Bundeswehr Totenkopf?

[M. A. Miller]

Close up

Close up of beret flash. Hey , maybe it will match Sepp Dietrich's sleeve eagle.

[Tom M]

Well I never....

[suumcuique]

American Totenkopf

Certainly, there are many willfully ignorant and hypocritical Americans who bristle at the sight of skulls or skeletons in any military or paramilitary context - when used by another nation, of course - even while this selfsame symbol, whether it be a simple death's-head or a full "grim reaper," is routinely employed by many units of the American military they themselves claim to support.

Even the "Jolly Rogers" fighter squadron stationed aboard the USS Eisenhower (!!!) has a skull-and-bones symbol on a black field emblazoned on the tails of their F-16s, and this tradition stems from that of a World War II flying outfit. I think it was the 17th something or other that fought in the Pacific.

The figure of a devil and demons is also quite recurrent. That's a bit strange for a military that claims to have God on its side, purportedly doing the Lord's work.

And lest we forget, George W. Bush is a member (since 1968) of the what? The SKULL AND BONES Society! A masonic secret society that is said to have begun where? GERMANY! Oh, but it can't be evil. No, nothing American is evil.