For your interest.
Thank you Sir, we can never repay you.
Rip, Sir. You did good.
RIP well done good and faithful servant. We thank you!
Colonel, I hope you meet my Father in whatever afterlife. He was a basic ground grunt and fought many campaigns, including the Bulge. Have a couple beers and celebrate your victories over an evil tyrant. I hold you both and other Brothers in the highest regard. You were indeed the Best Generation.
“Currahee!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwz5JT2KnT4
This scene from Band of Brothers introduces the soldiers who are war fighting heroes in the operations of the war. As opposed to the genuine factual martinet that was Captain Sobel (a trainer, and destined for nowhere rubberstamped career- certainly no leader, ever).
Shames was there in Toccoa, GA for all of this, and Normandy and all the way to Obersalzberg & the mop up of the nazi redoubt and Eagle’s Nest.
RIP, sir. Well done!
These stories always remind me of my Dad’s outfit liberating the Austrian Death Camp at Ebensee, where the first tank in gave bread to a survivor, only to see him drop dead from the shock of eating it. They quickly learned that ice chips were all they could give the sufferers at first.
I can remember when there were still World War I veterans around. Where have the years gone?
Isn’t it strange that Hitler fought a war against the Communists and the big European bankers, and we are fighting the same fight.
Anti Semites should read Philip Roth’s short story “Defender of the Faith”. People don’t realize just how many men there were and are like the heroic Colonel Shames.
RIP good sir, thank you for your service and go to your reward.
Those who don’t learn from history ....
An amazing group of men who, like many, endured the unimaginable to stop evil.
RIP Colonel and well done.
Probably a typo. Why would he need to forge his mother’s signature at age 19?
Can you imagine today’s “soldiers” doing what these men did? Trannies going to war in dresses, afraid to run their hose? This is what Odungo did to our nation—left us wide open to attack by firing all the truly combat experienced officers and turning the military into a social justice experiment welcoming every sort of freak, in the name of “diversity”. And his meat puppet Biden is simply continuing those dangerous policies.
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Curious - Why would he need his mother's signature at age 19? If he didn't enlist, he would have been drafted.
Hail and farewell, mighty hero.
The day the war started, I was five, heard Roosevelt on the radio say We Are At War...told my parents. That war took up my childhood in a NYC suburb, where we of course had Jewish neighbors. My younger friends have no clue how difficult it was, how many families had gold and/or silver stars in their windows, and how we celebrated when it was finally over.
Still brings me to tears.