Posted on 06/06/2024 6:52:38 AM PDT by Vigilanteman
Likely the last major anniversary with veterans, now it’s on the living to pay tribute to the soldiers who fought the war, rebuilt the towns, then left.
The eyes of the world are falling on the beaches at Normandy, France, as leaders mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. For most nations whose troops risked and sacrificed their lives at the landings, the beaches are far away in time and place. But locals are resolved to carry on eternal salutes to their liberators.
World War II touched every continent, and even the greatest armada ever assembled — while a huge set piece — is just one story in one theater. This is likely the last major anniversary to feature veterans, leaving it to the living to seize the torch from their faltering hands.
“Old soldiers never die,” General Douglas MacArthur said in his 1951 farewell address, “they simply fade away.” Citizens in nations then-occupied live the spirit of the English folklore MacArthur was quoting; with commemorations large and small, they make the 150,000 men who stormed the beaches immortal.
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Never again.
Our war is here.
Hitler lost the war on the beaches. First at Dunkirk when he prevented the German army from completing its victory and allowed the BEF of 250,000 to escape to Britain. If he had captured the BEF, Britain would have been forced to sue for peace. At Normandy either the invasion was repelled or it was over for the Germans.
Normandy was the third front on the invasion of Europe.
The first was the Russians invading from the east after the defeat at Stalingrad in February of 1943.
The second was the invasion of Patton’s army of Sicily in the summer of 1943.
The Normandy Invasion in 1944 was a direct attack on northern Europe.
A lot of them grew up in the hills of the US with no running water and no indoor furnace in the winter. Hell yes, they were tougher than the fat, lazy entitled “men” of today. I was checking out the new boyfriend of a friend of mine, and I was happy to see that he knew how to hunt and fish and loved his mother. A real man, not some emotional cripple.
It was Churchill’s idea to attack Italy. He wasn’t enthusiastic about invading France.
Sorry I left out the fact that Monty(British Army) was also part of the invasion of Sicily/Italy.
Newsmax TV this morning was showing the ceremony live. Several 98–102-year-old Vets sitting there, in their uniforms, hats, wheelchairs, blankets over them, nurses running around checking on them, dignitaries in the stands, cold, windy, and Biden running very late. These old guys that could stood when the Flag was presented. Biden, wife, france’s dictator and his wife come marching in. Hubs holding wives hands. They walk, top, walk some more, stop, and then old Joe tries to take Macaroni’s hand, he moves it away and puts his hand in the small of ole Deadbrains back and moves him along. Biden come to speak and I turn it off. Cannot stand to hear that Marxist’s open his pie hole.
The problem was that you can not bring an army through the Alps from Italy into southern France/Switzerland. So, you would have had to make a landing somewhere in Southern France.
Mountain passes are too easy to defend. You only have to defend certain choke points in a mountainous area.
Northern France/Belgium/Holland are all relatively flat. Much easier to move an army across that country.
Analogous to the Philippines, for the most part, they have a deep love for and gratitude for America and Americans.
I spent a long time at the airport in Austin Texas yesterday due to a delay. Lots of time to watch the strolling freak show. I’m not sure if the 15-year-old ungainly fat kid in the Playboy branded jacket or the fruitcake wearing a 3-foot-long stuffed shark hat were the most weird.
Yeah, it is pretty sad.
Case in point: he stranded something like 25,000 troops in Norway playing cards and drinking beer while the Russians were at the gates of Berlin (and, yes, Steiner couldn't make his attack; he couldn't find enough men).
Hitler was basically an uneducated sociopath from the wrong side of the tracks.
He was a meth addict. A burned out junkie taking the world out with him.
Hitler saw the Brits as a "culture carrying" race just one rung below the Germans. They were fervently hoping that the Halifax faction would win out. Thus, they had to tread lightly on the quarter million BEF troops stranded in the Dunkirk quadrant.
The Germans also had air superiority over the channel and the last thing they were expecting was the miraculous evacuation that happened. Herr Schicklegruber seriously underestimate the will of the British people to fight for continental interests and, with that, the Churchill faction swept the Halifax faction aside in the parliamentary debate.
Hope Hitler is burning in Hell.
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