70 years ago right now...

[Amazon 7]

Right now at 8:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time.... 70 years ago.... a continent and an ocean away... an epic battle was beginning in France with thousands of our young men in a desperate struggle for freedom for millions living under a dark tyranny.

Most of those young men have now joined their brothers in arms that were lost that day with only a very few of them remaining with us.

Honor them and what they accomplished that day. Thank you for all you did.

[BillyVance 35]

Amen. War is hell, but those soldiers faced death squarely in the eyes and did what they were trained to, and then some.

My grandfather served in the Army Air Corps on the other side of the world, in the Pacific theater. But sadly I know very little about his experiences, well virtually nothing. He died 6 years before I was born and dad never really said much about him.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[Krip 2]

Hi AJ

It was only over the last couple of yrs did I connect the dots that I was born just a few weeks before the 3rd anniversary of the invasion.

Now every B day I think of the greatest generation, the troops and their families
and the Invasion of Normandy and all the things they went through just to get to that point in the war.

One Jump Wonder

[Amazon 7]

BillyVance

Amen. War is hell, but those soldiers faced death squarely in the eyes and did what they were trained to, and then some.

My grandfather served in the Army Air Corps on the other side of the world, in the Pacific theater. But sadly I know very little about his experiences, well virtually nothing. He died 6 years before I was born and dad never really said much about him.

My father also served in the Pacific. He enlisted in the summer of 1941 and by this time in 1944 he was with the rest of the 1st Marine Div resting and refitting after New Britain, preparing for the Battle of Peleliu. H was just 20 years old when he survived making it onto the casualty list that so many of his brothers did.

[BillyVance 35]

Amazon

***Amen. War is hell, but those soldiers faced death squarely in the eyes and did what they were trained to, and then some.

My grandfather served in the Army Air Corps on the other side of the world, in the Pacific theater. But sadly I know very little about his experiences, well virtually nothing. He died 6 years before I was born and dad never really said much about him.

My father also served in the Pacific. He enlisted in the summer of 1941 and by this time in 1944 he was with the rest of the 1st Marine Div resting and refitting after New Britain, preparing for the Battle of Peleliu. H was just 20 years old when he survived making it onto the casualty list that so many of his brothers did.

I have one of his Army Air Corps patches. Its all I got.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[yoink 321]

For onece, I've got nothing glib to say.




Thank you, to everyone who gave their lives or served so that we retain our freedom. We don't say it enough.

[piisfish 140]

I still thank them all, even if they are a cause of my bad grades in german at school

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[BIGUN 1,484]

And 70 years later...

Jim Martin, 93, commemorates D-Day by parachuting again

Truly, the Greatest Generation.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[BillyVance 35]

Great quote....

Quote

“It didn’t [compare],” Martin told CNN, “because there wasn’t anybody shooting at me today.”

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban