To: Kartographer
Can’t imagine being the first American G.I. to step foot on the beaches of Normandy and the hail of gunfire from German machine guns that immediately followed. Probably 99% fatality rate for those first arrivals.
3 posted on
06/06/2015 3:27:34 AM PDT by
broken_arrow1
(I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
To: broken_arrow1
I always thing of the this scene from the movie 'The Longest Day'
Flight Officer David Campbell: "He's dead. I'm crippled. You're lost. Do you suppose it's always like that? I mean war."4 posted on
06/06/2015 3:38:01 AM PDT by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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