[ysr_racer]

http://www.ku.edu/heritage/abilene/ikedday.html

[ElToro]

maybe i'll go rent "longest day" and "private ryan" tonight... and raise a toast to those gents who perished 59 years ago today

[shootist2121]

Better Yet..Go find a Vet any Vet..Any Conflict.. Anyone in uniform of this country..And say thank you!

:cool: :cool:

[ysr_racer]

If you get a chance to see "We Stand Alone, Together. The Men of Easy company". It's very moving. It's on HBO.

[matis]

I haven't seen any mention of this, so far, on radio or TV. I wonder why?




Matis

[JDSlack]

Matis;

I noted the lack of recognition also, though there was an article in my paper about a local vetran who was at D-day. But did you also notice there was NOTHING about VE day (used to be a big deal where I grew up) and I'll bet nothing will be said on VJ day. Guess we don't want to remind Germany and Japan how mean and nasty we were to them back then.

UPDATE: Found one more reference to D-Day in my paper...in PEANUTS. God bless you Charles Schultz, wherever you are.

[matis]

Or maybe they don't want to remind Americans about the necessity, the cost and the victory and the glory of JUST war in defence of nation and freedom.

Oh sorry, I forgot, this is 2003 and we now hate guns and violence (and justice?)-- we are now enlightened.



I'll be good, I promise -- pleeease don't send me to re-education camp.




Matis

[spacemanspiff]

i feel this day should be added to a national holiday, as many other important dates in our nations history as it battled for freedom. even i find myself forgetting, if only momentarily, the sacrifices made in generations past.

to name but a few:

Armistice Day, November 11, no one should have to work on this day.

D-Day, June 6

VE Day, May 8

VJ Day, September 2

9/11

there are others, those are the few that come to mind right now.

[SanduneCC]

Dang, it would've been SWEET had Serena Williams took the French open today in Roland Garros. The YANKS would have conquered again! Instead, she was harassed by smelly cheese eating surrender monkeys yesterday and lost. :cuss:

[Jack19]

I looked at the front my local paper this morning, no mention of D-Day. You'd think it never happened.

But, I remember my history better than the politically correct. And, I won't forget. I was at my in-laws the other day, my father-in-law (Pacific Theater) asked my wife if she had ever seen his Purple Heart; he brought it out, along with a piece of the Japanese artillery shell that cost him his teeth. He's about to be 80 and while in good health, won't last forever.......I won't forget.

[foghornl]

D-Day...The begining of European Liberation in WWII



I have not forgotten the lessons in Liberty learned at Dad's knee...A WWII Pacific Theatre Army Infantryman, Silver Star recipient.

My most heartfelt "Thank You" to those that served, and now serve to protect Lady Liberty and Defend Freedom for us all. And my deepest condolences to those that have lost loved ones in war.

May Our Lord speed and guide those who now actively serve.

[ysr_racer]

All the heroes are still in Europe." Charles Langille (101 Airborne)

[jdkelly]

ysr_racer,

I know a Charles E. Langille from Massachusetts, is that who you are quoting, or are you quoting someone else?

jdkelly

[blades67]

So long as we remember their sacrifice it will not have been in vain.

[Kestryll]

May we never forget those who have gone before, the Grandfathers, Fathers, Husbands and Sons who have endured horrors we can barely imagine that we may go on and prosper.
Many of them never came back, they died far from home in a foreign land. Many came home not whole, missing a limb or an organ. Or worse missing something vitally important that made them whole but left no mark on thier body.
Still others came home to lead happy normal lives, but always carrying in thier minds memories of seeing what no human should have to. These memories are buffered only by the thought that they went, they saw, they endured these horrors so that others then and now would not have to.
On this anniversary of the invasion of Europe as on every special day, Memorial Day, Veterns Day, Flag Day and others, let us always remember both the gift given to us by those who went before and the price they paid to give that gift.
And if you know someone who helped pay that price and made it home, thank them today for giving up that part of them that war takes from everyone involved in it.

[ball3006]

I was only two months old at the time......chris3

[Autolite]

My home town radio here in Alberta called it at 05.00 am. Canadians were there, (Juno Beach), back when we fought wars together with y'all ...

[redneck2]

one of our old family friends was driving a landing craft.

I sez "You must have been happy as hell to get off the beach"

His reply..."You just went back out, got another load of men, and headed for the beach again...and tried to dodge the artillery shells"

I can't imagine unloading all those guys, knowing that half of them would be dead before dark.

What I REALLY can't imagine is being one of those guys

[280PLUS]

i once worked for a guy who was a sgt in the 101st, i believe, and he climbed the cliffs at point du hoc. if i remember correctly only ~ 10% survived the climb

quotes:

"one thing i learned there is if your number is up, your number is up and if your number is not up, its not up"

(an axiom i live by still today)

"those bastards were shooting right down our throats"

"i saw a buddy at the reunion (1984?) who i thought was killed next to me by having his face blown off, it was some other guy who got killed, i couldn't believe he was alive"

him, "you ever kill anyone with piano wire?"

me, "uhhh, no."

him "you don't want to"

i'll take his word for it...

:what:

[boofus]

Today almost 60 years ago the GLORIOUS UNDEFEATABLE FRENCH ARMY repelled the occupying German invaders and drove them from the Norman lands. Without any help from Americans, British, or Australians, they single handedly gave Hitler a black eye and started the march towards Berlin...

NOT :neener:

[Ed Straker]

My Dad commanded an LCT on Utah Beach. Didn't talk about it much.

[wingman]

Talked with a young man the other day
who had visited a museum about the
holocaust, he was amazed almost
unaware this had taken place. He is
a college grad.
Bless our public school.!!!!:cuss:

[CZ-100]

I you haven't seen the HBO mini series "Band of Brothers" Excellent! Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks Directed it. It follows Easy Co., 101st Airborne from two yrs prior to D-Day, through D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, and up the VE day. In the beginning of each episode the surviving soldiers talk about their experience.

My wife got me the CD set for Christmas. It is a must see! I think it has 10 episodes.

[cool45auto]

No mention of it at all around here. Nothing on radio, TV or paper. I don't believe it.:(

[Sactown]

"Soldiers, sailors and airmen of the allied expeditionary force: You are about to embark upon the great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hope and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere are with you …" General Dwight D. Eisenhower (D-Day, 6 June 1944)

I know.

[Kevlarman]

My birthday happens to be on D-Day. I for one will never forget!

God bless our vets!

BTW, I'm 22. :D

[Kevlarman]

Heck, even somethingawful (http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1495) remembered D-Day in their weekly Photoshop Phriday!

[Dannyboy]

I had the pleasure of being in Normandy for the 50th anniversiary celebration and met some of the greatest Americans. I just got back from sharing a beer with my neighbor. He was an engineer in Normandy, clearing the beach.

[voilsb]

I called around to the retirement homes in the area until I found a Vet who was at Normandy. Then I thanked him for his service and told him he was very appreciated.

[winstonsmith]

i once worked for a guy who was a sgt in the 101st, i believe, and he climbed the cliffs at point du hoc. if i remember correctly only ~ 10% survived the climb

IIRC, it was the 5th Ranger (possibly the first) that took Point du Hoc. Please correct me if I am wrong.

[ClammaCleeta]

I heard only one news coverage, and that as a 5 second blurb on my local NPR station here in Buffalo. its a shame...

Spaceman, I totally agree, D-Day ought to be remembered as a national holiday, but again, for a good part of the populas, it will only be 'just another day off from school/work'.

[Mr. Goodglock]

Yup.. I called my friend in the afternoon (we are GMT+7) and remind him that 59 years ago GMT+1 great leap to end Fascism occured.

[280PLUS]

i think you are right about it being 5th ranger, that does ring a bell in this feeble old brain of mine, i never became completely familiar with all the details of his unit, but i thought i remembered him saying something about the 101st

don't worry though, he is well documented in his claims

another little story he told me was how on the troopship back from europe he managed to win ~ $50,000 playing poker,

he said he slept with a .45 loaded and cocked on his chest because he was afraid of being robbed, on the troop ship!

he ended the story to say he also managed to lose it all again before the ship got to the states...

:D

m

[280PLUS]

funny how you remember stuff once you start stirring things up in the cobwebbed areas,,,

i distinctly, now recall, his kids gave him a vanity plate for some reason, b'day or possibly the 40th reunion

the plate read "RANGER 5"

thanx winton!

:D

[TechBrute]

God bless you Charles Schultz, wherever you are. Mr. Schultz passed away.:(

[ojibweindian]

There was nothing in the Huntsville Times concerning June 6th. Hell, no one at work remembered, and I work for a defense company!

Pretty sad state of affairs.

I did thank my dad.

[Russ]

Yeah it's wierd. They didn't say boo about it on radio or TV arould here. Not that I listened every second but you would think those guys would have gotten more mention than they did. That's an expeience I'm glad I missed.

My Uncle got all shot up at IWO JIMA not too many months later. He still had schrapnel in his body to the day he died in the 1970's.

[NRA4LIFE]

I can't forget as Friday was the 40th anniversary of my birth.