Never forget...
D day June 6 1944
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Without them we would live a really different life today!
A day at the Beach nobody wants to spend.
A lot of BRAVE MEN gave it there all.
A lot of BRAVE MEN gave it there all.
I still wonder where they found that many brave men, must have been incredible when that ramp lowered, a virtual meat grinder. Can You even imagine what they went through? not just Normandy, there's Iwo Jima, Tarawa, Guadalcanal, and to many more. The greatest generation!
adriver
Blazing Apostle
War kills our strongest men. I've lost 6 but that is a small number compared to the old timers that fought in the Civil War, World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam. It's unfathomable.
I've gotten old and one thing us geriatrics do is repeat ourselves, so bear with me if You've heard my story before.
Out of all my years in the Navy, with thirteen on sea duty, carrier and amphib assault ships, the thing that stands out the most in all the ports visits and travels is this.
One Sunday morning the LPH I was on, USS New Orleans, we anchored off the coast of Iwo Jime, with Mount Suribachi clearly in view, we held church service on the flight deck, You could hear a pin drop, a most solemn and respectful time for all of us.
As a side note, Suribachi in Japanese language is a grinding bowl as in mortar and pestle, I find that ironic as that's exacltly what it became, a grinding bowl !
Out of all my years in the Navy, with thirteen on sea duty, carrier and amphib assault ships, the thing that stands out the most in all the ports visits and travels is this.
One Sunday morning the LPH I was on, USS New Orleans, we anchored off the coast of Iwo Jime, with Mount Suribachi clearly in view, we held church service on the flight deck, You could hear a pin drop, a most solemn and respectful time for all of us.
As a side note, Suribachi in Japanese language is a grinding bowl as in mortar and pestle, I find that ironic as that's exacltly what it became, a grinding bowl !
A debt that can never be repaid for the ultimate sacrifice of so many.
I grew up as a teenage kid in the 60s having some idea of what my dad went thru during WW11 and Korea, USMC, even though he spoke of it a total of twice I recall. Twenty years in aviation and after he left the service, could not step foot on another plane.
D Day. Horriffic.
D Day. Horriffic.
Thanks. I just reread Ryan this winter and have meant to get some books to follow up on the days after.
Unconventional
Well-Known Member
For all their brave souls.
This could be the reason I was thinking on Pearl Harbor yesterday
80th anniversary just 6 months away.
DodgeLad
Skipped the Light Fandango
"I've learned that the freedom I sought and found is not always freedom in the common sense of the word. As I see it, men fight for the right to give their independence to those who love and respect it."
I have mentioned this before. My dad was stationed at Pearl and caught a ride to Ca. to drive to Ga. to marry the woman that would become my mother, left 3 days before the Japs. He was driving thru La. that Sun. morning.View attachment 1715748119
For all their brave souls.
This could be the reason I was thinking on Pearl Harbor yesterday
80th anniversary just 6 months away.
Cuda Hunter
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I thank the men who have died.
I thank their families for their creation and their memory of their beloved hero's.
Words truly can not express the gratitude I have towards our military men and women.
Those who have fallen and those who will choose to fall for our Freedom.
Thank you. A thousand times. Thank you
I thank their families for their creation and their memory of their beloved hero's.
Words truly can not express the gratitude I have towards our military men and women.
Those who have fallen and those who will choose to fall for our Freedom.
Thank you. A thousand times. Thank you
Bigdummy
Not a Nova
Never was in France to see the coast.Im thankful for the heros .My 15 year old step grandson had no idea whet today is and I sprained it to him and sent some videos ....Tired of paying school tax for kids nor knowing history
oldmopardude
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My wife and I went to France in 2006 to visit my Daughter whom was studying in Marsellie.
we spent a few days at normandy, and I was struck by all the visitors at the American cemetary. on our way along we stopped at the german war dead cemetary, and it was stone silence, with only one visitor standing there when we got there. I saw he had a Cornhusker hat on! he apparently was also from nebraska, and was visiting there looking up the names of a relative that had been killed in action there.
I said to him that it is bad enough to be buried in a foreign country, but being buried in a country that hated you and your very existence in their country?
unbearable,,, young kids on both sides.
we spent a few days at normandy, and I was struck by all the visitors at the American cemetary. on our way along we stopped at the german war dead cemetary, and it was stone silence, with only one visitor standing there when we got there. I saw he had a Cornhusker hat on! he apparently was also from nebraska, and was visiting there looking up the names of a relative that had been killed in action there.
I said to him that it is bad enough to be buried in a foreign country, but being buried in a country that hated you and your very existence in their country?
unbearable,,, young kids on both sides.
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