D-Day Veteran LIED about his AGE to Fight in WWII 

Your grandfather had priorities

They still do, sometimes

Gramps had his priorities straight

This isn't adding up. The set timeline he's giving puts him at the recruiting office in 1937 4 years before the US got involved in WW2. My grandfather was born in 1919, joined immediately after Pearl Harbor, and by the end of the war had earned the nickname "Old Man"

Exactly what my grandfather said. Ended up driving a tank through France 😂😂😂😂😂😂

15 years old kids eager to join the war effort. Today 2024 15 years old kids are eager to join the lobby of fortnite

They never had CNN or the internet to show them the real horror or the war....

@@jimmason1072yeah cause CNN and the internet capture what real war is. Nobody has any clue until they’re stuck in a fox hole getting shot at by people who you don’t know. You’re just told to kill them because they are trying to kill you.

​@@devilsephiroth9000 and you should be thankful of that

A generation definitely worthy of praise where appropriate, but careful with the hero worship. They were not without their faults (racism, sexism, lobotomizing the mentally ill, etc.)

102? Hell yeah, man still going strong

102? He looks 60!

@@spacebuilder4dbe fr he doesn’t look 60 he looks like he is 80

He's 104/105

@@listeygood 1

Children who marched into a battlefield to die?

People who did what they had to do in order to fight for our country

Paid killers for the government?

@@ejam4345yes

@@ejam4345to fight for our country**

I salute your grandfather!

Salute to him a great man

God Bless 🙏

Please please get a video camera and record his story! There aren't many veterans left from WWII and their stories need to be told for the younger generations. My great grandfather was Marine in the Pacific theater and he passed away while I was a teenager. He talked very little if at all and had nightmares, sometimes screaming and acting like he was still shooting his machine gun in his sleep. When I was still a child of 7 or 8 ish, I encountered his purple heart and asked an innocent question what it was and what it meant. He sat me down on the bed and gave me a child friendly version. It was Christmas, and there were probably over 50 relatives visiting. The conversations around us dwindled quickly, but I was intent on paying close attention. I noticed the silence and looked up to see mostly everyone crowded in the hallway outside his bedroom, some with tears in their eyes. I remember my great grandmother telling me afterward that it was one of the first times he had talked about with anyone but her. I didn't realize the brevity at the time as such a young child until much later when I was an adult. I don't even remember hardly anything, but I wish I did. I'm 42 now and details are very blurry but I still remember the outline of our conversation. He explained he fought at Iwo Jima and Okinawa and had a grenade blow up near him leaving shrapnel embedded in his chest that was too close to his heart to remove as it would've killed him. He passed away with it still there. There are more details I know but I won't share because I'm afraid I'll get the specifics incorrect. I was young, and now I'm getting older, but I think it's highly valuable to pass these stories on to others and, most importantly, generations to come. I'd give anything to have the technology we have today back then to record the stories that will never be told and are lost to time!

That’s incredible, so few can say that they fought evil with their bare hands. I hope he’s doing great.

Maybe not the ones from Germany

@@AaroneousMaximussounds like someone isnt very smart

@@AaroneousMaximuseven them, they still fought for their country

The 15 year old generation now has no idea.. Definitely for the most part anyway

U wot

Believe the Navy ( at least the British navy ) then enlisted under 18 then

Damn, he must of had a hard life to say WWll was the best thing to happen to him 😂

@@thomasmatarazzo198 My pops always said the war years were the best years of his life. The depression era here in the states left many destitute and my family was devastated by the failing economy of the day. My Pops always said a clean uniform and a monthly pay check was way better than those damned dirty coal mines he was working in at fourteen. Those folks born in the 1920’s and 30’s were known as the greatest generation for good reason. They had resolve and a belief that they lived in a country that gave them the best chance to succeed and they were right. I’m 59 and I miss my folks generation. They were the salt of the earth.🇺🇸

My dad was born in 27 too. He didn't enlist until he was 16. Blind in one eye. Served as a radio operator in Greenland and the Aleutian Islands. His older brother flew 36 missions over Germany. He wasn't even an American citizen since my dad was first born in the US.

For sure, that “young men” was a loaded response 😆

Easier to get into a war than to buy alcohol it seems

They didn't force them to do anything

⁠@@BlindGuardian050 no one said they did

Sounds like chicks were paid or otherwise convinced to recruit young men also. As was an officer with his response.

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And off of what basis or assumptions did you gather that from?

​@@jsandiego2394if you can't just figure that out yourself. Please take some comprehension classes 😂

He very well may hold a purple heart award and if he does don't disregard it by making random assumptions I'm glad he was not Kia like so many other of his brave brothers please reword your comment sir

@@jsandiego2394🤦‍♂️

And now "our" leaders (masons) import millions of savages to destroy our social unity

This is the times where it is okay to lie.

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Unfortunately that’s starting to crumble. People like him fought against racism and won, only for republicans and the like to try resurrect it 80 years in

So you're pro child soldiers... Honest question, how deranged must one be?

Thats right Karl. Many times I have to tell the cashier how much money to give back to me. Sadly, "counting" is a special skill today.

Facts

Ahh yes, the good ol' days. Back when women could be beaten with no consequence and people with darker skin had to drink from a different fountain, but hey, at least kids could count better... supposedly... despite lower literacy & arithmetic rates... THOSE WERE THE DAYS!

@EpsteinsRope HTF does that even relate? Your racism is showing. 🙄🤡

And whose fault is it that today’s children are not being educated properly? The answer is in the adults

The recruiters are still very unscrupulous

That is so hardcore i bet your so proud and you should be that’s a raw asl story

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​@@bill-or-somthingbill4390you definitely can't lie about your age

Damn thats young. I’m just glad he made it outa there alive. Many weren’t so lucky.. ❤️

15 years + 1922 = 1937 ... WW2 didn't even start until 1939 and America didn't enter for 3 years.

Back when it was still a country...

​@@brokenface88 Well for usa ww2 started few years later so he probably fought

You mean the real heroes...

My grandfather lied aswell. He was fifteen like the man in the video, and enlisted in the Army. He was about to be deployed to war, when his grandmother came and exposed him as being a minor. He got to stay in the military, but wasn’t deployed. And everyone was glad he didn’t. Everyone who was deployed from his base had died. I’m so thankful for my great grandmother telling them he was underage.❤️

I'm sorry for your loss.

@@Travanatoar no sorrow here, I'm proud to call him my grandfather

@@Haleyythesilly i'm glad things worked out

Same

Thanks for sharing. Did he get a full Life? Much respect.

@@reece-diesel I think it must be and that's the reason you saw this comment

North Africa and Italy are parts of WW2 that arent talked about enough🙌 We forever salute your father 🕊️ He must’ve had the greatest stories

My birthday is also December 7th

May God bless and rest his soul, and may you be reunited in the peace and light of Heaven.

What enemies? Why would this guy have been enlisting in 1937? Born in 1922…plus 15 years. That’s nonsense. Hitler didn’t even invade Poland until 1939, and obviously Pearl Harbor wasn’t until late 1941. What am I missing???

For what?

​@bertrecht913 Isn't your bedtime little buddy?

​@@bertrecht913saving the world from fascism?

@@purpled4864 You believe we doesn't have Fascism and everything is fine?

​@@bertrecht913 🤦 my good sir, if I donate food to the homeless am I ending homelessness? No, but I'm helping aren't I?

It’s a great feeling, honestly

Yes, he surely was!

May God bless his soul

More than a great man

Yes, my grandfather was 17 but told them he was 18. Its amazing what they did.

Same with my Grandfather

That’s really amazing man. Although unpleasant I bet his heart was big and he was understanding. Stay blessed my bro

That's fantastic!! Thank you Sir. What a generation of young men.

That's exactly how I feel about my father... Didn't fight any American wars but he fought the one in his country... Which basically is an American war also... Rough man to be around but definitely one that couldn't be menaced with back in his days.

Most navy men ARE real men

Seriously, nowadays our 15 year olds cry when they can’t call themselves a furry, can’t imagine what’s going to happen if we need to draft…

​@@TakeOffV05 There are a few of us left who would still try to defend our country

@@andrewvoighttheoriginalGod bless you. I’d be proud to stand beside you.

@@anvilsbane2196 You to

@@andrewvoighttheoriginalamen to that!

Real men...🇺🇸👍

God bless our veterans and the USA! 🇺🇸

Your pops is a hero bro.

Yet people still overlook ww1 and ww2 veterans

​@@SirBVB97all veterans should be thanked but ww1 was a horrible thing and a useless propaganda war that created ww2 . Ww1 was a lie and horrible thing. Ww2 was a needed war because of a useless horrible war.

No one cares about Bill the sheep

1st infantry was one hell of a division.... they fought in many of the big battles in WWII

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He was strapped totbhe hood of a jeep after getting shot? Like the teddy bear at the end of toy story 3!?

My pap did the same he got caught when he was 17 and got thrown out

We were really trusting kids with our safety 🤦‍♂️ (thank you for his service though)

Disgusting to see people praising kids going to war.

@@appocalypsechildagreed. No 15 year old should ever have to worry about their country being destroyed by war.

@@appocalypsechildthey were fighting a different fight back then. Is your freedom disgusting??

Preach why is every one acting like that was a good decision or that " kids nowadays wouldn't lay down there life for a country before they've even fully developed

That is sadly not safe to say. Americans are far from patriotic these days.

@@kennythompson9682as an American i think we still are. Im a kud but i enjoy learning about American history alot storys like this are fascinating to me. I wanna learn as much as i can on such topics. We still say the pledge everyday in school and some are learning respect again. I dunno about alot of people but im proud to be American

@@Airyanaamn take AP US history or Duel Enrollment US history then

@@kennythompson9682 We really don't have much reason to be.

⁠@@AiryanaamnGood on you for your patriotism and support for our values. Sadly though this is an increasingly rare attitude amongst my fellow millennials and especially Gen Zers who have never opened a history book in their life and are brainwashed by our idiot public education system to think America and the West at large should be ashamed for its history………most modern University students couldn’t point to Japan on a map, meanwhile they could tell you the name of every Kardashian along with being experts on all 87 genders…..😞

Indeed! I don’t know how old this interview is; but I never was so zoned in to a story told by a 95-102 year old man. He speaks better then the majority of gen-Z.

​@@zakkeju3164because he speaks English, not hip-hop culture bullshit.

@@OneTruePhreak Sure, but 99% of people above 50yo speak ‘normal’ language, but to see someone so cognitively strong and fluent at that age is crazy; that was my point. Look at Biden who is almost 20 years younger and can’t pronounce words; let alone sentences or let alone come up with words without a script. I’m afraid that trying to talk like a G is universal amongst gen Z; atleast here in the Netherlands we got the same problem.

@@OneTruePhreakI can’t even begin to unravel the racism there . And I never call out racism. But the thing about this one is you’re not intentionally being racist . You don’t mean to . And THAT is more dangerous than those kids on call of duty are

What?

@@paulapeno. Mentally ill. Morally compromised. Terrified of ordering fast food for themselves at McDonalds. That's the teens and even adults of today. Want me to go on?

@@universalis8208people have been like that for ever. They are just more free to do so. And people are taking more notice. These men fought so these kids don’t** have to live a hard life now. Too bad people my age or older don’t realize that and take what these men did for granted. I watched that one video where some person told a ww2 vet they served their country. When they clearly did not. They demeaned him so much he wanted to legit kill them.

​@@universalis8208true but things were a whole lot easier back then

@@lattrelbia2527yeah man it was totally easier fighting the most blood thirsty and largest scale war humanity ever seen back in the day👍

What year was your grandfather born? Mine was born in 1919 and by the end of the war was nicknamed Old Man. This guy's time line isn't adding up unless he joined 4 years before Pearl harbor when the last thing America wanted to do was get involved in a war.

@@richgray6038 my grandpa was born in 24’

@@justcallmeBIG_L now that math maths perfectly considering 1940 is the year that the US national guard started boosting its ranks in preparation for war.

Your father along with all other veterans will forever be respected! Tell your father i said thank you for serving our nation he is one of our many heroes!

I deployed to Afghanistan back in 2009, and I’m grateful I wasn’t alive for WW1 or WW2 . Those guys were hardcore and a different breed . God bless your father

​@@Allyourbase1990Thank you for your service

My dad, too, enlisted up for WW2 when he was 17. Tank division. Have pictures of him in boot camp and some of his buddies in uniform over there. He passed away in 1996, and we display his flag over our fireplace.

God bless.

Your dad slept in a tent the whole time not doing a damn thing. Stfu

My dad was the same way, he joined the navy before he graduated high school in 1964, and for the next several decades he told everyone he was an electrician through the Vietnam conflict. He retired from the navy in 76. At his funeral a few years ago, a bunch of retired frog men showed up and slammed tridents into his coffin lid, I had no idea what they were doing, it’s how they showed respect to a fallen warrior and teammate. They took us to dinner and told stories about my dad that were terrifying, chaotic, brave, brutal and a slew of other things, and none were on a boat. Also the egg thing, dad really hated eggs.

You mean grandfather?

"We fought for gay rights and mixed couples "

@@TheGentlemanRougeScholar wow amazing thank you

Sadly he never made it home..

@@sg-3868 let me guess you grew up in a dank moldy basement

@@sg-3868 What?

​@@sg-3868It's not often that I laugh at a yt comment but you got me

​@@sg-3868Considering the man is literally in the video, I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and assume this is a comment on the nature of PTSD

I read Charles Bronson was also very poor as a child and never had more than one meal a day until he joined the military. Tough times breed tough people. Bless them all.

My grandpa told me a very similar story about his childhood. He also lied to get in the army, I asked him why and he said because you get three hots and a cot. Brave young men. Great generation! A hell of a lot better than the so called men we have these days. If you can even call them men... God bless you grandpa and all the old timers.

I wish it was like back then too. If you was homeless or broke or had bad parents or no parents. Go and sign up in the military and still be somebody in life actually your more then someone. Heroes. Nowadays broke young kids with no guidance commit crime and live off the state while sleeping in tents homeless all over every city in America.

10!?!?! That’s kinda young for someone to be on their own 😮

​@@Sitharos not in 1952 rural Tennessee it wasnt.

Let’s keep it that way, I don’t want to send my son off to fight a pointless war. *Thank you for you service* 🫡

@@swivk4917When I ran out of money for school, I was going to enlist. My dad said absolutely not. He spend five years in WW2, watching his friends die. Never spoke about it, ever, I only found out what went on from my aunt, after dad passed away. Dad and his brother were all gung ho after Pearl Harbor, and lots of them all wanted to get to the far east as fast as possible. Then lots of them died, a good percentage because of bad decisions by glory hungry leaders. Dad didn't want me to wind up coming home in a box, for Vietnam.

Makes my heart warm when you think of the caliber of Americans that defended our country back then, makes me fall on the floor laughing when I think of the bunch of traitor trump gravy seals that tried to undo all we’ve sacrificed for.

Pointless war. Really. Hitler was very close to taking over the world. Don’t talk about history of you don’t know what the hell your talking about

@@swivk4917Though many times war is pointless,WWII was not. Those that started the war are to blame of course,but we could not sit by & do nothing. If so you & your son may not even exist.

A third of the way through a career by the time he hit 20 lol. I do imagine he had some adventures though.

30 grandchildren god damn

​@@goofygoober2209fertile spermatozoa

He didn't waste time! 💪🏼

​@@goofygoober2209I know right?! 30 grandchildren is damn near a whole freaking platoon!

Absolutely. But sadly I’m sure many aren’t happy with how things have been lately. I know my grandfathers are probably rolling in the graves with the crap that’s been going on that they fought for to be so dismissed.

You look very pretty and cute in your profile picture.​@@_RavishingRaven_

amen brother..

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@@scottynb562no u

Mine did the same. Mine came from Italy, all his family was gone, he hopped on a boat at 16 traveled to the USA, then was told if he fought in WWI he would be given citizenship, so he lied and said he was 18 and signed the papers and went back to Europe and fought in the trenches.

Lmao

@@-HydroxGacha Back in those days they let you drink on the job. If they wanted a beer they could just grab one off the assembly line haha

invadinng other people homes... u never fight for your country lets be real for a second

also u are just a 2019 bot promotional account anyway

@@Dualities he is a ww2 vet not a vietnam one

@@Dualitiesthe men who fought in WWII were literally fighting for their homes. We weren’t always the good guys in every war we’ve been in, but the world wars were ones where we were actually fighting for our own freedom and the freedom of other countries

Man here in germany its a bit more complicated with our ww2 vets 😒

We're living through the new depression

But he didn’t lie to fight in world war 2

@@gavinbeard4026 Does it make a difference? He insisted on joining, and his Mother thought it was the most noble thing the family could do.

@@StevenPGonzalez626 Lmao obviously you didn’t study The Great Depression. We’re so far beyond mad better off it’s an insult to even make that comparison.

@@LeniDell yes it does matter actually because the video is trying to make people believe that’s what happened when it wasn’t. There are actual veterans who lied to get into ww2. It’s actually a huge difference when you lie to join the military in peace vs non peace time

I agree. The kids these days would do whatever they could to get off of serving. Most useless generation ever.

​@@KeweenawPatriotAbsolutely 💯 This current generation of youngsters is pretty pathetic. They are the throwaway generation

@@mattjack3983dude stfu just stop

@@KeweenawPatriotThe problem isn’t this “woke” boogeyman that right wing media loves to shove down your throat, the problem is that most men would rather be on their phones bragging about how much money they took from their parents and vape their lungs away. I’m a young person in the most liberal city in America, this “woke” problem just doesn’t exist. It’s much more deeper and troubling than that. Just look at the music most men my age listen to. Drugs, sleeping with prostitutes, and crime. Me and the many men like me my age would love to defend our country and the rights it grants us if the time ever comes. we are not as weak and scared as you think we are.

​@mattjack3983 The veteran's generation was *litteraly* thrown away

Coming from an inbred with a nappy haircut I doubt he would even appreciate your comment

I bet you anything his grandchildren are mixed hahahahahahahahaha

Child soldiers are a war crime Miguel

@@seanisnotjohn give a break a break. They had more balls than you and I would ever have now at that age.