67th D-Day anniversary

[Rick]

Kudos to the anglo-american soldiers who liberated western europe, and also north africa, the pacific islands, southeast asia, korea, and china.

 

[Stalin]

Agreed Comrade.

The opening of the second front helped the Soviet Union in their titanic battle to destroy the hitlerite filth.

Also full marks to the great socialist, FDR, for his assistance in supplying vehicles and other material.

Comrade Stalin

 

[Dr.Who]

Kudos to all those who sacrificed on D-Day.

 

[Rick]

Agreed Comrade.

The opening of the second front helped the Soviet Union in their titanic battle to destroy the hitlerite filth.

Also full marks to the great socialist, FDR, for his assistance in supplying vehicles and other material.

Comrade Stalin

FDR is to be thanked mostly for letting his generals win the war, not a small achievement for a leftwinger.

 

[TruthSeeker]

God bless to all of the brave men and women who served in World War 2, and to all of their families back home.

Our greatest generation can never be properly repaid for their sacrifices. We all owe them our lives and what remains of our rapidly disappearing freedoms.

 

[Rick]

God bless to all of the brave men and women who served in World War 2, and to all of their families back home.

Our greatest generation can never be properly repaid for their sacrifices. We all owe them our lives and what remains of our rapidly disappearing freedoms.

Those guys are about 90 now, and there are fewer of them left. I talked to one last year when I took a tour of the U.S.S. Midway, a late WWII aircraft carrier that is kept as a sort of floating museum in san diego. He was a pilot for a Grumman Avenger during the war. I thanked him for his service to the country. For all I know, he's gone now.

 

[TruthSeeker]

Those guys are about 90 now, and there are fewer of them left. I talked to one last year when I took a tour of the U.S.S. Midway, a late WWII aircraft carrier that is kept as a sort of floating museum in san diego. He was a pilot for a Grumman Avenger during the war. I thanked him for his service to the country. For all I know, he's gone now.

That must have been great, Rick. Touring the Midway AND talking to a former Avenger pilot. Wow! It's hard to believe that World War 2 servicemen and women are all at least in their 80s now, some in their 90s.

I had the honor of speaking with a gentleman who was wearing a U.S.S. Missouri hat in a restaurant last summer. I asked him if he served on the Missouri, and he said "Yes, during WW2". I shook his hand and thanked him for his service. He and his wife seemed very surprised that my wife and I took the time to thank him.

I always do stuff like that. About three years ago, a serviceman who had just returned from Iraq, and his wife, were in a local restaurant. I walked up to him, thanked him for his service (he had obviously been wounded- his arm was in a cast and sling), and we paid for their meal.

Everybody should honor our service men and women, no matter what conflict they served in. They are our HEROES. Period.

 

[pocketfullofshells]

I spent the last 4 days at memorials for our troops..WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Korea, walking around Arlington and visiting the monument to the Delta and rangers we lost in Iran in the Hostage situation...thinking about how close we came to adding more to that list when we had a chopper go down getting OBL....

 

[TruthSeeker]

I spent the last 4 days at memorials for our troops..WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Korea, walking around Arlington and visiting the monument to the Delta and rangers we lost in Iran in the Hostage situation...thinking about how close we came to adding more to that list when we had a chopper go down getting OBL....

Remember that in today's military, our people are VOLUNTEERS. They aren't conscripts, like military personnel are in many other countries.

Did you know that the Arlington grounds belonged to General Robert E. Lee and his family, and during and after the Civil War, the U.S. government basically seized his property and turned it into a cemetery? Just a bit of trivia.

 

[Rick]

That must have been great, Rick. Touring the Midway AND talking to a former Avenger pilot. Wow! It's hard to believe that World War 2 servicemen and women are all at least in their 80s now, some in their 90s.

I had the honor of speaking with a gentleman who was wearing a U.S.S. Missouri hat in a restaurant last summer. I asked him if he served on the Missouri, and he said "Yes, during WW2". I shook his hand and thanked him for his service. He and his wife seemed very surprised that my wife and I took the time to thank him.

I always do stuff like that. About three years ago, a serviceman who had just returned from Iraq, and his wife, were in a local restaurant. I walked up to him, thanked him for his service (he had obviously been wounded- his arm was in a cast and sling), and we paid for their meal.

Everybody should honor our service men and women, no matter what conflict they served in. They are our HEROES. Period.

I always do that stuff too. I've been a supernumerary (extra) for our local opera company. There's a very tall old guy who used to come - haven't seen him for awhile. When I found out he was born in the early 20s, I asked what he did in the war. He said for one thing, he was in on D-Day: flew a C-47(?) over the coast in the early AM to drop paratroopers.

 

[pocketfullofshells]

Remember that in today's military, our people are VOLUNTEERS. They aren't conscripts, like military personnel are in many other countries.

Did you know that the Arlington grounds belonged to General Robert E. Lee and his family, and during and after the Civil War, the U.S. government basically seized his property and turned it into a cemetery? Just a bit of trivia.

yes, but the lee family did get it back..and then sold it to the goverment....