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<p>[QUOTE="Randy Abercrombie, post: 24553456, member: 92655"]I served in a little berg in Germany in the late 1970's and one Saturday afternoon I actually found a little German coin shop and purchased one WWII era piece just to have a piece of that history in my coin collection. Do you know that the MP's confiscated that piece from me in Frankfurt when I declared it flying back home?</p><p><br /></p><p>At any rate, I don't know that there is a fascination per se with the swastika. It does represent pure evil to those of us familiar with the history. My daddy in law carried German shrapnel in his back until the day he died fighting for what is right...... But we are now several generations removed from that evil and what it represented. I don't know that younger folks today really have a genuine appreciation for what it represented. They likely see the imagery on titillating websites or perhaps read a chapter in a history book at school so they want one.... I sure hope it isn't a genuine fascination. All they need do is take a tour of the Holocaust Museum in DC and they will get over that fascination rapidly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Randy Abercrombie, post: 24553456, member: 92655"]I served in a little berg in Germany in the late 1970's and one Saturday afternoon I actually found a little German coin shop and purchased one WWII era piece just to have a piece of that history in my coin collection. Do you know that the MP's confiscated that piece from me in Frankfurt when I declared it flying back home? At any rate, I don't know that there is a fascination per se with the swastika. It does represent pure evil to those of us familiar with the history. My daddy in law carried German shrapnel in his back until the day he died fighting for what is right...... But we are now several generations removed from that evil and what it represented. I don't know that younger folks today really have a genuine appreciation for what it represented. They likely see the imagery on titillating websites or perhaps read a chapter in a history book at school so they want one.... I sure hope it isn't a genuine fascination. All they need do is take a tour of the Holocaust Museum in DC and they will get over that fascination rapidly.[/QUOTE]
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