Today in History

[Guest mustangdave]

6 JUNE 1944....Beaches of Normandy, France....THE GREATEST GENERATION came ashore to liberate FORTRESS EUROPE...from the oppression of NAZI Germany:cool:

[Guest mustangdave]

Thank you Granpa Dutch....miss you and granma

[Daniel]

We have a couple guys over in France doing a jump to commemorate.

[Guest GunTroll]

This post makes me think of the opening combat scene in Private Ryan. If that movie even caught a glimpse of accuracy from the real thing. Man. Thats about all I can say other than thank you!

[Caster]

Senior coffee should be free everywhere today

Big thanks to all the ole gentlemen that were there....even the one's that are still there.

††† Bless every one of you †††

[1gewehr]

And how many people do you know that would be willing to leave the boat with all of the MG42s and artillery firing at them?

[Defender]

When I was last stationed in Germany, I headed up our unit's volunteer detail that used to attend memorial ceremonies at The Lorraine American Military Cemetary and Memorial, near St. Avold, France.We went several timesa a year, for days like Memorial Day, Veterans Day and a few others. Here's a link: American Battle Monuments Commission . Lorraine was the biggest, but they are all impressive. I've visited many of them, but the ones most impressive, in my opinion, was the one at Lorraine, the one where Patton was buried at in Luxembourg, and of course the one at Normandy. I also visted a few German Memorial Cemetaries form WW!!, and I can tell you this much-they don't honor their dead soldiers like we do, thats for sure. Take a look around this web site and look at some of the other ones in Europe. There's pictures and narratives of all of them. At Lorraine, one feature I found very interesting was that the graves are marked with white stone crosses, or Stars of David, and for the Medal of Honor recipients, the names are inscribed in gold. I also visited the one in Cambridge, England and an interesting note about the one there is that there are more names of the missing listed there than are soldiers buried there.

This was truly America's Greatest Generation.

[bajabuc]

never forget that good old aldoph took everyone's guns to get in power so we had to go fix it.

[Caster]

There's an old guy that comes here to the shop and hangs out sometimes. He's a friend of the owner and he comes and sits just to get out of the house. I walked up to him this morning when he got here and asked him "Leo, what were you doing 67 years ago today?" No joke he said

Ruining a good pair of underwear.

[Tim Nunan]

This post makes me think of the opening combat scene in Private Ryan. If that movie even caught a glimpse of accuracy from the real thing. Man. Thats about all I can say other than thank you!

Mom told me that when she and Dad watched that movie Dad called out for a medic. Normand was his third combat jump with the 82d Airborne.

[Daniel]

You don't see three mustard stains anymore. Hell, I have only seen people with one.

[Mr. Brooks]

I've met a few guys with two mustard stains. One for OEF and one for OIF.

Like you said though, I don't know any with three.

I can't imagine what they went through back then, makes me proud to be a paratrooper.

[vontar]

It took, real guts to storm those beaches. They knew we were coming and they had time to get ready.

The Friday night out drinking I met a Vet from WW2, we got to talking and I thanked him for his service. He stayed in though Vietnam. I offered to buy his rounds but his polity declined.

[Jasongar8]

I sent out a text today reminding people about D-Day and of of my buddies who is in the military didn't even know when it was. It hurts my heart that a lot of my generation doesn't know or doesn't care about how much those men gave so we can be free. God Bless those men and all military Vets.

[Spook]

Varying reports say that 1,000-5,000 WWII vets die each day.

The descriptions of their generation are greatly underexagerated,

IMO. Not sure today's could pull it off.

[Tim Nunan]

I've met a few guys with two mustard stains. One for OEF and one for OIF.

Like you said though, I don't know any with three.

I can't imagine what they went through back then, makes me proud to be a paratrooper.

Dad actually made all four of the WW II combat jumps with the 505 RCT, 82d Airborne

[RobertNashville]

Might I kindly suggest that for those who want to support our World War II vets (my father was one as was several other people who have been part of my life); please consider getting involved/donating to the Honor Flight...Music City Honor Flight site can be found here: Music City Honor Flight

It's a great cause I think and worthy of our support...I've given a little and plan to give more and am considering being a participant to help those vets who go...I'm also sure that they would be appreciative of any size donation.

[bajabuc]

I was 3 when the war ended in Europe. I was playing in the backyard between the roses and the Victory Garden and my mother came screaming out the backdoor ,"The war is over! The war is over! Now Harry can come home!" My dad hoisted me up on his shoulders and walked downtown gladhanding all the shopowners and people on the street. It was exciting. My Uncle was a B17 pilot shotdown over Germany just before the war ended. He didn't find out about the end for three months. My next memory was school...2 years later.