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Tomorrow is the anniversary of D-Day! If you haven't seen the film, please take the time to do so. My father was in the European Theatre during the war, a Captain in the Combat Engineers. He survived that war, but was killed in Korea in 1952, having been called back to the Army. I consider it tragic that recent High School textbooks give scant notice of WWII... maybe a page or so. We should never forget the Greatest Generation! No quarter .308/.223 | ||
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Agreed! We are going to Europe this summer and retracing my FIL European campaign from Omaha through the Ardennes to the shores of the Elbe where they waited for the Russians to show up ( he was not happy about that). This has been a bucket list trip for my wife since I met her over 40 years ago but has been too emotional for her…until now. ------------------ Eddie Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina | |||
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Best war movie ever made, to me. Never get tired of watching it. Q | |||
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I bought the DVD years ago, watch it nearly every June 6. -------------------------- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H L Mencken I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is. -- JALLEN 10/18/18 | |||
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This meme should really read “Your day at the beach BOUGHT FOR YOU by their day at the beach”. --------------------- DJT-45/47 MAGA !!!!! “Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.” "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken | |||
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I agree. | |||
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Very sorry about your dad. _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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82 years have passed since June 6, 1944. Best regards, Mark in Michigan | |||
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Addendum: I asked my daughter to play the film for my 2 grandchildren. They need to at least be exposed to the Greatest Generation! In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields, the poppies grow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. No quarter .308/.223 | |||
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That was WWI . | |||
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True... but I think of it applying to both. No quarter .308/.223 | |||
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A good read - “RUDDER’S RANGERS AND THE BOYS OF POINTE DU HOC: THE U.S. ARMY RANGERS’ MISSION IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF 6 JUNE 1944” https://armyhistory.org/rudder...ours-of-6-june-1944/ __________ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." | |||
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A couple days late, but I just ran across the short Andy Rooney monologue about D-Day. Very moving. _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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