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D-Day

Posted on 06/05/2015 7:02:00 PM PDT by Timocrat

At this hour in 1944 the first of the airborne troops were setting off to invade the continent of Europe. Their sacrifice gave us the freedom we enjoy today.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.


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KEYWORDS: dday; greatestgeneration; wwii
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To: Bratch

Wow that’s an amazing picture. What a scene of courage.


21 posted on 06/06/2015 7:19:48 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: Timocrat

Congressman McCaul’s tribute-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm6NgH3F_xg&feature=youtu.be


22 posted on 06/06/2015 7:21:35 AM PDT by matthew fuller (Malcom X is Obama's baby daddy.)
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To: Timocrat

Here is a project video made by an 8th grader some years back. I like posting it on my facebook feed on D-Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_qeCNg8fO0


23 posted on 06/06/2015 7:41:28 AM PDT by Domandred (Tea Party or Third Party. Done with the capitulating eGOP.)
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To: combat_boots

Indeed. Blessings to all of them.


24 posted on 06/06/2015 7:42:37 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (I love it when we're Cruz'in together)
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Bkmk


25 posted on 06/06/2015 7:45:56 AM PDT by novemberslady
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To: Timocrat
Where my Dad was at, 71 years ago today, aboard the USS Doyle on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The link to the following article, "64 Hours of Battle", was published in "Yank" magazine on June 19, 1944, and recounts the Omaha Beach landing and the action my Dad's ship took during the battle. He was only 18 years old at the time...

64 Hours of Battle

26 posted on 06/06/2015 7:46:13 AM PDT by rochester_veteran (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Timocrat

Grandfather fought in Normandy, didn’t land on D Day, but shortly afterwards. Black Watch, then Paras. Normandy to Minden.


27 posted on 06/06/2015 7:56:34 AM PDT by the scotsman
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To: Timocrat

My maternal grandfather, my Paw-Paw, stormed the beach that day. The only thing that he would ever say about it is that he would never understand why he lived through it when so many of his buddies didn’t. He’s been gone 33 years now.


28 posted on 06/06/2015 8:02:06 AM PDT by gop4lyf
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To: Timocrat

Thank you for the thread.
Thank God, for men such as these.


29 posted on 06/06/2015 8:38:11 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Where there is life, there is hope. - Terri Schiavo ~ Þ)
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To: Timocrat

Thank you to all of those who served on the fateful day. Also, thank you for all that have served before and since.


30 posted on 06/06/2015 8:42:50 AM PDT by Stayingawayfromthedarkside (Tea Party Anarchists? Freedom = Anarchy to communists.)
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To: gop4lyf

My uncle Frank was 18 years old he flew in with 82nd Airborne in those wooden gliders. A lot were shot and killed before they hit the ground. They landed a couple of miles from the target. Uncle Frank was 16 when he joined, lying about his age. After the war he wanted to stay in and make it a career but the Army tried to kick him out for “mental problems”. He spent many months in a hospital in Germany recovering and was finally allowed to stay in the Army. He retired in 1964, having served in WW2, Korea and Vietnam. He then went to work at Ft. Belvoir with the Civil Engineers and ended up retiring from the Civil Service. He never spoke of his time in the military. I was a pall-bearer at his funeral and my 1st cousin, his daughter, told me the hell he went through in the military, fighting for his country, then fighting for the job he loved. He would go AWOL from the Army hospital and MPs would come to get him. He would end up being the hell out of a couple of them before they dragged him back. I never met a finer man. RIP Uncle Frank and all the other men who saved Western Civilization. These were men with brass balls and their sacrifices will never be forgotten.


31 posted on 06/06/2015 10:06:10 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: Timocrat
Thank you for posting this beautiful tribute to our fallen heroes whose sacrifice should never be forgotten. Here’s the background on it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_of_Remembrance

32 posted on 06/06/2015 10:45:26 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Timocrat

My favorite VET story came from the 70 last year when A group of D-Days went back to the beach/cemetary/ PontDuHoc to remember. When the Old Trooper was coming in thru French customs the Frog ticket taker started giving the VET a ration af trash for not having his passport ready. The VET reminded the punk that there were no French ticket takers on the beach to check pasports the last time he was here-—D-Day 1944. The Frog had the remaining class to wave the guy thru without another word-——Semper Fi


33 posted on 06/06/2015 12:46:29 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Timocrat

With Deepest Gratitude ~ Remembering DDay
June 6,1944


World War II Memorial

Normandy 1944 Guide

Roosevelt DDay Prayer

*I Owe These Heroes A Debt I Can Never Repay*

34 posted on 06/06/2015 1:11:45 PM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless America And Our Troops)
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To: PROCON; ABN 505
Someone did a very good colorization of that Ike photo:

IkeDDayColor
35 posted on 06/06/2015 1:52:11 PM PDT by recumbentibus
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To: recumbentibus

Nice, thanks for sharing!


36 posted on 06/06/2015 2:01:46 PM PDT by PROCON (CRUZing into 2016 with Ted.)
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To: recumbentibus; ABN 505

37 posted on 06/06/2015 2:03:35 PM PDT by PROCON (CRUZing into 2016 with Ted.)
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To: Timocrat

Yep. Thanks for the post. Tomorrow would be my Dad’s 95 birthday. He’s celebrating in heaven.


38 posted on 06/06/2015 2:35:31 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: NKP_Vet

Funny thing is my granddad was given the choice of joining the Army or going to jail. We never found out exactly what he did to “earn” that choice.


39 posted on 06/06/2015 2:43:13 PM PDT by gop4lyf
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To: PROCON

Thanks. I linked because I thought it too big to post here.


40 posted on 06/06/2015 2:58:40 PM PDT by recumbentibus
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