids see the gaps.

What they don’t see is themselves plugging those gaps.

Baby boomers have seen those gaps filled with friends, neighbors, brothers, and dads.

If you’ve ever walked into a home with a big memorial picture of a kid in uniform, there’s a part of that family missing.

Any service member past or present hearing an official spout slogans like a used car salesman, while looking like a used car salesman, is suspicious.

Ask a veteran you know, “Do you remember the secretary of defense when you served?”

This was my guy.

 

According to the news outlet Slate, in 1974 “Schlesinger told Brown,” then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “to call him if he received any unusual orders from Nixon.

Brown then told all the four-star officers in charge of the various military commands (including Strategic Air Command, which then had control of nuclear weapons) that they were not to carry out any ‘execute orders’ from the president unless Brown and Schlesinger first verified the orders.”

 

My guy didn’t trust an unstable leader.

 

PS:

What’s the point of keeping American bases in Germany and Japan, as well as others around the world?

History spells it out in the harshest terms possible with campaigns of extermination and inhuman behavior.

Would anyone have expected death camps and comfort women before Germany and Japan in the 30’s and 40’s?

PSS:

In the best of worlds, competent leaders look at nations for clues of going off the edge.

Who went further off the edge of civilization on a scale bigger than Japan in China and Germany in Central Europe?

The correct answer is No One. What about those military bases?

Google AI:

 

Ramstein Air Base, located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, is the largest U.S. military base in Germany and the largest American community outside the United States, hosting over 50,000 Americans. As the headquarters for U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Africa, it functions as a critical logistics and airlift hub.

 

More Google AI:

 

Kadena Air Base, located in Okinawa, is the largest and most active U.S. Air Force installation in Japan and all of East Asia. Known as the “Keystone of the Pacific,” it covers a vast area, houses the 18th Wing, and operates two 12,100-foot runways.

 

Do not follow illegal orders.

That’s my order of the day and every day.

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