In the darkness of a June morning, our fathers undertook a formidable task.......D-Day.
Dan
In the darkness of a June morning, our fathers undertook a formidable task.......D-Day.
Dan
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Almost forgot it barely gets mentioned anymore.
When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail." ----- Jack Burton 1986
The beginning of the end and I have not heard one word about this day either. What a shame.
While no one ever listens to me,
I am constantly being told to be quiet.
In a world of snowflakes,
be the heat..
They fed our guys right into the meat grinder itself, and our guys still prevailed.
"And how we burned in the camps later thinking, what would things have been like, if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain, whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?"
True, but don't forget the Canadians! They had heavy Losses on Juno Beach. Only 1 of their Sherman Tanks made it to the Beach. The only ones who got off easy where those damn Brits!
Last edited by Hobe Sound AK; 06-06-2016 at 05:56 PM.
Honored Nephew, of RM2. Robert E. Truitt, CA-35, U.S.S. Indianapolis, 30-July, 1945.
In Loving Memory of CW4. Paul E. Truitt 22-September, 1929, 23-February, 2018.
In Loving Memory of Montell W. Truitt 8 March, 1933, 3 June, 2021
My father landed on Normandy Beach about 3 days after the invasion and was wounded on D-Day plus 8. His squad was pinned down under artillery fire and and some shrapnel went through the tree he was behind and through his hand. He was out for the duration of the war. It really messed up his hand. From then until the day he died, he could never make a fist with that hand.
D-Day was hell on earth. Dad watched the invasion scene in Saving Private Ryan and he said the initial invasion was 10 times worse than that.
I can't even begin to imagine what was going on in those first soldiers' minds when they hit the water and tried for the beach.
"Valar morghulis; valar dohaeris."
Commucrats are most efficient at converting sins and crimes to accidents or misunderstandings.-Oswald Bastable
Making good people helpless won't make bad people harmless.
Freedom isn't free.
"Attitude is the paintbrush that colors our world." TV Series, Haven.
My Spirit Animal has rabies.
I'd rather be an American than a Democrat.
"If you can make a man afraid, you can control him" Netflix Series, The Irregulars
How sad that the news media is crying over a guy complaining about possibly not getting fair treatment from a judge and forgot totally those amazing super-humans that gave everything for our freedom. I don't think D-day was accidentally forgotten either knowing our current American hating regime.
Speaking of Canadians on D-Day. Did you know that James Doohan a.k.a. Scottie from the original Star Treck TV series was a Canadian Artilleryman? He lost his right middle finger from friendly fire at 11:30 at night. I found out about his missing finger when I saw a cast of his hand prints at a Treck convention back in the 1990's.Originally Posted by Hobe Sound AK
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