Remember - This day 70 years ago
06-06-14, 03:10 PM
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Remember - This day 70 years ago
American Cemetery at Omaha Beach, April 2014
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Thanks for that.
We must remember those that paid the ultimate price in what was the greatest endeavor in our lifetimes. God Bless them...
We must remember those that paid the ultimate price in what was the greatest endeavor in our lifetimes. God Bless them...
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06-06-14, 07:24 PM
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The greatest generation! Here's to them and what they did.
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I'm getting a little sick of the "greatest generation" bullcrap.
The same "generation" that stormed Normandy also invaded France in the first place. The "generation" that ended WWII also STARTED WWII. The "generation" has nothing to do with anything. The winners and losers and victims of WWII were all of the same "generation".
Why isn't my "generation" the "greatest"? We didn't start any world wars, nor drop any atomic bombs, nor think it's OK to be racist, nor tell our wives to get back in the kitchen when we came back from a war.
The same "generation" that stormed Normandy also invaded France in the first place. The "generation" that ended WWII also STARTED WWII. The "generation" has nothing to do with anything. The winners and losers and victims of WWII were all of the same "generation".
Why isn't my "generation" the "greatest"? We didn't start any world wars, nor drop any atomic bombs, nor think it's OK to be racist, nor tell our wives to get back in the kitchen when we came back from a war.
06-06-14, 08:14 PM
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I'm getting a little sick of the "greatest generation" bullcrap.
The same "generation" that stormed Normandy also invaded France in the first place. The "generation" that ended WWII also STARTED WWII. The "generation" has nothing to do with anything. The winners and losers and victims of WWII were all of the same "generation".
Why isn't my "generation" the "greatest"? We didn't start any world wars, nor drop any atomic bombs, nor think it's OK to be racist, nor tell our wives to get back in the kitchen when we came back from a war.
The same "generation" that stormed Normandy also invaded France in the first place. The "generation" that ended WWII also STARTED WWII. The "generation" has nothing to do with anything. The winners and losers and victims of WWII were all of the same "generation".
Why isn't my "generation" the "greatest"? We didn't start any world wars, nor drop any atomic bombs, nor think it's OK to be racist, nor tell our wives to get back in the kitchen when we came back from a war.
06-06-14, 09:00 PM
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I grew up as an American living in France in early '80s. As U.S. Boy Scouts, we volunteered to help maintain the US Cemeteries at Normandy, but mostly at Belleau Woods (WWI battlefield, the first USMC engagement on foreign soil in modern times). They were meticulously maintained by U.S. caretakers, but always welcomed the Scouts. As a 12 year old, it was sobering to think of kids barely older than yourself storming the beaches or fighting trench warfare.
06-07-14, 12:26 PM
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I'm getting a little sick of the "greatest generation" bullcrap.
The same "generation" that stormed Normandy also invaded France in the first place. The "generation" that ended WWII also STARTED WWII. The "generation" has nothing to do with anything. The winners and losers and victims of WWII were all of the same "generation".
Why isn't my "generation" the "greatest"? We didn't start any world wars, nor drop any atomic bombs, nor think it's OK to be racist, nor tell our wives to get back in the kitchen when we came back from a war.
The same "generation" that stormed Normandy also invaded France in the first place. The "generation" that ended WWII also STARTED WWII. The "generation" has nothing to do with anything. The winners and losers and victims of WWII were all of the same "generation".
Why isn't my "generation" the "greatest"? We didn't start any world wars, nor drop any atomic bombs, nor think it's OK to be racist, nor tell our wives to get back in the kitchen when we came back from a war.
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+1. Thanks, that saved me a lot of typing.
To be fair, the generation that started WW2 was the one that ended WW1 badly. My gripe with the "greatest generation " is the total hash they made of things after WW2.
To be fair, the generation that started WW2 was the one that ended WW1 badly. My gripe with the "greatest generation " is the total hash they made of things after WW2.
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How about forgetting all this generation horse hockey and remember the guys who ran ashore and jumped in at Normandy.
There was a guy at work who had made all 5 combat jumps with the 505th PIR in the 82nd Airborne Division during WWII. These guys had balls of steel.
Read some of the stories of what happened 70 years ago- the confusion, the fear, the horror and the bravery- it's compelling. We cannot comprehend that. Watching Saving Private Ryan- that beachead scene- that's scary. The scene in Band Of Brothers where they cross the river to take the German LP/OP- where those MG-42 tracers are just bearing out of nowhere. It's scary, but it's a movie.
Read about what Leonard Lomell did.
There was a guy at work who had made all 5 combat jumps with the 505th PIR in the 82nd Airborne Division during WWII. These guys had balls of steel.
Read some of the stories of what happened 70 years ago- the confusion, the fear, the horror and the bravery- it's compelling. We cannot comprehend that. Watching Saving Private Ryan- that beachead scene- that's scary. The scene in Band Of Brothers where they cross the river to take the German LP/OP- where those MG-42 tracers are just bearing out of nowhere. It's scary, but it's a movie.
Read about what Leonard Lomell did.
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