To All: It's D-Day...thank you veterans

[TheDon]

The Bill Handel show here in LA signed off with "D Day plus 50 years". Well at least he recognized the anniversary!

[TheDon]

[God luvs America]

That is an amazing picture!

[SAMWolf]

The FReeper Foxhole Remembers D-Day On Omaha Beach (6/6/1944)

I'd like to invite all to read about the first hours at Omaha Beach.

[AngryJawa]

This picture puts a huge knot in my stomach. I've read all kinds of accounts of the ride inbound on the Higgins boats, but I'll never even pretend to understand the thoughts running through the minds of those brave men. God bless them all, living or dead.

[habs4ever]

Time hasn't dulled such a magnificant speech.Thank you, and to the men of D-Day.

[habs4ever]

That pic is stirring.It sends chills up my spine.Thanks.

[oyez]

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[RayBob]

That picture you posted... that shows how my wife's uncle observed his 20th birthday. No matter how often he was asked about it, he would never talk about it to anyone.

[ibbryn]

Thankful bump.

[TheDon]

"No matter how often he was asked about it, he would never talk about it to anyone."

I think it a great pity that this is so. While we appreciate what they have done for us, think how much more we would, if we could hear those stories. Also, as one who loves history, it saddens me that the stories of such noble men should be lost. Little do we understand the pain such memories must bring, and so we must respect their silence.

[Cindy]

THE NATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
http://www.dday.org

THE NATIONAL D DAY MUSEUM -New Orleans Home
http://www.ddaymuseum.org


D DAY
http://www.dday.co.uk/

NORMANDY-1944
http://normandy.eb.com

FACT SHEET D-DAY, 6 June 1944 Normandy, France
http://www.ku.edu/heritage/abilene/ikedday.html

[VOA]

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[VOA]

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[Othniel]

To All Who Fought, Were Part of the ET in whatever form:

Thank You for your sacrifice, your perseverence, your fortitude. Had you not done what you did, the country my wife is from (Holland) would still be under the iron boot of Facism. Had you not done what you did, my children would not exist, and my life would be radically drearier.

Thank you, and may Our Lord bless each and every one of you.

[donmeaker]

In 1977 I walked crawled, swam all over that area. The stinging nettles in the hedgerows, the treacherous slopes off the beaches, Jim Gavin's foxhole. I was given the grand tour by an old gent who was in his 40s during the war. He had not forgotten, and had spend the day pulling airborne soldiers out of the flooded meredet.

The astonishing thing to me was the general incompetence of the vaunted German Army. If the battle was to be won on the beach, why flood the river to prevent your armor from moving onto said beach? Why was there no sleep alert plan for the commanders? Why were obstacles and mines removed and neatly stacked?

Why was Fortitude so successful? Rommel's headquarters had divisions not even on the fake Fortitude order of battle. Whole divisions, invented by the German intelligence service!

At Omaha, a restaurant occupies the entrance from the southern mulberry. I was short on funds, and asked what I could get for 20 franks. Well, the answer was "anything we make, and as much as you want."

Astounding, simply astounding.

[risk]

Also see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/925041/posts

[God luvs America]

That is a tremendous link.