Thank you! Yes, he sure was! I wish he was still around to see this platform and all of the liberty-minded people who post here. He passed during the Obama years and had become very worried about what he saw as an abandonment by the younger generations of the principles of liberty. This was a man who began speaking out as a teenager against the dangers Socialist policies of FDR, who was then the president.
I wish I'd made video of him. He saw things as they are. I audio recorded him sometimes, family oral history, and sometimes he'd talk about things of deeper importance. Here is something he said on one of those recordings that I transcribed:
"By December of '44 the average Wehrmacht soldier, that was a Kraut infantryman, we encountered was a cold, hungry conscript who just wanted the war to be over as bad as we did. They had no fire in their belly to defend National Socialism, they were not ideologues, they were mostly kids who just wanted to go home. The SS were a different story altogether. These monsters had been the cream of the crop in Hitler Youth during the 1930's and were brainwashed from a tender age to see themselves as appendages of their government. Hitler made sure they were the best outfitted, they always had the most food, ammo and fuel.
Most of them had a particular look in their eyes. I don't know how to describe it, exactly. What frightens me is that when you show me these videos of these weird leftist kids today on college campuses I see that same look . . . that same Goddamned look of a brainwashed SS soldier with his black uniform and lightning bolts and skulls on their collar tabs.
I know what these people are capable of, you should fear them gaining more political power."