Everybody these days claims to be part of the Resistance, from apparatchiks in the Trump administration to people bravely writing on DKos about their hatred of the white working class. Let’s remember what real resistance requires.
Freddie Oversteegen was only 14, petite with long braids, when she became an assassin and saboteur.
It was 1940, Germany had invaded the Netherlands, and she and her sister, Truus, who was two years older, had been recruited by the local Dutch resistance commander, in the city of Haarlem.
“Only later did he tell us what we’d actually have to do: Sabotage bridges and railway lines,” Truus Menger-Oversteegen recalled in a 2014 book, “Under Fire: Women and World War II.” “We told him we’d like to do that.”
Ms. Schaft was captured, tortured and executed by the Nazis on April 17, 1945, 18 days before the liberation of the Netherlands. She was 24.
So all you folks who aren’t even canvassing, are you sure you shouldn’t get out and start today? Or is it too big a sacrifice?