Posted on 06/06/2014 6:49:32 PM PDT by LibertyGirl14
A couple of years ago, I wrote a piece about the fading sentimental connection of today’s generations with World War II, the defining event of the 20th century. There is some oddity in living through the transition: in seeing the soldiers whom FDR called “our sons” become our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, and then the ghosts of history commemorated on tombstones.
One of the most important transitions is the fading of the grand narrative by which we defined and guided our nation for so many decades. The hindsight of history has its rewards. But it has its drawbacks as well, as immediacy and personal connection disappear behind us...
The nursing home reported him missing to the Sussex Police at 7:15 p.m. on Thursday, at 10:30 p.m., the home received a call from a younger veteran saying that he met Jordan on the bus and that he was accompanying him to Normandy.
Yes. I was profoundly in awe of it. Thank for your posts. Wonderful.
D-DAY IN HD EVENT PREMIERE concludes tonight at 9/8C, on the History Channel.
Never-before seen footage - much in color. Amazing video footage....interviews with many of the troops in the footage, riding in onto the shore, watching the ladders being catapulted up the cliffs, medics, action from German pillboxes, etc. Excellent presentation ... including graphics of maps, etc.
You can watch Part 1, online.
http://www.history.com/shows/d-day-in-hd
Thanks Jane...I will watch that after dinner tonight and look forward to doing so. I’ll assume I can get that on line for Part 2?
Am surprised more have not commented on the thread....but then it’s said in our nation these memorial Holidays are little more than a Time for Picnics.....I tend to agree there is little we do in our country as a whole....it’s so fractured now with the Liberal it’s all about ‘me’ generations. Maybe Freepers were away for this Day and with family...I’d like to think that.
Goosebumps. Love that
Thank YOU for starting this thread...it was fun to post the photos.
I just finished watching some videos of D-Day....even hearing some of the German men speak who fought there and how they saw it from their side.....
..... One guy said, when they saw all the ships it overwhelmed them all and not what they were expecting... he said to his friend...”This can’t be happening”....”The Ocean is black with ships!”
My pleasure I can assure you..completely. You said it well about our soldiers...they are indeed fantastic! I enjoy listening to their stories of what they did and experienced. What an eyeopener when you hear from their own lips.
One guy said of the 30 men in his boat he was the only one that that survived that day....it was his first time in combat. Imagine your first time in combat pushing through on D-Day.....unimaginable! ...and then finding your the only one in your group who survived!
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