Please answer these questions~!~!

[k8ln]

Hi! My name is Katelyn, and I?m 14, and I?m doing a report for my English class about a story we read about World War II.
If you were in, or lived through World War II, please answer these questions!

1.Did you have an encounter with a Nazi soldier? If so, what were your reactions? If not, what would you have done?

2. How were you involved in World War II? How did it affect you?

3. Did you agree with the reasons of the U.S. entering the war? Why or why not?

[39mto39g]

I think you miss the WW2 section just a little.

Put the same questions in the WW2 section, I'll bet you get some answers.

[Keith_Hixson]

Active on this site is fairly low, but what I will do is ask several of My WW II friends these questions and come back with some answers for you.

Keith

[cadetat6]

Katelyn,
1 I was in Pacific in WW2
2 I was Air Force Cadet and a iunfantry man
3 Yes

[Seascamp]

I?ll answer for my Father, as he was 1st Infantry Division during WWII.
My Father encountered many German Soldiers but not all were NAZI Party members, only a few. He didn?t have any emotion about the average German Soldier one way or another but got after the SS, SSSD Waffen SS and NAZI party members, big time, and truly hated those people.

My father was drafted and really didn?t get into the service as a patriotic act but just something that had to be done. He doesn?t talk it much but has never mentioned any regrets other than seeing the total devastation of German towns and cities and all the hungry orphan kiddos out begging for something to eat.

Because he spoke and understood the German language, he was pulled from a line company and assigned duties as a POW camp guard with the job of listening in as if he didn?t understand a word. This was an effort to weed out SS members masquerading as common German troops.

Scamp

[Desdichado]

Question 3 is a bit odd. Japan bombed us and Germany declared war on us; it's not like we had much choice in the matter. I thought we did well to stay out of it until then.

In 1939, no one had a clue Hitler would be as monstrous as he turned out to be. If being a prick was grounds for war, I guess they'd never end. As far as your average American was concerned, it was just another European power struggle, which it was. It wasn't until '45 that the real horror of what he had been up to became clear.

Roosevelt, of course, wanted us in in the worst way, and after getting re-elected (on his isolationist platform, I might add - no American boys in foreign wars), immediately began doing everything he could to antagonize the Germans and Japanese. The Lend Lease Act, "Arsenal of Democracy" rhetoric, escorting British convoys to mid-Atlantic, all lit a fire under Herr Hitler's bum; some indelicate diplomacy and an oil embargo against Japan in protest over their Chinese adventure guaranteed a Pacific war at least.

[Desdichado]

Just out of curiosity, what story is it that you're reading?

[k8ln]

Aw jeez, it was like Not to go with the Others or something like that, I can't remember it exactly, but this is an assignment, but I need these questions answered, and my grandpa was in World War II, but he has Alezheimers and he can't even remember my name.! I would go on the World War II board, but well, no one is on there, and I doubt the questions would be answered by Monday!
KC

[k8ln]

And for those of you who replied, please answer them like how they're written.

1.Did you have an encounter with a Nazi soldier? If so, what were your reactions? If not, what would you have done?

2. How were you involved in World War II? How did it affect you?

3. Did you agree with the reasons of the U.S. entering the war? Why or why not?

[Desdichado]

Well, good luck.

It's hard to find a WW2 vet under 70 years of age, and I guess damn few of them that are left spend a lot of time on the internet.

In my lifetime I've seen the last Civil War soldier buried, I'll probably see the last WW1 veteran buried - I doubt there's any under a hundred years old - and in your lifetime you'll probably see the last WW2 and Vietnam vets buried.

When it happens, take a day off when it's real quiet, and spend a few moments in one our cemeteries, would ya? Sit under a tree and read me one of them stories.