Posted on 06/06/2016 5:50:36 AM PDT by milton23
Stop your average American on the street and ask them “what happened on June 6?” Surprisingly—a few might recall that on a dreary morning while the low-tide lapped lazily on the rocky coast of Normandy, France, brave men in battle armor no thicker than a khaki shirt grimly headed toward Hitler’s Atlantic wall.
There is nothing special to mark the 72nd anniversary of the D-Day invasion during World War II. Nothing special—other than the men themselves.
That 18-year-old struggling up the steep bluffs of Omaha Beach while tracer rounds flashed overhead would be 90 years old now, eyes flickering still alive with the memories of that unforgettable day.
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Uncle Jimmy talked about the war in an interview for my friend’s show when he was in his 80s. It was 2003.
He said at the bulge he was on a tank shooting the machine gun and killing germans and crying and the germans kept on coming and he kept on crying.
What a ####ing horror.
My father is 90. He was in Germany, Belgium, CZ. Served under Patton & Patch. 3rd & 7th Armies.
His mind is still good for his age. He never talked about WWII when I was young. He and I talk almost daily about it from time when Obama ran for POTUS.
At 19 he was packing an M1 pursuing Fascists over there. He remembers clearly what they were. He knows they are here now. No illusions.
He was an armorer, worked on Quad 50’s and Bofors.
Not a day goes by now that we don’t discuss our current mess with them.
Remember that the display of the US flag tends to make most Americans more patriotic, for as long as two weeks. And such patriotic feelings are strongly associated with voting Republican. Democrats have no association with patriotism in the mind of the public.
So what better way to honor those who loved our nation, and fought and died to preserve it?
Dad was a Navy doctor in San Diego and treated guys coming off the floating hospitals. Then got sent to China Lake where they were designing the sidewinder missile.
Father in law flew F4U Corsiars in the South Pacific. Was at Peliliu, Battle of Bloody Nose Ridge. Never spoke of the battles, just the boredom of flying.
God bless those guys
Your father and mine had similar experiences, and while I lost him last year, not a day goes by that I don’t think about him in the context of our current mess. Their #1 goal was to fight the war so that our generation wouldn’t have to, and could prosper. They succeeded, but I wonder if we have fulfilled their hopes and justified their sacrifice.
Thank you to the dads, grandpas, uncles, and brothers of the Greatest Generation.
They fought WWI, endured the Great Depression while raising families, then gave their sons to their country.
Fighting a war is living in the moment as a young man, losing one's chilren is losing life itself.
Only a few of my relatives and family friends who served in WWII are left.
When I was growing up all of the kids knew what D-Day was.
Military vets were our heroes.
Back then if a kid, was being raised by just his mom it was because his dad never came back from the war.
God bless them all, the living and the dead.
I’m blessed, I work with my father most days. He normally has lunch at my house on Sunday. We go to Sunday school and church together most weeks.
We go to lodge together every month.
I still as for his advice about things. We’re remodeling home at the farm now. I still value his construction knowledge. He farmed but was a general contractor most of his life too. Incredible natural instincts on that. He accomplished some very heavy construction projects and built many homes fine.
He has spent all of his life here where he was born, except for 2+ years in Europe during WWII. He is loved by everyone here, one of the most respected men in the county.
1944, American 18 and 19 year olds were storming beaches around the world to restore freedom and save our own. 2016, American 18 and 19 year olds sit in college classrooms whining and crying about how bad they have it. One generation is called the greatest, one is not.
The Conyers Old Time Radio (http://www.conyersradio.net/ streaming online) is playing news broadcasts of June 4, 1944 - the 24 hours of D-Day. The 24 hours of were recorded and are being played right now.
That should be June 6, 1944 news broadcasts being played right now by Conyers Old Time Radio.
At least you know how fortunate you are. Dad is long gone but I still have at least one old friend of that age group.
Some of us here recount the events of more than 70 years ago on these anniversaries. Increasingly, the youngsters have no idea what happened on these days. They have not been taught. It is becoming ancient history.
My preacher friend was telling me about his Memorial Day sermon as he prepared it this year. He is a 60 something man. It dawned on him that the United States, at least the Sons of the United States have pretty much saved the world at least twice in the last century from would would have probably been worse than it is now.
He sounds like a good man and so was my Dad on the same terms as yours.
My dad had a very good friend who was in the second wave at Omaha Beach. Dad was in the Pacific. They wouldn’t talk to me about WWII until after I came home from Viet Nam. The bravery of those men was absolutely amazing!
Today I was in a doctors office and saw a desk calendar. There was some printing on June 6 and I thought it said “D-Day”, but when I picked up the calendar to verify I saw: “Ramadan begins”.
I was in shock. What are we in USA coming to?
I knew a lot of them growing up. Most of them are gone now.
Hunted and fished with a number of them. Hard to loose that type of friend.
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