What Would Our Dads Have Thought?

It’s a common thought among baby boomers whose fathers fought the Second World War: How would Dad have felt about this rise of the neo-Nazis in the United States?  How would he regard a U.S. president who, in response to a Nazi rally in Charlottesville said, “There were fine people on both sides?”

I never had the opportunity to speak with my father about this directly before he died in 2010, though I recall how disgusted he was when it was revealed to all the world that his country was operating torture chambers in Abu Ghraib. I have a feeling that he’d be just as sickened by young racist morons who really have no understanding of the true American values of fairness, decency, and rule of law.