Posted on 03/22/2010 6:09:27 PM PDT by navysealdad
Awesome and thank you! You know, it really hurts to see this and to think what we have become. I was very moved by these pictures and what has happened to our Republic.
Just save it to your desktop. You might want to see if your browser needs an upgrade.
My maternal grandfather and great-uncle fought the Soviets and the Americans in a Panzer division in the war. I had another great-uncle KIA in the Soviet Union and is still buried there. Interestingly, though, the grandfather and uncle’s Panzer division so impressed the Americans (up to Patton) that they were allowed to secretly surrender to the Americans instead of the Soviets at the end of the war (they were in the Eastern bloc at that point). I found a story on it just last year in a WWII magazine after my grandfather gave me some of his old pictures.
I knew a couple of old guys who were either POWs in the U.S. or had been captured by Americans and retained for some time (like my grandfather/uncle) and all had good things to say about Americans and the treatment they had received.
On the American side, my grandfather was training stateside the whole war and never made it overseas but my great-uncles were in Europe (not sure in what capacity). My dad was in the 101st in Vietnam, and I have watched Band of Brothers more times than I can count. I am planning on taking my girls to Normandy this coming winter. I am sure there will be many a tear shed.
Did that. Rt click on desktop icon > “open with” > L click on MSFT XML converter > “save as” dialog window (huh?)....which fails.
or,
Rt click on desktop icon > “open” > L click on IE > “save as” dialog window (huh?)....which fails.
“properties” of the desktop icon = seems just fine = 7.33 MB, opens w/MSFT Open XML ...
Me = “R” word?
LOL! It’s a Power Point presentation. That is the only way you can view it. Just left click on it two times and it should launch.
If you do not have Power Point, then you can get a free Power Point Viewer only. That will allow you to see all Power Points sent to you. Here is the link.
Thanks for posting this. My father was a navy ensign at the time of D-Day. He and his men detonated mines on Omaha Beach. After clearing the beach, he pulled floundering soldiers out of the water and aided the wounded. He was awarded a Navy Cross by President Truman for his valor, as well as the French Croix de Guerre.
He then was sent to the Pacific theater, where he was in command of some of the first SeaBees.
He was also called up from the Reserves to serve in Korea, and, as a civilian employee of the Navy, worked in Thailand during the Vietnam War.
He was humble about his accomplishments, but very proud to serve in the Navy.
My husband’s late maternal grandfather was at Normandy. Our oldest child (his first great-grandchild) was born on June 6th—54 years after the fact. As an aside, his first great-grandson was born on his 77th birthday. He passed away in 2004 at the age of 79. He also went MIA after the Battle of the Bulge (got stuck behind enemy lines) and suffered severe frostbite in his feet that plagued him the rest of his life.
He could be a bit cantankerous (probably the Irish in him), but his service to his country surpassed all that. We gave his latest great-grandchild (our second son,now 2.5) the middle name of Dugan, which was his last name.
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