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Oculus Spirit [91883]
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D-DAY remembrance is today.
Jun 6, 2022, 9:02 AM
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On this day 1944 the start of the Allied offensive took place to take back Europe from Nazi occupation. Every year, the date is commemorated in France, which was the starting point of the epic battle, with memorials, parades & speeches.
May we Americans never forget our & other country's sacrifices!
Maybe we should play the horrific opening minutes of the movie "Saving Private Ryan" to get the visual of the slaughter, pain, personal losses, heroism & dedication to serve by so many for the good of others in need.
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Re: D-DAY remembrance is today. ????
Jun 6, 2022, 9:07 AM
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I had family that were involved in all aspects of D-day as most Americans do! I can’t wait to see that love & unity in America again without a D-day.
Thank you all for your service and dedication to survive and thrive in the toughest of situations!
May God Bless the United States of America and bring unity to this country like never before!
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Re: D-DAY remembrance is today. ????
Jun 6, 2022, 9:26 AM
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As much as I hate to say it Humble Servant, I fear that you have a long wait.
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Re: My father's older brother died there on the beach
Jun 6, 2022, 4:20 PM
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Always remember him, and keep him in that special place of the heart where all that we have loved has passed on. I will say that those were some of the bravest men that our country has ever known. I have always felt that I was a brave man, and I just don't known if I could have went on that beach with mass slaughter going on all around those brave men. I have often wondered if the men that made it out of there alive, if they ever felt just how brave they were through out the rest of their lives, bc they had to have been on that day!!!
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Re: D-DAY remembrance is today. ????
Jun 6, 2022, 9:30 AM
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sometimes i wonder if today’s generation could have done that. Truly amazing patriotism, grit, and courage
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Re: D-DAY remembrance is today. ????
Jun 6, 2022, 9:41 AM
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I think todays generation, especially those already serving on active duty would not hesitate to do the same. I just wonder if Uncle Joe would even know where the place was.
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Re: D-DAY remembrance is today. ????
Jun 6, 2022, 4:34 PM
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RunJump, there maybe a few within todays military, but I would be willing to bet anything that most of the men in todays armed services wouldn't dare jump on a landing craft heading to the shores with that much machine gun fire, and mortars blowing up about every square foot of the sand heading up to that steep incline with that much fire power raining down on them!!!
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A Quinnipiac poll has the answer to your question....
Jun 6, 2022, 7:56 PM
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What would you do if America came under attack? Not from an isolated terror incident, but from an invasion. Armed forces crossing our border, shooting at us and bombing our buildings.
Would you stay and fight? Or would you seek out safety for you and your family, even if it meant leaving the country?
This was a question posed by a recent Quinnipiac poll on how Americans felt about the war in Ukraine. The answers were stunning.
It would have been easy for respondents to boast patriotism — “Of course I’d stay and fight! What kind of question is that?”
But that’s not what happened.
Instead, only 55% of Americans said they would remain here and defend the country. When broken down by political parties, 68% of Republicans said they weren’t going anywhere, but only 40% of Democrats did.
And 52% of Democrats — a majority — said they would flee.
This prompted some predictable outrage.
“What in the #### happened to this country?” the Wall Street Journal wrote. “We aren’t talking about women and children, or even some cadre of pacifists and conscientious objectors. This is most Democrats saying they’d rather leave America than defend it.”
In addition, amongst young people ages 18-34, traditionally the group that does most of the fighting, a majority (48% to 45%) said they would rather bolt than battle, according to the poll. And that’s regardless of their political affiliation.
Just think. If this information is right, a foreign enemy contemplating an attack on America can count on about half the U.S. population heading for the hills.
That should cause us some sleepless nights.
Source: https://www.mitchalbom.com/stay-and-fight-or-run-away-poll-reveals-much-about-american-patriotism/
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Re: D-DAY remembrance is today. ????
Jun 6, 2022, 9:54 AM
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The strategy of throwing more bodies at the beaches than the Germans could put bullets on would obviously never fly in today’s era of drones and tomahawks. I think part of the reaction to the Russia-Ukraine conflict shows how repulsed people on the European continent are at the specter of all out warfare in the 21st century.
On a side note I found myself in Bedford, VA a few weeks ago. That’s where the DDay Memorial and Museum is. Pretty well done.
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Hard to imagine what those guys coming into the beaches
Jun 6, 2022, 9:57 AM
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in those landing crafts were thinking. What would YOU be thinking, knowing from the noise, that as soon as that gate drops in front of you, your three sided metal box was going to be full of German machine gun fire?
It was a really short war for many of those brave, doomed young men. For what they endured to bring an end to the scourge that was the Axis Powers in WWII, I have no problem at all saluting them, and reverently referring to them as "The Greatest Generation."
THAT is why I get almost literally sick to my stomach when I see some of these "flag protests", and hear some young people complaining about all manner of ills in this country. They have forgotten the supreme sacrifices that were made under that flag, so that they can freely be what they are now.
I salute all Veterans, the ones who are still here that survived D-Day on those beaches, and most especially, all their lost Brothers whose last minutes on this earth were spent there.
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Re: Hard to imagine what those guys coming into the beaches
Jun 6, 2022, 4:55 PM
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Same here, those types would get sick if they knew what I thought about them, and what I wish I could get away with doing to them if I saw them some place where it was only me and them within miles from anyone. People often forget that others paid the ultimate price to have a country with the freedoms that we have, and they purposely disrespect the lives lost to assure the freedoms we have in this country. It's way beyond shameful!!!
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Re: D-DAY remembrance is today. ????
Jun 6, 2022, 10:19 AM
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Had two uncles that were involved. Happily both made it and went on into Germany to snuff out the Nazis. Invaders have to be stopped, even when it's difficult. We are being remined of that now. Long live a free Ukraine!
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I had an uncle who was killed in the fighting in France. He
Jun 6, 2022, 10:30 AM
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was originally buried over there, but his body was later brought home to be buried in his "ancestral" church cemetery. His name was rarely mentioned while my grandmother was still alive, his death that way (He was blown up by a "friendly fire" mortar shell) was such a source of unending sorrow for her.
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Re: D-DAY remembrance is today. ????
Jun 6, 2022, 5:22 PM
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It's hard to think about how Russia could do what they're doing too Ukraine, and the civilians of Ukraine, when it wasn't a century ago when they were in a situation in their own country, like what they are doing to Ukraine, and they had to be saved from being taken over by tyrant like Vladimir Putin, and his name was Adolf Hitler!!! If America, and American soldiers hadn't got into that war when we did, German could have been the language spoken in Russia....
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I had the privilege of visiting Normandy...
Jun 6, 2022, 10:23 AM
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a few years ago. If you value and appreciate American history, there is no way you can see that place, realizing what occurred there and the sacrifices made, and not be moved/changed by the experience. The only other places I have ever felt that were Gettysburg and Pearl Harbor.
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For me, just seeing all those seemingly unending rows of
Jun 6, 2022, 10:34 AM
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white crosses, even just on video, is about more than anyone should be able to bear without shedding tears on their behalf. So, so many young lives ended before they even had a chance to grow into their future lives, and had families of their own.
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Oh I absolutely cried like a baby !!!***
Jun 6, 2022, 10:38 AM
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Re: I had the privilege of visiting Normandy...
Jun 6, 2022, 5:29 PM
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I have been to the Normandy region to see the beaches and I have no idea how our guys made it. Same comment for Point du Hoc that the Rangers climbed. The American cemetery there will bring tears to your eyes. If you ever have a chance to go it’s well worth the trip. There is also a good DDay museum in The town of Caen.
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More D-Day PICS~
Jun 6, 2022, 10:36 AM
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Sad sights!
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Truly the greatest generation. Really not even close.***
Jun 6, 2022, 10:38 AM
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Re: Truly the greatest generation. Really not even close.***
Jun 6, 2022, 8:02 PM
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Agree Completely
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Re: D-DAY remembrance is today. ????
Jun 6, 2022, 10:38 AM
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Amen LBB! I had a great uncle die on Utah Beach.
There will never be another “Greatest Generation”. They truly sacrifice so much for us all.
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I work at a college. I just got an invite for a DEI webinar
Jun 6, 2022, 10:52 AM
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zoom meeting. The purpose is to understand and celebrate Juneteenth. For those not up-to-date, DEI stands for diversity, equity and inclusion. I have no issues with celebrating Juneteenth, discussing it's importance and understanding it's significance. D-Day is just as important. Just like a lot of individuals in this country can not imagine life without Juneteenth, a lot cannot imagine what life would be like in this country without D-Day, VE Day or VJ Day.
Maybe we should have a webinar/discussion about just how things would have turned out without the success of D-Day. Any by "success" I mean the sacrifice of those men.
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Re: D-DAY remembrance is today. ????
Jun 6, 2022, 10:58 AM
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Bill, did you, or anybody else know that in just over a month from the landing on the Beaches in Normandy, in the Operation called "Overlord" = D Day, it was estimated that it was over 425,000 Allied troops, and German troops were killed, wounded, missing, or taken as prisoners. This includes over 209,000 Allied casualties, and 125,847 were U.S. ground troops, and 83,045 were from a US Airborne Group. The British, Canadian, and Polish ground forces, of those 3 countries, their losses almost equaled the losses of our American kids, and most of them were still kids bc, most of our force were of 17, 18, 19, and 20 year old American kid soldiers!!! Germany had about 200,000 casualties who were killed or wounded, and about 200,000 who were captured as prisoners of war. Now, read this next part.
In Hiroshima, and Nagasaki on August 6th, and 9th 1945, there were two of the worst weapons of war at any time in the history of the world were detonated over those two populated cities of Japan. And just those two nuclear bombs killed between 129,000, and 226,000 people, and "most" of those who were killed were civilians, men, women, and children that didn't wear the cloths of a soldier, nor had they ever been trained as a military soldier.
The ABSOLUTE worst thing about those two wars, is that they were started by a few unstable men that at no time were ever in danger of any harm coming to them, or their families. I personally believe that wars can be avoided if the men, and women that will be risking their lives to fight the war, would make sure that before a shot was fired, that the men, women that made the choice to go to war, was made to go with them on the front lines of the war that they start, and that their family has to go with them. Do that, force that to be one of the prongs of war before it starts, and a shot will never be fired. I mean there is no way possible that the people that order others to go to war, can stop the ones they order to war, from taking them with them to the front line!!!!
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I went to Normandy 5 years ago - seeing the crosses in the..
Jun 6, 2022, 11:11 AM
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cemetery above Omaha Beach is humbling to say the least.
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Re: D-DAY remembrance is today. ????
Jun 6, 2022, 11:38 AM
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Our family will never forget. I had one Uncle, in the Army, that went ashore at Normandy and was later wounded at the Battle of the Bulge. A second Uncle, in the Navy, was on a ship bombing the Germans at Normandy. A Grandfather and a third Uncle also served during WWII but were not at Normandy.
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Its worth watching...
Jun 6, 2022, 11:57 AM
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The Longest Day as well....it really captures the entire invasion.
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I interviewed a soldier from S.C. who was on
Jun 6, 2022, 6:14 PM
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second day on Omaha beach, still his company lost most of their men.. He said his troop carrier bypassed England and went directly to Omaha beach. His company advanced all the way to the river where the Russians were on the other side, and happily greeted each other. He talked about shooting a deer doing a a silent time. At first the officers were angry, however after eating some fresh venison instead of k rations all was well. That was a few years ago, however he is now in the Veterans Div. of the Library of Congress. I helped get 32 veterans in there, including survivor of Pearl Harbor, Stalag 17 (a true story), medic from Okinawa, New Guinea, a sailor out of Charleston, who boat wad sunk off OKinawa. A veteran pm Iwa Jima, and more..... you can see some of the highlights on my YouTube Channel - Dog Tags and Body Bags, a tribute to CWO Barry Alexander, by Ron Alexander
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Re: D-DAY remembrance is today. ????
Jun 6, 2022, 6:23 PM
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My dad went over after D-Day with the Army Air Corp. I’m afraid these present day generations will forget the history and sacrifices made for them. I’m 69 and will never forget. May God continue to Bess the United States of America.
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Re: D-DAY remembrance is today.
Jun 7, 2022, 2:18 AM
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I apologize for such a late comment....so please forgive me. I am the crazy old "Coot" who is a Clemson/Bama fan. Just think about it and let it work in. I thought I got chills just watching Clemson take the field. This evening I began reading all of the posts on Remembrance of D-DAY. Dear GOD in Heaven.....I have had more chills than an ant in an ice cube! I may have momentarily lost my voice. Well, my wife said I had. Y'all are the reasons I share my BAMA enthusiasm with CLEMSON. Solid Patriotism across the board. I won't bother Y'all with any details, but I will tell you that my late father was a Veteran of WW-II. He served in the 2nd Armored Division (H--l On Wheels). He passed away in 1996. So, I really am an "old Coot" (74 yoa). I don't post often, but I read your posts. You folks make me so proud. I will continue following and occasionally posting...until the "lights go out." Please keep our Armed Forces in your thoughts and prayers. If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are ALLOWED to read this, thank a soldier!
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I think I speak for the vast majority on here,
Jun 7, 2022, 11:05 AM
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edinalabama®, when I say - we would LOVE details.
Ever since Joe21®, there has been a huge hole.
He will never be replaced, but stories and recollections of when America was united & strong & turning to God for direction are stories that should never be lost, in my opinion.
And we sure are in need of all 3 of these things right now.
Bring 'em on ! ! ! !
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Re: I think I speak for the vast majority on here,
Jun 7, 2022, 2:13 PM
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The "Greatest Generation" that will never be duplicated. Our patriotism today has been so watered down that it is absolutely shameful. Our own so called president didn't even acknowledge it until a tweet last night. He did not recognize it at all last year. But wait, he was quick to recognize Pride Week. Anybody who voted for this clown should apologize to the American people that you damaged.
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