Posted on 05/30/2019 6:41:16 AM PDT by C19fan
A D-Day veteran aged 90 has hit the No 1 spot in the Amazon music chart – ahead of Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber.
Jim Radford's haunting ballad The Shores Of Normandy – featuring lyrics about men who 'stormed the gates of hell' and 'died upon that blood-soaked sand' – was released only a week ago.
It has edged ahead of Sheeran and Bieber's joint hit I Don't Care in the online store's chart, regarded as a barometer of what could be a future official No 1.
Mr Radford, the youngest known D-Day veteran, was inspired to write the folk song about his experiences as a 15-year-old galley boy on a ship on June 6, 1944.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The guy looks great for being 90.
Tissues needed. Thank you for posting.
15 years old and participating in the D Day invasion. Incredible generation of men.
Hauntingly beautiful!
Normally when I see the peace sign and the dove symbols, knowing what they stand for (especially in today’s world) I generally have a degree of contempt by default.
But I give a pass to people like him. He and his brothers have earned the right to be against war in whatever form they wish without my passing judgement on them.
I will watch the whole video later to listen to the words.
Need to look up the lyrics.
Jeez when I think of what l was doing at 15.
We never knew until after he died. I was looking up his Korean War information where he did serve in the USAF and ran across this record too.
Thanks for posting.
Incredible-dad was there, too
Good, that pop pap was a waste anyhow.
2 minutes of my life I won’t get back again when I saw it last week.
He is one of those "Veterans for Peace" people. I have had some personal interactions with those people. The vast majority of them are scum. I met one older member who had fought in Korea and was taking part in an anti-war demonstration with the Veterans for Peace down in Washington, and I talked with him for about 15 min outside the White House fence.
He just saw terrible things and wanted others to avoid it. He was sincere, and I couldn't argue with him...I wouldn't. But the vast majority of them were 60's era wannabes wearing olive fatigue jackets with peace signs and doves on them. This guy wasn't one of those people, he was genuine, and sad. I felt bad for him, but also felt he was out of place with those people. He didn't seem to belong there. But the majority of those people were pretty clearly REMFS if they had served. And they were all ideological first and everything else second, IMO. As for this Jim Radford guy, he is against incarceration of terrorists in Guantanamo Bay. He is all for welcoming Muslims into the UK. He is all in on the Colonial shame, oppression by Europeans, oppression by Americans.
He thinks that wars can be avoided if people just sit down and talk with each other, work out their differences, compromise, etc.
Unbelievable.
He thinks we go to war so we can be "bullies".
He equates our actions in the war against TERRORISTS with the actions of the Nazis, saying we are doing the same thing.
I have a problem with this approach. Leftists believe that people are fundamentally good, aren't evil, their environment or life events makes them evil. After all, even "bad" people have children or dogs they care about, right? If we remove the bad environment, then people can be good.
Conservatives (including the founders) believed that man is flawed by default and capable of evil, and it must be guarded against and fought against when necessary. Conservatives believe that some people are just plain bad, and isn't because they are poverty stricken, were bullied growing up, or were abused by their parents or society. Some people who have had all the opportunities in life are just bad, greedy, sadistic, and evil. And negotiating with them won't work.
Check out this link where they interview him: Jim Radford at the Veterans for Peace conference in Los Angeles
BFL
One thing is certain...most Veterans (even Viet Nam and WWII veterans) will talk sensibly about their experiences... if you ask respectfully.
I learned that lesson when I spoke to my dad. He didn’t offer it, but I asked and he answered. I was glad I asked and in the end I think he was glad I did.
However, I will say-I have never met a Korean war vet who will speak about it. My cousin served in Korea and if you even mention that fight, he gets up and walks out of the room.
I really was going to try hard not to pile on the guy after I saw the dove and the peace sign on his jacket, but after I watched the meeting he had with the Los Angeles Veterans for Peace chapter...
I just couldn’t stand it. I probably shouldn’t have watched.
I have had the opportunity in my work to speak with many veterans over the years, often at length, and most of the time it is the way most people discuss those things (including veterans) when you went in, where you served, etc.
But every so often the person would open up...I guess as you imply, you come across respectfully and let him decide.
I had a funny one about forty years ago where I was treating a guy who had something odd looking in his legs, so when I asked him, he said “Injuries from a Kraut mortar in the Battle of The Bulge!”
So I had a Radiologist look at his images, and the radiologist was a native of Bavaria with very heavily accented English, and as he looked at them, he said in that German accented English “Yah yah yah...perhaps so I should go talk to him...” to which I held up both hands and said no, I think you got the whole story!
I accept that I am a moron for say this, but
there HAD to have been a better plan.
Trouble seeing the screen right now.
Be advised; your screen might get blurry.
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