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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: 101 Yr Old WW2 Hero Calls Out Trump
Date: 07/10/26 8:20 AM
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"Last week, a group of people gathered outside Alligator Alcatraz in Florida for a final vigil as the detainees were transferred to other facilities.
As part of that vigil, Robert Hilliard, a World War II veteran, stepped up to speak."

Robert Hilliard, WW2 Hero, Purple Heart recipient, began by saying,
"Well, as you just heard, next week I'll be 101 years old. In February 1944, when I was 18 years old, I was inducted into the Army, and they sent me for basic training to Camp Blanding,
which is near Jacksonville, Florida. And what they taught me to do there was to kill people who had set up detention camps in Germany, he continued.
Can you imagine how I felt earlier this year when they announced that one of the detention camps would be at that same Camp Blanding in Florida? What remarkable irony."

"We in this country have seen a remarkable change. And in Washington right now — and forgive me, I'm gonna use the 'f' word — we have a fascist, a fascist government that allows innocent people
to be put in detention camps and incarcerated. We have been lied to over and over and over again about these camps. Our president said these detention camps were being put up to put in immigrants
who had criminal records. We now have about 65–70,000 people incarcerated in these camps."
He closed by saying, "We've got to fight. We've got to keep fighting. We've got to reach people all over this country and tell them, 'Don't look away. See what's happening.'"

Mr. Hilliard is a true American hero who knows fascism when he sees it. And he IS seeing it.

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