Posted on 06/06/2026 7:09:48 AM PDT by Leaning Right
This being the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, I thought I’d post a story of my experience with a D-Day veteran.
Perhaps other Freepers have stories they’d like to share here as well.
They were both great, unassuming men, may they RIP.
Very cool! Ya gotta get that photo, and make some copies.
I’d like to see everyone of those bastards who made fun of him punched in their face.
I’d like to see everyone of those bastards who made fun of him punched in their face.
the correction presented worked pretty well.
shame might have a longer term effect.
This isn’t D-Day related but it’s World War II related. I watched it the other night. Survivor of the Indianapolis. Amazing memory.
https://youtu.be/gjwDBiElGxE?si=KokpQYjcDfiF7K4D
Shame them then punch them.
On the street I grew up on all the dads were WW 2 or Korea vets. One of them had hit the beach at Normandy. His left shin was badly mangled from a machine gun bullet. He made it up the beach and inland about 2000 yards when he got hit. He always wore shorts and had a bad limp but always had a smile on his face. He thought of himself as one of the lucky ones. Lived into his 90’s.
Almost everyone he fought with did not survive.
If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II - One American Officer’s Riveting True Story
https://tinyurl.com/4r5jw6es
Thanks! I keep telling myself that, last I saw it was at Uncle Joe’s funeral, I think one of my cousins has it and will get it.
My great uncle was in WWII and was part of our invasion from Africa up through Italy and into Germany. By the time they got up there the Germans had recruited young kids to fight, not just 16 or 17 but even younger.
They found a wounded young German hiding in a barn and called my g.uncle because he was a medic and spoke German. The kid was badly wounded and needed blood. As he prepared a transfusion the kid looked alarmed and asked what he was doing. (Many of those soldiers had been told they would be tortured or killed if captured.) My uncle said “You need a transfusion. This is blood. Good Jewish blood from New York.” The kid looked back at him and said “Macht nichts’.
By the way, during the invasion of Italy they slept every night in foxholes and IIRC didn’t get to take a shower for many months. Fortunately he survived but relatives said those years took a toll on him.
It’s amazing how so many Americans dropped everything and signed up for this war.
I can’t imagine what would happen nowadays.
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