D Day and don't forget it

[wilycoyote4]

D Day may slip from the minds of others yet I try to keep my mind on the history as best I can.
Worse, last year on this day, I actually asked a girl of about 20-23 years old about 6 June, D Day, WWII, and even about Omaha beaches but after all these hints she knew nothing.

Anyway, I make many flights and I hope you will, too, over the week.

[Warrant]

It is good to remember this remarkable day in 1944. Too bad a lot of people in my country do not. Today (especially today) is a black day for our DoD. The Dutch parliament discussed the most dramatic defense cutbacks ever. They discussed, gave a show, and simply agreed.
Though this is not the place to discuss this, a lot of people should be dramatically reminded about that milestone in history in 1944, and be forced to remember that freedom ain't free! The price of freedom is also not to be linked to a temporary failure in the financial household of a nation. It should always me matched to the situation that posts a threat to that same freedom. The people at those beaches in Normandy did not die for themselfes, they died for us! What if the US or UK parliaments decided to heavliy cut back on military spending due to economic downfall just a month prior to the invasion in 1944.........

[Bruce Thompson]

We will never forget those that gave all for us in WW2.

[delta_lima]

Gone, but not forgotten.

dl

[PutPut]

The picture says it all.

Best, Paul

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[Warrant]

Great pic's!

[jojohnson9]

My uncle, Sgt. David Johnson. KIA Normandy, June 7, 1944.

[FlameOut]

I watch "Saving Private Ryan" every June 6. My Dad was in the Pacific.



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[Walter]

"All gave some,
Some gave all."

[wilycoyote4]

thanks to replies,
Ryan---good movie for today and the week
Band of Brothers for me today, starting now
I talked to a few vets long ago when I was young. Once I talked to a fellow in his special city house. He sat me down (his nephew was my buddy and we drove to the San Fernando Valley for a visit but his uncle was a surprise evening chat) and opened a cabinet, pulled out French spirits, and poured me a small Calvados. Then told me about old days in Normandy. He arrived on the 2nd or third day at Utah. He was not allowed to advance forward to combat because he was Jewish. So he wore only his Army uniform for clothes no matter where he went, The commanders made him transport supplies.

He sat happily talking of his trucks and the ways to sleep in trucks. After a month of that he couldn't sleep in a bed. All he could do was trucking and his efforts to do it the best was all left so he dived into the task.

The trucks tried to keep moving but sometimes they had to stop and if near farms or villages some of the Normandy people fed them, gave food to go forward, including buried bottles of Calvados and the local ales, buried so the Germans couldn't steal it. Money was sometimes a factor.

A bath outside a house with cold well water in buckets and that Army soap was a treasure.

The Calavados poured deeper, and the Cognac, and the Benedictine..............lol.