Posted on 06/06/2014 1:09:51 PM PDT by DFG
A D-Day veteran who was reported missing from a care home has been found in Normandy after travelling to France to mark the invasion's 70th anniversary.
Bernard Jordan, 89, a former mayor of Hove, sneaked out of The Pines nursing home in Furze Hill yesterday after being told by staff he could not make the trip to Normandy.
Donning his war medals under a raincoat, the Royal Navy veteran joined his former comrades on a coach, before arriving at a hotel in Ouistreham, northwestern France, 12 hours later.
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Awe-inspiring! And I love thess line from the original article:
The mystery was solved when the care home received a phone call from another veteran saying he had met Mr Jordan on a coach on the way to France.
The caller said Mr Jordan would be coming home when he was ready
It would make a wonderful premise for a movie!
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But, given the slime balls we have making movies today, the story would be ruined.
thess line = these lines
It would be just too cool to find out that the old man was a pathfinder and sneaked into Normandy on the Fifth. The nursing home didn’t stand a a chance.
Have to have an english outfit do it. I know a lot of them are liberal, but sometimes they are more endearing and intelligent than the ones over here.
You are correct. When I lived in Alabama I heard it all the time and it just sounds right even today. I don't hear it here in Virginia but I have doubts that this is a Southern state anymore, either.
"‘Board or no Board, I ’adn’t the nerve to stay at ’ome—not with Mother chuckin’ ’erself round all three rooms like a rabbit every time the Gothas tried to get Victoria; an’ sister writin’ me aunts four pages about it next day. Not for me, thank you! till the war was over. So I slid out with a draft—they wasn’t particular in ’17, so long as the tally was correct—and I joined up again with our Circus somewhere at the back of Lar Pug Noy, I think it was.’"
One of Kipling's late short stories, notable for its sensitive treatment of PTSD (then known as "shell shock"), his use of the artifice of double stories-within-a-story, and his splendid command of dialect. And who else could tell a quite believable story about a former soldier in a Masonic Lodge, telling the narrator about his combat experiences in tandem with a Jane Austen appreciation society in a heavy artillery battery?
SW Virginia is still very Southern, but more Mountainy Southern (like North Georgia and Western Carolina).
That is true. I never hear what I consider to be a Southern “accent” here in central Virginia, and of course, there is not a whiff of any Southern speech in northern Virginia (a definite Yankee enclave).
Those two areas of Virginia cannot be considered as part of the South, IMHO.
As an aside, when I lived in the True South we never thought of Florida as being a Southern state despite its obvious geographic location. The Panhandle was an exception, we concluded.
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Diana Falzone
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Central Florida, like the Panhandle, is still Southern. We go down there for Hunting Tests for Retrievers with the Central Florida HRC. Good bunch of folks, and VERY southern!
This topic was posted , thanks DFG. We're getting the jump on it a day early, unlike the real jump, which was the paratroopers just after midnight on June 6th, 1944. Most of us weren't alive then, but regardless, don't believe we don't remember what everyone who was there did that day.
Link to another D-Day topic (link to post #10) which had already made it into the GGG, with most of the D-Day keyword (all but one topic), with a supplemental keyword (19440606) added in, duplicates out, also my sort knocks all the vetscor topics to the top (it's not that much of a problem, usually), so they're listed separately in the following post (#11).
“Snek”
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"You are under the jurisdiction of me, the staff.”
We have a friend who was on a Canadian ship at Normandy, I think it was a destroyer. He’s 96 now, so he must have been 16 yrs old then. He remembers rescuing soldiers out of the water. My brother in law accompanied him to Normandy a couple of times, including the 75th anniversary. The French treated him like an honored guest.
I was going to make the comment that this guy escaping the nursing home must have attacked the beaches at the age of 11....but then I see that the article was written in 2014!
Great story.
Hollywood would only be interested if they could put some "woke" angle to the story - like he went to France looking to reunite with some brokeback buddy. They'd probably enlist Tom Selleck to play the part.
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