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1 posted on 06/07/2014 6:05:23 PM PDT by ClaytonP
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It wasn’t a waste. Saying so ignores both history and the likelihood that Europe would have eventually been overrun entirely by the Soviet Union.

I mean if you’re ok with the Iron Curtain starting on the coast of France, that’s on you....


2 posted on 06/07/2014 6:08:14 PM PDT by MikefromOhio
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To: ClaytonP

The American people re choosing the path they take...and that fight is not over yet...no where near.

To ask if it was worth it? To somehow say that because we have a minority of people getting elected and foisting feminism and other garbage on us makes it somehow not worth it?

Get real.

Imagine if Hitler and Tojo had won. Imagine the state of our society and what we would have to be fighting instead of a bunch of girly men and PC.

Oh...it was worth it, and the difference and comparison is not even close.


3 posted on 06/07/2014 6:11:31 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: ClaytonP

I am sure we would have won no matter where we attacked.

Maybe invading through the Dardanelles would have worked, or Greece etc. I know Northern Italy turned out to be a pretty tough place for attacks.

Probably Normandy was the right place but who really knows.


4 posted on 06/07/2014 6:16:14 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: ClaytonP

Maybe the old veteran had a bird’s eye view at the time. His grandson has a snail’s eye view of history.


7 posted on 06/07/2014 6:22:24 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: ClaytonP

The Soviets might have controlled all of Europe


8 posted on 06/07/2014 6:24:25 PM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: ClaytonP

It was worth it, it is the last century’s benchmark for freedom, bravery and and the strength of allies.
I firmly believe that the Supreme Commander was God Himself.
We thank all who served then and serve now.


10 posted on 06/07/2014 6:46:55 PM PDT by two23 (My Dad said they were all commies back in the 60's. He was right.)
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To: ClaytonP

You’re here.


11 posted on 06/07/2014 6:47:11 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth
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To: ClaytonP

Wow. Where to start?


12 posted on 06/07/2014 6:49:34 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: ClaytonP

Well, it gave us another 64 years before socialists conquered the USA.


17 posted on 06/07/2014 7:08:39 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: ClaytonP

What the hell is the point? Did only D day lead to what is going on
here and now? What is now is the sum total of what happened before,
during, and after D day. Humans make stupid choices and what
soldiers did on D day has no more cause and effect relationship with
today than anything that happened June 6, 1946.

Why do anything? Everything will just turn to sh!t sooner or later
anyway.............


19 posted on 06/07/2014 7:22:44 PM PDT by Sivad (NorCal red turf)
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To: ClaytonP
Nothing personal, but that's a pretty stupid question.

Of course it was worth it. No one ever said that after WW2, the USA would stay moral and righteous and on the right course forever. Ronald Reagan said freedom is never more than a generation away from extinction, and he was right. Those young men who died and were maimed on the beaches of Normandy, and in countless other battles of WW2, earned the freedom their generation enjoyed.

It's now time for Generation X and Generation.com to earn our freedom, and help the next generation get started. They, too, in time, will have to earn theirs. So it will go until the day comes, maybe sooner rather than later, that some generation refuses to earn their freedom, and instead waits for someone else to do the job for them. When that happens, and it's happening as we speak, the tyrants will move in and steal our freedom.

Yes, the sacrifices made by thousands of brave Americans at Normandy, Khe Sahn, Inchon, Belleau Wood, Gettysburg, King's Mountain, San Jacinto, 73 Easting, Fallujah, and so on, were worth it. Because they bought, even if only for a generation, the freedom their kids needed to keep our Republic going.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

21 posted on 06/07/2014 7:32:42 PM PDT by wku man (Veterans, it's up to us to save the Republic...let's roll.)
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‘This isn’t the Britain we fought for,’ say the ‘unknown warriors’ of WWII
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229643/This-isnt-Britain-fought-say-unknown-warriors-WWII.html

Nearly 400,000 Britons died. Millions more were scarred by the experience, physically and mentally.

But was it worth it? Her answer - and the answer of many of her contemporaries, now in their 80s and 90s - is a resounding No.
(read the rest at the link.)


25 posted on 06/07/2014 7:40:35 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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26 posted on 06/07/2014 7:41:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: ClaytonP
Somehow, despite a long life enjoying cigars, scotch whiskey, martinis and huge amounts of beef, he’s still alive at 91, but he’s not all there anymore.

I'm absolutely positive he's not all there anymore, because if he was, he would slap you right across your quisling face.

For in asking this question, are you not licking the very sandals of the feminists and multiculturalists you claim to be against? Are you not serving their defeatist agenda, are you not throwing away those sacrifices you claim to be cherishing? Are you not seeking to spread despair, and encourage surrender?

What an evil, evil thing to do. You're not your father's son, that's for sure. Thank God he doesn't recognize what you've become - it would break his heart.

30 posted on 06/07/2014 8:16:05 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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America spills its blood and fortune to free Europe from the Nazis and then it allows itself to be captured by bearded barbarians.

After that, America follows Europe’s lead.


33 posted on 06/07/2014 11:20:08 PM PDT by 353FMG
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