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What happened on an obscure set of beaches 67 years ago.
D-Day.........
Tough bastards with balls that clank to try and make it across 1000 feet of open beach weighed down with 70 pounds of gear while trying to dodge German fire that had every inch of beach dialed in.
[Beer] to the veterans of D-Day!
Amen...just posted the same on FB...
Yes sir, god bless 'em!!
Next door neighbor passed away a few years ago was a D-Day vet. Great guy that I loved having a cup of coffee with and listening to his stories. [Beer]
Celebrate freedom, shake a veterans hand!
Also, this is neat, posted by the Wounded Warrior Project's FB page:
http://1.usa.gov/ilZ0q1
True American hero of the modern times... I had the unique opportunity to serve in Afghanistan in the same Brigade as SFC Monti- the MOH recipient from a few years ago. Gone but never forgotten.
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Originally Posted by spleify
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My wifes grandpa was on the fifth lander to hit the beach. His memory, his account of what happened there makes the shit you see in movies look pathetic. He came away from that beach with "seven new holes that I wasn't born with" as he put it. He was a tough man all the way to the end a few years ago.
The wifes Grandfather was somewhere at D-Day. He never talked much about it, said he lost alot of men left it at that. They found some medals in a box they found after he passed, guess it was too hard to relive.
http://todayspictures.slate.com/20110606/?GT1=38001
Pretty cool pictures from D-Day.
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Originally Posted by spleify
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My thanks go out to them all. My maternal grandfather was there. He would never talk about the war though.
this day in 1944 was one of the single most important days of the 20th century.
God bless the men that made that day, for they had a hand in shaping the lives of every single one of us.
Im eternally greatful for thier sacrifice & courage. [Marine][Salute]
You should make a thread if possible and tell some of the stories if appropriate.Quote:
Originally Posted by StagLefty
My uncle was there on normandy that day. he was wounded and awarded the purple heart. I never really understood the impact it had on his life until I joined the Marine Corps. he never spoke about it to anyone in the family until in his last days before he passed .....i sat next to his bed and he shared alot with me. I was honored.[Salute]
Thinking of these great people passing always makes me sad, not only for the loss of a great American life, but also the loss of some amazing stories.
Start a thread and everyone can share their families stories.Quote:
Originally Posted by DD977GM2
It was also my grandad's b-day yesterday, who served in WWII, so a lot of memories for me yesterday!
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Watched a show yesterday on The Military Channel called "Surviving D-Day". Good show I'd never seen before, and learned a lot that I'd never heard of before.
Such as the fact the soldiers that were going ashore were given a huge breakfast on-ship before the landings as a treat and to give them extra energy, but the rough seas in the landing crafts made them sicker than hell which made them vomit and weakened them considerably. The LC's were not only swamped with seawater, but puke too.
I knew a lot of men drowned in the landings, but I didn't know that many had jumped over the sides of the LC's to escape the murderous MG42 fire coming into the fronts of the LC's, and they jumped into deeper water and drowned because of all their gear.
And I knew the Germans had flooded a lot of fields and farmland, but I didn't realize how many Allied parachutists had drowned in those flooded fields.
They never mentioned all these things in the war movies I grew up with.....
My dad was in 2nd Division Rangers. They went up the cliffs. His was the 3rd boat to hit the beach. 135 men started 65 were still walking 3 days later. Him and his platioon did 19 missions behind enemy lines for recon and capture enemy. Till the day he died he had nightmares and you could not touch him in his sleep. He never spoke of the war, what he saw and would not watch a war movie. He was not perfect but he was my hero