Take Time to Remember ... by annik

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Take Time to Remember ...

POSTED BY: ANNIK
UPDATED: Monday, June 7, 2004 10:30
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Sunday, June 6, 2004 6:29 AM

Today is the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion at Normandy. British, Canadian, and American soldiers were involved in the largest amphibious attack ever done ... much to the surprise and chagrin of the Nazis, who thought the real attack would come elsewhere.

Thousands died.

Please take time to remember them today.

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

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Sunday, June 6, 2004 2:03 PM

SGTGUMP

TANSTAAFL

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Sunday, June 6, 2004 4:20 PM

ZOID

sgtgump wrote:

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TANSTAAFL

Heinlein rules!

So do those who have paid for our 'free lunch'...

zoid

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Sunday, June 6, 2004 7:11 PM

BEATLE

Something for all to remember and appreciate.

I am sad,however, that those who fought in the Pacific don't often get the same celebration. America's second front in WWII was fought in a more harsh enviroment, although equal in terms to the deaths in the European theater campaign, yet without the "civility" of soldiers.
My Grandfather fought in the Pacific and never told anyone about it, until he one day just opened up to me about the war. The stories he told, and others I eventually heard, tell a different war.
I am gratefull for all who fought, the Army and the Marines as well as the Air Corp and Navy.

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Sunday, June 6, 2004 8:54 PM

VETERAN

Don't squat with your spurs on.

My father fought on both fronts, he was on a Destroyer escort that was cited for getting in close and taking heavy damage during the D-Day bombardment. And on another DE that was sunk in the Pacific.

Your point about the civility of soldiers rings true, he recalls seeing the Japanese planes scrafe the water, not where he was, but on the otherside of the bay where a Japanese Destroyer went down, providing their sailors with an "honorable" death. When he was rescued by a Navy Duck they cramed 35 men into a plane built for 15. He said the pilot took 2 miles to get airborne and kept saying, if we have to we'll go all the way home on the water, but nobody is getting off this plane until we get back.

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Sunday, June 6, 2004 10:27 PM

JASONZZZ

Just got done watching the entire weekend of Marathon D-day shows on the History Channel. Stuffed the "Saving Private Ryan" DVD in the can. Anyone remember that scene in Neuville where Tom Hank's character meets up with the *wrong* Pvt Ryan?

Who's that *wrong* Pvt Ryan played by? Check it out... and no imdb'ing it.

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Monday, June 7, 2004 6:55 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

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Originally posted by Jasonzzz:
Just got done watching the entire weekend of Marathon D-day shows on the History Channel. Stuffed the "Saving Private Ryan" DVD in the can. Anyone remember that scene in Neuville where Tom Hank's character meets up with the *wrong* Pvt Ryan?

Who's that *wrong* Pvt Ryan played by? Check it out... and no imdb'ing it.

None other than our very own Capt Tightpants.

I agree that we should remember all of our soldiers in both the Pacific theatre and in Europe. I had relatives that fought on both fronts and each offered its own version of Hell for those who fought there.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

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Monday, June 7, 2004 7:15 AM

STATIC

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Please take time to remember them today.

Yesterday, me and several "war buddies" gathered in a local pub, and met with veterans from all the way back to WW2.

It was the proudest moment in my life to be counted among them. . .to know that I was the next generation in such a proud tradition. . .and to be regarded as an equal by those men who made up "the greatest generation."

I never ask anyone to support any cause for violence, nor to support the politics behind any hostile act. But I only ask that every night, you whisper a prayer or a good wish for someone's son, daughter, brother, sister, mother or father who stands in harm's way. Remember that all American soldiers today are living a life that they chose willingly. They won't always believe in the cause they fight for, nor will they always understand exactly why they're fighting. . .but they fight because they believe, to the core of their very soul, that when you strip away all the politics and hidden agendas, that they are ultimately defending the weak from the wicked. And that, my dear friends, is the noblest of causes.

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"Wash. . .we got some local color happening. A grand entrance would not go amiss."

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Monday, June 7, 2004 10:30 AM

GHOULMAN

Had a lovely time at the cenotaph yesterday afternoon. Met some of the Vets. I got some great advice from a Korea vet. He tells me; "if you go to put out a fire near the ammo dump don't use a sack full of mortars!"

*chuckle* And hey, free booze at the Legion! Lots of singing "Tipperary".

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