Robert Byrd, Some Facts

While real men were fighting Nazi racism in WWII, Byrd was serving as a high officer in the KKK:

"I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds. "
— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944.

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