Posted on 05/30/2022 9:05:10 AM PDT by Retain Mike
See “The Best Years od our Lives”, an excellent 1946 movie about returning American WW2 veterans, on the Internet for free:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiPbcX26nr4
1zt ID 75-77. No mission too difficult, no sacrifice too great.
May the Lord hold them in the palm of His hand. Amen.
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Sheesh.
First Infantry 1976-77.
Fingers are not working properly.
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Watching videos of that scene ——— from a shore view ———I always think of one of the troops going down just as he reaches the beach. My thoughts of him and his family right now —— as well as the thousands of others who gave for us.
Thank you for this thread. It is times like this that I remember stories of my Dad’s friends were conscripted to WWII and killed in action, but Dad was spared. He was a GE electrical engineer, and had his role in the Manhattan Project. GE was responsible for the critical components, including, for example, the neutron “trigger” for US nuclear bombs.
RIP, Dad.
James Cromwell? The guy who just superglued himself to a Starbucks counter?
Why is the sky blue? Because God loves the Infantry!
God bless my blue-cord brothers. Some gave all.
Patton was a glory seeking sociopath. My father, who for a while was in the Third Army, said that the line troops hated him.
The Germans considered Patton the best US general, according to transcripts of the German’s higher level meetings.
Thanks!
But the “Best Years of our Lives” is not a war movie. It is a movie about what happened to veterans who returned from war.
When will anyone make a good movie about returned Afghanistan/Iraq veterans?
U.S. Marines advance on Japanese pill boxes, Tarawa, November 1943
“Best Years of our Lives” is a triple story of the returns home of three soldiers, one rich, one poor and one disabled.
96th Infantry “Deadeyes” bump
No, the actor who recently died.
Great post. God bless you and thank you for your service
Thank you.
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