Posted on 06/05/2014 4:03:36 PM PDT by Squawk 8888
Betty Seaborn was especially attached to the old black and white photograph of her husband, Robert, displayed on a cluttered wall, amid artworks and other mementos, at the family cabin on Lake Bernard near Sundridge, Ont.
He was always being photographed doing something since, as his eldest son Dick Seaborn explains, his life with the Anglican Church of Canada, including serving as the bishop of Newfoundland until his retirement in 1980, was a full one.
“Dad didn’t dwell on the past, much,” Mr. Seaborn says. “But my mum was always particularly pleased with that one photograph.”
She was thrilled her husband survived D-Day and all that came after.
Some day soon there will be no eyewitnesses left to speak of what happened on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944. The past will be left to the dead. But the history remains, a war story distilled down to its essence by a single black and white photograph showing Capt. Robert L. Seaborn, a Canadian army chaplain with the Canadian Scottish Regiment, administering last rites to a dying soldier near Caen, France.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...
Canada Ping!
GOD Bless him and ALL The Men Who Stormed Those Beaches 70-years ago Tomorrow!!!
Bttt
A big ‘ole BTTT to that!
Many children growing up today are almost completely secularized. They have no hope of a hereafter. The man on the ground in the picture had hope that he was going to a better place. The children of today will only have the terror of an endless emptiness.
The secular humanist think that dying that way is somehow better.
lots of Departure Days...all were D-Days....some worse than others, all could be deadly.
Dad landed on Guadalcanal and Bougainville on their D-Days, and was taken down by a Filariasis mosquito after these 2 battles. back in the states and after recouperating he was a Marine prison guard at the Naval prison at Portsmouth...was to be sent back into action for the invasion of Japan but thank God for Harry Truman and the stones to use the A-Bomb.
I find it sad and a little scary that many, maybe most of the children raised today will not have the comfort of faith when we next go to war.
Many children growing up today are almost completely secularized. They have no hope of a hereafter. The man on the ground in the picture had hope that he was going to a better place. The children of today will only have the terror of an endless emptiness.
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I suspect many of the children of today will become Muslim.
James Doohan (Scotty on Star Trek) was shot and put out of action on D-Day with you Canucks.
Bless all the brave souls of all nations who stormed the beaches of Normandy or fought in all the other battles for the Allies.
113th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion History
My grandfather wrote the history of his battery D Battery or Dog Battery
http://www.scribd.com/doc/158942992/113th-Antiaircraft-Artillery-Gun-Battalion-History-All
“.was to be sent back into action for the invasion of Japan but thank God for Harry Truman and the stones to use the A-Bomb.”
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I’m a bit younger than your Dad (81) but agree with you that the A-Bomb was a good thing.
I have been roundly criticized for this opinion-—and could not care less.
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You are right, Mears, not to care about the criticism of the ignorant. Truman was right and he saved many lives with his decision - Japanese as well as allies.
When my son went to Kuwait before the invasion of Iraq (he was one of the first in), we gave him three beanie babies. One was an American Eagle, I forget what the second was, but the third was a beagle wearing a Kippah (Jewish head covering) with a Jewish star on it.
He knew who he was and what he faced if captured. He also learned that he was liberating the land of our ancestors, Ur and Babylon, as well as 25 million Moslems and Christians and Kurds, and Turks, etc.
If you can’t get some religious and national identify from schools, churches, etc, then you must get it at home. The “Greatest Generation” understood that, but it was reenforced in the schools and churches and synagogues back then.
PS: My father-in-law fought at Iwo Jima, among other island campaigns, with the only Army unit to land in an assault wave, 75th JASCO. Farm-born patriot and still one at 94.
It is the home that makes Americans, or did.
Not to be picky, but wouldn’t “to comfort the dying be more accurate.”
I thank your son for his service.
I thank you for your courage and faith to let him go.
The A-bomb was a good thing.
Dittos.
Several years ago my uncle wrote down his WWII reminisces from serving in the Navy from 1941 to 1945. Asked about one of the island landings, he said, “Don’t ask me to tell you any more about that.”
You're not picky. Same objection I had to the headline.
The Japanese civilians were starving.
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My Dad survived D-Day...Went to Europe in ‘41...Came home in ‘46...He wouldn’t speak much of the War...He was under the command of Patton for a while...I ask him about ‘blood and guts’ Patton...He said, ‘ya, his guts and our blood’...Bout all he would say...
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