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I know this is probably not the correct place for this topic but I wanted to post it anyway.

Today is June 6 and 63 years ago, thousands of young men stormed the beaches of France ensuring our right to post on this board today. Take a moment out of your day and think about the sacrifices they made.

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AND I just watched Saving Private Ryan last night. Definately appreciate these men and what they did for our country and the rest of the world.
 
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I posted this in The Pub, but it can stand up to being in two places....

"There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again.

You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great World War II, you WON'T have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, Well, your Granddaddy shoveled **** in Louisiana.

No, Sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say, Son, your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son-of-a-damned-Bitch named Georgie Patton!"

-Georgie Patton, son-of-a-damned-bitch
June 5, 1944
 
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AlpineVol said:
I know this is probably not the correct place for this topic but I wanted to post it anyway.

Today is June 6 and 63 years ago, thousands of young men stormed the beaches of France ensuring our right to post on this board today. Take a moment out of your day and think about the sacrifices they made.

Eisenhower-Paratroopers-D-Day.jpg
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It looks like a lot of German women are about to become widows.:rock:
 
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ThisIsWhyImHot said:
That was hardly the goal. That was a very sad side-effect. Never wish losing a father on anyone, believe me it is terrible.
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I am pretty sure that by going somewhere where the enemy is with a bunch of weapons, bombs, etc. and shooting at them, the goal would be to make them cease to exist.



War does not determine who is right, instead it determines who is left.
 
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Time to remember those who served and didn't come back. And thank those who did come back.
 
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An interesting side note on that photo... the guy that is the second one to the right of Eisenhower's hand works with me. He jumped on France 63 years ago this morning. He's a great man. First thing I did this morning was to go and thank him.

He has this picture framed on his desk and he usually doesn't talk about it or reflect on it, but every year on June 6, he talks all day about it. I wish you all could spend just 5 minutes with him.
 
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utvol0427 said:
I am pretty sure that by going somewhere where the enemy is with a bunch of weapons, bombs, etc. and shooting at them, the goal would be to make them cease to exist.



War does not determine who is right, instead it determines who is left.
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tearing apart families is most certainly not the goal of war. its a bad side effect.
 
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AlpineVol said:
An interesting side note on that photo... the guy that is the second one to the right of Eisenhower's hand works with me. He jumped on France 63 years ago this morning. He's a great man. First thing I did this morning was to go and thank him.

He has this picture framed on his desk and he usually doesn't talk about it or reflect on it, but every year on June 6, he talks all day about it. I wish you all could spend just 5 minutes with him.
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Please tell him thank you from a grateful American.
 
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100% heartfelt thanks to the people that have fought for our freedom in every war and to those still serving today.
 
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all those young americans getting killed to liberate france, yet the french hate americans. Amazing.
 
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TuskALoosa said:
Not just once, but twice. But then again, you can't call it a World War until France surrenders.
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France never surrendered in the First World War.

Granted, their military thinking tends to be flawed, and they did get pimp-slapped by the Germans in 1940, and in 1914.

If it were not for the French resistance, the liberation of Europe would have been much more costly, if it could have been effected at all. Watch "the Longest Day", and/or read John Keegan's History of the Second World War, or Winston Churchill's History of the Second World War.

It was not just Americans going ashore and aloft 63 years ago. Though the Americans were the majority (because we had the biggest population and the most wealth), it was an Allied effort: Americans, Britons, Scotsmen, Canadians, Australians, Norwegians, Frenchmen, Greeks, Poles, Indians, Brazilians, and many other nationalities took part in saving the world from a severe strain of authoritarianism. May god bless them and their families, and bless us with similar fortitude.

BTW, Frogs don't hate Americans as a general proposition. Parisians hate redneck tourists from Alabama, just like New Yorkers, Atlantans, and Tennesseans do! Zing!
 
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kcvols1 said:
France never surrendered in the First World War.

Granted, their military thinking tends to be flawed, and they did get pimp-slapped by the Germans in 1940, and in 1914.

If it were not for the French resistance, the liberation of Europe would have been much more costly, if it could have been effected at all. Watch "the Longest Day", and/or read John Keegan's History of the Second World War, or Winston Churchill's History of the Second World War.

It was not just Americans going ashore and aloft 63 years ago. Though the Americans were the majority (because we had the biggest population and the most wealth), it was an Allied effort: Americans, Britons, Scotsmen, Canadians, Australians, Norwegians, Frenchmen, Greeks, Poles, Indians, Brazilians, and many other nationalities took part in saving the world from a severe strain of authoritarianism. May god bless them and their families, and bless us with similar fortitude.

BTW, Frogs don't hate Americans as a general proposition. Parisians hate redneck tourists from Alabama, just like New Yorkers, Atlantans, and Tennesseans do! Zing!
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Simmer down, Pepe!
 
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kcvols1 said:
BTW, Frogs don't hate Americans as a general proposition. Parisians hate redneck tourists from Alabama, just like New Yorkers, Atlantans, and Tennesseans do! Zing!
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have you been there in the last 4 or 5 years? They seem to hate all americans now.
 
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I work for a European company....for the most part, the French are good folks and the ones over here enjoy the U.S. The Germans are fine fellows as well but are more hesitant to travel in the U.S. for fear of "someone remembering history" as they put it.

My mom lost her first husband at D-Day (Omaha Beach) so you can say I'm a product of events that occurred this day. My Dad was in his 17 bombing Caen, an uncle was herding an assault craft somewhere of of Normandy and another uncle was laid up in a hospital because he broke an ankle on his last practice jump (I think he was in the 82nd)

Do a Google on Bedford Va. and June 6 if you want to better understand the impact of war. The town lost like 70-80 percent of their fighting aged men that day.

I've asked my Dad more than once how he could climb into a bomber for fifty missions, knowing the attrition rates and all, without just going nuts. He would always do the "Aww Shucks" thing and say he wasn't doing anything special. Everyone was doing the same thing one way or another.

As far as I'm concerned, they were the best generation. We owe them big time.
 
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Plano Vol said:
As far as I'm concerned, they were the best generation. We owe them big time.
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I love the sentiment, but what about the guys that came here, often as political / religious refugees, started this place from nothing. Then their children / grandchildren had to join forces and fight back the most powerful country on earth to make this a country. Oh by the way, that same crowd that instigated that war with the Declaration followed it up with the Constitution. Those were some legendary folk.
 
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Can't disagree... to come up with a framework for government that has worked pretty well for the last two hundred years or so is cool. Brilliant men.
 
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