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Originally Posted by Charlatan
I disagree... *many* Germans view this day as their liberation... I see no reason not to remember that...
I also feel that taking the approach of "those sacrifices killed our men and prolonged the war" does nothing to promote healing. It continues to support an us vs. them mentality that was part of the problem to begin with... nothing wishy washy about it. It is time to move on from the confrontational approach.
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true, many germans did see that as a kind of liberation. however, that was mainly a liberation from the grip of war itself and not necessarily from hitler. i defy anyone to prove that the german people would have abandoned nazism had the war gone their way. additionally, any german soldier who would have viewed allied victory as a liberation wouldn't have made the sacrifices we honor our men making on VE day.
whether you like the approach or not, that is the reality of it. confronting evil is at the root of a just war. if western europe hadn't appeased hitler when he annexed the sudetenland and if the US hadn't been fixated in an isolationist mode... we might have saved millions of souls. i think the lessoned learned is clear: confrontation is the ONLY way to deal with evil in the world.
roachboy,
please quit making things up. you make discussion on this board very tedious.