D Day Anniversary

[Quavodus]

God Bless all the brave men that stormed those beaches 76  years ago today.

[Dirtshooter]

Thanks David, you beat me to it this morning. Yes the whole free world owes a huge debt of gratitude and respect for this brave group of men & women. A few years back our secretary's dad was a tank driver on Omaha beach June 7, 1944 and he could never watch a war movie. He said as a 17 or 18 year old he could never put it out of his mind the fact that they were driving over dead American corpses that they didn't or couldn't move out of the way. My wife's Uncle will be 95 in October and served in the Navy in the Pacific. I was wondering if all those that fought for our freedom's are cringing at what has happened to our nation this past week. Thanks to all the vets that have served and are now serving! May God bless you all!!

[hipower]

Precious few of those extremely brave souls left. We should all honor them...today and everyday. 

[Quavodus]

There was man that lived a few miles from me, that was there. He was on a machine gunner crew. 

[Grayfox54]

My Daddy was there. Stormed Omaha beach with the 29th Infantry Div. He very rarely ever talked about it and even then didn't say much. But the look in his eyes said all I needed to know. 

[A.J. Holst]

7 hours ago, Grayfox54 said:

He very rarely ever talked about it and even then didn't say much

My grandfather was a Navy doctor, south Pacific, never spoke of the war.

[Dirtshooter]

I assume that most of those WWII vets want to forget the horror that they endured. They never heard of PTSD. I have never been around many of these vets that talk about their time in.  Even Vietnam vets rarely talk. I am blessed to go to church with 1 WWII vet who is one of our former pastors he is 94, plus we have 2 Korean vets that attend our church 1 of which is one of our deacons.

[Quavodus]

I never knew any combat vets that talked about it much. I worked with a Vietnam vet. I asked him one time what happened to his neck. It was scarred in a couple places. I never even thought about what it was. He said it was from a wound he got over there. That was all he said about it. Good guy. 

[btq96r]

Balls that clanked on the men who jumped in behind, and stormed the beaches that day.  Coupled with an awe inspiring effort all to support it logistically.