Let's Remember

[mowens]

Today is the anniversary of D-Day. June 6th, 1944.

[JParis]

We owe them everything. There really is no knowing how this world would look at this moment but their sacrifice was not in vain...we simply cannot let it be.

[BrianP.]

The world would be a much different place if not for those courageous souls.

[Del.]

Talked to a man who was 101 years old the other day who served in WW2.

[JParis]

Talked to a man who was 101 years old the other day who served in WW2.

There are fewer and fewer of them as each month passes.

[Brad St]

My Dad's old construction partners were two brothers. One was a WW2 vet and the other was a Korean vet.
Jerry the WW2 vet walked from the boot of Italy up to Germany. He'd tell us stories (I was about 5 years old then). Steve, the other brother wouldn't talk about his time over there. But, he'd teach me and my brother dirty marching songs =-P . Steve was on Hamburger hill and when Clint's movie about it came out he did go to see it. His only comment was "it wasn't even close to the truth".

As time went on we got older and could help more and learned more. The sacrifice those guys gave was nothing I hoped I'd ever have to go through. Then one day they hired on another young guy, he was a Vietnam vet. Sam had been a tunnel rat, now he had some stories. He came home and would see things as they were and he go back. if I recall right he did 4 tours.
I feel honored to have had the time I did with them, Jerry's gone but Steve and Sam are still here and I say whenever I can.

[mkd]

My DNA did an origin story-tour with thee dioxins in agent orange. F' the MIC.

[beej]

I saw an elderly man at a church breakfast last fall. He was wearing a WW11 hat. I shook his hand and asked if he had served in the Pacific or Europe, and he told me he landed in Germany on June 1st, 1944. He joked that they should have just sent him earlier to get the war over with.  LOL!  I love that line.

[mowens]

About 10 years ago, one of the Navajo code talkers came to my church and spoke. I'd never seen the sanctuary that full before. It was a fascinating experience.

[rob@fain]

My father was in Field Artillery and landed on June 10 after the invasion. My uncle joined the Marines and did the whole South Pacific including Iwo Jima.

[TSmcam]

I've just come back from France. Visited Omaha and Utah Beaches, and Pointe Du Hoc. At visited Colville sur Mer US Cemetery.

I had a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye reading some of the stories and experiences, and the sacrifices made.

What was also humbling, was that on so many private homes through Normandy, residents had US, British and Canadian flags flying from their homes, along with the French flag, and on every headstone at Colville sur Mer, there was a US and French flag planted.

[gcode]

My wife's father was in an engineering unit in WW2
He joined after Pearl Harbor at 17 and took part in the landings in southern France
His unit advanced with the tank units as it was their job to build bridges and fix the roads
to keep things moving.
His unit spent the later days of the war attached to Patton's tank armies relieving the siege
of Bastogne during the German's Ardennes offensive and he participated in the liberation of
concentration camps. He told me the people were so weak and skinny and starving that a GI chocolate
bar or C ration would kill them.
He was on his way to the Okinawa to stage for the invasion of Japan when the war ended.
He told me the atom bombs that ended the war saved his life and millions more by ending the war
and preventing the invasion. 
He is probably the quietest most unassuming man you ever met.


 

[Del.]

My dad served in WW2 in North Africa and Europe. He would be 101 yrs old. I still have his discharge papers and several pictures. 

[Smit]

If you are ever in New Orleans and have time, you should visit the national world War 2 museum.

They really were the greatest generation, imho.