101st paratroopers to jump in Normandy for D-Day anniversary

AP/Kentucky.com ^ | 06-03-04 | KIMBERLY HEFLING

[veronica]

I have been watching a lot of D-Day programming. So inspirational. We need some of that grit now.

[veronica]

How about we stick some Neo-Nazi, like Ernst Zundel, in a bunker in the ground, give him a gun, and let him reenact Hitler's last moments. Now that would be amusing. ;)

[reagan_fanatic]

After the jump they should march into Paris and accept Chirac's surrender

I hear Chirac keeps a neatly folded white flag for just such an occasion.

[bmwcyle]

We have that today. Only Ollie North has been showing it.

[SoCal Pubbie]

When I saw the headline, I thought it was going to be the ACTUAL guys from WWII. I thought "is that really a good idea?" Talk about the Walker Brigade!

Glad to see it's modern day troops!

[DAPFE8900]

101 was the basis of the Band of Brothers...The longest Day was all the airborne forces... Matt Damon in private ryan was 101...

[eyespysomething]

Thanks. I've been watching so many WWII movies lately, I get confused sometimes.

My 8 y.o. and I enjoy watching these movies for the first time together. We've watched, in the past week, Patton (told him when he was a 2+ star general he could talk like that), Stalag 17, The Longest Day, Midway, The Guns of Navarone...

I've always seen parts of most of these, but not the whole movie. What I've missed.

Then to see the real people on specials and the History Channel etc. Very moving. And to think we have the same type of guys right doing the same sorts of things, as we have in every war since WWII.

Just inspiring. Just inspiring.

[CIB-173RDABN]

I was in the 101st in 1965. I can remember going to the fort's museum, and there was an "old" Sergent Major there, and I looked with envy on his three gold stars on his jump wings.

I say "old" because it had been about 20 years since WWII and seemed so long ago at the time, and I was so young (17). Now, 30 plus years since my time in the service, I can reflect that 20 years is not such a long time.

My biggest disappointment with my time in Viet Nam was I did not get to make a combat jump. My unit did make a jump but it was a few years after I was already out of the service.

[stumpy]

A kid I graduated with had his mother believing he was a private at Fort Ord in Calif. (only child), when she saw him recieving his second silver star as a captain in Special Forces in Vietnam on some news show. Ha.

[New Perspective]

After seeing Band of Brothers, my eyes tear when I read or hear about the 101. The interviews at the end of the shows are the most gripping interviews I have ever heard.

I absolutely loved that series and have the DVD's. I will not watch a segment unless I am sure I will not have any interruptions. I had the extreme pleasure and honor of speaking with Lester Hashey, of Company E, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. He lived 2 minutes from my office and I wish I could have spent more time with him. I spoke to him the day after I voted and I just wanted to thank him for allowing me the honor and freedom to vote. He chuckled and began talking about all of his friends who went to war with him. We talked for half an hour and made plans to go to lunch after I returned from a trip. He passed on before we could get together. I attended his funeral, what an experience. It is one thing to view pictures on the web of these heroes, it is another to be holding the original that his wife hands you.

I will never forget these heroes and will spend all of my waking moments trying to remind our young anal retentive generation why they have what they have.

[astounded]

There's plenty of that grit in the US armed forces. It's the lack of grit among certain segments of the US citizenry, in particular 99% of democrat politicans, most democrat voters, the so-called "mainstream" media, the vast majority of professors and academics, hollywood, and so forth, that is the problem today even though they constitute less than a majority here.

[Michael81Dus]

More power to the masses! ;)

[veronica]

I meant in the press and some of the public. We agree.

I have no doubt that today's press would never keep a secret like the timing of D-Day. Dan Blather would spill the beans in a NY second.

[wordsofearnest]

WOW I'm jealous.

[nutmeg]

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[McGavin999]

This is going to be so great for our WWII vets.

After they jump, can they give france back to the nazis?

[wolficatZ]

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[lainde]

bttt

[DollyCali]

I recall hearing recently that some of the original 101st wanted to jump but the pentagon said no.

That would have been very special..I think if they lived that long & wanted to jump..let them go for it. Should they not survive for one reason or another, I think that is the way most would have chosen...and how very amazing.

Thanks for thread veronica